The Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 is already making waves in the mobile phone industry as early as it was announced. A lot of multimedia features have been streaming up to this year’s mobile phones. Naturally, Sony Ericsson would not be left behind. One talked- about feature these days is a mobile communication device’s ability to give directions. In short, people are concerned about navigation features. This makes sense too because having a mobile phone as well as a GPRS device can be too much hassle and expensive. If you have navigation as well as communication capabilities in just one device, you are sure to prefer that device wouldn’t you?

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How about a mind-reading wheelchair? Well almost, the technology exists now and it is just a matter of lowering the costs with mass production and economies of scale. How so you ask? Well simple really, you see there has been some special forces transfer technology that is used by the military and now SWAT Teams. The technology allows a small micro device to read signals from the brain to the voice box. When you are thinking something, before you say it, your vocal cords vibrate. This concept has been getting a bit of chat at Slashdot:

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There have been numerous books over the past twenty years, which have attempted to popularise physics. However, despite their number, the Queen of the sciences has refused to surrender to the dumbing down and in many respects maintains its regal mystification. Amidst its many equations and laws there appears another: the more fundamental the theory, the more detached it becomes from our understanding. There exists an enormous gap between physics and the public.

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