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November 08, 2013, 12:46:41 PM |
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[OT warning]It could be interesting to take a backwards approach to what you're doing. I always thought it was a waste, how few applications take advantage of data transmission except by digital means, or visual codes. It could evolve into an interesting/novel Shazam-type payment application for television/radio commercials. It could be a cool tool for street musicians, too. If physical money goes the way of the dinosaur, it may be commonplace to play your address for tips. There's no reason a bundle of protocols for interpreting sound, visuals (whether bar codes, QR codes, or blinking lights), and certain smells couldn't exist. Phones already contain most required sensors and processing power to do these types of things. Maybe tomorrow, you go to the hospital and decide you want your house to smell like disinfectants and death. Hold your phone away from you and have it "sniff" for information to compare to a database of smells. Your phone would bring up an Amazon page for lemon-scented lysol for the fragrance and the death (see - still very efficient).
[Way OT warning]There are all sorts of fascinating ways to combine different data transmission techniques and procedural generation, too. Maybe you want a musical showerhead, where you select style and tempos of music (mirrored physically by velocity, volume, and speed of musical water hitting your body) by rotating the nozzle selector around. Not only would the physical water coming through the nozzle determine the music being played, but the music style and tempo you select would determine how the physical water comes out, "playing" the sensors. Don't tell me you wouldn't enjoy a bucket's worth of water in your face when The Nozzle decides it's time for a dramatic cymbal crash - and since the music is read physically, anyone can really manipulate either the algorithm itself (perhaps you put a toothpick in one faucet) or the music in real-time. Procedural music generation is still in its infancy, though... If done fantastically well, you could have a showerhead very efficiently storing 2^256 songs by only needing seeds.
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