Ever dreamed of being immortal?
A new tech start-up is hoping to turn that fantasy into reality by creating a 3D "digital alter ego" of yourself who will talk to your family and friends after you've died...
It's happening again! Although this is more of a social confirmation of the concepts depicted in MindScans, it's perhaps the most significant because if you can't imagine it, you can't make it. And as MindScans lets us know, that's a whole other can of worms we're opening there! The tagline for the movie MindScans is "where virtual blurs reality," but perhaps it should have been "where fictional becomes reality!"
-Vic
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Holographic 3D video isn’t a wild reality for a Star Trek-style future — Jules Urbach, co-founder and CEO of the Los Angeles-based cloud rendering company OTOY predicts we’ll be seeing this on mobile phones as soon as 2015. Right from your device, you’ll be able to transport yourself into a game, travel to a distant locale or create a fully immersive learning environment in your own home...
The movie MindScans () depicts holographic displays on a laptop computer configuration. We asked Director Ben Chiu about his reasoning to show a futuristic laptop computer over a mobile device. Here's his reply:
"There were several reasons: First, I figured that power requirements of a daylight viewable projection device would far outweigh that of mobile device itself. If you think your cell phone battery is barely adequate now, even with advances in battery tech, the power requirements would be at minimum double or triple of that even just to show off as a gimmick.
Secondly, because our character Sara is a writer, she'd need a physical keyboard to doing real work (as opposed to surfing or watching videos or playing games). So we gave her a flexible keyboard that we modified a bit to mimic what we envision futuristic laptop ergonomics should be (it molds to your lap). Because a keyboard/computer combo is larger, the battery issue becomes less of an impossibility. "
- Vic
Sara's holographic laptop in the movie MindScans
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...Samsung Transparent Display will visually accentuate the gesture and voice control...
The movie MindScans () features a transparent displays in an office setting that utilizes gesture control, and on a tablet that is controlled via a more traditional touch interface.
According to Director Ben Chiu, many of the devices in MindScans did not exist at the time of filming. He says, "the iPad wasn't even a product yet. What's kind of funny now is people see these things in MindScans today and don't even give them a second thought."
There are many more tech devices depicted in MindScans than most people realize. Ben says, "some are pretty cool really, but because they aren't important in regards to moving the story along they're just in the background, so most people will probably miss them unless they're paying close attention."
Can you spot some of these advanced technology in MindScans?
- Vic
Gesture controlled, transparent display in the movie MindScans
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MindScans has been released on the hugely popular Amazon Prime Instant Video platform in both HD and SD for rental. Digital download versions (without the timed limited viewing restrictions) and the full-featured DVD containing exclusive special features are also available. Now you can watch the thought provoking, highly acclaimed movie based on Best Selling Sci-fi Author Steven L. Kent's MindScans on your device of choice--from your cell phone to your home theater.
MindScans - where virtual blurs reality!
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Crossing a traditional computer with a biological one, the brain, is no easy task — but researchers at IBM have been hard at work doing just that. On Thursday they announced the results of 10 years of research and $53 million in DARPA funding. The company's new brain-inspired chip achieves unparalleled levels of power and efficiency, and IBM claims it may change the fundamental methods of computing.
The latest chip boasts more than 5 billion transistors, putting it in supercomputer-on-a-chip territory, but that's not the impressive part — those transistors are organized into 4,096 "neurosynaptic cores," on which are more than a million simulated "neurons" and 256 million "synapses." IBM's chip, you see, is an attempt to replicate the brain's style of processing information...
As we get closer and closer to bio-electronic connections, it's just a matter of time before MindScans become reality (is that a pun?).
- Vic
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...engineers developed an algorithm that can convert brain waves into flight commands. The researchers hope the mind-controlled system paired with specialized airplane controls will make flying easier and safer in the future...
MindScans director, Ben Chiu, who is also is a pilot and flight instructor, says, "flying is one of the most difficult things that humans do," and believes anything that makes that task easier will make it safer. As a pilot myself, I agree, but I'd never wear a hat like that no matter how safe it is!
