hmiles619
10-17-2006, 02:14 PM
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Warning: This May Be A Little Nerdy
Last week, while waiting in line for my haircut, I thumbed through a Popular Science magazine. Normally they have all sorts of useless crap filling the pages. They show flying cars, dancing robots, and new designs for a space station that will help colonize the moon. But that day, I caught a glimpse of the future. I saw a picture of these glasses.
These obviously aren't just normal glasses. These glasses somehow project an image into your eye that appears like a screen 3 feet in front of you on the right side of your vision. If you connected these to a dvd player you could be walking through the mall, and watching a movie at the same time.
I didn't think much of the little gadget until they called my name to go sit in the barber's chair. Since I'm the brilliant guy that I am, I spent the next ten minutes brainstorming the possible uses of this device.
What would happen if I stuck this thing into an ipod? I could watch videos without the use of a screen. I'd just be walking down the street and I'd see the video on the right side of my vision.
What if they made an ipod that had the ability to get on the internet and browse the web like a blackberry? (It's coming soon guys) I could be walking down the street visiting HollisMiles.com (http://www.hollismiles.com/) and posting my blog.
Soon they'll develop ways to make these things smaller so that you don't need glasses for the little screen in your vision. Maybe they could stick them into a contact and make the signals to this new all purpose ipod wireless. Now no one will be able to even tell that you're visiting your favorite website (HollisMiles.com) during class.
Add in an instant messenger service like AIM and you could communicate with anyone around the world instantly, undetected, wirelessly, hands free.
And don't think that it's not going to happen. It already is. These are the things that our kids will be wanting for Christmas. Instead of the new video game that I wanted when I was five. My son will want an eye implant that will play all of his favorite movies and video games without detection. I'll be able to instantly track him using the GPS feature on both of our ipods and send him an instant message to get home now.
More and more people will be able to work from home, or wherever they are in the world, because your office computer is actually in your pocket and can connect to anyone at any time. Now that you don't have to commute back and forth to work, you don't have to buy a few tanks of gas every week solving much of our energy problems.
People will move out of cities and move to places like the hill country, where they can sit and relax in the river while "at work" all day. During my lunch break, I could sit back and watch some cable tv on the web (already here).
The possibilities are endless with technology, and all of these things will happen within the next 100 years.
Don't believe me? Scan back up through this article and look at how many things you wouldn't even have understood 10 or 20 years ago. What's a blackberry? instant message? ipod? video game? website? gps? These things are now part of our every day lives that we all take for granted.
It's crazy to think about what we'll be taking for granted then. It's gonna be fun.
http://www.hollismiles.com/images/hudglasses.jpg
Warning: This May Be A Little Nerdy
Last week, while waiting in line for my haircut, I thumbed through a Popular Science magazine. Normally they have all sorts of useless crap filling the pages. They show flying cars, dancing robots, and new designs for a space station that will help colonize the moon. But that day, I caught a glimpse of the future. I saw a picture of these glasses.
These obviously aren't just normal glasses. These glasses somehow project an image into your eye that appears like a screen 3 feet in front of you on the right side of your vision. If you connected these to a dvd player you could be walking through the mall, and watching a movie at the same time.
I didn't think much of the little gadget until they called my name to go sit in the barber's chair. Since I'm the brilliant guy that I am, I spent the next ten minutes brainstorming the possible uses of this device.
What would happen if I stuck this thing into an ipod? I could watch videos without the use of a screen. I'd just be walking down the street and I'd see the video on the right side of my vision.
What if they made an ipod that had the ability to get on the internet and browse the web like a blackberry? (It's coming soon guys) I could be walking down the street visiting HollisMiles.com (http://www.hollismiles.com/) and posting my blog.
Soon they'll develop ways to make these things smaller so that you don't need glasses for the little screen in your vision. Maybe they could stick them into a contact and make the signals to this new all purpose ipod wireless. Now no one will be able to even tell that you're visiting your favorite website (HollisMiles.com) during class.
Add in an instant messenger service like AIM and you could communicate with anyone around the world instantly, undetected, wirelessly, hands free.
And don't think that it's not going to happen. It already is. These are the things that our kids will be wanting for Christmas. Instead of the new video game that I wanted when I was five. My son will want an eye implant that will play all of his favorite movies and video games without detection. I'll be able to instantly track him using the GPS feature on both of our ipods and send him an instant message to get home now.
More and more people will be able to work from home, or wherever they are in the world, because your office computer is actually in your pocket and can connect to anyone at any time. Now that you don't have to commute back and forth to work, you don't have to buy a few tanks of gas every week solving much of our energy problems.
People will move out of cities and move to places like the hill country, where they can sit and relax in the river while "at work" all day. During my lunch break, I could sit back and watch some cable tv on the web (already here).
The possibilities are endless with technology, and all of these things will happen within the next 100 years.
Don't believe me? Scan back up through this article and look at how many things you wouldn't even have understood 10 or 20 years ago. What's a blackberry? instant message? ipod? video game? website? gps? These things are now part of our every day lives that we all take for granted.
It's crazy to think about what we'll be taking for granted then. It's gonna be fun.