Road Trip 2.0

I just spent an entire day driving to NYC where I am relocating. Something that struck me is how someone as disconnected as a road-trip has changed.

Just the amount of hardware that was used between me and my friend driving here – iphone, ipad, macbook, verizon MiFi, ipod nano and a Garmin GPS.

Of course the GPS was the main navigational tool, with the macbook and iphone used occasionally to look up things such as food, accommodations (booked on the road through hotels.com).

Friends that were so enclined could keep realtime track of our location on http://glympse.com, updated from the iPhone, running nicely in the background courtesy of iPhone OS4. This was of course also on Facebook. Of course pictures of interesting things are put online on the fly from the iPhone and a constant flurry og SMS’s (thats txts here in the US) and IMs when needed.

We could have streamed Pandora but did go semi-oldschool with Radio and iPod providing the music.

How things change

Of course all this gadgetry madness would perpetrated by the person not driving at the time.