| | By Mike Magee @ Monday, August 18, 2008 12:17 AM
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| | The eponymously named Mary Smiley launched a new marketing slogan at Zero Day, at the Intel Developer Forum here in San Fran. That is to carry small, are more powerful and will connect to the sea of technology around us. So the slogan is to carry small, and live large.
Live large. What a fantastic idea. Smiley said that in the future you will just tap a photo and show it to your friends and in the future these platforms will be able to do just that.
 If you are running to catch a bus, the voice message will be automatically translated to text. In the future, technology will have such a knowledge of you that the technology will screen out what you don't want. The notion includes being able to tell whether your elderly parents have taken their medication. Aware technologies will let you check into a hotel, guide you to your room and open the door when you get there.
We will have to make sure that devices don't know too much about you, said Smiley. Without privacy Intel is not going to get this idea off the ground.
You have to sense what's happening, infer what you want, guide you towards what you want and take action.
A mobile has to say who we are, where we are, what's happening, what you're up to, what you're feeling and what you like. Scary, smiley.
In the future the devices will be able tlo sense unique aspects like your heart rate and if it's not you will lock you out. This sensing will be like a unique ID and presumably will prevent identity theft. The accelerometer will sense whether you're sitting, walking and moving. The machines will really know what you like. Will they be able to detect whether you're in sexual congress or in the loo? On this subject, Smiley was thankfully silent.
You have to really be able to trust the data, said Smiley. Software policies will protect a person's privacy and if you have a multitude of sensors you have to compile and summarise that in a way that's helpful to people.
Intel has built a system that personal aggregates what you're doing using sensing nodes. The info can be sent to a back end. It was fun to build this architecture, said Smiley. Once Intel had created it it applied it ti enable people to better manage theiur health and wellness, using mobile continuous monitoring of peoples' heart rate, and manual caloric intake. The system checked blood pressure, weight and diet. This makes a proactive wellness system. The acceleromotor combined with your heart rate gives a more accurate idea of what you're doing.
Smiley made a little man run around the hall, and watched his progress, what he'd eaten, whether he was standing or sitting. It's cool research and it's an industry wide effort. If you're headed towards a burger joint, it will tell you to get out, reckons Smiley. X | |