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> "Imagine if your wallpaper could run apps" Uh. No thanks. I think the technology has some great potential, but why does every tech article have to dumb ever

> "Imagine if your wallpaper could run apps" Uh. No thanks. I think the technology has some great potential, but why does every tech article have to dumb everything down into some iPhone analogy?

userbinator 11y ago
Probably more like, "Imagine if your wallpaper could listen to you" Even the name of the device, Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform, sounds rather creepy.
- tudorw 11y ago
  what about wallpaper that was a battery, heat and energy combined in one easy to apply sheet...
- beambot 11y ago
  Been done: "Rich-Media Tags: Battery-Free Wireless Multichannel Digital Audio and Image Transmission with UHF RFID Techniques". Author (free) version: http://www.travisdeyle.com/publications/pdf/2013_rfid_rich_media_tags.pdf http://www.travisdeyle.com/publications/pdf/2013_rfid_rich_m... Official Version: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6548159&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D6548159 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=654815...
- njharman 11y ago
  But I want my house to listen and sense me. The advantages far outweigh worries. Besides what makes Big Brother isn't the existence of surveillance it is the lack of control over it, who uses it, and how. So fight for open source, transparency, end of advertising/marketing. Not against technology. I want my house to know what room I'm in (for lights, environment, music following, to adjust temperture when I'm active or too hot, to answer alexa like queries, to announce alarms reminders, to tell me the kitchen is hot and smokey cause I forgot beans on stove, to give me alert someone pulled into my drive, stopped in front of my house, to call 911 if my heart stops.
- Wingman4l7 11y ago
  Well, your windows already can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_microphone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_microphone
DonHopkins 11y ago
Yeah, it's 2016 and they still haven't gotten the snozzberries to taste like snozzberries.
Aelinsaar 11y ago
Because critical thought was murdered and replaced with marketing.

> "Imagine if your wallpaper could run apps" Uh. No thanks. I think the technology has some great potential, but why does every tech article have to dumb everything down into some iPhone analogy?

userbinator 11y ago

Probably more like, "Imagine if your wallpaper could listen to you" Even the name of the device, Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform, sounds rather creepy.

tudorw 11y ago
what about wallpaper that was a battery, heat and energy combined in one easy to apply sheet...
beambot 11y ago
Been done: "Rich-Media Tags: Battery-Free Wireless Multichannel Digital Audio and Image Transmission with UHF RFID Techniques". Author (free) version: http://www.travisdeyle.com/publications/pdf/2013_rfid_rich_media_tags.pdf http://www.travisdeyle.com/publications/pdf/2013_rfid_rich_m... Official Version: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6548159&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D6548159 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=654815...
njharman 11y ago
But I want my house to listen and sense me. The advantages far outweigh worries. Besides what makes Big Brother isn't the existence of surveillance it is the lack of control over it, who uses it, and how. So fight for open source, transparency, end of advertising/marketing. Not against technology. I want my house to know what room I'm in (for lights, environment, music following, to adjust temperture when I'm active or too hot, to answer alexa like queries, to announce alarms reminders, to tell me the kitchen is hot and smokey cause I forgot beans on stove, to give me alert someone pulled into my drive, stopped in front of my house, to call 911 if my heart stops.
Wingman4l7 11y ago
Well, your windows already can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_microphone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_microphone

DonHopkins 11y ago

Yeah, it's 2016 and they still haven't gotten the snozzberries to taste like snozzberries.

Aelinsaar 11y ago

Because critical thought was murdered and replaced with marketing.