This sort of thing has always been a dream for me, computer that displays in the glasses, puts all vital info right there, tells you the name of who you're talking with, vital stats, etc. However, the idea of such a system is to be all-inclusive while invading as little as possible. I always thought that a system that tracked eye movements would be good for navigation, perhaps text input. Preferable would be something that sensed what your fingers were doing, slight sensors on your fingers... Three taps with each hand turns them on, three more taps turns them off. Sure, we'd all look psychotic, walking down the street, tapping our legs with our fingers as we walk, but psychosis is only a measure of how crazy you are compared to others, right?
At any rate, there would be no need for something to project the keyboard, that's just a waste: Just have it displayed in your glasses, in relation to your fingers.
I honestly don't see what the big deal on this is.
Well, for me, it's not the fact that such a technology now exists and can be used, most likely for mundane purposes. It is the potential that it exhibits for exploitation in further forms in the future. Who would have thought that something that seemed so single purpose, the semiconductor, would have evolved into a device which allows someone to be viciously hunted down by a weird group known as the Recording Industry's Alias for the Antichrist for having legal copies of their music..
Of course, I could just be flying to the dramatic. 'Prolly a hoax anyway. But still, potential exists..
Eh, the truly paranoid would have trouble purchasing on the internet.. Trackability and so-on. What you would really want is anonymous street vendors.. Fork over the cash, they fork over the card, ring, suppository (!), anything that's with you regularly.
Enlist pirate radio stations everywhere to transmit on whatever frequencies these things activate on and create so much distortion and interference that it no longer becomes viable.
Or buy your own island and don't let any visitors. We/.ers shoudn't care, so long as there's a T-3 connection, right?
Just routienely carry something that reflects the signal back with ID's all across the board. These things are the size of a grain of sand? Ok, a credit-card sized device composed of millions of the grain-of-sand device should create enough noise and complication to be a fairly effective way to combat this.. Issue new ones every now and again, with some various verified ID's mimicked, perhaps of government officials who think this sort of thing is a good idea, and viola.. Too much obfuscation in the system to be effective.
Er. Patent pending, patent pending, patent pending..
Ah, but there's the wonder of our community. No sooner than pop-ups get replaced by "more invasive, more annoying, and more ridiculous ads" I can fully expect our more programming-savvy comrades to develop browserrs that stop those as well, so we can continue "stealing" from advertisers once more. It is one of the wonders of the techworld. As people come up with more obnoxious ways to do things, we come up with ways to avoid them, all but entirely. And there are already efforts to stop those insanely obnoxious ads that FORCE you to interact with them. I know of several people who sent some very trite e-mails to CNET when they started using them.
I should go into the advertising industry if just to make it more consumer-friendly..
Does anyone else feel weird typing "/.!"? ""/.!"?" is pretty weird too. It goes along with what Douglas Adams said in this article (http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/980707-02-a.html) about typing qwerty. Go ahead. Try it. Typoed, didn't ya?
Thanks for the vicarious thrill, guys.. I appreciate it. And consider yourselves fortunate for the opportunity... It's not something that everyone gets a chance to see.
Guess I'll just have to go down to Florida and live near Cape Canaveral for a while.. Maybe I could do my co-op for a there...
Anyone in south florida need a roomate? Must enjoy raves, computers, coffee, and the occasional beach romp @3AM...
(failing that)Anyone in south florida need an employee? I'm good with computers (Naw, I'm just here because I enjoy the trolls) and I speak spanish fluently...
*Ahem* Realistically speaking, the only rocket launches I've seen are the ones I've launched myself, of the back yard variety.. Lots of fun though....
Does anyone else really wish they could go see a launch live? I've had a fascination with space and rockets since I was a child (geek, what? JUST because I have glowwy-glowwy rounded uv-sensitive cables inside my computer, DOESN'T MEAN...) but have never had the fortune to see a launch in person.. Sure, watching on TV is nice and all, but it cannot begin to compare to the joy of seeing a rocket claw it's way into the sky (mmmmmm.... fiiiirrrre) and become it's own star for a while..
