In today's session (tutored by Paul Grant) we had an opportunity to carry on with our research and idea development. I seized this chance to pursue some extensive and detailed research and came up with some interesting thoughts:
1) Fingerprint Money - I thought that there could be a more secure way to look after peoples money e.g. Chip and Pin. I thought about fingerprint scanning for security but this had already been invented - visit this link: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money-savers/article.html?in_article_id=404564&in_page_id=5. There must be other possibilites for securing money, I may look into this further but this seems like a difficult area to cover for this project,
2) Microsoft Surface - An amazing piece of software by Microsoft (www.microsoft.com/surface). If you visit the site you will see what I mean! THis idea of fully interactive material really inspired me and my idea of an interactive Newspaper / Magazine / Book / Flyer/ Banner etc.
3) Bye Bye Batteries - When Researching online I stumbled across an article based on Battery Life / Power. I found that there has been so much improvement on the functionality of technology, but no improvement on actual battery power. There has been some issues in making battery life too powerful and therefore dangerous, mainly due to poor manufacturing. If a strong chemical and body was found for a battery then this is a feasible idea. Maybe the first Mobile Phone with a Month -Long Battery!? Charge once a month!? Sounds like a good idea.
4)Interactive Paper / Online - Continuing my research on interactive paper (E-Paper) I found a useful website which explained the basics of online interactive newspaper (www.newsandtech.com/issues/2006/04-06/nt/04-06_epaper.htm) which I can directly link to My idea of I-News (Interactive News which you control. I created a basic layout of how my interactive paper would look, using the site - interactives.mped.org/ppress110.aspx. This can be seen in My sketchbook.
Next Steps:
More Research, Begin to pursue a general direction / form of technology.
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