Now & Next 2007 Digit-all!

Lifestyle Next_

Comfort is our primary need. We have strived for ages to make our lives comfortable. From fire which keeps us warm and have great food, to shelter and work to keep us busy.

The new times are making us more comfortable and 'content' but with a price. Couch potato is a familiar term and we all know it affect us with increasing ease of technology. I am really afraid to predict the future where we have personal robots, automated homes and human-machine interface. Maybe we will just lie down and live our lives (If it's ok to call it a "life"). Visit office from home; get food by robots, open windows/doors with the mind, brush teeth, automated flirting algorithms, and more scary automated 'stuff'! Anyway, let's be optimistic.

Travel Next_

GPS, extended information services, localized database, Google Earth and the top travel sites! What's next? Personally, in travel I would like as little digital intervention as possible but we can't help it, since we are living in digital world. A bits and byte world in our hands; anywhere, anytime. One with a laptop and internet connection can go anywhere she or he wishes to and document the travel digitally. I guess we engineers got a handful job making peoples life easier with great software solutions.

Infra-Red Camera Modification

I had an old Genious G Shot D211 lying around, and it was pretty much useless because of its obsoleteness.

After reading a lot of tutorials on making IR cameras, I thought ill do one myself. Making one is not exactly 'making' it, rather modifying or hacking an existing camera. It can be done to any model, but remember every model has a different type of IR filter in it.

I have included some images for you to see how pictures look like on the IR spectrum.

TechToys: The Mobile History

Can you imagine how telephones were back in the 80's? Compare them to the mobiles now. I'm just talking about a few 20 some years. Imagine those brick like 'devices' talking pictures (black and white?) and playing music. Difficult to do so. I can not start to dream what Graham Bell would do with an iPhone. So lets take a look at the interesting and lively past of these little boy toys and how they turned from washing machine to a matchbox.

The history and development of 'mobile phones' is a very deep and fascinating one. Actually, in the true sense of 'mobile' communication, the walkie-talkie was used in the second word war (1940). However, that was just 2 way, looked like a microwave, weighed about 40 kg and not within the commercial network. Likewise, in 1936, the Motorola Police Cruiser mobile receiver was the first entry into the new field of mobile radio communications. Just six calls could be made before the car's battery ran out. The same technology was introduced in Sweden by LM Ericsson in 1944 (you know, the Ericsson in Sony-Ericsson).