What more do we want from our smartphones?

You might not have to wait too long for a longer lasting battery several types are being perfected including –organic also the intro above is prophetic a car manufacturer ,I think Volvo ,but will verify , has already tested a smartphone that unlocks the car and starts it up and in the US there is already a car that DRIVES itself by smartphone but it is still being made ready for public use.

I have read about batteries of the future but it’s difficult to know if and when they will appear.

Judging by the number of people who play with their phone while driving, maybe driving by phone might be the diversion they need to encourage them to focus on driving. 🙁

Good play on words -second paragraph. I get an American websites news on innovations from round the world by email I will check on more details once I get another one from them.

Many innovations seem to start in the US and then we get them – good or bad. I’m more interested in longer life batteries. One of the problems with driving a car by phone is of course – what happens when the battery runs down? 🙂

wavechange – pocket-lint.com/news/130380-future-batteries-coming-soon-charge-in-seconds-last-months— and its a UK site . One of the batteries is urine powered !

I wonder how anyone found out that urine might be useful in battery technology, but I remain open minded. In the meantime I must charge my phone.

If anybody noticed the Nissan Leaf had a crackable remote app. which allowed people half a world away to turn on your heating – not nice if you only have one battery. Nissan removed this app this week.

So whilst its lovely to nominate extended uses for your smart phone I suggest that manufacturers are not hack conscious – and even if they were hackers would no doubt crack it in time. Probably not reported much here was the judgement this week on a Turk who cracked the payment systems of the card issuers and orchestrated the scheme which allowed his confederates to withdraw $55m. This included $2.8m in New York City.

I just like sitting down and having a pleasant relationship with my desktop PC once or twice a day. But then I lead a simple life by most people’s standards.

Ian -your far sighted vision isnt a pipe-dream . A secretive US government “branch ” shall we say –shhhhh ! dont talk about it. has “taken an interest ” in US vets who are brain damaged .During brain operations some of those vets had extra electrodes implanted in the brain to see how they could be influenced to “perform better ” they are a forerunner to micro chips ,which are available, being implanted in their brains . While officially it is to help them gain their brain functions and looks very altruistic ,there is a more secretive reason — this “department” of government belongs to the defense Dept. and large sums of money are being pumped in to make US soldiers more “efficient ” in the battlefield , but you can imagine the outcry from many humanitarian organisations and human rights groups as they can/will say those men will be “controlled ” . So Ian yes any image can be projected directly on the human brain now as scientists now know where to connect the interlinking electrical impulses of the brain . Russia+the US already have fighter jets controlled by though they have been out for years ,Russia had it first it gives quicker reaction times and better control as in -look-see enemy-fire. If you underestimate the human brain well scientists have also admitted that the human brain can contain all the worlds knowledge and at 10 Watts energy is only required while an equivalent computer would need an atomic power station to compete. A computer uses -0+1 a human brain has a lot more message transfer storage systems than that. makes you THINK eh ? – got to stop there heavy banging on door and shouts of- its the police !

Given the assumption that the US is, in fact, experimenting on using thought control to enhance its soldiers’ performance, it seems to be particularly useless at resolving world conflicts.

I prefer to do “real life” activity – gardening, diy, getting out and about, mild sport – than sitting glued to an electronic device peering into a virtual world (other than being a pest on convos of course). My phone is for necessary incoming and outgoing calls and occasional messaging. I am not over anxious to become more reliant on a device that seems to consume more and more time, is antisocial in many respects, and expensive. I’m clearly a dinosaur.

I would agree with that malcolm -except- you are not a dinosaur ,just a realist . The problem is young people are now being provided with tablets etc in schools under the pretext that -“it will make them more computer literate ” but in actual fact their young brains will be programmed to accept that electronic control and electronic information is normal instead of human interaction by their teachers to teach them real life experience because most of their teachers are “Internet ready ” and have not experienced all of life,s problems but live in a semi-virtual word already . As well as that government “programming ” of children by law is now a fact. so things that you and I would rebel against the future generations will accept as normal.

