Somewhat Random Idea for the Future of Computing...
Created by Jeff VanDrimmelen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) on February 05, 2007
So I was just reading an article on Wired Science and it really got me thinking. The article in itself talks about a new mass storage (10-20GB) device that can be hooked up to cell phones. All that space would potentially create room for an operating system to run, but you still have one lingering problem with cell-phones becoming the computer of the future... the screen size. Even a full-size iPhone screen is still small... how do we get past this?
Well, my idea is to virtualize the screen... virtualize the whole computer. We need to create a way to just hook the cell-phone up to our head so we can virtually navigate. I'm not talking about wires, I'm talking wirelessly.
I read an article a couple of months past (which I can't seem to find again... anyone?) about researchers that were able to type letters by having a computer monitor their brain waves. The process was long and tedious but it worked. That technology, adapted to moving the mouse around, is a next step. After that the sky's the limit! Why not just think "My Documents" and it opens... visualize that picture of the ski trip and you found it... think of a webpage and it's up. The speed of thought... now that is real speed!
Sounds kind of Matrix like, but in a strange way... possible in the coming years. Computers are just managing information anyway. With out minds hooked up to the computer we can manage that information a lot better. There's no need for these peripheral keyboard/mice/monitor things...
Just don't sign me up for the first tests...
(Original Article: http://www.edutechie.com/2007/02/somewhat-random-idea-for-the-future-of-computing/)
Well, my idea is to virtualize the screen... virtualize the whole computer. We need to create a way to just hook the cell-phone up to our head so we can virtually navigate. I'm not talking about wires, I'm talking wirelessly.
I read an article a couple of months past (which I can't seem to find again... anyone?) about researchers that were able to type letters by having a computer monitor their brain waves. The process was long and tedious but it worked. That technology, adapted to moving the mouse around, is a next step. After that the sky's the limit! Why not just think "My Documents" and it opens... visualize that picture of the ski trip and you found it... think of a webpage and it's up. The speed of thought... now that is real speed!
Sounds kind of Matrix like, but in a strange way... possible in the coming years. Computers are just managing information anyway. With out minds hooked up to the computer we can manage that information a lot better. There's no need for these peripheral keyboard/mice/monitor things...
Just don't sign me up for the first tests...
(Original Article: http://www.edutechie.com/2007/02/somewhat-random-idea-for-the-future-of-computing/)
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