Ask HN: Best tech product or technology of 2013?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6987934

by aaronetz • 13 years ago

11 8 13 years ago

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What are, in your opinion, the best tech products or technologies (hardware and/or software) that came out this year? No self-promotion please...

kirualex• 13 years ago

Bitcoin - not created in 2013 but really came out for the non-techs this year. It's in my own opinion a glimpse at the future of money.

mmettler• 13 years ago

Coin: https://onlycoin.com

One credit card to rule them all.

keithwarren2• 13 years ago

Not sure this should count being that it is not available

keithwarren2• 13 years ago

Lumia 1020 represents probably the biggest leap in phone+camera tech we have seen. Given the ubiquity of this kind of tech, to make such a leap is kind of a big deal.

ricardobeat• 13 years ago

That this could be even considered as the tech highlight of 2013 shows how little has happened. The camera in that phone wasn't a technological leap in any sense, it simply made the trade-off of 40MP pixels vs massive shutter lag, less light sensitivity, more noise and slow processing. Some of these compensated for in software, but the images it produces are not that different from every other modern smartphone.

niquels• 13 years ago

I have been enjoying my Pebble smartwatch. It's like having multiple monitors on my phone, and it's unobtrusive.

mknits• 13 years ago

3D printing and WiFi enabled LED lights.

onedev• 13 years ago

Nothing, and maybe that's quite alright.

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