Super Animal Senses

We’re entering a world where the Web enters and inter­acts with everyday life. They talk about about RFID, near-​​field com­mu­nic­a­tions, online/​inline and glance­able inter­faces. There’s a great video down the bottom that explains it all in a lot of detail.

What we’re talking about is things like:

• Nike + – personal inform­a­tion aggreg­a­tion and sharing.
• Wattson and Holmes – power usage visu­al­ised more easily
• Oyster cards – tick­et­less travel payment
• Nabaztag – physical gadgets con­veying Internet information

And super animal senses. Sorry, SUPER ANIMAL SENSES!!! With my own normal human senses failing rapidly, I’m espe­cially inter­ested in this. Some guy is making gadgets that will replace them with SUPER ANIMAL ones.

The pro­to­type described is about knowing which way is North, like migratory birds do. There’s a buzzer in your pocket that goes off whenever you’re pointing north­wards. Over time, you stop noticing the buzzer but always know which way North is.

We’ve seen the children’s/stalker’s toys that can pick up con­ver­sa­tions from a distance. This is the Super Ear sound-​​enhancer that can pick up speech from 100 yards.

We’ve seen Silence of the Lambs and so forth and can see how seeing in the dark might work. Here’s the Cobra-​​Vision night-​​vision goggles:

Let’s halve the cost and the size for five years, as per a slightly-​​mangled-​​but-​​historically-​​reasonable Moore’s Law. I reckon I have Super Animal Senses by 2020.

And here’s the video I ref­er­enced. It’s about 30 minutes, but well worth it:

image credit: GreenFlames09

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