-
What are some features that have a lot of 'gee whiz potential'?
- "I think audio players right now and audio visual players. What the
Walkman was to music, making music really portable, making it really
, which really is a
revolution you're
gonna start to see
that happen now with visuals, so that people will be walking around not only
with music, but music videos on tiny little LCD screens.
We're starting to see some early breakthrough stuff like 'Tapwaves.' It’s a
new…. Tapwaves is a new company and they have a device called 'Zodiac. 'It's
their first product and Tapwave…erm… actually has the
to play 28 frames a
second video. Which is now the quality of television
y’know
even a film. So.. erm.. you're
gonna
start to see that. That's a real 'gee whiz' thing." - Do you see it in vans and that kind of thing too, right?
- "Oh Yeah. LCD pull-down screens DVD’s they are 'rugged-ized' – they
call’em - so they can take the bumps and so forth. And you don’t actually
even touch the DVD anymore. The DVD device is under the seat and that's all
.
And you actually have a wireless remote..erm..wireless speakers so that the
people in the back seat can be listening to the DVD while the driver’s not
disturbed. But that's what I mean by consumer choice. It's..it’s broken down
now in so many different
sorta
ways, there is a flavor for just about every
." - Cell phones now,
y’know
they’re everywhere in New York and a lot of cities around the country and
even the world. What are some really cool features that phones and mobile
things can do?
- "Well, there is a new phone that just came out.. erm.. It actually will
take not only ,
which is now almost commonplace.. erm.. but it will take 15-second video
clips with that not
only do you have that now in your phone, but now you can email that video
clip to anyone on the internet from the phone! No intermediary technology,
just the phone itself will do that for you." - What about computing power itself?
- " Well the big thing now is that the computer is more than just for
computing. It's ,
so there’s so many now computers that are built around.. erm.. being a
digital video recorder so it’s connected to your television. So your
computer now has these longer
sorta
'tentacles.' So it's now connected to the Internet, it's doing productivity
stuff for you, it's sorting your photographs. You can put now your
on them. But now also it's connected to your television. So it's moving to a
place really where pretty soon the computer’s
gonna
be like your furnace. Y’know you’re
gonna
always know it's there, but you don't necessarily see it. It's just doing
it's work quietly in the background." - What about games? Now, do you…are you a 'games person?'
- "Yeah. Big games guy." - Well, er… one particular game that’s really cool?
- "Hmm. Wow! There’s just so many right now. 'HALO' is a really good game I
really love. It's sort of a
sorta game.
Its fanciful, futuristic, it's not violent in terms of blood or anything
like that.
There is a upcoming game called Unreal Tournament 2004, and it's
gonna
be really hot. And what’s really hot about that game is that it gives you
the means to redesign the game. Which is a whole new
sorta
aspect. They call it a..a level editor. And there’s a
lota
upcoming games.. erm.. Sony Play station has a game called 'Eye-Toy.' But
it's more than a game, and I actually believe it's a sort of a threshold
sorta
breakthrough device. And what it is, that the barrier of entry for a lot of
game players is actually game pad. It's not a intuitive
sorta
device which you hold in your
. All the buttons,
where they…where they are, it's
for a lot of
people. Erm… and Sony began to realise that, so they’re trying to free
people from the game pad.
So this is a game that’s basically built around a..a camera, a video camera.
You plug it into the play station, you put the game disk in the
. And what happens
is, it photographs you in real time, in video, and you’re in the game. And
to control it, it's tracking your movements.
So there might be or
karate guys coming at
you, and they’re jumping at you, and you see yourself in the game and
they’re jumping at you, and you swat them, you hit them, and they fly
y’know, you get points. And so, you could actually work up a sweat in
this game. So, I think that's really a breakthrough. It’s
gonna,
you're gonna
see more and more games like that, controlled by
, by voice.
There is a game that is being developed right now and it recognizes
something like 10,000 phrases. And you don't pick up the game pad really,
not very much, just… you just
to it. Yeah.. that’s..
that's some pretty hot stuff in the game world." - You have a lot of fun don't you?
- "Oh, I love it. It's a great.. it’s a great
.
Y’know
I get to do what I really love to do. Erm… it's really… it’s a great time to
be involved in ."