Man-Mobile Deep Merge - Vinod Desai
0 likes444 views
The document discusses the potential for deep merging human capabilities with advanced mobile technologies, suggesting that future innovations could allow mobile devices to be integrated into the human body, enhancing senses and abilities. Key components for this integration include eliminating smartphone displays and utilizing low-power wireless technologies and sub-dermal implants for communication and data sharing. The timeline indicated that with collaborative efforts from companies in bionics, a fully functional implementation of this technology could be possible by the end of 2017.
Man-Mobile Deep Merge - Vinod Desai
- 1. Man-Mobile Deep Merge Technologies available in 2016 should allow man and modern communications to merge seamlessly
- 2. Using technology as it stands today, it should be possible to embed a deconstructed version of today’s mobile phone into the human body, in a way that it almost seems like a natural extension of our senses. It’ll also make ordinary humans seem superhuman. And can radically change the lives of those with disabilities. Another upside is that we’ll never have to carry or explicitly charge devices again.
- 3. The following slides show the components which need to be dropped, technologies to be used and the means of deployment.
- 4. Key Component to Drop The Display A smartphone’s display is a significant drain on a device’s battery life. We get rid of it. This would mean no graphics processors, no touch controllers or panels. All interactions will be non-visual; predominantly aural and vocal.
- 5. Key Technologies Of Use Low-power radios Bone Conduction Hearing & Sub-dermal Implants Wireless Inductive charging Mature, off the shelf offerings from these 4 spaces are all that are needed to make Deep-Merge happen.
- 6. Enabling Deep- Merge Low Power Wireless Radios Wireless technologies like Bluetooth Low Energy(BLE) or other low power radio communication modes will play a key role. Today, it’s possible to pick up radio beacons which can run for 2 years, off a single button cell. Some reference radio beacon designs can run for 10 years.
- 7. Fully submersible bone conduction based communication devices have been in use for more than 10 years. While they inherently offer high-fidelity audio & excellent noise cancellation, several retail versions today are fully submersible and lose no functionality until 20 meters of depth. Enabling Deep- Merge Bone conduction
- 8. These have been available since 10 years and so far are mostly deployed to overcome disability. Enabling Deep- Merge Fully implantable middle ear devices Source: http://www.audiologyonline.com/articles/implantable- auditory-technologies-13250 Bone conduction communication variants of these, could be augmented with inductive charging capacities and implanted similarly.
- 9. Several motherboards today are narrow, thin pieces of PCBs. By dropping motherboard components not needed for Deep Merge, the motherboard size can be further reduced. This will create no perceivable cosmetic feature. Most sub-dermal implants are currently cosmetic. But a motherboard with flex/bend can be implanted at the back of the skull, while protected by a plate/flat packaging.Enabling Deep- Merge Sub-dermal implants
- 10. Limb extremities will host inductive charging enabled sensor modules needed for activity monitoring. (pressure, motion, gyro, heart rate) Besides improving activity identification, leading to better fitness tracking, it will also enable advanced hands-free gaming with conventional platforms.Enabling Deep- Merge Sub-dermal implants
- 11. Sub-dermal NFC implants could help us wirelessly share business cards, personal preferences, data and more with a gesture as simple as a hand-shake. Business card info could be directly read out in the ear & doctors could be immediately warned of a patient’s allergies and even provided with real time heart rate data. Enabling Deep- Merge Sub-dermal implants
- 12. Vocal - Microphone operates in an always on- mode and starts a session upon a spoken identifier. (Echo/Alexa/Siri) Clanking of jaws - The gentle striking of lower jaw against the upper makes a very distinct, clear sound. Two such clanks(picked up by dental microphone and the vibration sensor) can start the session or indicate yes/no. Tapping(Head/ear) - Vibration or audio sensors, sense the tap and start the session. Other interactions/communication permissions could be created on a simple or user programmable combination of these. Completing Deep- Merge Interaction
- 13. Wireless charging modules (central or distributed) could be part of all implanted components, and all of these could get charged while we’re asleep. Your sleep helps you re- charge. Literally. Completing Deep- Merge Wireless Inductive Charging In what seems almost lifelike, when an individual hasn’t rested for a long duration, even his communication capabilities would drop as the devices(and the individual) haven’t had the time to re-charge.
- 14. Communications will change for good (again) ESP Like One could simply start the interaction, dial a number, speak to someone and hang-up, all without ever touching a device. Enhanced Interactions Sensors with feedback enabled could teach us new skills, provide navigational cues through vibrations. Enhanced Privacy Directions, weather, answers to queries will be received directly in the ear.
- 15. Deep merge will also significantly reduce device glut. Screens, game controllers, gesture recognition devices can all work off of sensors embedded within us. Public screen kiosks can enable us to view information pushed to a screen, in case a higher visual information needs to be assimilated. Adding this level of interactivity to existing VR & AR would open up more possibilities.
- 16. All ideas here are based on mature technologies available today. No challenges here are insurmountable. And any which arise, can be solved in multiple ways.
- 17. Technology Timeline The mobile technology timeline needs a new milestone, and evolution needs a leg up.
- 18. 1.9 Million years ago Fully bipedal humans evolved 1997 Mobile goes mass market 2006 Launch of first 3G smartphone 2013 64-bit compute comes to smartphones 2017 First man & mobile deep merge
- 19. Next steps? Making it happen. Companies involved in bionics or institutions involved in bionic/implant research could create a bionic, connected human. Theoretically, a fully functional implementation should be possible by end of 2017.
- 20. Vinod Desai @Desaivino whiteblankpages.com * None of the images are my own. Several have been sourced from using a ‘free to use non-commercially’ license filter. Happy to provide links.