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CPU@home By Gina Miller copyright 2007 all rights reserved (both written text and video). Movie clip is below the text.
This animation is my concept of what I am calling the “CPU @ Home” system. It’s a convenient all in one command center for all of your technology needs. I find myself routinely going from room to room and device to device, it’s disjointed and the devices are never in sync with each other. With my CPU, your television set becomes your “everything” portal. When you turn it on, the screen will allow you to access not only your usual television programming and movies, but will also be your internet, email, computer, game console, mp3 downloader, your telephone, your camcorder/camera, and your home monitoring/security system.
You can access your system by touch, voice activation, remote, and/or by traditional keyboards. But all of your individual devices, your remote, your phone, your mp3 player, your CD/DVD drive and headphones would all be able to attach to each other using connectors that hook up to a truncated keyboard. Everything will lock into one unit. Let’s call this your “controller”. This will be useful for downloading data from one device to the other. Everything would be able to communicate with each other while you are sitting in the same place doing all of your work on your CPU @ Home.
You could also detach all of these devices from your controller so that they are portable. Say you want to download some music, you could do so while your mp3 player is hooked up to your controller and then detach it and take it with you. Download ring tones straight to your phone, write email while watching TV on a double screen. The hard drives themselves would be invisible, inside of your TV, and would be able to be removed so that you can take them with you.
A day in the life of my CPU: I would sit down on my couch and while using voice activation, I would say “CPU on”, the screen would light up and I would have my phone messages read to me. I could clean out my phone messages or make any other phone modifications by using the TV screen. This would be true for all of my devices. I would have my new email right there on the screen which I could read or also have read to me by my CPU. Maybe I’m wearing some rather snazzy ensemble this particular day and decide to send my friend a video of myself, I just click my remote and my television’s camera, which is located on the top of the TV set, starts recording. I can send it as an email attachment right away, because my email and internet are all right there on the TV screen which is also my computer! Perhaps we want to communicate directly to each other using the video camera on the TV, we could even save the video to play later or download it to a device. While I’m sitting here, I think I hear a noise outside, I pull up my security cameras, everything looks fine. Although my house temperature is a little high, I better turn that down. But I’m bored, I'm going to watch a movie. After about twenty minutes I see on my CPU screen that someone is calling. Turns out I've got to run, but I'll be in a waiting room all day, so I'm going to download the rest of my movie and all that email I need to catch up on, onto my phone. I grab my headphones and head out.
In the future, these combined devices could really evolve. People would begin to take advantage of it and merge markets together. You could watch television and while the commercials are on you could click an option to buy that item, immediately ordering it online. Shopping, television, and ordering online could all be one. Perhaps one day you could be watching a music video and you see “would you like to download this song?” if selected, you could automatically download it directly into your mp3 player, (or phone) you could then detach it from your controller and go for a run. You could do the same thing for movies and shows, download them to your CPU @ Home to watch later or onto your portable media.
For right now, most of these services are available separately, but having them together, that sure would be convenient. I’ve had a lot of fun fantasizing about this, so much that I really want one now! Enough jibber jabber, you ready to watch the video? Turn up your volume!
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