Maybe we should not have given children books, pencils and paper, never mind let them loose on computers or phones. If they have something that demands a telephone call they could be allowed to use their parents’ landline.

I find it interesting that watching films, TV and sport are widely regarded as respectable activities but more recent technology usually comes in for criticism. Incidentally, I’m not glued to my mobile and sometimes leave it at home, but as a way of finding information when and where it’s needed or making calls that can’t wait till I get home, it is rather handy. Perhaps it’s time to put it in perspective. My biggest concern is the increasing manipulation of the population by the commercial world.

I am not against progress but I am against brainwashing in actual fact many of the new innovations are being provided by commercial companies . They come with advertising and “help ” with getting to websites the very thing I and others spend hours installing apps to counteract them ., The government is controlled by BB ,as you find on Which,s Convo,s of HMG doing little to chastise them . It certainly isnt done for the benefit of the masses. There is no longer a “fine line ” but all out crass commercialism aided by the government. And it works – Mummy I want £100 trainers my classmates laugh at me because mine are only £30, and in a poor working class area ? out of work mothers and fathers obtain them by illegal means just so the child is happy and its all down to buy-buy-buy- get into debt , not in debt well you are not part of the new social scene . Who benefits -banksters .

The latest evidence (2016 ) from the US (where else ? ) where mice brains were sliced up into thin slices and treated so that they could receive information puts it far beyond what your figures are Ian .

Can you supply the link? And it doesn’t matter which country supplies the ‘evidence’; what matters is how rigorous the scientific process was. There is, regrettably, a long history of poor research published across the world which can seem plausible until you search for effective replication. In particular, research published in Frontiers of Human Neuroscience has often been retracted afterwards. The only reliable magazines are Nature, New Scientist and Scientific American IME.

I usually archive or screenshot all my info just for the occasion someone asks but I thought that was too minor to store but I will spend time looking for it again Ian I just didnt think it was important.

Thanks. I follow Neuroscience research closely, and I’ve seen nothing that suggest the Brain’s capacity is greater than 2.5PB.

There is a a discussion on “The Register” about, not so much storage, as the ability to input information at huge speed.

The point of course is that storage, and retrieval, and the establishing of a result are part of an overall package. And this may be something to consider beyond simply memory.

Incidentally I had a friend whose ability to recall in great detail events we had attended say 20 years ago was frightening. I conversely had forgotten them completely.

I have seen people experimenting with taking pictures every few seconds during the day and creating a daily vlog. The future where people start performing in unnatural ways for their vlog cannot be far away given what can be seen on Facebook and YouTube. Rather a chilling vision of what having your wearable smartphone could lead to.

However the article makes much mention of a Carphone Warehouse survey, so its not like they have a vested interest, but there is no link in this thread to it so we are bereft of the numbers and make up of the audience surveyed – after all I could survey primary school children what they would like ……

From what I remember of the article I read, and your right, you brought some back to me because of the multi-different ways the human brain can store information it is not possible to judge it on the same level as a computer ,as many do. Carphone Warehouse ?? – I would keep as far away from them as possible but as I dont want people complaining I am off-subject I will say no more.

Like a minority of users, I make my phone drop-resistant by putting it in a leather case. I don’t really have much sympathy for anyone who spends hundreds of pound on a phone and then complains that their unprotected screen has been cracked or smashed by a fall.

That’s a fair comment, wc.

However, I am looking for durability and survivability, not sympathy.

I’m fully supportive of phones being able to survive everyday use, Derek. It disappoints me that phone manufacturers sell phones that contain moisture tell-tales rather than make them water resistant. After all, it does rain in the UK. However, even though we all know that glass is fragile, some people blame the manufacturers when their screen breaks when they drop their phone on a hard surface.