-Trev
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This sort of thing has always been a dream for me, computer that displays in the glasses, puts all vital info right there, tells you the name of who you're talking with, vital stats, etc. However, the idea of such a system is to be all-inclusive while invading as little as possible. I always thought that a system that tracked eye movements would be good for navigation, perhaps text input. Preferable would be something that sensed what your fingers were doing, slight sensors on your fingers... Three taps with each hand turns them on, three more taps turns them off. Sure, we'd all look psychotic, walking down the street, tapping our legs with our fingers as we walk, but psychosis is only a measure of how crazy you are compared to others, right?
At any rate, there would be no need for something to project the keyboard, that's just a waste: Just have it displayed in your glasses, in relation to your fingers.
I honestly don't see what the big deal on this is.
Well, for me, it's not the fact that such a technology now exists and can be used, most likely for mundane purposes. It is the potential that it exhibits for exploitation in further forms in the future. Who would have thought that something that seemed so single purpose, the semiconductor, would have evolved into a device which allows someone to be viciously hunted down by a weird group known as the Recording Industry's Alias for the Antichrist for having legal copies of their music..
Of course, I could just be flying to the dramatic. 'Prolly a hoax anyway. But still, potential exists..
Eh, the truly paranoid would have trouble purchasing on the internet.. Trackability and so-on. What you would really want is anonymous street vendors.. Fork over the cash, they fork over the card, ring, suppository (!), anything that's with you regularly. /.ers shoudn't care, so long as there's a T-3 connection, right?
Enlist pirate radio stations everywhere to transmit on whatever frequencies these things activate on and create so much distortion and interference that it no longer becomes viable.
Or buy your own island and don't let any visitors. We
Just routienely carry something that reflects the signal back with ID's all across the board. These things are the size of a grain of sand? Ok, a credit-card sized device composed of millions of the grain-of-sand device should create enough noise and complication to be a fairly effective way to combat this.. Issue new ones every now and again, with some various verified ID's mimicked, perhaps of government officials who think this sort of thing is a good idea, and viola.. Too much obfuscation in the system to be effective.
Er. Patent pending, patent pending, patent pending..
Ah, but there's the wonder of our community. No sooner than pop-ups get replaced by "more invasive, more annoying, and more ridiculous ads" I can fully expect our more programming-savvy comrades to develop browserrs that stop those as well, so we can continue "stealing" from advertisers once more. It is one of the wonders of the techworld. As people come up with more obnoxious ways to do things, we come up with ways to avoid them, all but entirely. And there are already efforts to stop those insanely obnoxious ads that FORCE you to interact with them. I know of several people who sent some very trite e-mails to CNET when they started using them.
I should go into the advertising industry if just to make it more consumer-friendly..
Does anyone else feel weird typing "/.!"? ""/.!"?" is pretty weird too. It goes along with what Douglas Adams said in this article (http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/980707-02-a.html) about typing qwerty. Go ahead. Try it.
Typoed, didn't ya?
Good, good, /.'s back up.. I almost had to, *gasp*, revert to studying for finals. Thank heavens THAT was avoided. Thank you /.!
Thanks for the vicarious thrill, guys.. I appreciate it. And consider yourselves fortunate for the opportunity... It's not something that everyone gets a chance to see.
Guess I'll just have to go down to Florida and live near Cape Canaveral for a while.. Maybe I could do my co-op for a there...
Anyone in south florida need a roomate? Must enjoy raves, computers, coffee, and the occasional beach romp @3AM...
(failing that)Anyone in south florida need an employee? I'm good with computers (Naw, I'm just here because I enjoy the trolls) and I speak spanish fluently...
*Ahem* Realistically speaking, the only rocket launches I've seen are the ones I've launched myself, of the back yard variety.. Lots of fun though....
Does anyone else really wish they could go see a launch live? I've had a fascination with space and rockets since I was a child (geek, what? JUST because I have glowwy-glowwy rounded uv-sensitive cables inside my computer, DOESN'T MEAN...) but have never had the fortune to see a launch in person.. Sure, watching on TV is nice and all, but it cannot begin to compare to the joy of seeing a rocket claw it's way into the sky (mmmmmm.... fiiiirrrre) and become it's own star for a while..
-Trev