- Vic
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“A 29-year-old paraplegic literally kicked off soccer's World Cup competition in Brazil on Thursday, using a mind-controlled exoskeleton that looks as if it came from the "Iron Man" movies.
The organizers of the international Walk Again Project said the symbolic soccer-ball kick was performed during the World Cup's opening ceremonies in São Paulo's Corinthians Arena by Juliano Pinto. He's an athlete from Galea in Brazil's São Paulo State who lost the use of his legs after a car accident in 2006...”
Along with World Cup Fever, this interesting event appears to further reinforce the fact that deep brain-to-electronic interfacing like we depict in MindScans is only a matter of time.
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-Vic
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...we'd like to think that the thoughts and images in our heads are totally private.
For better or worse, science may change that. Over the last few years, researchers have made significant strides in decoding our thoughts based on brain activity...
Does anyone doubt that it's just a matter of time before a device like the Prometheus interface depicted in MindScans becomes real?
- Vic
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Sony just released their VR Headset...
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Virtual reality gets a new player with Sony's 'Project Morpheus'
And Microsoft is due to release their version next year...
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All in hot pursuit of the Oculus Rift.
And now Facebook of all companies has purchased Oculus for 2 billion...
VR is no doubt in our collective futures. Perhaps not as an audio/visual device (still too gimmicky really), but once we have direct mind connections, well, you might watch MindScans to see the can of worms that will open!
-Vic
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Ever wonder how Amazon sends out MindScans DVD's? Watch here:
Really cool!
-Vic
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It may seem like science fiction, but researchers are experimenting with a mind-controlled device that enables users to fly a model helicopter with only their thoughts.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis created a brain-computer interface — a system that allows the brain to communicate directly with an external device...
Sound familiar?
-Vic
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If you were a kid in the 1990s, chances are you had a few Beanie Babies cluttering your room, right next to your Nintendo 64 and your electronic pet, the cheeping, egg-laying Tamagotchi.
Now, 17 years after Japanese toymaker Bandai released the original, a whole new generation of children will be able to experience the joy of trying to keep a fictional animal alive...
In the movie MindScans, Tom Sobel, based his ALF's (Artificial Life Forms) on Tamagochi. Do you see the parallels? Happy New Year!
-Vic
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After losing his lower right leg in a motorcycle accident four-and-a-half years ago, 32-year-old Zac Vawter has been fitted with an artificial limb that uses neurosignals from his upper leg muscles to control the prosthetic knee and ankle. The motorized limb is the first thought-controlled bionic leg, scientists at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago reported Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.
“This is a groundbreaking development,” says lead author Levi Hargrove, a biomedical engineer and research scientist at RIC. “It allows people to seamlessly transition between walking along level ground and going up and down stairs and slopes.”
Until now, only thought-controlled bionic arms have been available to amputees.
When Vawter thinks he wants to move his leg, the brain signal travels down his spinal cord and through peripheral nerves and is picked up by electrodes in the bionic leg...
Virtual Reality needs a controller? How about mind controlled?
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We lost the cats to the Roombas, and the dogs to the pointing PeopleBots. Now, it seems that robots are casting a spell on curious chimps, too.
When 16 chimps from the Yerkes National Primate Center in Georgia encountered Robota, a doll who made pre-recorded chimp sounds from her chest, they tried to befriend her and talk to her, and they even banged on their cages to invite her to play.
"In one case, a chimp laughed at the robot while gesturing 'play,'" Marina Davila-Ross, a psychology lecturer at the University of Portsmouth and part of the team who watched the chimps interact with Robota, wrote in Ars Technica.
Two chimpanzees, Faye and Jarred, offered the robot "toys," she writes. Almost all the chimps tried to communicate with the bot using gestures or facial expressions, Davila-Ross and her co-authors note in a new study in Animal Cognition.
Quite the charmer: Robota the doll befriended chimps at the Yerkes National Primate Center.
The chimps were particularly interested when the bot — to the extent that it could — mimicked apelike movements. They were less interested when her movements seemed more human.
For anyone who's surprised that our primate relatives seem smitten with a robotic playmate, remember that we form bonds with robots, too...
Makes the concept of ALF's more plausible doesn't it?
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