Tuesday, October 7, 2008

your daily tech use in future

The most interesting class so far. Sven Tollmien has totally taken over the room atmosphere. I enjoyed from the beginning till the end of the class. The entire was divided into 3 parts. At first the guest lecture took place. Through out the lecture a case study was developed. It was about a little girl named Li and her younger brother. Along with her growth what technology she will be using in her daily life was the focus of discussion.

- She will talk to the web like a friend
- She will be playing virtual football games like akaaki
- Her communication will be faster
- Her mobile phone will be very knowledgeable and can tell her what to do It will control her house. It will be the source of her entertainment
- Her fashion will be easier from virtual models on the web
- Virtual twinity will be a new place to live
- Her 5th screen will be in her contact lance or in her retina.
- She will be able to speak from her mind or brain without using her mouth or actually speaking.

- and so many

After this analysis and before the 2nd part started we were offered Magic Chewing Gum that immediately burst inside your mouth when you take them. Tollmien claimed that chewing gums were not like the ordinary gum; those actually could open our mind and help us think more creatively. Saying that he gave use some slides where we were supposed to draw our future. It was a nice experience, as for the first time I get to know how creative our sketches and ideas were. Tollmien also came with a software that detects peoples emotion reading their face expression specially from the eyes and lips. I must appreciate Tollmien’s preparation for the evening. The good news is Magnus said Tollmien considered us as one of the best creative audiences he has ever come in contact with.

The class actually was full of creativity, entertainment and enthusiasm. Probably the best among all the lectures held in this course. Finally, when Magnus said today was the last class of the course I instantly thought what could be a better ending than this one?


Self-Assembling Bionic Eyes Coming Soon: Any self-respecting child of the late 20th century would jump at the chance to overlay an electronic stream of information on their field of vision -- but when the idea's gone from science fiction to science, it's usually been more A/V club than Snow Crash.

Computer Program Could Translate Dog Barks Into Human Speech: Hungarian researchers have written a program that explains the meaning of dogs' barks. The software is still a bit buggy, but it's promising enough to suggest that computers could one day translate not only between humans, but between species.

Read more of this scince stories at http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/webtech/index.html

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