article url: http://technorati.com/technology/gadgets/article/google-glasses-bring-the-web-to/
blogger url: http://technorati.com/people/cblaha/
The blogger, Craig Blaha, is a privacy, secrecy, and social media
researcher pursuing his PhD in
Information Studies at UT Austin. Craig teaches undergraduate classes on
Social Media and Privacy and the Internet and Public Policy. The topic
of this blog is google is going to produce 'glasses' that allows a
person to see everything a smartphone can see, through a pair of
glasses. This implies everything from internet surfing, texting,
calling, calender scheduling, all through glasses. This will probably
make use of body motion force and also your retinas.
What I like about this blogger is his simplicity in writing. Simple is
good. He tries to add humor in there, so I guess that's good too. What I
don't like about him is he presents a rhetorical question in the end
addressing privacy questions. I feel this just invites arguments and
'trolling'. I think I would like a blogger who can present an unbiased
side to the argument, then speak more about his own thoughts on the
subject.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
lecture post on bits & bytes
My entrepreneurial idea is to produce a machine that reads your brain
waves and transmits those brain waves into physical activity, or images
onto a tablet computer. If i were to will it, I can paint a whole
landscape with my brain or take lecture notes with my brain onto a
tablet.
Just like every other tablet on the market today, my tablet should also be able to read many languages. Although 8bit, or ASCII, can read most languages already, it can't read all all of them. ASCII can not read Asian languages, and I intend for my tablet to be accessible to the whole world. Therefore, my tablet must be unicode and not ASCII.
Unicode allows the tablet to process Asian languages as well as Western languages. This is very important considering that Japan and Korea are big technology producing countries. The tablet also needs sound. Especially when a student is at home reviewing the things he learned in school. He might want the tablet to read out loud his own thoughts to him, then he'll remember his train of thought. Some people are visual learners; others, audal learners.
The tablet will probably need to broadcast its sounds at 20-20,000 htz, since that's the range of a human's ears' hearing capacity. Anything extra can be thrown away. So the tablet will probably record in mp3 format rather than wav since mp3 compresses it down while wav just has extra stuff that the human ear can't hear. This will also help save space on the tablet since people will not only want to use it as a learning device, but also as a gaming device, music listening device, video watcher.
Just like every other tablet on the market today, my tablet should also be able to read many languages. Although 8bit, or ASCII, can read most languages already, it can't read all all of them. ASCII can not read Asian languages, and I intend for my tablet to be accessible to the whole world. Therefore, my tablet must be unicode and not ASCII.
Unicode allows the tablet to process Asian languages as well as Western languages. This is very important considering that Japan and Korea are big technology producing countries. The tablet also needs sound. Especially when a student is at home reviewing the things he learned in school. He might want the tablet to read out loud his own thoughts to him, then he'll remember his train of thought. Some people are visual learners; others, audal learners.
The tablet will probably need to broadcast its sounds at 20-20,000 htz, since that's the range of a human's ears' hearing capacity. Anything extra can be thrown away. So the tablet will probably record in mp3 format rather than wav since mp3 compresses it down while wav just has extra stuff that the human ear can't hear. This will also help save space on the tablet since people will not only want to use it as a learning device, but also as a gaming device, music listening device, video watcher.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
competitive analysis
The machine I'm trying to produce is going to be many years later, but there's been progress in it.
http://www.livescience.com/8844-brain-machine-reads-minds-modest-breakthrough.html
The mind reader machine advocated by scientists is more for the medical field. They're trying to analyze seizures patients more and understand which neurons fire when they think of a certain celebrity.
One outcome of this is that, “if the patient learns to control neurons perfectly, instead of having the image appear on the screen you can connect his brain to a cursor,” Cerf said.
The difference between their's and mine is mine is the next step in the learning process. Being a student for 20 years, I think it's really important to be learning as efficiently as possible.
The other similar machine is
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7987821/Mind-reading-machine-can-convert-thoughts-into-speech.html
also created by scientists. This machine allows people to convert their thoughts and brain waves into speech by a computer. The intended audience for them is also patients, but paralyzed patients instead. Think Stephen Hawking and Professor Xavier. They want to give a chance to paralyzed patients to be able to communicate with normal people again.
So my machine benefits all students because one's thought process while learning is undeniably critical in the learning process. The ability to write down your thought process in an instant is almost science fictional, but the day will come soon that people won't need to look at the teacher, then to the blackboard, then quickly jot down a big mass of notes. Also, these 2 science machines utilize electrodes attached to the brain. Maybe I will use a computer chip, given Moore's Law of the number of transistors on a circuit doubling every 2 years. Maybe 10 years later, the strength and power of a computer chip will be so great it can send information to the tablet remotely.
http://www.livescience.com/8844-brain-machine-reads-minds-modest-breakthrough.html
The mind reader machine advocated by scientists is more for the medical field. They're trying to analyze seizures patients more and understand which neurons fire when they think of a certain celebrity.
