Technology is rapidly being improved and each day innovations are made in order to ease our lives on earth. The new Japanese cars that can navigate more easily provide an interesting new way of travel. Seeing the innovative models made me feel more and more sure that the world will achieve ‘the impossible’ faster than expected! I had often thought that these kind of cars would only be part of the plot in a movie but knowing that they really do exist is a super exciting concept.
Similarly, the new Nokia Morph phone brings a crazy factor of what this world’s creations are turning into…I mean, a phone that can turn into a bracelet? Or fold a multiple different compact ways? A product with all the applications that this phone is expected to have is a concept that everyone thought IMPOSSIBLE only a few years ago. This form of nanoscience will never fail to amuse me and its application to art as well will intrigue my interests. This artistic excuse of a ‘phone’ is thought to be both energy efficient, environmentally healthy and insanely cool/pretty as well. I would totally use this to set a trend in wide band bracelet things :D. The TED product is also a super duper interesting technological advance. Projecting such images and including so many applications seems impossible for any sort of machine to accomplish.
Sound was the topic of the second lecture. The Theremin was introduced, in which songs could be played with only suspending your hands above a contraption so it would work. Along with that, we went over voice tuners which creates a sort of robotic addition to ones voice. Today, many artists if not all use this piece of technology to prevent off-key singing. [which is why some people aren’t all that great live ):]
Link
http://gizmodo.com/360260/nokia-morph-cellphone-rolls-up-stretches-cleans-itself
http://www.whatjamiefound.com/2007/10/10/weird-concept-cars-from-japan/
http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/ee476/FinalProjects/s2009/ns325_eod2/ns325_eod2/index.html
http://www.alljapanesecars.com/
http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia/research/demos/the-morph-concept