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Re:Ask HN: Best tech product or technology of 2013? by kirualex on Monday December 30, 2013 @07:40PM (#6988181)
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.
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Re:Ask HN: Best tech product or technology of 2013? by niquels on Monday December 30, 2013 @08:02PM (#6988274)
I have been enjoying my Pebble smartwatch. It's like having multiple monitors on my phone, and it's unobtrusive.
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Re:Ask HN: Best tech product or technology of 2013? by mmettler on Monday December 30, 2013 @07:55PM (#6988253)
Coin: https://onlycoin.com

One credit card to rule them all.

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Re:Ask HN: Best tech product or technology of 2013? by keithwarren on Monday December 30, 2013 @08:03PM (#6988277)
Not sure this should count being that it is not available
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Re:Ask HN: Best tech product or technology of 2013? by onedev on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @12:01PM (#6991453)
Nothing, and maybe that's quite alright.
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Re:Ask HN: Best tech product or technology of 2013? by keithwarren on Monday December 30, 2013 @08:02PM (#6988272)
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.
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Re:Ask HN: Best tech product or technology of 2013? by ricardobeat on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @12:13AM (#6989111)
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.
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Re:Ask HN: Best tech product or technology of 2013? by mknits on Monday December 30, 2013 @09:21PM (#6988541)
3D printing and WiFi enabled LED lights.
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