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Concept Mobile Touchscreen Tablet would explain everything the eye can see
As technologies like Google Earth and the experimental iPhone Earth application change the way we view our reality, it's time for a ground breaking device to match all the data at our disposal. Japanese concept designer Mac Funamizu has come up with an incredible idea for a gadget that does just that. The thin, touchscreen device would come with a built-in camera, scanner, WiFi, Google Maps and search.
You would also be able to hold the device up to any number of areas, buildings, and objects (for example, a newspaper) and instantly receive information related to what you see in the viewfinder. Simply put, this would indeed be the uber-gadget that would transform life on Earth in short order. The technical hurdles are there, but we've already made enough progress to think that such a device can and will be in our hands in the next 30 years.
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By Computer Repair at 8:31 AM ON 05/27/08
I've got to have one. 30 years it too long. I want one in the next year.
By Flow at 10:33 AM ON 05/27/08
This has been conceptualized in the craptacular 'Red Planet'
Here is a better link than a copied 'concept design'
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1359
By soosha_q at 9:13 AM ON 05/28/08
No thanks. At least not as long as our society is so obsessed with advertising everything everywhere. The idea of learning about something whenever I want is great, but I shudder at the thought of pop ups advertising every company in a building I'm trying to learn about or whatever.
By e.fine at 3:38 PM ON 05/28/08
This is neat, but I would think in 30 years they would have this in the form of eyeglasses, "iglasses" if you will. Information would be text or audio through earphones. There'd be A LOT more things added to this in 30 years - GPS, cellular communications, links to whatever internet they have then, home and other personal electronics, yes even ads as was mentioned. In TEN years I could see THIS being given to tourists at a particular area/attraction/city, but the TECHNOLOGY would probably advance much further in a few decades.
By Sudilos at 10:50 PM ON 05/28/08
Indeed, I had this same idea back around '98. Mine was much more developed and useful but didn't tap into google maps and online encyclopedia's. It's basicly like wearing a robots eye and brain. The same way they learn and recognize objects can be used to display their aquired information to us. Such devices can be worn by people to teach robotic brains about the world and how things work. Then installed as a database into robots.
By Dragonflight at 2:34 PM ON 05/29/08
(Sudilos), the problem with the robot brain concept is that while we could wear a camera and microphone setup, which could record everything we point it at or interact with, *we* automatically filter and process all that data according to whatever our experiences, desires, and preferences are. A machine can't, so it would have lots and lots of "stuff", and no opinion one way or another which piece of that "stuff" actually *means* anything to it. Take two people on a trip downtown, take them to the same places, and have the same group conversations with them. Then ask them to write down their experiences. You will get two totally different extrapolations, which is why just wearing a recording device isn't good enough.
By Junkatruck at 7:11 PM ON 06/08/08
This concept would actually be available now if wireless bandwidth was as high as landline bandwidths. Mobile/wireless device applications are are only limited due to lack of wireless bandwidth.
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