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Mar. 9th, 2006
The Bleeding edge
Mar. 9th, 2006 04:27 pmDoing my traditional "I could use some info that I don't have, but people on my friends list might."
I'm designing a magazine which is going to be on bleeding edge technology. There are various definitions, but this is the one that I'm going to be running with:
"Products beyond cutting edge in their newness and application of technology. Frequently highly expensive and/or unstable. Often lacking any "industry standards". The general public is unaware of it, or at least has few details/little understanding of it. Includes products in R&D if they are more than just a concept/possibility."
Feel free to suggest a different definition if you can think of one that's better, but remember that I'm after a definition that is useful to me in terms of designing the magazine, rather than trying to accurately portray the use of the word. The magazine with be for techie type people, keeping them up to date with this sort of technology, and tracking each things progress from the bleeding edge to the mainstream. It's going to be called "Type IV", mostly because it's a cool name (originally thought up for a completely different magazine), but that has now been defined as 'the bleeding edge' type of technology, where Type 1 is obsolete, II is mainstream use, III is cutting edge, and V is stuff that's merely concepts/very early R&D.
What I'm mostly after are real and imagined examples of bleeding edge technology, so I can have enough articles for this magazine. Whatever you can throw at me is cool, although I'd appreciate a link to further information for real stuff, and for any made up stuff to be not too silly or unreasonable in terms of technology. One example of the sort of thing I'm thinking of (in the mid to late R&D department) is this multi-input touch screen
Thank'ee muchly.
I'm designing a magazine which is going to be on bleeding edge technology. There are various definitions, but this is the one that I'm going to be running with:
"Products beyond cutting edge in their newness and application of technology. Frequently highly expensive and/or unstable. Often lacking any "industry standards". The general public is unaware of it, or at least has few details/little understanding of it. Includes products in R&D if they are more than just a concept/possibility."
Feel free to suggest a different definition if you can think of one that's better, but remember that I'm after a definition that is useful to me in terms of designing the magazine, rather than trying to accurately portray the use of the word. The magazine with be for techie type people, keeping them up to date with this sort of technology, and tracking each things progress from the bleeding edge to the mainstream. It's going to be called "Type IV", mostly because it's a cool name (originally thought up for a completely different magazine), but that has now been defined as 'the bleeding edge' type of technology, where Type 1 is obsolete, II is mainstream use, III is cutting edge, and V is stuff that's merely concepts/very early R&D.
What I'm mostly after are real and imagined examples of bleeding edge technology, so I can have enough articles for this magazine. Whatever you can throw at me is cool, although I'd appreciate a link to further information for real stuff, and for any made up stuff to be not too silly or unreasonable in terms of technology. One example of the sort of thing I'm thinking of (in the mid to late R&D department) is this multi-input touch screen
Thank'ee muchly.
