Remember the era of the Betamax? Some brands already included a feature where you can record a TV program, minus the commercials, automatically. You can playback the recorded TV program at your convenient time. I wonder what happened to this system in the newer DVD recorders/players nowadays. Perhaps the Advertising Companies have put a strong lobby with the manufacturers and killed the system.

The TV manufacturer, big name Electronics Appliance Manufacturers, ie: Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic, JVC, Sharp, Samsung, et al; are also big advertising spenders. Can you imagine how their Marketing Big guys would react, if their own ads are shut out by their own products. That you cannot guess, why?

What kind of lobby would advertisers have, to force TV and radio manufacturers, to design this or that?

They have no buying-power to exert pressure with. They're on a sellers market, as they provide a service for buying, paying customers, usually the manufacture-base.

What, personal bribe to individual executives?

Shareholding in one another. I am always amazed at who owns who.

Look at the prises they pay for prime spot advertising.

A good point. If it's true...

I know for instance, that Japanese conglomerates even competing parties, have mutual share holdings, which does weird things to their industry, banking, and it easily influences the consumer base.

It's basically a latent form of cartel practice expressed as controlled pricing, to escape fluctuations of supply and demand.

I don't know why they do it, because it seems to limit their profit in advance.

"What kind of lobby would advertisers have, to force TV and radio manufacturers, to design this or that?"

You're kidding right? - Advertising drives broadcast media.

The media decide the broadcast format.

Look at the recent 'auction" of bandwidth if you doubt the power of the media.

Advertising may drive the broadcast media as you say, but they have no baring on TV and radio manufacture, who's clients are you and me.

The advertiser's clients on the other hand, are manufacturers and service providers.

I'm afraid you got your economics a bit confused here.

No biggie, many tend to confuse this issue. If so needed, I'll explain it again, in even simpler terms.

You only need to draw a bunch of boxes and arrows describing "who pays whom and for what" to see the flow of economical leverage in any market or industry. A monkey could do that. Not that they would understand the meaning of it....

The reason it cannot be used properly is that it is waiting for the implementation of the other component in the set.

The RFID-SmartCard tag will be funded by commerce to optimize their efforts of relieving you off your money.

The tag will be motivated for enabling automatic transactions. It would be possible for a person to enter a store, select what he wants and just leave the store with the system deducting the funds for the purchases from his banking account. Very convenient!!

But the shops will also be able to influence your buying habits.

It may work like this: The commercial switch in the TV signal will activate the TAG in your body to register your response to specific advertisement. The next time you visit a shop you will be targeted on your weak spot by showing selected advertisements on the in-store promotional TV when you approach it.

If you responded positively to an add your memory will be refreshed and you may be influenced of buying it at a higher price.

If you responded negatively to an advertisement they may associate the product with your favourite TV program and break or lessen your resistance.

Channel hoppers: You will be shown a automatic channel hopping device – and you will be tempted to buy it because you have a craving / need for it. But instead of relieving you of advertisements they may dump a lot of ads onto you by showing advertising flashes to you and register your reaction on the products before changing over to something you like. Both parties will be satisfied.

Impossible? I think not!

There is another use for the tag – signal combination but I will post it later.

- Idea: A small LED matrix display for each and every key, on a standard keyboard, to display momentary lower/upper case or a set of hyper case or special characters such as 'wingdings'.

The current key value/character/display mode, is rendered by the PC and updated some10 to 30 times a second.

> advantage: Such arrangement would eliminate the need to manufacture separate QWERTY and AZERTY keyboard versions. It would make key-etching redundant. It would also upgrade keyboard legibility in real-time, while typing. It would contribute to the global unification of computer and office standards.

It's also very sci-fi looking.

Documented here on CR4, may (legally) serve as documented precedent, should the occasion arise, once an idea goes into Research and development stage. Fear not. This just might be the right stage.

This may or may not be true, Guest. I'm not a lawyer, but I would suggest contacting an attorney before sharing information on CR4 that you may want to patent later on.

- Idea: PC Operating Systems, and PC Application programs written on a ROM/EEPROM media-card to be plugged for immediate use, and unplugged when finished.

The Read-Only tagged routines, written on Mask-ROM, the updatable portions written on EEPROM, to include upgrade of software versions.

