Enterprise Technology By Phil Edholm

Sorry for the lapse in posting....I went to Hawaii with my wonderful wife to celebrate our 3th wedding anniversary and totally forgot to get the posts up........I hope that is a good excuse!!!!

I saw this recent article in Popular Mechanics about "bionic contacts". The thing I find interesting about this concept is the need for continuous communications to the wearer. While I have advocated the concept of caching as a mechanism to reduce the amount of real time traffic (for video for example), this will actually define an environment where continuous communications could be incredibly valuable and change many things.

First off, it brings a new meaning to Hyperconnectivity. For example if you overlay a GPS it could guide you, whether walking or driving. With an integration of a microphone, it could prompt you with information you need during a conversation.....the concepts are limitless.

Finally, it brings closer the convergence of the real world and the virtual world. If you were wearing these, perhaps I could cause your system to actually add more hair to what you see (and take off few pounds, and make my cheeks look more GQ like and...you get the idea) . Someday it may be possible to actually change your appearance in the real world to mirror your preferred appearance in the virtual world. Of course, there is that pesky problem of what happens when the battery wears out and your real appearance comes through!!!!