After 5 Web Design | July 10, 2006
I recently got a new cell phone, and I am in the process of learning all the new features. This got me thinking, what is the future of the cell phone?
The most fundamental aspect of telecommunications is to allow you to connect with someone who is not physically close to you. Thus the words "tele" (meaning distant) and "com" (meaning communications)...duh! However, communication takes many forms. The spoken word is communication, and cellphones have this covered pretty well. Email and text messaging covers written communication well, and you can do this with cellphones too (although the keypad certainly leaves me wanting). Many cell phones even have a TTY mode to allow communications with deaf people (still no braillex models though to my knowledge...although that
may soon be a thing of the past). But visual communication is not so great with cellphones. Sure, camera phones allow you to take pictures, and the pictures can be sent to another cell phone (at least according to my new manual), but this is slow and clunky. It is also not video.
To me, the ultimate expression of any telecommunications device is to give me the same feelings and impressions I would get if I were there. Cell phones need to be able to act as a real time tv camera. They need to give me the sites and sounds of actually being in the room with the person. I need to be able to interact with the data the other party is viewing. Ideally, I would even like to be able to interact with physcal objects at the remote location or smell the smells at the far end. Anyone who has read any Sci-Fi/Fantasy books will immediately recognize that what I want is an avatar. And while this may sound far off, just look at how far we've come since the first cell phone.
After 5 Web Design | October 20, 2005
Barring somoen pointing out a bug I over looked, our site is now done. I'd love comments on it. :)