Thursday 16 June 2005

Rover brings you your email

Imagine a personal organiser that sat on your shoulder like a parrot and wirelessly communicated with your PC at home via its perch there, with your car and work PC and with other parrots via audio or wireless comms. It can interact with you via voice, so all you need to do is say "Polly, remember this address" and it can, for instance, record GPS coordinates and look up the nearest street address for future reference. We obviously need much more sophisticated AI for this to work, but it could be very interesting. I just like the idea of a world where people carry digital familiars with them everywhere, rather than impersonal PDAs.

Mokalus of Borg

PS - Plus this is finally a decent use for those robot dogs.
PPS - As long as they can walk quickly and don't get into fights.

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