Friday, September 29, 2006

Homework 1

1. Watch the 10 minute video clip Beyond the Mobile Frontier by NTT DoCoMo. List, from your point of view, 10 scenarios of what's next technology come into our life.

(1)PC hand
3D object sense of the touch can be transmited.

(2)wireless credit card
The old women is using the credit card without taking it out from her wallet. This new technology must consider and solve the security and privacy problems.

(3)pay by watch
Eletronic money is always the fashion in the future, from wired to wireless, we can see the the way of paying system is changing continuously.

(4)super thin screen material
Oled (organic light emitting diode) is so expected in next decades. As you can see in the clip, the display is tagged on the cloth that you barely can feel it existing. The advantage of low power consumption also represent the long operating lifetime.
Researchers developing transparent OLEDs

(5)solar energy backpack
In the jungle, the shortage of energy can gain from the heat of the sun.

(6)real-time digtal video transmit through a watch
I don't know if I can call it a "watch". Maybe it should be call in something else, wrist PDA or wrist smartphone? : )

(7)electronic gloves
The remote surgery is shown in the video by the electronic gloves. The 3D vision video is created for the vet to operate in the real-time treatment and diagnose.

(8)auto drive

(9)bus on demand system

(10)one stop boarding system
If you ever catch a flight, I believe the waste of time on check-in and passport check and security check will kill you. I hope the idea will be accomplished!

*(11)dreams come true painting board?????
"Everything you wrote here all came true".
Are you kidding me?This one will be marked on "MUST BUY!" in my shopping list.