Now of course I would love for it to translate WomanSpeak to GuyUnderstanding, but let’s not go crazy. The Universal Translator works both ways as young people can turn my 40- and 50-year-old pop culture references into something they recognize and understand other than “Welcome Back Kotter” and “Hong Kong Phooey.” I also want to understand teenagers who speak like they text. UNIVERSAL TRANSLATION: I needed a device that would help me in real-time understand people using foreign languages to see if what I suspected was true: that they were clowning me. While they wait, you can embarrass the clerks to no end by playing your drone on “Jeopardy!” waiting music or Tom Petty’s “The Waiting (Is the Hardest Part).” Now that I don’t have Maceo Parker and the Temptations following me everywhere (which isn’t such a bad thing), a smartphone app that can accommodate and promote my admittedly weird outbursts would be a 10 in the cool meter.ĭIGITAL WAITERS: I don’t mean it in the restaurant sense, I’m talking about floating drones with a video monitor that you can send to do different tasks like waiting in line at the post office to send a package or waiting in line in the bank.
Sometimes I also want to shout “Temptations sing!” and have them do that part from “Super Freak,” but I still have crickets, which is embarrassing. SHOUT OUT: Now this one may sound silly to you, but sometimes I want to shout, for no particular reason, “Maceo!” And I expect a smokin’ sax solo to start playing like the great Godfather of Soul used to do. Face recognition TVs are very helpful to detect immediately when you nod and pause the show and activate the alarm.
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WAKE UP TV: I hate it when I’m watching a Netflix series and to my horror wake up and realize that I don’t know where I was when I accidentally crashed. It’s probably more likely things along the lines of “Uh, can you explain ‘turn signal?’ ” or “Your McLicense should be suspended!” You can say “Hi there!” or “Nice car!” or “Have a nice day!” Especially helpful if your job is Batman.Įxpress your own vehicles: Wouldn’t it be cool to have a voice-activated system in your ride that would translate your words into 24-inch LED red text that appears and scrolls or flashes on the back window and side of your car when driving so you can. If you’re late for work, just slide the pole and take some time off.
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GETTIN’ DRESSED TIME SAVER: In the 1960’s TV show “Batman,” Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson could change their dynamic duo costumes just by sliding down a pole. However, I was inspired to create some Jetson-like gadgets that I would like to see.ĬARPOOL FILLER: When traffic starts to slow down on your commute, just press a button on your dashboard and holographic images of other people fill your car so you can use carpool lanes. Today there are many Jetsons gizmos and gadgets that are not (yet) a thing, such as flying cars that fold Transformer-style into a suitcase, pneumatic tubes used as elevators and moving sidewalks. These include, but are not limited to: drones, flat screen TVs, jetpacks, robotic vacuums, smart watches, tablet computers and video calls. Kennedy’s speech paved the way for the Gemini and Apollo missions and the goal of ‘a man on the Moon’ was achieved in July 1969.But none of the Bedrock devices, as far as I know, have successfully made the transition from cartoon punchline delivery devices to real-world objects (and wouldn’t a talking head be cool that wooly mammoth vacuum?), but many things in the Jetsons have.
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He said: ‘I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth’. The American space programme had lagged behind the USSR but everything changed in 1961 when President Kennedy decided that the USA should commit itself to landing a man on the moon before 1970. Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman cosmonaut in 1963 and two years later another cosmonaut, Alexei Leonov, became the first person to perform a space walk. The race to get the first person into space was eventually won by the USSR, when Yuri Gagarin became the first cosmonaut to orbit the earth in April 1961. Laika did not survive the flight, but in May 1959 two monkeys were launched into space by the USA and both returned alive. Sputnik was followed a month later on 3 November 1957 by Sputnik II, carrying a dog called Laika, who became the first living creature in space. A new era of human exploration and achievement had dawned. As the Sputnik satellite orbited the Earth it sent back a radio signal that was picked up around the world. On 4 October 1957 the USSR launched Sputnik - the first man-made object in space.
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