In the Search of Incredible - My Smart Phone Super Power
28 June 2014
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Yesterday morning, I visited my cousin's house. She had a 4 year old daughter who is just into school but is already good at operating a smart phone. She plays games, listens to songs and watches videos on my cousin's phone. That's when I went into thoughts about how pervasive mobile phones are in our lives. They are simple but powerful devices. We could use them as a medium for gaining knowledge, entertainment, capturing memories, improving skills and sometimes even to keep fit and healthy.
Then I started thinking about what more could a smartphone accomplish? - I had many ideas like these:
- operate all my electronic devices and electric appliances through a phone
- write blog posts out of my thoughts ( lazy me :P)
- unlimited battery life without need for charging ( like those old solar calculators)
- smoke detector
- lie detector
- 3D projector (like in Iron Man 3 movie)
Most of those ideas were good and seem to become possible in near future. This led to me think harder and get more creative.
If there is one super power that your phone could have, what would it be?
How about teleportation? Why not time travel? May be Currency printer? 3D Hologram Chatting?
All of them seem awesome. But the best super power for me would be something that saves lives of people. Hence, my favorite superpower would be a phone with ability to measure any person's body vitals like Heartbeat, BP, Pulse etc. It should be able to do all those complex diagnoses like X-ray, MRI, CT Scan etc instantaneously. This should be as simple as like taking pictures and getting reports automatically generated.
With this super power my phone will empower me, to see and observe what others can't see; to do what others can't do. Some of the things this super power could enable me to do are:
Read emotions of people
Emotions of people can be predicted based on their body vitals. So, the next time a lady likes me, I would know before she expresses it. Whenever someone is angry, I could quickly change my actions to calm them down. I could understand the pain and try to soothe it through my actions.
I can figure out hatred, cheating etc and try to stay away from the bad ones.
Diagnosing illness
With my awesome super phone, I can now easily diagnose illness. Spotting the illness earlier could help in suppressing it faster and better. It also will enable to identify problems before even visiting a doctor. Most of times, people don't know about their disease until they visit doctor. This could potentially help me save lives of people.
We may not be far away from making this seemingly impossible innovation a reality. Wearable technologies are the first baby steps towards that.
Update: A friend of mine, after seeing this, pointed this awesome technology paper to me - Eulerian Video Magnification . Looks like this technology coupled with the powerful cameras that the current day Smartphones seem to possess, my "superpower" can be made possible in reality. That gives me even more confidence :)
There are many companies which are in the race of bringing the best possible super phones. The competition is getting fierce and we are seeing new models every day. It is very difficult to choose a particular model to buy.
My last smartphone stopped working long ago and I am just using a feature phone currently. I am eagerly waiting to buy the Asus Zenfone 5 when it launches in India. I love my Asus Nexus tablet and the news of Asus re-entering the Indian smartphone market makes me very very happy.
What is your favorite upcoming smartphone? And, what superpower would you like to have on your smartphone?
Update: A friend of mine, after seeing this, pointed this awesome technology paper to me - Eulerian Video Magnification . Looks like this technology coupled with the powerful cameras that the current day Smartphones seem to possess, my "superpower" can be made possible in reality. That gives me even more confidence :)
Update: A friend of mine, after seeing this, pointed this awesome technology paper to me - Eulerian Video Magnification . Looks like this technology coupled with the powerful cameras that the current day Smartphones seem to possess, my "superpower" can be made possible in reality. That gives me even more confidence :)
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