One outcome of this is that, “if the patient learns to control neurons perfectly, instead of having the image appear on the screen you can connect his brain to a cursor,” Cerf said.
The difference between their's and mine is mine is the next step in the learning process. Being a student for 20 years, I think it's really important to be learning as efficiently as possible.
The other similar machine is
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7987821/Mind-reading-machine-can-convert-thoughts-into-speech.html
also created by scientists. This machine allows people to convert their thoughts and brain waves into speech by a computer. The intended audience for them is also patients, but paralyzed patients instead. Think Stephen Hawking and Professor Xavier. They want to give a chance to paralyzed patients to be able to communicate with normal people again.
So my machine benefits all students because one's thought process while learning is undeniably critical in the learning process. The ability to write down your thought process in an instant is almost science fictional, but the day will come soon that people won't need to look at the teacher, then to the blackboard, then quickly jot down a big mass of notes. Also, these 2 science machines utilize electrodes attached to the brain. Maybe I will use a computer chip, given Moore's Law of the number of transistors on a circuit doubling every 2 years. Maybe 10 years later, the strength and power of a computer chip will be so great it can send information to the tablet remotely.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
My entrepreneurial idea is to produce a machine that reads your brain
waves and transmits those brain waves into physical activity, or images
onto a tablet computer. If i were to will it, I can paint a whole
landscape with my brain or take lecture notes with my brain onto a
tablet.
http://www.ted.com/talks/tan_le_a_headset_that_reads_your_brainwaves.html
In order for my idea to work, there must be an actual tablet that can read my brain waves.
However, the human brain is an extremely complex system. To play a game with complex algorithms, the computer reading the game must be very powerful. Following that logic, the machine that translates your brainwaves onto a tablet must also have lots of power.
A powerful motherboard, processor, RAM, hard drive, and graphics card are needed for this tablet. The motherboard is the main circuit unit so it needs to be strong to match everything else other the whole system will suffer. The process also needs to be strong because it's like the brain of the whole computer. Every single action the tablet takes will have to go through the processor. A good processor makes a fast computer. You might need a quad core processor so the tablet won't lag while you're creating an image on it. Furthermore, the arithmetic logic unit needs to also be powerful.
RAM is necessary because while the machine is reading your brain waves, it also needs to write down or copy down the information it's reading and turn it into images for you. Just reading the brainwaves will use up a lot of power, so lots of RAM is required. More RAM equals a faster computer. In addition, lots of hard drive space is needed too to store the images your brain makes. In the future, Solid state drives should make reading speed faster also so the overall performance will improve. A good graphics card is very important because you want the images you create to look like the ones you envision. If your brain 'sees' 3 calculus equations in class, but because your graphics card sucks, then your equations might be mixed up because it's not reading the images clearly. We're in an age of HD now. Everything needs to be clear and crisp.
Maybe a sound card will be required too but a powerful one isn't really necessary.
http://www.ted.com/talks/tan_le_a_headset_that_reads_your_brainwaves.html
In order for my idea to work, there must be an actual tablet that can read my brain waves.
However, the human brain is an extremely complex system. To play a game with complex algorithms, the computer reading the game must be very powerful. Following that logic, the machine that translates your brainwaves onto a tablet must also have lots of power.
A powerful motherboard, processor, RAM, hard drive, and graphics card are needed for this tablet. The motherboard is the main circuit unit so it needs to be strong to match everything else other the whole system will suffer. The process also needs to be strong because it's like the brain of the whole computer. Every single action the tablet takes will have to go through the processor. A good processor makes a fast computer. You might need a quad core processor so the tablet won't lag while you're creating an image on it. Furthermore, the arithmetic logic unit needs to also be powerful.
RAM is necessary because while the machine is reading your brain waves, it also needs to write down or copy down the information it's reading and turn it into images for you. Just reading the brainwaves will use up a lot of power, so lots of RAM is required. More RAM equals a faster computer. In addition, lots of hard drive space is needed too to store the images your brain makes. In the future, Solid state drives should make reading speed faster also so the overall performance will improve. A good graphics card is very important because you want the images you create to look like the ones you envision. If your brain 'sees' 3 calculus equations in class, but because your graphics card sucks, then your equations might be mixed up because it's not reading the images clearly. We're in an age of HD now. Everything needs to be clear and crisp.
Maybe a sound card will be required too but a powerful one isn't really necessary.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
lecture blog post
My entrepreneurial idea is to produce a machine that reads your brain waves and transmits those brain waves into physical activity, or images onto a tablet computer. If i were to will it, I can paint a whole landscape with my brain or take lecture notes with my brain onto a tablet.
