Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Tokyo Sky Tree Tower is Completely Useless

The Tokyo Sky Tree Tower is designed primarily to be a broadcasting tower and also serving as a restaurant and observation deck. That's all fine and dandy but here's something to think about: Nobody watches broadcast television anymore and people are listening to radio less and less. Instead, people are watching TV via the Internet (such as Hulu, Youtube, Netflix, etc.) and radio as well. So, who came up with the bright idea that hundreds of millions of dollars can be wasted on building a broadcasting tower?

I'm moving to Sapporo because Tokyo is obviously too stupid to build the Tokyo Sky Tree.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Xbox 2021

After Xbox 720, the life-cycle of the Microsoft console dictates that the next Xbox will debut for the 2021 Christmas season. I'll call it the Xbox 2021 because there has not been a name announced for it yet:

Features of the Xbox 2021

Kinect 2021 Features:

  • Clothing-detection and recording. Xbox will know all the clothes and accessories you have.
  • UV, Infrared, and Imagining lasers that can triangulate and detect surface textures: i.e. plastics, wood, metal, human flesh, glass, water, etc.
  • Voice-detection in all languages.
  • OCR capabilities that allow Kinect to read QR codes and other text.
  • Automatic detection of cell-phone use and lowering of volume of the game.
  • Ability to see-through furniture by guessing where parts of the body (such as legs) should be based on the body posture.
  • Eye-ball tracking based controls where players can control the entire experience using just their pupils and eyes.
  • Air-typing: ability to detect typing on a virtual keyboard when players hold their hands in the air in front of them and pretend to type on an invisible keyboard.
  • Infrared remote temperature sensor to detect body temperature of players (in case they are sick).
  • Infrared breath sensor to detect player's tension levels.
Xbox 2021 features:
  • 8K resolution support.
  • 3D Holographic Room Projector system support. (and of course: 3D TV support). This will allow players to be fully immersed when the room they are in transforms into, for example, a battleground or a puzzle.
  • Backwards compatibility with Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox 720, of course.
  • 6G Mobile Broadband support allowing for speeds of 100 GBit/sec up and down.
  • USB 4.1 support to connect ancient technology. Bluetooth support for headsets, etc.
  • Cloud-based hard-drive of unlimited size.
  • On-the-fly (cloud-based) game streaming without the need to download/install games.
  • Ability to connect to multiple TVs in the house and stream many different 8K HD quality videos at the same time.
  • Optical protein-disc drive (to play old Xbox 360 and Xbox 720 games).
  • HD recording of all gameplay, all the time.
  • Microsoft Windows 9 operating system.
  • The entire console is actually a tablet that you can take anywhere with you by detaching it from the Xbox dock.


Friday, December 2, 2011

Wishlist for Kinect 2

The original Kinect camera has a resolution of 320 x 240 at 30fps. I think this can be increased to at least 8 megapixels at 30 fps. This means HD video-chatting.

Also the new Kinect has lips detection so it can process the voice-commands much better. I think the new Kinect can go a step further and integrate facial feature recognition such as eye-brows, eye-shape, mouth, nose, etc. so it can detect sighing, pouting, anger, smiling, etc. The new Kinect also has detection for voice tone, which I think is great. Hopefully the voice recognition will be more accurate because of this. Also perhaps they can use another keyword other than "Xbox" for the voice commands. Perhaps something like, "X-Command ... PLAY MOVIE".

Also I think it should record the room in 3D to understand the room a lot better - including bouncing sounds around the room which it does already.