After watching the TED talk on SixthSense for the 10th and reading this post on jkontherun, I noticed something that needs to happen very soon with mobile technology. Mobile tech needs to be easier to use, make our lives easier, productive, enjoyable, and work how we work.

We shouldn’t have to “get used” to the way a device works; it should be intuitive and be able to be used the way that we want to use it. I like the idea of augmented reality and the way that we can use something like that in work and play. The SixthSense idea seems to be the closest thing that we have to Minority Report technology (not the crazy, creeper procogs, but the awesome tech that makes you want to be Tom Cruise for just a second. Just a second). It is awesome to be able to take something from the real world and put it to the digital world and vice versa and this seems to be the correct move for mobile tech.

CES is going on right now, actually as I speak the Microsoft keynote is streaming, and so much mobile tech is going to be unveiled for release this year. E-readers and tablets are cool, powerful smartphones are neat too, but I still feel like we have a long way to go where our lives aren’t being bogged down by a crappy mobile experience.

Something like SixthSense is the answer. Can you imagine wearing a small pin on your shirt or jacket and having all the functionality that SixthSense portrays? That is an intuitive way to work and play. So, we’ll keep watching CES this week and see what type of Mobile experiences are going to be offered. At the end of the week I’ll have a summary of what seems to be the most important mobile tech of the year, but I guarantee it will not be some crazy cool Minority Report tech.