I was present for the large speech that he gave, amazenly adept at improv speaking, the question and answer session was by far the most interesting part. Although a close second was a tech that he demoed using a cell phone as basically a storage unit. What it was was a camera and a projector hooked up to a computer, when he placed his cell phone on the table the camera recognized it, and communicated to it (bluetooth?) at which time, right above it the projector put out an image of a Windows CE style desktop, asking for authentication, at which time he did a fingerprint scan and confirmed his identity. Then to demo one of the aspects of the tech he laid a business card on the desk, the camera scanned it and automatically got the rest of the info off of his phone, then put up another "window" on the table displaying all the info and the picture. He then flipped the card over, showing some hand written notes, which the scanner converted to text and then added to a "notes" section. He then just flipped the card over and dragged it to the CE section of the table and it downloaded all the info to his phone. This was really interesting to me and to see it was quite interesting with what is in the works. I have a feeling thought that some other company besides Microsoft will come out with this first, if only because it seems quite simple to implement once the idea is in someone's head.
Problem is that we're not learning how to reprogram a brain (if we ever can since we'd need something with at least as much processing power as a brain) but simpling how to interpret what it's already sending us.
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I was present for the large speech that he gave, amazenly adept at improv speaking, the question and answer session was by far the most interesting part. Although a close second was a tech that he demoed using a cell phone as basically a storage unit. What it was was a camera and a projector hooked up to a computer, when he placed his cell phone on the table the camera recognized it, and communicated to it (bluetooth?) at which time, right above it the projector put out an image of a Windows CE style desktop, asking for authentication, at which time he did a fingerprint scan and confirmed his identity. Then to demo one of the aspects of the tech he laid a business card on the desk, the camera scanned it and automatically got the rest of the info off of his phone, then put up another "window" on the table displaying all the info and the picture. He then flipped the card over, showing some hand written notes, which the scanner converted to text and then added to a "notes" section. He then just flipped the card over and dragged it to the CE section of the table and it downloaded all the info to his phone. This was really interesting to me and to see it was quite interesting with what is in the works. I have a feeling thought that some other company besides Microsoft will come out with this first, if only because it seems quite simple to implement once the idea is in someone's head.
Problem is that we're not learning how to reprogram a brain (if we ever can since we'd need something with at least as much processing power as a brain) but simpling how to interpret what it's already sending us.