I haven't updated for a while, but here are my most recent activities.

There were 6 ideas:

1. Social TV - Chat whilst flicking through channels in case you find something good. See what your friends are watching.

2. Digital Odours - Smells can be captured by a device, then emailed and reproduced by others. Could also be used in cinema, TV or consoles to aid immesion in the media.

3. Total Voice Recognition - Operate the entire computer with muti-touch and voice, or voice alone.

4. 4D imagery - Impossible for humans to see, a computer will be able to generate 4 dimensional imagery.

5. Future Internet Dating - Virtual reality dates, using face-mapping to ease cyber-couples into real life meetings.

6. Retro Websites - A future movement by those tired of web 2.0's domination, bringing back cloud wallpapers, frames and animated gifs.


Of these 6, I have put the most thought into the Digital Odours and the Total Voice Recognition. I currently want to go with Total Voice Recognition as Digital Odours have already been launched and failed (see Digiscents iSmell and Smell-O-Vision). I also see Total Voice Recognition as both the most interesting and most likely of all my ideas.

I need to think about the AI that would be essential in getting the technology to work. This means I need to look at the way people type or write, and how that is different from how they speak, and how a system could work that speeds up rather than slows down the process.

I should not get caught up in the technical/electronic side of things, as this technlogy is currently unavailable and I am not an inventor. That being said, I have thought of a solution to the technical problem of many people in an office/class talking at once: Use vocoder technology, like in the Talk Box, which requires you only to mouth the words rather than speak them aloud.

It can also be used to create funky sounds.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RQfZRRRo_8A&feature=related