Creating Tech Needs

April 29th, 2010

Cure for Cancer. Sliced Bread. Cars that run on water. These are all inventions which are obvious winners. However, to me, “interesting” innovation not only satisfies our practical needs, but unveils needs we never knew we had.

For example, I’m a fan of the service Evernote, which unveiled an organizational problem in my life that I never thought about solving until I stumbled upon the service. When I go on a trip, I take notes of addresses, phone numbers, landmarks, and restaurants I’ll pass along the way. I had been saving these notes within my email or on a piece of paper, which worked great until day two or three of the trip when the ‘list’ turned into an organizational mess.