Sometimes I can be active and sometimes I can be a real lazy old git. That's why I like gadgets, just to squeeze extra micro seconds of time by using a electric thingamabob. I considered an electric tooth brush as my first gadget. Because who wants to physically scrub your mouth with a manual tooth brush.
except for the charging and the tooth paste dispensing, I'd say seconds gained on my morning ritual. Also an electric tin opener, because who wants to squeeze and twist a device to open a tin can. To ease the slight repetitive strain injury in my hands, I see these time savers can help with the limitations I have.
Bit what if we need more help then a tooth brush and a tin opener? disabled people with motor neuron disease or amputees looking to replace and arm. Things get complicated for end user to try and find a gadget to save time for his short comings.
New technology emerging from now allows Pierpaolo Petruzziello to connect to a robot hand by way of electrodes to be attached to his nervous system. The 2 million pound project, stimulated his arm to find his nerve endings and amplified back any concentrated output his amputated arm would signal. Or Tim Hemms successful brain operation to connect electrodes to neurons that controls his arms. Despite having a complete spinal injury, he eventually remapped his brain functions to allow him to control a robot hand.
Hard to say if technology is going to allow full connection of the brain as its early days but considering that there seems to an increase of war veterans and high risk of improvised explosive devices. There is even a possibility to suggest that the use of a military exoskeleton for combat. Raytheon's sarcos xos2 exoskeleton could help save lives, because its gives its user extra strength to punch walls and lift objects too heavy for a normal person to carry. Its still early days to say a exoskeleton will be a gadget of the future,as there is still a power problem. While Iron man uses a fictitious Arch reactor, the Xos2 would probably have a battery pack which will probably run out more times then a toy electric car.
commercially specking one company has a interesting idea of using a E.E.G. monitor to control the out put of
a game or to direct you to a particular pathway in a make your own adventure film plot. E.E.G or electroencephalogram amplifies the brain out put to a frequency. Depending on a relaxed state the user can change this output to move an object. Sold as a kids toy you can buy a star wars science force trainer. This moves up and down according to how relaxed you are. Translate the same action for games and video adventure and you have Neurosky's mind wave brain scanner. As well as using one of its apps to look or Parkinson's disease, the mind probe is a unobtrusive headset like device that allows alpha waves to be a crucial part in the games control.
Its hard to guess which way emerging technology will go to create a possible future. I like to think of cyborgs exist in the future. But with great power comes great stupidity or at lease criminal cyborg activity. Brain remapping might be a possibility for robots to be controlled. Certainly not by Alpha wave control, where you have to relax to work a machine. Complex controls can't be replaced by how relaxed you are, not unless direct brain to machine remapping is involved.
E3 or ELECTRONIC ENTERTAINMENT EXPO is almost among us and it means putting together the all the games you want to play or heard about into a farmers market -like display situation.
Personally its a way to hype up the excitement and I suppose it gives some sort of idea on the release date on these so called video games.
The hardware aspect isn't going to be that interesting as PlayStation and XBox will most likely not be showcasing anything new. Though its a perfect opportunity for Nintendo to go ahead and release the wii u.
The tablet sized controller with its screen and control keys either side, gives it a unique experience. Though how unique is with two screens anyway?. It might be a good way to have a threesome, though not the sexual kind but really a way to split the tv screen and have the tablet as the third player. Or indeed maybe allow each player to bring his wii u controller for a add on multi play.
Most of the games seem like they are ages away with Tomb raider being the furthest away to the first quarter of 2013. The trailer looks pretty good with a Young 20 something Lara croft freaking vocalising out on the situations that she has in front of her. This is a reboot and the new new Lady croft, like any noob would be a little on edge. I can imagine that the whole game play will be her moaning and groaning the whole way through it. A situation which might get a little tiresome and probably will adjust the volume to avoid embarrassing noises or complex explanations to anyone outside the room. (your mother or girlfriend)
Dead space 3 may have have an update on E3 despite all the cryptic graphic trailer released some time earlier.
Resident evil 6
continues to carry one with the news that the president is to reveal the goings on with Raccoon city in 1998. Hopefully that should curb the actions of the bio hazard terrorists.
E3 will promise to be a candy-land full of news updates and hardware reveals. I suspect there might be new game trailers or more of the same concept ideas for hardware. Its hard to predict while you are in another country looking at the news on the internet. All I can say is that I'll be envious on the action and would probably find the truth about how good the game play when I cough up the money to play, months after the release date.
