Wed Jan 9, 2008 8:27PM EST
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One day, Panasonic tells us at CES, a gigantic electronic wall will bring the family together.
The "concept technology" is called "Life Wall," and a prototype being displayed is very cool yet very weird. The cool part: the ability to recognize family members and call up a screen that moves with you through the room, becoming bigger and smaller by the wave of a hand or adjusting itself to where you are in the room.
The weird part: decorating the virtual wall by adding faux windows, a fireplace, pictures, wallpaper, curtains. Of course, maybe this would be second nature for tomorrow's adults who are growing up decorating virtual rooms on Webkinz and BarbieGirls.com.
The actors displaying the Life Wall showed how kids could do big-as-life research via the Internet on the wall, then switch to games or TV. And parents would be able to check in on cameras in the baby's room or kids playing in the backyard. If the room is big enough and the family is in the mood for a movie night, you'll be able to watch a wall-to-wall film.
That would have to be one big room and everyone would have to sit pretty close together if the Life Wall is to "bring back family time" as Panasonic posits.
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I'm impressed but its also a bit creeeeepppy....
Sure, why not? Homeland security has just asked firefighters to voluntarily look for 'subversive' reading material while in our homes. No, really.
I want the wall over my entire house. Today SoCal tomorrow Paris....oh and I want snow on Sunday. Conner check out the alligator I found for your report. See how big they are?
When I first read the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, I thought the whole wall thing was a little strange but pretty darn cool. Yet, I thought the idea would never realistically become a reality. It turns out I was wrong. Weird
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1 Posted by la_tortuga_boracha on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:57PM EDT Report Abuse
It's Fahrenheit 451, and I find Bradbury's work very relevant, as well as Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World. What a piece of work is man...