Awesome :-)

More and more, we're learning how to feed information directly to the brain. And hearing is no simple matter. There are more nerves from the brain to the ear than from the ear to the brain. So there is more information giving feedback to the ear about how to interpret sounds than traveling to the brain with actual sound information.

Combine this with eye implants that already are giving some form of sight back to the blind, http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/16/researchers-set-to-test-bionic-eye-implant/ , last I heard they've reached 60 pixels, a vast upgrade from the previously available 16, which was enough for subjects to see the difference between a cup, a plate and a knife.

The same is being done for touch, to restore this sense to patients with prostheses, and to a lesser degree with smell and taste.

Add to this the new kinds of artifical muscles being made ( http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/nc-state-researchers-uncover-muscle-mimicking-fibers/ ), and being disabled in any way in the near future will be far less limiting than it is today.

And, for those of us who arn't...
Direct Neural Interface Gaming and VR experiences approaching full reality may be less than a decade away... And you thought WoW was addictive.

- Tor
http://www.gadgetsieve.com

Well, mobiles, or maybe we should call them PCD's (Personal Computing/Communication Devices) are only going to increase in importance as a platform. ARM certainly has a lead in this area, though, with 75-80% of the processor market, and seem set to increase their role within the PCD market with last years aquisition of Falanx Microsystems http://www.edn.com/article/CA6347034.html , giving them a pretty nice edge in the evolving PCD 3D graphics market.

So all in all, this sounds more like your normal CEO hot air attack.

- Tor I. Pettersen
http://www.gadgetsieve.com

When it comes to battery power, I don't think we'll have as much to worry about soon.
We're just seeing the start of the nanotech supercapacitor http://www.physorg.com/news11625.html revolution, as well as various takes on fuel cell batteries, for instance http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060913100455.htm

Tor
http://www.gadgetsieve.com

I love it.

Imagine the possibilities this might have for disabled users, when they can simply put on an "exoskeleton" muscle layer, possibly directly controlled by the brain ( http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/21/technology/googlebrain0721.biz2/index.htm ) so that it becomes much like walking and moving normally.

And imagine grandma running home from the mall, carrying 5 heavy bags on each arm :>

Tor
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