There is a slight problem however, every piece of new technology that comes out will be very expensive. When the apple IPhone came out, the price was outrageous. Yet today the price of the IPhone dropped significantly but the business is still doing so well. The key to widespread use isn't in the price, but in the qualitative marketing and scale of economy.
Humans are competitive in nature and inherently want to constantly proclaim "AH HA! I'm better than you!". By using facebook, this product can attain widespread use. Why? Facebook has 2 advantages this product needs. 1) It has a WIDE audience. - What this translates into is a huge market pool. It's like having a bunch of fish in a pool. Now you just need the fishing rod.
Gamification is the answer. Badges, awards, ranking help us proclaim to the world 'I got this much, what do you got? Suck my dust.' 2) Facebook has gamification. Put 1) and 2) together and you have a product that will enjoy widespread acclaim and reviews, something that companies pour millions of dollars into, and people's competitive nature can be satiated. When the IPhone first came out, people were posting on facebook where they were, what they were thinking with their phones. On the bottom of their posts would say '-posted with my IPhone.' This is the "AH HA I'm better than you!" I'm talking about. I'm saying I have an IPhone, new technology, and you don't. My machine can also incorporate gamification in it. For example, for every minute I actively use my machine I would get an award or badge to post on facebook. Maybe I can unlock a new skin for my tablet while I'm at it.
There is a slight problem however, every piece of new technology that comes out will be very expensive. When the apple IPhone came out, the price was outrageous. Yet today the price of the IPhone dropped significantly but the business is still doing so well. The key to widespread use isn't in the price, but in the qualitative marketing and scale of economy.
Humans are competitive in nature and inherently want to constantly proclaim "AH HA! I'm better than you!". By using facebook, this product can attain widespread use. Why? Facebook has 2 advantages this product needs. 1) It has a WIDE audience. - What this translates into is a huge market pool. It's like having a bunch of fish in a pool. Now you just need the fishing rod.
Gamification is the answer. Badges, awards, ranking help us proclaim to the world 'I got this much, what do you got? Suck my dust.' 2) Facebook has gamification. Put 1) and 2) together and you have a product that will enjoy widespread acclaim and reviews, something that companies pour millions of dollars into, and people's competitive nature can be satiated. When the IPhone first came out, people were posting on facebook where they were, what they were thinking with their phones. On the bottom of their posts would say '-posted with my IPhone.' This is the "AH HA I'm better than you!" I'm talking about. I'm saying I have an IPhone, new technology, and you don't. My machine can also incorporate gamification in it. For example, for every minute I actively use my machine I would get an award or badge to post on facebook. Maybe I can unlock a new skin for my tablet while I'm at it.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Efficiency in the classroom
Computers are everywhere these days. People can now order their car like a butler to call your sister or give them directions to go to the nearest football stadium. Many people oppose the omnipresence of machines in our lives because they feel it takes away the humanity in us and creates a distance between us and the world. I see things differently.
http://discovermagazine.com/2011/dec/09-mind-over-motor-controlling-robots-with-your-thoughts
Recently there has been quite a lot of research on having a computer chip located inside the brain or some probes hooked to your head and using your brainwaves to move things. My idea is to have this chip or probes hooked to your brain and attached to a kindle or ipad or something of the like. Nowadays Ipads are being used in some schools to teach; no longer the standard blackboard and notebook.
The idea is whatever you're seeing with your mind at the moment the teacher is lecturing, the machine will translate those brain waves onto the ipad or kindle. Many times I find myself conflicted between listening attentively to the teacher or furiously copying down notes.
With this machine, I won't feel conflicted anymore. Furthermore, the teacher's notes usually aren't the foundation of success in the classroom. It's usually the insight the teacher imparts to his/her students through speech. By tracing your exact thought during the lecture, you can kinda retrace your steps in getting to the right thought, the right equation, the right way to think; rather than just memorizing, you see your own thought process! How cool is that?!
http://discovermagazine.com/2011/dec/09-mind-over-motor-controlling-robots-with-your-thoughts
Recently there has been quite a lot of research on having a computer chip located inside the brain or some probes hooked to your head and using your brainwaves to move things. My idea is to have this chip or probes hooked to your brain and attached to a kindle or ipad or something of the like. Nowadays Ipads are being used in some schools to teach; no longer the standard blackboard and notebook.
The idea is whatever you're seeing with your mind at the moment the teacher is lecturing, the machine will translate those brain waves onto the ipad or kindle. Many times I find myself conflicted between listening attentively to the teacher or furiously copying down notes.
With this machine, I won't feel conflicted anymore. Furthermore, the teacher's notes usually aren't the foundation of success in the classroom. It's usually the insight the teacher imparts to his/her students through speech. By tracing your exact thought during the lecture, you can kinda retrace your steps in getting to the right thought, the right equation, the right way to think; rather than just memorizing, you see your own thought process! How cool is that?!
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