Look at the new winAMP feature called Predixis MusicMagic. It does exactly what you are talking about (within your library of music). I'm sure there is a version/extension of it out there that does the same thing but in a more universal database of tunes.
This company is completely tearing up the rest of the DAP industry, but we all know this already. I think Apple is going to keep on going and end up taking over the whole electronics market. Apple products have style, power and useability. We've already seen Apple grow from just computing to DAPs to DAPs that have can display photos. Now we have one of these buggers that is only a tiny bit larger than a stick of gum. How long until they make this into a phone, like somebody else mentioned?
They seem to love touch-control tech, and so do consumers. Why not do away with the wheel and put a touch LCD in its place? This LCD displays a wheel that functions the same as the physical wheel, but also slides away when you want to input names and numbers into your address book. You can plug your headset in and make VoIP calls in WiFi hotspots, or record audio directly onto your iPod. The touch LCD navigation makes it easy to create playlists and name them.
As others have noted, perhaps expecting life on Mars or any other heavenly body to be even recognizable is foolish. What if other forms of life move slowly through time? Imagine a human-like being who lives for a billion years, but moves so slowly that they only manage to get done what one normal human gets done in their 75 years. Or visual a rock. Just a stone. It's life span is a few billion years. It thinks, lives, reproduces, but far too slowly for us to notice.
Refering back to the acetylene life, what if we slowed down normal chemical rxns associated with life on earth down immensely, but they still worked for some other type of organism?
Why does life have to exist in our four dimensions?
Is it that hard to believe that life could be made up of large-scale mechanics? Earth-life is chemical in nature, but getting down to the nitty-gritty of the chemistry sends you back to physics. Couldn't we have large-scale life, using the mechanics of chemistry, but on much larger atomic particles?
Just a few things that came to mind when I read this article.
...reading the linked article? It is full of descriptions of amazing things, and indeed does say that Hillis is quite childlike - his inventions are almost toys, very expensive and shiny toys. It's not just Babble.
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Look at the new winAMP feature called Predixis MusicMagic. It does exactly what you are talking about (within your library of music). I'm sure there is a version/extension of it out there that does the same thing but in a more universal database of tunes.
What about little plastic film cover things?
I'm sure apple could find a way around the smudging issue...
This company is completely tearing up the rest of the DAP industry, but we all know this already. I think Apple is going to keep on going and end up taking over the whole electronics market. Apple products have style, power and useability. We've already seen Apple grow from just computing to DAPs to DAPs that have can display photos. Now we have one of these buggers that is only a tiny bit larger than a stick of gum. How long until they make this into a phone, like somebody else mentioned?
They seem to love touch-control tech, and so do consumers. Why not do away with the wheel and put a touch LCD in its place? This LCD displays a wheel that functions the same as the physical wheel, but also slides away when you want to input names and numbers into your address book. You can plug your headset in and make VoIP calls in WiFi hotspots, or record audio directly onto your iPod. The touch LCD navigation makes it easy to create playlists and name them.
Resistance is futile.
Hmmm
As others have noted, perhaps expecting life on Mars or any other heavenly body to be even recognizable is foolish. What if other forms of life move slowly through time? Imagine a human-like being who lives for a billion years, but moves so slowly that they only manage to get done what one normal human gets done in their 75 years. Or visual a rock. Just a stone. It's life span is a few billion years. It thinks, lives, reproduces, but far too slowly for us to notice.
Refering back to the acetylene life, what if we slowed down normal chemical rxns associated with life on earth down immensely, but they still worked for some other type of organism?
Why does life have to exist in our four dimensions?
Is it that hard to believe that life could be made up of large-scale mechanics? Earth-life is chemical in nature, but getting down to the nitty-gritty of the chemistry sends you back to physics. Couldn't we have large-scale life, using the mechanics of chemistry, but on much larger atomic particles?
Just a few things that came to mind when I read this article.
SWEEEEEEEET. >_>
...reading the linked article? It is full of descriptions of amazing things, and indeed does say that Hillis is quite childlike - his inventions are almost toys, very expensive and shiny toys. It's not just Babble.