I bought an iPod “nano” a couple of years ago, and on my recent trip to New York, I used it for the first time. It’s great, but it’s the kind that’s about as big as two fingers (but much thinner). Now they have ones that are about as big as a silver half-dollar coin and have touch screens (!), and they came out over a year ago! My mother said people will probably lose them, but I pointed out that they have a clip on them so they can clip onto your clothes; but if they keep on getting smaller, I guess they will have to have pins on them like small brooches, or have those little stick-pins like a tie-tack. Or maybe even as an earring! But what about when they become even smaller than that?
Well, what I think they should do when they become truly nano in size, is to make them so they’re implanted into the skin of your forearm. Then they can tap directly into your central nervous system and play directly into your ears or aural cortex without the need for headphones or earbuds. And then you simply ‘think your way through’ the menus for what you want to listen to or play. Wait, what am I saying? You simply think of the song! Menus will be entirely obsolete! Oh, yes, and for videos, that taps right into your visual cortex, so you just see it in your mind when you close your eyes. (If you keep them open, it’s just kind-of transparent-looking, and it gives you a headache seeing the movie and real life at the same time, both in 3-D. Plus, it's bad for your eyes! So don't do it. When it becomes available, that is... Actually, I have an idea: why not make it so that whenever you open your eyes, the movie/video will pause and become a blank screen so you can negotiate with the real world again temporarily before you retreat back into your cocoon of a computer-generated haven of false-security/entertainment. Or have it be set as a preference to do it or not. {Apple: are you listening? This is a good idea, pausing stuff when we open our eyes, and having it automatically restart when we close them again! Just make sure you factor in for blinking, so it's not always running video clips and startling us with blasts of loud soundtrack audio every time we blink!}) And if you're within a wi-fi network, you can just instantly stream NetFlix right into your head!
So naturally, they will have to develop some new camera system for making it fill your full field of vision in 3-D, so it looks and feels like you’re actually really there yourself in the movie or whatever. James Cameron can develop it, if he hasn’t already. Actually, I think he probably already has! That whole big to-do over the expense and production of Avatar, and all that "making-of" content showing Zoe Saldana jumping around in that virtual-reality suit with the dots on her face, was definitely a cover to distract everyone from finding out about his new “Mental-Vision” ‘experience-camera’, which obviously would have sensory-recording capacity, so you can actually “feel” what’s going on in the movie! (I hope they don’t convert Backdraft into that system! But I’ve heard that he’s already retrofitted Titanic with it, but everyone who watched it died when their bodies thought they were drowning and freezing to death in the cold Arctic waters! So there are apparently still some kinks to be worked-out.) He’s trying to hide it until it’s perfected and ready for mass-distribution. And he doesn’t want the porno producers to get wind of it and beat him to the punch (or stroke, as the case may be) and cheapen it before he can wow the world with his technical genius (again! {~sigh!}). But it’s coming, you’ll see; and feel! (<And that is how they will advertise the porno-version* of this technology!)
So naturally, they will have to develop some new camera system for making it fill your full field of vision in 3-D, so it looks and feels like you’re actually really there yourself in the movie or whatever. James Cameron can develop it, if he hasn’t already. Actually, I think he probably already has! That whole big to-do over the expense and production of Avatar, and all that "making-of" content showing Zoe Saldana jumping around in that virtual-reality suit with the dots on her face, was definitely a cover to distract everyone from finding out about his new “Mental-Vision” ‘experience-camera’, which obviously would have sensory-recording capacity, so you can actually “feel” what’s going on in the movie! (I hope they don’t convert Backdraft into that system! But I’ve heard that he’s already retrofitted Titanic with it, but everyone who watched it died when their bodies thought they were drowning and freezing to death in the cold Arctic waters! So there are apparently still some kinks to be worked-out.) He’s trying to hide it until it’s perfected and ready for mass-distribution. And he doesn’t want the porno producers to get wind of it and beat him to the punch (or stroke, as the case may be) and cheapen it before he can wow the world with his technical genius (again! {~sigh!}). But it’s coming, you’ll see; and feel! (<And that is how they will advertise the porno-version* of this technology!)
But remember that IMAX cinema experience in Epcot Center at Disney World? There's that part where they show someone sliding down on a wire and landing. Remember how everyone jumped out of their seats a little bit when that part happened, because with your field of vision completely filled up, it tricked your brain into thinking it was really happening? Well, imagine people doing that all the time on the subway or at the library! Pretty soon, everybody will be acting like schizophrenics, reacting to stuff that's only happening in their own heads! That's where this technology is headed, folks!
* (Don’t use your iPod “nano-implant” for the “Mental-Vision” ‘experience’ porno stuff in public! It’s too realistic!)
