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Monday, August 23, 2004

The results from Timex' future-vision design contest are pending, but here's my idea of a timekeeping device for the year 2154: (Unfortunately I couldn't enter due to the demands of my move at the time of the deadline.)

150 years out says beyond wearable to me: think Cortical Implants with the ability to virtually project information overlayed with your regular vision:

Now combine the state of the art in time shifting technologies with virtual graphic overlays and imagine a system that would allow you to "see" time based information such as milestone markers virtually overlayed with the real world:

Ghost Data would represent realtime splits of your past performance or famous races or events.

(Let's load that Carl Lewis program again but timeshift it to 50% this time so I have a chance!)

This type of concept could eventually replace numerical representation of time with information about the meaning of time itself.

1 Comments:

  • The results are out:
    http://www.core77.com/timex/winners/

    Nothing quite as futuristic as cortical implants, and I'm really surprised that no one took on sports timing, but there's some neat stuff there.

    By Chris, at 11:42 PM  

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