If you get your hands on the UK Channel 5 show called "The Gadget Show" that would give you good ideas - basically Top Gear for Gadgets all in a fun, not too geek way.
dan
· 1 year ago
I guess the first question is, what have they already done?
One thing that has become very mainstream over the last year is Guitar Hero / Rock Band. ;)
Ben Young
· 1 year ago
Who is the audience? should ask yourself that first.
Some ideas I would have is, what are some good blogs for non technical people, like PopSugar network, why should I skype? how can i skype? Help the users become engaged through things they already love or things that will help them.
For example I have seen uptake on twitter as a way for a family to stay connected, skype to allow free calling to family, PopSugar to replace a weekly magazine.
nzpcmad
· 1 year ago
Is it a gadget show or a tech. show? All your themes are gadgets.
How about 3 minutes gadgets, 3 minutes Web 2 and 1 minute "Site of the Week"?
Kitchen gadgets and pocket knives sounds boring. Tech. is more interesting and they seem to be very different audiences.
And ensure that you have a podcast so people can listen if they miss it and a web site (blog) that people can go to to get a summary / all the links etc. Reading those long URL's on air sucks!
beng
· 1 year ago
It's pretty much all gadgets. Not much scope for web at this stage, but maybe I can work it in later.
nzpcmad
· 1 year ago
Does "gadgets" include toys?
e.g. the latest "Game of Life" has a whizzy "gadget" (you may have seen it on TV?) that handles all the paperwork, assets, money etc.
nzpcmad
· 1 year ago
GPS stuff - the kind you use for geocaching and that kind that "drives" your car.
nzpcmad
· 1 year ago
You've probably done this already but this search on Google should provide tons of inspiration:
(best OR hot) gadgets 2008
Steven
· 1 year ago
Ideas: is it better to build a DVR (MythTV etc) or to splash out for MySky and what's the difference between 1080p and the other TV's for blue ray etc and how that might drive the choice of tv I buy next. Also how internet video hooks into that would also be of interest to me especially since I have a Slingbox (which you might want to review) .... just a few ideas there. Also robots??!?!?
Peppery
· 1 year ago
That's a tad /too/ geeky for this "hypothetical" show.
matthewbuchanan
· 1 year ago
Learning/universal remotes Noise-cancelling headphones Wireless picture frames Polaroid Pogo (zero-ink photo printer) PS3 as media centre (how good is its Blu-ray, other competitors?)
More as they come to hand... :)
beng
· 1 year ago
Thanks guys! Keep 'em coming if you think of any more.
Me
· 1 year ago
Hello
Joe
· 1 year ago
Translation of geek to English. Like explaining the _benefits_ of the feature of the gadgets, not just talking about what it has, but what it means to the user.
JC
· 1 year ago
Fantastic point. Explaining why a gadget is useful rather than just saying 'it has 8 flavours of wifi and X gigs of Y RAM and blah...'
All Comments
One thing that has become very mainstream over the last year is Guitar Hero / Rock Band. ;)
Some ideas I would have is, what are some good blogs for non technical people, like PopSugar network, why should I skype? how can i skype? Help the users become engaged through things they already love or things that will help them.
For example I have seen uptake on twitter as a way for a family to stay connected, skype to allow free calling to family, PopSugar to replace a weekly magazine.
How about 3 minutes gadgets, 3 minutes Web 2 and 1 minute "Site of the Week"?
Kitchen gadgets and pocket knives sounds boring. Tech. is more interesting and they seem to be very different audiences.
And ensure that you have a podcast so people can listen if they miss it and a web site (blog) that people can go to to get a summary / all the links etc. Reading those long URL's on air sucks!
maybe I can work it in later.
e.g. the latest "Game of Life" has a whizzy "gadget" (you may have seen it on TV?) that handles all the paperwork, assets, money etc.
(best OR hot) gadgets 2008
Noise-cancelling headphones
Wireless picture frames
Polaroid Pogo (zero-ink photo printer)
PS3 as media centre (how good is its Blu-ray, other competitors?)
More as they come to hand... :)