Any good tech-guru knows that the way to increase usage of new technology is to make it accessible. As a people, we love convenience, we crave modernity, and we live for the next “big thing.”

We’ve already mastered the phone that goes wherever we go, and have perfected it with text messages, music, internet access, and a whole wide variety of other add-ons and features that boggle the human mind. So what could possibly be next?

If you’ve read too many sci-fi novels, you might be thinking of a phone that is surgically implanted in your ear, so it is always there, at the ready, when you need it. Technology hasn’t quite reached that level yet (and many of us probably hope that it never will), but some other interesting uses for technology have certainly arisen in recent months.

Our favorite here at Promoting Group is the ringing outfit. This article describes a young fashion student’s latest idea—to have a dress that is wirelessly connected to your cell phone, so that the dress lights up when your phone rings. You’ll never miss a call due to a crowded bar or a too-loud iPod! Sony Ericsson sponsored the making of the dress.

The idea of a light-up, ringing dress (shown here with Maria Sharapova) seems silly, but altogether harmless. However, it does make us think. How convenient do we really want our technology to be? When have we reach convenience perfection? Is there such a thing as too convenient? How convenient is too convenient? And where do “creepy” and “weird” start to outlive convenient?

These are questions that only time can answer, but we are eager to see where the road of technology leads us.