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- JeremyBanks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28Let's hope they don't use Sony batteries. :P
- sakuraz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13*bleep* *bleep*
"OTACON, DO YOU READ ME?" - Lutz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Why not just build a phone-slot in your head, that way you can easily exchange it when the new models arrive.
- decipherd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Because of course we never implant anything in humans do we? For fear of it dissolving right?
/ sarcasm
Tell my grandad and his pacemaker that.. - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18If they are anything like today's cellphones, then you would need brain surgery every one to two years, to get them replaced -- not to mention the fact that they will be cooking your brain, with whatever electromagnetic waves pass through them, No thanks.
No implantable RFID's either, thank you. - lpcustom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9That would make it a bitch to avoid dept collectors and telemarketing....
- us3ecandme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Yeah, and there goes my "didn't hear it ringing" excuse.
- javip, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13ahh the good old "will never be done" argument due to short sightedness.
I won't bother pointing u to the millions of quotes of people saying something would never be done..
obviously, WHEN something like this truly happens, u won't need to have ur skull opened every 2 years, and u won't be getting cancer from them =) - nwshc, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11BIG BROTHER IS LISTENING
- williamdyer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Verizon would love this:
"I want the screws taken out of my skull."
"That will be a $175 early termination fee plus the cost of surgery." - OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Fry: So you're telling me they broadcast commercials into people's dreams?
- Phoenixfury, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The voices in my head are torn on this one. Larry says that will give me "brain cancer" and possibly kill him. However Sue who often takes over when I use my cell phone says this is a great idea and she can't wait to use it. Besides "anything that kills Larry is a great idea!" -Sue
- catt231, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5did you not watch the Doctor Who episode - rise of the cybermen!
lol - caffeinejunkiex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Personally, I think we are attached to our cell phones too much as it is. If we get cell phones in our brain, how would we be able to "accidentaly" leave our cell phone somewhere? I would hate to be in the middle of taking a dump and my brain starts to ring.
- mt066, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"Yeah dude, just call me up on the skull phone....yeah I'll be there....how do I know? Because it's a PHONE in my SKULL."
- jarogers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6That is a bunch of crap. My daughter has a cochlear implant and I don't see it dissolving anytime soon.
- DanAtkinson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5This is really a no-brainer.
- JulianMorrison, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'd be willing to be that the phone-ness of phones will go away first.
That is, phones, will behave more like a conference call. Phoning someone will be the act of merging your conference call with theirs. Hanging up will be the act of de-merging. Close friends will stay in conference 24-7. This then will work well with an implant form factor. - dswinscoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4wearable use is on the rise, and the trend of change in man-machine interface size and proximity changes accordingly, organically, so when you think of implant, don't think of a slot or a huge incision in your head; instead, think small: http://www.nanotechnologist.com/misc/phones.html
For the RFID-persecution-complex crowd, this will be the source of yet another nightmare, but as practice becomes more common-place, these fears too should subside, as they have in the past. Besides, resistance is futile. - GhostRiderTGAC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4As a desktop technician for a major retailer and someone who deploys mobile solutions within a large company on a daily basis I enjoyed reading this article. Even as I write this I am in the process of setting up a Treo for an executive. The evolution of the "connected" executive has been staggering. It used to be that when you left work at the end of the day, you basically left your "work-life" and went home to your family and your "home-life". Cell phones came along and laptops, then Blackberries and now smartphones. With the smartphones executives are constantly in communication with their "work-life" and instead of it being separate from the "home-life" it is a constant and exists in the midst of their "home-life".
I think it is annoying when people walk around with those bluetooth headsets as it is a reminder that they are not totally tuned into their immediate surroundings. They are often carrying on conversations in their "work-world" and the "home-world" is just passing them by. Many people insist that these devices allow them to spend more time with their families but just because they are spending time, it doesn't mean the time is of the quality it might be if they just "dis-connected". Employers demand more and more of their employees every day. The article mentions borg-like implants, my question is when do people just become drones and loose themselves? - decipherd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3javip is right,
Obviously when technology is advanced for this to happen upgrading wont be an issue, most likely the firmware would simply be updated wirelessly to allow for new features.
More importantly the radiation issues will be overcome before it is commercially available! There are already technologies such as xmax (http://www.xgtechnology.com/) that can operate over huge distances with milliwatts of power. - klang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Just give me a mobile phone that 1) does not have to be charged .. ever 2) does not run hot after 10 minutes of use.
Then make it small.. earing/Prince Albert size, I don't care - mdmadph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3eh, william gibson was talking about this kind of stuff 20 years ago. :p
- shifte, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Then why don't pacemakers dissolve??
- fallenone05, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Why wouldn't they implant cell phones up your ass so that you can have it on vibrate all the time?
- GnuTzu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Lutz said "Why not just build a phone-slot in your head..."
There won't be any such standardization.
Every cell phone company will have their own slot so that you'll only be able to get upgrades from that company. And, they'll install them in a way that will cause brain damage if its removed. - Rethcir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3For the Orson Scott Card fans out there, Ender got one of these as I recall.
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It's natural progression. It will happen. It's a question of when not if.
The prospect of having audio/video transmitted without external hardware is fascinating. The hardware already exists now for medical prosthesis, although admittedly expensive, intrusive and primitive. The technology already exists, although much like an i4004 in it's day, the technology is fundamentally related to what we have today, so rest assured it will not be the big ***** costly mess it is now a couple of decades away. - Big_Poppa_K, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Just watch for the "free upgrades"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Cell phones are already anoying enough and I don't even own one.
