Peephole Displays

Projection displays embedded in cellphones are not everything. Reason? Privacy - you don't want many people looking at your presentation. At the same time, how do you provide a 1400x1050 display on your cellphone? Answer - provide a peephole - you've seen those wearable computer displays - the eyepiece is something you attach to your spectacles. Here, you'll hold the phone up to your eye and focus about 4 feet into the distance.

TI-DSP Saves America 700b Manhours

Where is the time to stay in touch these days? You can email and you can call. You want to do both. Unfortunately, you can't talk on the phone with people you know well and keep hammering away at email - that would not sound polite at the other end.

You would think they would have been able to make this available already. Why not a module inbuilt into your phone (or offered as a service at $1 a month by the provider) that can filter out keyboard clicks so that the other party can't hear them? Should be quite trivial. Ja?

The Really Smart Car

Apparently, my brake bads were pressing real tight on my rotors because there was a problem with the calipers - or somewhere in the system - hoses, etc. Question is - based on the direction gravity is pointing relative to the car's frame of reference, why can't the computer figure out if the load on the engine is reasonable or not and communicate that to the driver - if maintenance is indicated. There should be simple ways of figuring out the actual weight of the car. This should be trivial. This alone might have explained the huge discrepancy between my city and highway mileages. Damn! Come on Honda-san.