http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,465844,00.html?sPage=fnc/scitech/innovation
A Canadian man, named Le Trung builds a robot for a girlfriend. The man was unsuccessful of finding a human girlfriend, so he built him one. It is said that the 33 year old software engineer spent around $20,000 to put on the female robot named Aiko. It is also said that the robot can recognize faces, speaks in English and Japanese, and can read. The female robot, Aiko has one flaw she cannot walk. The software engineer is trying to find sponsors to help him in making the robot have the ability to walk. He was inspired by the sci-fi robots like Star War’s C3PO. This robot would be good to have around the house for some cases.
I believe that in the future, we as people will have more human like robots around. Having robots around would be easy to manage, because they would not need food, rest, or pay. If human like robots exist today, and was put in the working field then a lot of people would be out of jobs. Having robots in the home would make people indolent and dependant on their robots to do their daily chores, for example cooking, cleaning, washing clothes, etc. I can picture the cartoon show The Jetsons or the movie I Robot as they had robots acting as humans and doing human activities. Since America has an obesity problem now, could you imagine if we had robots around and we as people did not have to work or lift a finger the obesity problem would escalate because people would be too lazy to get up and do the things for themselves.
To me life is becoming more and more like the cartoon The Jetsons. To communicate now with people we have many different ways than one, for example text messages, e-mail, voice-dial, web cam etc. Now today’s hot devices are becoming touch activated and now having a man invent a human like robot that can speak, recognize faces, and butter toast is simply amazing. What’s next living in space stations and flying saucer instead of cars?
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,480255,00.html?sPage=fnc/scitech/personaltechnology
Going digital or having a digital TV is the next big thing since the all the TV’s went to color. In the state of Hawaii, are the first that I know that had switch to digital television broadcast. They made the switch on last Thursday, January 15. In the article from fox news.com, it is said that many of the residents call their special TV help call centers and the amount of call was coming in around about 100 calls an hour with questions. I definitely predict that there will be a great amount of people like the elderly or the people that wait until the last minute that are going to have TV’s that will not work anymore, because they were unable to get converter boxes.
It is also said that President-elect Barack Obama transition team had ask congress for a delay of the digital broadcast that would postpone the transition until June 12, 2009. If that means more commercial ads about going digital, then I not in favor of postponing the transition. I definitely tired of seeing the commercial ads on TV. Everyone now is trying to get the message across from Oprah to Bob the former Price is Right guy. If congress passes the bill for delaying the digital broadcast until June 12, then I think that is good amount of time for everyone who does not have the necessities for the switch to be able to go and buy what they need for the transition. Maybe by June 12 the economy will be a little better for all us in the United States.
My questions are what is the real significance of going digital? What is wrong of with we as a people have now for television broadcast? What will they come up with next once digital TV is old, will there be another change?
Going digital or having a digital TV is the next big thing since the all the TV’s went to color. In the state of Hawaii, are the first that I know that had switch to digital television broadcast. They made the switch on last Thursday, January 15. In the article from fox news.com, it is said that many of the residents call their special TV help call centers and the amount of call was coming in around about 100 calls an hour with questions. I definitely predict that there will be a great amount of people like the elderly or the people that wait until the last minute that are going to have TV’s that will not work anymore, because they were unable to get converter boxes.
It is also said that President-elect Barack Obama transition team had ask congress for a delay of the digital broadcast that would postpone the transition until June 12, 2009. If that means more commercial ads about going digital, then I not in favor of postponing the transition. I definitely tired of seeing the commercial ads on TV. Everyone now is trying to get the message across from Oprah to Bob the former Price is Right guy. If congress passes the bill for delaying the digital broadcast until June 12, then I think that is good amount of time for everyone who does not have the necessities for the switch to be able to go and buy what they need for the transition. Maybe by June 12 the economy will be a little better for all us in the United States.
My questions are what is the real significance of going digital? What is wrong of with we as a people have now for television broadcast? What will they come up with next once digital TV is old, will there be another change?
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