Mobile phone battery dead? Try dancing

LONDON (Reuters) - "What do you do if you are stuck in a field at a pop festival but there's trouble ahead because your mobile phone's battery is about to run out?

Thanks to a new gizmo, you now just need to face the music and dance.."

(http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL2427851420080624)

Amber says: Hahaha! As if people with "Bluetooth headsets" and all that jazz weren't ridiculous enough looking. Honestly, I think that if I dropped into our century from the 1950's, Id be searching for the nearest mental facility- everyone walking around talking into their hands or into a headset (That isnt even visible...!) and now this- people dancing around for no apparent reason. The world we live in is a crazy, crazy place!!

Company tests eye-controlled 'wearable' gadgets

YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) --
"Rolling your eyes to turn up the volume of a portable music player and tapping your fingers to turn on a DVD player are among technologies Japan's top mobile carrier is testing for "wearable" gadgets.
In one version, sensors and chips inside headphones detect electrical current produced by movements of the wearer's eyeballs, says Masaaki Fukumoto, executive research engineer at NTT DoCoMo..."

(http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/06/25/wearablecontrols.ap/index.html)

Amber says: Okay, I remember when I would watch Star Trek and be like "Wow! That is soooo cool!!" (This could apply to anything- the medical stuff, the cloning stuff, holodeck... anything...) and now we have like, people re-growing fingers and lab generated bladders and hearts and stuff (Im sure Ive posted about these things). And look at this. People never have to do anything again! We could control the world with our EYEBALLS!! haha.

Really, though. Its cool to have this technology. It could make things safer, as well as more "cool". They have been putting things in cars so that if your eyes arent on the road, or if your head tilts a certain amount (Like if you were falling asleep) an alarm sounds... and that kind of thing. Lets just hope that these things stay "fun" and dont end up taking over the world :-P Maybe they can really create a Holodeck...

Oh, and I must say- I love how a man is quoted as saying "Japanese don't like to stand out,". Fruits begs to differ.

EDIT: Haha! http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080604195058.htm
Holodeck 1.0!