Comments on: Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner”

By: Josip

Josip — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:55:32 +0000

Japanese Robot Dog responding on human touch.
And he play with toys, it is maybe the answer for Pets in the Future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9V3Ey6oLzg

By: Nadine

Nadine — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:22:54 +0000

toy robots:
Das Forschungsinstitut “Technologie und Behinderung” spezialisiert sich auf Menschen mit Behinderungen. Es soll mit Roboter Technologie verbessert werden und sie besser unterstützen bzw. helfen im Alltag.

http://www.ftb-net.de/rail.html

By: Ulrike

Ulrike — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:55:07 +0000

Voice Identification:

Very similar to the process of Voice Identification is the idea of recognizing and identifying music with mobile phones.

Shazam Entertainment, Ltd. was started in 2000 with the idea of providing a service that could connect people to music by recognizing music in the environment by using their mobile phones to recognize the music directly.

http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf

By: Tatyana & Sevgi

Tatyana & Sevgi — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:59:31 +0000

A very special type of voice identification software for leisure purposes. Identifies Songtitles and Band just by humming, singing or whatever…
http://www.computerhilfen.de/info/melodie-vorsingen-und-song-finden-mit-musiksuchmaschine.html

By: Lea+Lars

Lea+Lars — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:55:17 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve0smppsyhA&feature=player_embedded

Ein Hochhaus das mit insgesamt 16.000.000 LEDs ausgestattet wurde, deren Farbe über eine Website gesteuert werden kann.

By: Eva, Uwe

Eva, Uwe — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:54:33 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrzeiUvDZog&feature=player_embedded

Much of this already exists, and we are pretty close to getting all that. But I would never accept having a watch that tells me that an appointment has been moved… that may suit business people but I want to be free and unreachable sometimes.

By: david

david — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:49:46 +0000

The future City in “Blade Runner” is a dark, polluted and contaminated place. Surely not designed for a comfortable and healthy city-life. Mayby a complete plannig- failure? The site:
“Mega-Cities; Fehlentwicklung oder Modell für das 21. Jahrhundert?” gives us a look on the modern Mega-cities our time.

http://www.scinexx.de/dossier-22-1.html

By: Sabine

Sabine — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:44:13 +0000

The advance in highly developed robots that look like humans is amazing. The robot “Geminoid” looks identical to it’s creator. He can show facial expressions and does react to physical contact.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WijMCSfX0RA

By: Tatyana & Sevgi

Tatyana & Sevgi — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:41:46 +0000

The light motion sensor in Blade runner versus Wii MotionPlus and the iphone motion sensor.
The new technologies in this field have definitely exceeded Ridley Scotts expectations…and ours.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_MotionPlus

By: nina, greta

nina, greta — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:40:50 +0000

http://www.zeit.de/campus/2009/05/china
the chinese influence really seems to grow quickly with chinas economic expansion.
now they even educate cheap academic work forces that other countries could also be interested in, because of low wages.