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What Do You Want to See?

Posted October 05, 2011 8:36 AM

Acknowledging that vision will be the next big advancement in electronic products, 15 companies — including some of the world's largest semiconductor makers — have formed the Embedded Vision Alliance to ease the transition. The Alliance contends that hundreds of companies are already developing some version of vision technology. Do you expect that level of proliferation? Do you want your products to "see"? If not, why not? What products that you currently use would benefit? What new products will become possible when vision becomes commonplace? What products would you not want to see acquire vision? Why not?

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10/06/2011 9:50 AM

? "Oh Boy!" ... an "Embedded Vision Alliance" ... to "help us"...

Time to pray.

Although it is uplifting to know that 'gran'ma' can have a rear-view camera in her car, and that security cameras can let me check the status of my home via my phone when I am away (not to mention safety-cams in subways, busy street corners, etc)...

... I simply have no desire whatsoever to have my restaurant table "seeing me" scratch the back-sides of my knees, and display for me a "pop-up-ad" for hydrocortisone creme ... or ... for my refrigerator to "see me" approaching, and (using advanced feature-recognition software) display "recommended-selections" for my current cravings based upon my guesstimated weight!

Call me suspicious, but, I foresee class-action suits (eventually) against manufacturers who will find it 'amusing' to abuse such technology, under the guise of "collecting market data" or some such frivolity.

Hope nobody HERE would ever head down that 'creepy path'...

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10/06/2011 10:57 AM

How about waking from a deep sleep in the middle of the night to find your vacuum cleaner watching you?

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10/07/2011 1:34 AM

I want me to see.

My arms aren't long enough anymore. And the writing keeps getting smaller.

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