When you place your wi-fi enabled digital camera on the table, for example, Surface 'sees' the camera and does something extraordinary: It pulls your digital pictures and videos out onto the table for you to look at, move, edit or send. Images literally spill out in a pool of color.
I'm sure everyone at Starbucks wants to see my 'home movies' of me and my dog.
On a more serious note, isn't this a bit fishy? It grabs your stuff without even asking? Isn't that...you know, bad?
..that Viacom LOST something from their content being on YouTube is laughable at best. If anything at all VoaCom gained as each post on YouTube is an effective commercial for each show. I know I have been turned on to many shows that I've seen via YouTube. But you know what? Never have I ever been once tempted to not watch the Simpsons because I saw a 30-second Homer D'oh complilation.
ViaCom is still headed by old men who think in old, rigid ways and will never understand how to function normally in today's changing world.
While I suspect it is indeed possible, I find it highly improbable. Not so much because of the environment itself, but really because there's no real way for there to be any movement down there. What I mean is while some bacteria might be able to survive off of the heat, water and minerals, it'd be stuck in one location. It couldn't bore through the highly compacted rock and get to other locations; it couldn't spread. Assuming there was a place for which it could live in the first place. One thing life does absolutely have to have is a place to physically put its' own body, and a way to get to other places.
...has always made me think of watersports anyway.
'Let's go play with the Wii!'
'Mom, it's my turn to use the Wii!'
'Oh, let your sister play with your Wii, you've been playing with it all day!'
I think it's the totally mindless boot-licking like this that keeps me from bothering with macs. Plus I don't seem to have any of the problems all mac users assume I do.
This has thousands of very interesting implications.
Most people right now are focused on the portability, but it doesn't actually need to be portable to be very useful.
Imagine walking into a small chamber in a hospital. The air is pumped out, some sterile air is pumped in, and your body exudes whatever chemicals are in your system. You step out and the tech gets a handout of everything in you, from perscriprion drugs, illegal drugs, and whatever bacteria and viruses are infesting you. Due to the advent of these dogs that can actually sniff out some forms of cancer, it stands to reason these gas spectrometer-like devices should be able to as well. Suddenly you can have damn near a complete check up, including a lot of blood work, in maybe a few seconds time. That, coupled with maybe an RFID tag that displays a list of allergies or even an ID to a hospital database that would list your medical history, all within moments of walking in the door.
Of course, this goes way beyond that. You know that entranceway at bank's doors? Who's to say they couldn't have these guys constantly sniffing for gunpowder? Even with manufactured and cleaned bullets in a clean gun I'd bet the proverbial dollars to doughnuts a uzi packed with 30 rounds would put off enough residue to set off a few alarms in a remote area which can then tap into the security system and take a look around.
The list goes on and on. Police stations everywhere could have a few, one for evidence, one for people. Say you got a guy who is acting crazy as hell and you suspect he's on PCP? Throw him in the chamber and maybe find out he's clean except for a bad reaction with some prescription medication.
You get the idea. Of course, I am sure the uses for it could be much more sinister as well, but I'd guess that within 10-20 years we'll see similar things everywhere.
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When you place your wi-fi enabled digital camera on the table, for example, Surface 'sees' the camera and does something extraordinary: It pulls your digital pictures and videos out onto the table for you to look at, move, edit or send. Images literally spill out in a pool of color. I'm sure everyone at Starbucks wants to see my 'home movies' of me and my dog. On a more serious note, isn't this a bit fishy? It grabs your stuff without even asking? Isn't that...you know, bad?
..that Viacom LOST something from their content being on YouTube is laughable at best. If anything at all VoaCom gained as each post on YouTube is an effective commercial for each show. I know I have been turned on to many shows that I've seen via YouTube. But you know what? Never have I ever been once tempted to not watch the Simpsons because I saw a 30-second Homer D'oh complilation. ViaCom is still headed by old men who think in old, rigid ways and will never understand how to function normally in today's changing world.
While I suspect it is indeed possible, I find it highly improbable. Not so much because of the environment itself, but really because there's no real way for there to be any movement down there. What I mean is while some bacteria might be able to survive off of the heat, water and minerals, it'd be stuck in one location. It couldn't bore through the highly compacted rock and get to other locations; it couldn't spread. Assuming there was a place for which it could live in the first place. One thing life does absolutely have to have is a place to physically put its' own body, and a way to get to other places.
...has always made me think of watersports anyway. 'Let's go play with the Wii!' 'Mom, it's my turn to use the Wii!' 'Oh, let your sister play with your Wii, you've been playing with it all day!'
I think it's the totally mindless boot-licking like this that keeps me from bothering with macs. Plus I don't seem to have any of the problems all mac users assume I do.
This has thousands of very interesting implications. Most people right now are focused on the portability, but it doesn't actually need to be portable to be very useful. Imagine walking into a small chamber in a hospital. The air is pumped out, some sterile air is pumped in, and your body exudes whatever chemicals are in your system. You step out and the tech gets a handout of everything in you, from perscriprion drugs, illegal drugs, and whatever bacteria and viruses are infesting you. Due to the advent of these dogs that can actually sniff out some forms of cancer, it stands to reason these gas spectrometer-like devices should be able to as well. Suddenly you can have damn near a complete check up, including a lot of blood work, in maybe a few seconds time. That, coupled with maybe an RFID tag that displays a list of allergies or even an ID to a hospital database that would list your medical history, all within moments of walking in the door. Of course, this goes way beyond that. You know that entranceway at bank's doors? Who's to say they couldn't have these guys constantly sniffing for gunpowder? Even with manufactured and cleaned bullets in a clean gun I'd bet the proverbial dollars to doughnuts a uzi packed with 30 rounds would put off enough residue to set off a few alarms in a remote area which can then tap into the security system and take a look around. The list goes on and on. Police stations everywhere could have a few, one for evidence, one for people. Say you got a guy who is acting crazy as hell and you suspect he's on PCP? Throw him in the chamber and maybe find out he's clean except for a bad reaction with some prescription medication. You get the idea. Of course, I am sure the uses for it could be much more sinister as well, but I'd guess that within 10-20 years we'll see similar things everywhere.
Can it Moonwalk? Our robots are still decades behind us in fad-dancing technology.