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So I won't tell you about the martial arts class, because it was canceled. Instead I will tell you about the very odd Dream whence I just awoke.
I don't remember it. But I woke up crying and all chokes up with emotion, so obviously is was a Very Sad Dream. I do know that it was sad like a movie is sad, where you experience no personal tragedy but, dude, the dog just died, or whatever. So now I am strangely happy, on the basis that my life might be stressful and crazy but at least people about whom I care are okay. This is good. I've not been happy thus far this week.
Now I have found out my term project for IME100 (Makey-things is the lab for this class), and it is a cool one. We are to choose an item from TIME magazine's list of top 100 gadgets. (I found the list interesting because of what wasn't on it; for example, the telephone, telegraph, and email were not on the list, even though realistically, half the things that did make the list were refinements thereof.) Anyway.
I look at one of those and make a prediction how it will evolve in the next two decades. My predictions is: in 20 years, the "pacemaker" will be a full-time onboard heart health monitor. We have power-sending technology, although not yet good, which can send power from the wall of your house to a computer three feet away - so that'll supply the extra power from an external, chargeable battery pack that they wear. Lab-on-a-chip technologies have already miniaturized chemical detection to the size it'd have to be; the only real technology is a lab-on-a-chip renewal, so the same one can perform the same tests three times and hour indefinitely. The results thus collected gets radioed out to that same battery pack, and from there passed on via phone or simple data service to the local monitoring center. If your heart irregularities start spiking or a certain chemical level in your blood is suddenly unhealthily high, you will get a call telling you to go to a hospital right now because you're about to have a heart attack/stroke/kidney failure/etc. What a happy Thing! And that's what I write, essentially, for my project, although I have to prove it's viable and something that people would want. I think so, but I am open to criticism. Let me know!
I don't remember it. But I woke up crying and all chokes up with emotion, so obviously is was a Very Sad Dream. I do know that it was sad like a movie is sad, where you experience no personal tragedy but, dude, the dog just died, or whatever. So now I am strangely happy, on the basis that my life might be stressful and crazy but at least people about whom I care are okay. This is good. I've not been happy thus far this week.
Now I have found out my term project for IME100 (Makey-things is the lab for this class), and it is a cool one. We are to choose an item from TIME magazine's list of top 100 gadgets. (I found the list interesting because of what wasn't on it; for example, the telephone, telegraph, and email were not on the list, even though realistically, half the things that did make the list were refinements thereof.) Anyway.
I look at one of those and make a prediction how it will evolve in the next two decades. My predictions is: in 20 years, the "pacemaker" will be a full-time onboard heart health monitor. We have power-sending technology, although not yet good, which can send power from the wall of your house to a computer three feet away - so that'll supply the extra power from an external, chargeable battery pack that they wear. Lab-on-a-chip technologies have already miniaturized chemical detection to the size it'd have to be; the only real technology is a lab-on-a-chip renewal, so the same one can perform the same tests three times and hour indefinitely. The results thus collected gets radioed out to that same battery pack, and from there passed on via phone or simple data service to the local monitoring center. If your heart irregularities start spiking or a certain chemical level in your blood is suddenly unhealthily high, you will get a call telling you to go to a hospital right now because you're about to have a heart attack/stroke/kidney failure/etc. What a happy Thing! And that's what I write, essentially, for my project, although I have to prove it's viable and something that people would want. I think so, but I am open to criticism. Let me know!