The NY Times finally asks: When is small too small?

Have you ever noticed how every year gadgets get smaller and smaller? We hadn't, but those eagle-eyed aces over at the New York Times haven't been asleep at the switch like us and have an article today about the pitfalls of over-miniaturization. Michel Marriott takes a look at emerging personal technologies and how the quest to make gadgets ever-smaller can lead to some serious usability issues, all the while playing the "isn't it amazing what they can do in so little space?" card. The most tear-jerking, eye-opening moment is when Marriott talks to very tall people who try to use very tiny cellphones and asks them, "Do your fingers hurt?", and concludes that technology manufacturers should start thinking about this stuff or pay the price…something with which we actually agree.