Such card is either a software package or a firmware, or a software / hardware package, not unlike modern video-gaming cards.

> advantage: Mask-ROM based software and firmware packages are extremely fast in execution, about hundreds to thousands times faster than HDD or Flash based.

Such software is unlimited in number of machines to be used on, as it can only run from a given card at any given time.

Pirating such software is incredibly unlikely for private hackers at home, lacking the industrial production hardware.

Such ROM written software written on media-card will enable instant boot, you may carry your desktop items and personal PC settings on-a-card, to be plugged anywhere, with saved last-session-freeze state, co continue on another PC exactly where how you left it.

HI Yuval !

This is a great idea, the new thumb drives can hold up to 20 meg of data, there just needs to be a system program to load the info formatted in a set way to accomplish your dream. this can be accomplished by contacting a game creator to design the format your looking for, than your thumb drive can do most things your looking for.

software updates can be accomplished by downloading the update from the web and then applying to your system be it laptop or desktop. the updates can be progressive also in case of large systems such as a database system with data.

thanks for the great idea.

goldrushnugget999

I thought I was clear to myself when publishing my ideas here:

1. These might not be original ideas, in spite of the fact that no one realised them yet. As it often happens, ideas are simultaneously though of in different places, especially if the need for a specific solution arise.

So just by airing them, to attract some manufacturer's attention, is rewarding enough for me. After all, this is not really a solution in the R & D sense, only a mere "Dream-Feature", and most of the real effort is yet to come in the stage of developing an 'application-proof' prototype, which only manufacturers can do anyway, given their industrial infrastructure, and in regard to their existing models and standards.

2. These are 'Ergonomic Ideas', not 'Design Solutions or Specifications', so they are yet far from technological resolution

3. The intellectual property law I'm familiar with, calls for any reasonable form of 'public notice', for an idea to be protected, and the interned, is certainly just this.

True, web accounts (date, DNS, accessibility) can be forged, but they can also be traced, by both SIGINT, and by human testimony.

4. I personally don't share the paranoia that everyone is constantly on the trigger, and will practice theft of ideas published on the web to immediately rush them into Design Solution stage. It takes decision, money, time and R & D facilities.

Besides, in this era of mass Reverse-Engineering of already developed technology, what's there to fear, with airing some Advanced Ergonomy?

On the other hand, It's not entirely improbable, so by publishing such ideas here we may create a notable, hopefully reputable stage, that will become a landmark for manufacturers to contact the idea originator, for further thoughts and ideas associated with their ergonomy, as expressed.

There is a saying: "You judge a tree by it's fruit". And so, if one good idea is on display, it's likely that: "There's more where it came from", as the other saying goes.

If others like myself, will eventually take this challenge head-on, we just might be able to turn this stage into a place of reputation, where stealing such ideas becomes so obvious, it would mount to ridicule the thief.

HI moose !

the ideas discussed here are most likely to de stolen, even though you can use this blog as a type of copyright it doesn't give you patent protection yet, The laws need to be changed to give common people the right to publish there ideas here and later construct there product and actually get the patent to protect it. maybe you can contact some legal scholars to amend the laws to permit this form of patenting.

thanks

goldrushnugget999

Moose,

Besides the expressed explanation given in post #14, and my opinion that the current caption "Ideas for New Technologies" is much better than the original "My Dream Feature, Expressed !", I also happen to think that removing the original thread from the "General" section of CR4 to the "Home / New Technologies & Research / New Technologies & Research /..." Pretty much missed the point, in the sense that this thread is not at all about some existing technologies emerging for exposure to the wide public, but rather a thread about an urge to spark people into expressing their wishes for their own preferences as to some future development, of their 'ideal' ergonomy.

Some Viewers looking at "Home / New Technologies & Research / New Technologies & Research /..." may be looking for some new technology emerging, and meeting this thread instead, may be (rightly) disappointed to find a discussion of ideas about venues for not-yet existing technology, and the given rationalisation of why such technology should be developed in the future.

For this, the "General" section is a much better stage, being a central and easily accessible stage here at CR4, meant for for general discussion of issues, concerning multi-disciplinary integration of ideas suggested for future development.