Thursday, December 23, 2004

Whats Next from Google.

In the race of dumping the world with technological innovations, Google seems to have taken a lead. If you are in search of anything on the web, www.google.com is anybodie's first stop. You can search webpages, you can search addresses to places, you can search journals and thesies documents and so on, and to this sequel, I believe, it might add value if Google had the following feature too. Let us call it 'Google vedios' for now.
I might be a Travel conossiuer, willing to have a first hand feel of a new place, or I might not be a rich guy to visit many reputed places in the world, or I might want to get a feel of traffic on one of the busiest roads in my city or I might just want to browse on whats interesting with people in some remote city in a remote country or I just want to see how newyear celebrations are going on in paris, what do I do?. Something like Google Vedios can be an answer to all these.
Today most of the famous cities are covered by live police vedios, TV channel vedios etc. there are also live vedios available at famous turist spots in the world. Such vedio coverage is lot more in US. Google can tie up with such networks for source of live vedio streams of a place or region and if any user from any remote place wants to see whats going on there, the vedio can be streamed onto his broswer window. If the user searches for information of a city all the famous vedio files available from various websites can be pointed at, this should not be tough job for any famous search tool at all. Implementing all this calls for some major improvements in speed of vedio streaming and also quite an effort is needed to connect to all the live vedios available. But definitely this is worth Next Generation.
The days might not be far when you type in "New york + Madison Square Garden" at a website and you might be watching whats going on there, live.

Friday, December 17, 2004

Entertainment Next Generation

Are you not fed up of seeing somebody else play a hero in many movies you like?. Do you go to a cinema to see somebody else romance your favourite heroine. We are shooting next James Bond Film, the current Bond is not upto the standard, would you mind playing Bond for Us? Why not? If thats what entertains us, thats how we shall use our technology for.

You walk into our office on a fine day and tell us which role you want to play and in which film. You are our Hero and let us shoot you with a camera from all directions. Come back after two weeks and take home a DVD or a film which casts you along with your favourite heroines. Well all our Software does is replace the not so good hero in a film and put you in there. Its all like how during the initial days of still cameras, people went to studios to get themselves photoed. This seems to be a near possible achievable target.

Would'nt it be so nice... Why not people find it interesting and share with friends, things like this http://www.lintukoto.net/viihde/mielenosoitus/kuva.php?teksti=Anil%20Is%20great
(u can replace the bold text above with what ever u want).

If you find all this interesting, the happy days are ahead, Just wait till Warner Bros or Microsoft hire me for this task Or wait till I write the required software myself.

On Further talking about next generation entertainment. In future, I think people will invent some ways of enforcing morphing techniques on brain. We go to a theatre which might look like a gadget shop and we sit in our chair and put on a helmet kind of stuff and just relax, Like the way Neo or Morpheus enter an imaginary world sitting in their seats in the film The Matrix. we would then be Watching (well watching might be a wrong word here, better I call it Experiencing) the movie in which we look just like the way we want to appear playing a lead role in the movie.

Next to Films the other biggest form of entertainment is animation games. The current games or technology can just provide a vicarious thrill by letting one, control the anchor. Compared to Movies, there is a far better scope here to entertain with a real world experience that is otherwise not possible in practical world due to financial, physical or whatever constraints it might impose. The barriers that are imposed financially to give an end user a better experiece can be overcome by having theatres for animation games. Theatres where we have a closed room amidst the gadgets that aid in giving a better experience can be constructed as one time investment. Like a new movie is released a new game can be released by various sources and the game should be compatible with existing infrastructure at the Game-Theatres. If the technology here can make things interesting, There is every possibility that People will flood such theatres and see themselves in the imaginary world that the game takes them to.

Let us wait for such a day. Who knows the day might be round the corner.


Thursday, December 16, 2004

Good Accessory for a mobile phone

This is for somebody who often forgets his/her luggage while on travel. Take two or three RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) enabled cards and put them in ur luggage bags and the cellphones have to be enhanced to keep track of the luggage when you are around. Incase u have moved out a distance with out ur luggage the cellphone should give an alert. This feature can be extended to monitor ur valuable items as well like wallets etc. Cool thing to have on our mobiles is'nt it?