So you’re thinking, robotics, hmm… Sure it’s futuristic and all, but not really my cuppa. Think again. People in the ’60’s (or earlier about) all hyped about futuristic robots, they thought by the Millennium all computers would blow up and human life as we know it would end. Then of course to be taken over by robots. Or maybe aliens.
We’ve watched movies where the computers deem humans ‘inefficient’ and proceed to eliminate humankind. Like the mainframe computer in I, Robot. Its not too far I tell you! Look at Doc Ock from Spiderman 2, when one can have runaway robot men then it’s within imagination to have mutated spiders biting people. Go Spiderman!
You must have watched the youtube clips, notice how the robots have better coordination and can dance better than the average person? Even you possibly! Then there’s the US Army exoskeleton, which is a scary thing and the adorable Sony Rolly. The picture you see of the space-ship like thing on the floor is a robo-vacuum. You switch it on and it goes around your house vacuuming by itself… There you see that Sony robo dog. These all designed to replace your dancing partner, the security guard, a clown, maid and your pet dog!
I have evidence to believe robo things are even finding space in the bedroom! Appalling! But chances are someone you know knows someone who might have heard of someone owning one of those! Which might be you! Ha-ha, only joking. The world’s a small place, things come around too quickly. Too quickly for comfort.
Robotics arose out of human lethargy, or as some says need for greater production and efficiency. Robots are automations. Automations we have aplenty all around us already. Majority of the urban city goer’s time is spent interacting with machines. In some kind of automation or the other. The PC without which life does move these days does control our lives to good extent already.
So barricade your doors, keep the pet in. Run up your credit card bills, who cares? The robo’s are taking over the world!!
Look at the attached videos. Isn’t it amazing? Imagine owning a phone like the shown Nokia 888? The Sony concept cannot be far behind seeing their prototype. It is a marvellous concept; it would redefine our lives in many ways. Nokia, a company founded in 1865 is today the largest provider of mobile phone technology. This design was launched in the Museum of Modern Art“Design and The Elastic Mind” themed exhibition. Really the mind needs to stretch to accommodate this into our thinking!
This latest innovation ‘Morph’ technology has to be the most cutting edge and transitional breakthrough the world has yet seen. So far we all have been conditioning ourselves to work with technology, learn and adapt to the newer things, newer operations and functionality. Here with the Morph concept the gadget adapts itself to your lifestyle. Isn’t that fabulous? It would be god sent to all technology-adverse people. Operation of this technology based product will be as natural as flipping through a magazine and as convenient carrying as wearing a watch. No buttons to be scared of, all touch sensitive!
Some remarkable features of this new technology are;
• Flexible and versatile adapting shape and colour to however you may want to use it, as a wrist watch or a regular phone or a tablet any which way your imagination takes you!
• Solar powered. No need worrying to find a plug point.
• Superhydrophobic surface which repels dirt, water and even finger prints thereby reducing corrosion, wear and improving longevity.
• An absolutely cutting-edge-unheard-of new feature is the environment sensor. Which can tell you if something you want to eat can be consumed or not, it can tell you on the pollution levels of the air around you and various other things one can set the bio-chemical sensor to identify to them. Whatever you may want to know on your environment.
Statistics indicate Nokia sells 18 phones every second of every day which is an enormous number making it easily the world’s largest mobile phone maker and with more than one billion handsets shipped is the world’s largest mobile computing platform. It would be fantastic if billions of people could be touched by this amazing piece of technology.
evawhite on May 8th, 2008
