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Do you See what I See?

May 25, 2015 future Comments Off on Do you See what I See?

http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/05/a-bionic-lens-can-be-inserted-in.html

It sounds rather scary, doesn’t it.  Sucking out the organic lens in your eyeball and inserting a new shiny one.  But really, as eye surgeries go, it’s a simple procedure, it’s outpatient, and (having had my own eyes layzuuurd) painless if they do it right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dru999KcCwk

The only difference between the cataract surgery of now and the bionic vision of the future if they use this technology is that the lens itself with be far more advanced.

In fact, if you couple this with the recent strides in display-on-a-contact lens technology, you may be looking at the pieces that will come together to allow us to have fully self contained (i.e. not attached by wires) HUD’s that will allow us to have the kinds of AR (Augmented Reality) that you see in Hollywood blockbusters.

Food as Art with Robots

May 22, 2015 future, Writing Comments Off on Food as Art with Robots

 

http://www.industrytap.com/robot-master-chef-cooks-2000-recipes-cleans-dishes/28765

 

God, I want to love this.  I really do.  Robots in my kitchen would just be too d*amn cool.  I’d actually host parties, like TONS of parties just so I could watch this thing work.  I’d be fat as a house because I would just ask it to cook dish after meal after snack so I could watch those beautifully animated arms chop carrots and make fresh pasta.  Really, tech this sexxy could be my undoing.

But it’s not quite right.

I get the idea that freshly made food almost always tastes better, presents better.  I get that idea that the precision and handling of the food, directly mapped from the hands of a professional, can give you an extra bump in quality, can give you extra style and flair.

But this is all mechanical.  This is all engineering.

Food is is the fine split between science and art.  It’s being able to adjust on the fly because the last batch of tomatoes was a little underripe, or you ended up with baby carrots instead of full-size, slightly imperfect horse-carrots, or you have plain old sea-salt in the larder instead of rose-colored Himalayan salt.

This robot can handle the mechanics of preparation, which is definitely an important part, but that will not change the *taste* of the ingredients that go into the dish.  So while you might have something that looks super-sexxy on a plate, it still might come out tasting like something out of a one star diner if your ingredients aren’t quite up to snuff.

And the robot won’t be able to tell the difference.

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