Gadget show
Just returning from the Gadget show in Birmingham. My kids and I are avid watchers of the show and we tried to go last year. but tickets sold out faster than a quantum computer.
This year we booked the tickets minutes after they were on sale so I carted the whole family up the M40 to Birmingham. I’ve loved gadgets from a very young age and I am still a sucker for something new. I’ve also applied gadgets to my activity with Bet Angel. I currently use a gamepad to enter orders as well as a mouse. But I have also tried video glasses, gloves, speech recognition, all manner of things to test if they help me do just that little bit better.
The visit to the show is quite poignant for me as I spent a fair bit of my pre-betting exchange career in the consumer technology space. I still have a lot of friends in this industry so I often spend far too much time chatting at these shows. I loved the time I worked in the industry and it took me to places I hadn’t thought of when I was playing on my ZX81 all those years ago.
A couple of years ago I spotted a new(ish) technology (most exist already, but not on the consumer scale) that I think will transform things in a similar way to the Internet. I think everybody will have one in the home, it will cut out middle and cause similar economic changes to the Internet. I’m already invested in areas that I think will be benefactors of this technology, but it will probably be 5-10 years before it becomes something of recognition I estimate. One of the companies I’m invested in was at the Gadget show live and I went to see them. They are already worth over $1b, plenty of room above that as well I reckon.
An interesting day.
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