I saw an ad the other day for anoying ringtones, as in they where actually marketed as being anoying.
Now imagine everyone walking around talking and yelling at nobody and blinking like crazy, its already weird enough when you carn't see them holding the phone or there using a headset.
Personally I would rather have a small computer that works as a thin client to a server, that way you don't need to worry about updates so much as you can just update the server. And you can just have VoIP on the server making the entire thing work like a cell phone, hopfully rather than being blink controlled it would be some kind of direct nural connection like those monkeys that are moving mice cursors with their mind.
I would also hope that surgery wouldn't be needed, maby just a small pellet injected into the head or somthing. - tmcdigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Umm.. that is kind of invasive... wouldn't you think they could make a piece of jewelery
to do the same thing, like an earing, no?
The whole idea of implants, makes it too "icky" for privacy rights.. you could be "tracked" via gps,etc.. you will need to be able to remove the device at will, otherwise its a non-starter for people
Personally, I liked the gadet wristwatch phone.. much geekier - qster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There's an old homeless man down the road here, I'm sure he's had one of these for years.
- osc1882, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just want my on board computer that taps in to my brain and is hooked up to everywhere wireless internet and a personal army of networked nano bots that respond by thought.
IMing by thought. - gnomon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"I said "almost anything". Most pacemakers have a titanium casing but corrosion is still a problem."
Titanium oxidizes, yes, but it stops after a thin layer has done so. - zetsurin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yeah, so your mum/mom (depending on where you live) knows that you can never be away. Just great.
- Lane5slacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The last time I saw something like this it turned out to be modern art...
- JeffBoyaredi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1KRAMER: You know, in the year two-thousand, we'll all be on speed-dial. You'll
just have to think of a person, they'll be talking to you. It'll be like, wup getting a call here.
KRAMER: (to Jerry and George) Hey, it's Newman. (to 'mental phone') Hey, how you
doing, Newman?
Jerry begins mouthing 'I'm not here' and making gestures indicating he doesn't
want to talk to Newman.
KRAMER: (to 'mental phone') Oh, you wanna talk to Jerry?
Kramer leans toward Jerry, as if to allow him to use the 'mental phone'. Jerry
throws his arms up in exasperation. - NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"You don't have to put the implant in your skull necessarily, you could implant it anywhere and run the audio up to the ear. You can find an example of this by checking out a mod I did with a Bluetooth headset and my Baseball cap."
Heh, I think you missed the point of the article :). Either that or I misunderstood it. I believe it's referring to direct connectivity to the nervous system not little speakers in your ear. - acorkery, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Who would not want this?"
Me. I think implanting any technology next to the brain is idiotic. Has there ever been a piece of technology that hasn't failed in some instance? If something connected to your senses failed, it would seriously **** you up. - Bad_Ace, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You don't have to put the implant in your skull necessarily, you could implant it anywhere and run the audio up to the ear. You can find an example of this by checking out a mod I did with a Bluetooth headset and my Baseball cap. I'm not going to link to it. ( if you want to find it search digg for "blue tooth baseball cap )
- habubu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+110 years, I'll insert a phone in your head today, just need a dremel & some duck tape.
- kd1s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For this to work they have to tap into the grey matter. I know that when you come up on someone wearing one of those little headsets it appears as if they're talking to themselves. Then you come around and see that they have one of those little bluetooth headsets.
The boss got one recently. My co-worker told him that every time he saw him using it, he'd call him an *****. Sure enough, he wore it and got the label.
I find cell phones too intrusive. There are some times when I don't need to be connected to the world. In fact I've gotten so adamant about it that my friends and co-workers all know that to reach me, you either email, text or IM me. - stevoie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the natural next step then would be thought controlled phones. would remove the annoying problem of people's cellphones ringing in a movie theatre
- stox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This was predicted 40 years ago in the movie, "The Presidents Analyst." In the movie, TPC ( The Phone Company) lobbies the government to mandate that the phones be implanted in all newborns. A great flick starring the late James Coburn.
- dinkola, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is really going to mess with people who have schizophrenia.
- bradspry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was hoping someone commented about this movie! It's a great movie. Must see!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Screw that, no damn plastic parts are being implanted in my skin. Sci-Fi thinking bastards!
- dhughes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1 Before the implantation phase (I think it will happen) I think the next step will be very small, flexible cell phones with very few, if any, features. Maybe it will be stuck on or behind your ear possibly like a piece of silicone, like those shoe inserts which are quite sticky!
I think the big problem will be retaining any of the features people use, such as text messaging. Unless there is some way of projecting the text onto your eyeball or into space (in front of you) I don't think people will like having just a cell phone.
Powering the thing will also be a big problem, it will be small and probably not need much power but it will still need some power to run. - jsmith39, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I like the theory, it's a first step towards quite a few sci-fi features becoming reality and I think it is cool. Here's the biggest problem I see though, it's hard enough avoiding people now. Some girl I met the other night calls and I'm on a date or I just don't feel like talking to her at that moment and it's no big deal... Hey I didn't hear the phone ring, left it in the other room, whatever. Now the phone is in your head.... Why didn't you answer when I called earlier?
Who knows maybe it's a good idea to have an implanted phone, maybe we'd all be more honest. -
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