Do you remember when technology blew your mind for the first time ever and kickstarted your tech ambition? For me it was the iPod Nano, I remember seeing the ad and being hooked on tech and especially music tech ever since.
I think I was always in love with tech. I grew up around computers, so there wasn’t anything that truly blew my mind. But I remember the first time I saw Google. I must have been around 3 or 4. I asked my dad what it is and he said you type the subject you want to learn more about, and it lists everything there is to know about it.
Then I remember playing flipper and solitaire on an IBM laptop running Windows 1995. Endless entertainment.
Then having a mobile phone that can play Java games. That’s when I discovered you can download things from the web and put them into other devices — life changing 😆
Then I saw a demo on YouTube of the Oculus Rift + Omni treadmill. That was probably the closest it got to mind-blowing. I thought I can finally go into the game! But so far I’ve never had the chance to experience a game in true VR (with an omnidirectional treadmill and natural controls). 🥲 Maybe when I do, that’ll be what blows my mind.
Growing up, we didn't have a computer at home. One weekend dad took me to his office when they got one for work. Played a game which I think was called Bricks. Got hooked.
January 1984, Apple's Super Bowl commercial, that started my love of tech and stayed with me all throughout my life. Remember being mesmerized by it. The first tech I owned was a boombox by Aiwa, that I took apart and rebuilt it to make it "better" so I thought.
JPEG. When I first understood how the image compression algorithm works, I was fascinated about the signal processing technologies. So simple yet so powerful!
Since I was very, very little, I had a devotion to apple products. I remember entering apple stores and trying out all iPads and wanting one so badly. I got my first iPod when I was 10, and I fell in love with apps and everything involving tech :)