Profile � Bogdan Pasat, JVC: We�re heading towards a multimedia world

1. What gadget�s in your pocket, at hand?

A Blackberry Bold

2. What was the first gadget you had? At what age?

Before the 90’s, when I was 11: a non-tech gadget, from those who spread awareness of the notion: Pif Gadget

3. What was the latest tech product you bought?

An 18.4-inch laptop, a week ago.

4. The most unpleasant gadget-related incident

I haven’t experienced anything like that before. Computers have been pretty friendly to me so far.

5. How much would you be willing to pay for a cell phone?

I don’t know. Depends on the phone.

6. What features would your ideal phone have?

The features of a Blackberry Bold (photo) + the touchscreen of an iPhone. And a large sliding keyboard, like that of Sony Ericsson Xperia.

7. What was the first cell phone you�ve used?

Ericsson 628

8. What mobile phone brand do you prefer?

Blackberry

9. The tech brand and manager you admire

A combination of Bill Gates (photo) and Steve Jobs

10. The most useless gadget you found on sale?

It’s a long list. But a completely useless gadget in my opinion is the electric paper plane launcher (photo)

11. If money were no object, what gadget would you buy?

If a Robinson R22 helicopter fell into the gadget category, then this is what I’d buy.

12. What type of websites do you access regularly? What is your favorite website?

News websites most of the times, especially financial news. My favorite website is tonyrobbinstraining.com.

13. What was the latest acquisition made online?

The laptop I’ve mentioned earlier.

14. What is internet to you?

Total communication.

15. How would a day in your life without internet look like?

It is not too hard to imagine, we have lived in a time when there was no interne and mobile telecommunication. We would be more cut off from reality

16. What do you find attractive in a notebook: its performance or its mobility?

Both, that is why I have two notebooks: a high-end notebook as a substitute for a desktop computer and another 13-inch tablet PC, light and efficient enough for day-to-day meetings.

17. Your favorite mean of communication

Face to face.

18. Where will the innovation go in IT? What gadget would you create, that has not been done before?

Moore (photo), the co-founder of Intel predicted in 1968 that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit will double approximately every two years and hence computer processing performance. And his predictions turned out to be correct so far. So what we’ll see from now on is slimmer, more powerful devices, more pixels, and especially more wireless communication. Everything will connect with one another to change content. We’re moving from an ASCII, text-oriented world, to a multimedia world.