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« on: March 18, 2004, 11:19:49 AM »
Okay, I own a cell phone, but I'm not one of those people that can be seen talking on the damn thing 24/7, rain or shine, indoors, outdoors, driving, and pissing in the men's room at the local pub.

I'm just not a cell phone kind of guy.  My current plan gives me something like 300 minutes a month and I have never, in almost four years of having it, gone anywhere near approaching that amount.

HOWEVER...

This is something I could get used to.

Think about it.  In just a few short years, WiFi technology could conceivably improve to the point where cell phone technology is now, where basically if you're in a populated area, there's a signal.

Combine that with VOIP, and we may be seeing people wearing little communications devices like this.

I could see something like this working well with an individual user account set up with pre-configured lists of other users on your "buddy" list with whom you can open a connection at will via voice recognition/name recognition (by touching the button and speaking the person's name).

If their device is on, and if they're in a covered area, you're talking to them... simple as that.

Like a cell phone, you would obviously be able to turn something like this off (like while at work, or in a theater, or whatever).

I think it would be conceivable to even have the batteries on such a device charged kinetically, like some watches... but that would depend greatly on the power requirements.

Anyway, I just thought it was kind of an interesting idea.  I could see some good applications for it.  I could also see some really annoying applications for it, but you're gonna get that with just about anything.   :P
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« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2004, 01:05:28 PM »
*drool*
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« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2004, 01:56:17 PM »
You are not your fuckin' khakis
You are not your trend setting, high-tech communication device.














(sorry, couldn't resist)
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« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2004, 03:31:36 PM »
I am my mp3 collection.
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« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2004, 03:38:44 PM »
I am my compiler.
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« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2004, 07:27:46 PM »
I am my own grandpa?






(sorry, just couldn't resist....)

that would be pretty cool.  integrate that with a PAN (Personal Area Network, if you're that out of the loop), and we'd never need house keys, car keys, or credit cards again!
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« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2004, 11:04:10 PM »
The whole precompiled list of friends and the one touch connect and talk thing has been done already.

www.nextel.com
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« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2004, 09:24:41 AM »
Well yeah, but it isn't using VOIP, I don't think.  And is it voice activated?  Plus, that's still a phone, when it comes down to it.  I was just tickled by the novelty of this new doohickey.  :P
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« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2004, 01:41:46 PM »
I would give several left nuts for that.
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« Reply #9 on: March 19, 2004, 08:21:17 PM »
I like it.  I can't wait for them to figure out the transporter though.
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« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2004, 09:31:23 AM »
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I like it.  I can't wait for them to figure out the transporter though.

Not gonna happen.  Not via energy transmission, anyway.

Maybe via some sort of wormhole dimensional rifting or something taking advantage of space curvature, but we'll never see anything like the matter/energy transmission transporters like in Star Trek.  Waaaaaaay too complex.  It's the most unrealistic thing about that show.  The rest of the stuff, believe it or not, is pretty tame by comparison.  Heck, we have some technology now that surpasses some of the things they had in the first series.
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« Reply #11 on: March 22, 2004, 06:12:12 PM »
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