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March 28th, 2014, 06:45 AM
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Stop the planet, I want to get off
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03...ng_collisions/
Stick a fork in us ... we're done.
Apple has applied for a patent for technology that will warn of oncoming dangers to users distracted by their text messages.
An application submitted by the company to the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) (rooted out by AppleInsider) describes a user interface that displays transparent text messages over a live video feed from the device's forward-facing camera.
Your life-saving SMS patent
Thus, the tablet or handset can offer a view of what's ahead of the texter, allowing them to avoid anything they would otherwise crash into.
"The background within the text messaging session can continuously be a live and current video image of the view seen by the camera at any given moment," Apple's Stephen Payne wrote in the application.
"Consequently, the device's user is less likely to collide with or stumble over an object while participating in a text messaging session."
As with all patent application filings, we should note that this is only a proposed design from Apple and not necessarily a preview of upcoming features or technologies. Many such filings are never materialized in a prototype, let alone a commercial product. The document was also submitted in 2012, but published this week by the USPTO.
Still, this feature seems far more practical than other blueprints we've seen in the US patent officials' inbox. We can't help but wonder why someone hasn't already done this. Most of us have learned the hard way that staring at a mobile while walking can often end with in embarrassment, injury, or both.
A recent study of user kinesiology found that the mere act of looking down at a handheld device while walking changes a person's gait and decreases the ability to maintain a straight line while walking even when a collision is not imminent.
Until Apple can get this world-changing alert system onto the iPhone, it seems that the best way to avoid these hazards is to take the drastic but effective measure of not constantly staring at your phone and actually looking up to your surroundings while walking.
The future can't arrive soon enough.
An application submitted by the company to the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) (rooted out by AppleInsider) describes a user interface that displays transparent text messages over a live video feed from the device's forward-facing camera.
Your life-saving SMS patentThus, the tablet or handset can offer a view of what's ahead of the texter, allowing them to avoid anything they would otherwise crash into.
"The background within the text messaging session can continuously be a live and current video image of the view seen by the camera at any given moment," Apple's Stephen Payne wrote in the application.
"Consequently, the device's user is less likely to collide with or stumble over an object while participating in a text messaging session."
As with all patent application filings, we should note that this is only a proposed design from Apple and not necessarily a preview of upcoming features or technologies. Many such filings are never materialized in a prototype, let alone a commercial product. The document was also submitted in 2012, but published this week by the USPTO.
Still, this feature seems far more practical than other blueprints we've seen in the US patent officials' inbox. We can't help but wonder why someone hasn't already done this. Most of us have learned the hard way that staring at a mobile while walking can often end with in embarrassment, injury, or both.
A recent study of user kinesiology found that the mere act of looking down at a handheld device while walking changes a person's gait and decreases the ability to maintain a straight line while walking even when a collision is not imminent.
Until Apple can get this world-changing alert system onto the iPhone, it seems that the best way to avoid these hazards is to take the drastic but effective measure of not constantly staring at your phone and actually looking up to your surroundings while walking.
The future can't arrive soon enough.
March 28th, 2014, 10:13 AM
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March 28th, 2014, 11:13 AM
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March 28th, 2014, 07:19 PM
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March 28th, 2014, 07:33 PM
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Sadly (not to get political...) it's the opposite these days.
The actual requirement is survival to reproduce.
Since you don't need to have two brain cells to rub together to reproduce, and since lack of self-control, lack of planning skills, and lack of common sense all contribute to one's personal rate of reproduction, it turns out that the least-smart (as well as the most crazy, most self-centered, and most drug-addicted) are the ones who survive to reproduce far better than the smartest, even if they Darwin themselves out of the gene pool shortly after doing so.
The smartest don't have a chance.
- Eric
The actual requirement is survival to reproduce.
Since you don't need to have two brain cells to rub together to reproduce, and since lack of self-control, lack of planning skills, and lack of common sense all contribute to one's personal rate of reproduction, it turns out that the least-smart (as well as the most crazy, most self-centered, and most drug-addicted) are the ones who survive to reproduce far better than the smartest, even if they Darwin themselves out of the gene pool shortly after doing so.
The smartest don't have a chance.
- Eric
March 28th, 2014, 07:38 PM
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I'd rather have the patented technology that warns a driver of impending collisions for up to 2 vehicles in front.
Actually, I'd rather see all the moron drivers get off the road so driving could get back to when driver skill was actually something to be proud of. The trend is heading towards driverless cars, which will have the same acceptance level as electric vehicles do now.
Actually, I'd rather see all the moron drivers get off the road so driving could get back to when driver skill was actually something to be proud of. The trend is heading towards driverless cars, which will have the same acceptance level as electric vehicles do now.
March 29th, 2014, 04:52 AM
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Survival of the fittest and smartest went out the window. It is because of the safety and product laws that came about in the last few decades that allow the stupid to survive and reproduce!
March 29th, 2014, 05:26 AM
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I'd rather have the patented technology that warns a driver of impending collisions for up to 2 vehicles in front.
Actually, I'd rather see all the moron drivers get off the road so driving could get back to when driver skill was actually something to be proud of. The trend is heading towards driverless cars, which will have the same acceptance level as electric vehicles do now.
Actually, I'd rather see all the moron drivers get off the road so driving could get back to when driver skill was actually something to be proud of. The trend is heading towards driverless cars, which will have the same acceptance level as electric vehicles do now.
....do not think I will be letting them put one into the Cutlass
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