I know television marketers talk about “capturing eyeballs,” but this is ridiculous:
They say the constant miniaturisation of technology will lead to TV sets being shrunk to the size of contact lenses and powered by body heat.Channels could be changed by voice commands or a wave of the hand, says a report on the future of home entertainment.
Ian Pearson, a ‘futurologist’ who advises companies on new technologies, said of the TV contact lens: ‘You will just pop it into your eye in the morning and take it out at the end of the day.’
Digital tattoos, meanwhile, will pick up on the emotions portrayed by actors in TV shows and create impulses allowing us to feel the same emotions.
Via TV Squad, with whom I agree this sounds like an exceptionally bad idea. Why not just induce hallucinations the old-fashioned way? (Via Gerry Canavan.)
Digital tattoos, meanwhile, will pick up on the emotions portrayed by actors in TV shows and create impulses allowing us to feel the same emotions.
We already have the capacity to do this. It’s called “empathy” and works in combination with something called “acting ability.”