So on the drive to work today, the sun blinded me. See (ha), I have really good night vision, but that means the sun is painful. That it was wet everywhere only made it worse. On the bright (ha, ha) side, I got some absolutely beautiful imagery as a result. I said last year that fall's my favorite season, with good reason--in this case, a live canvas, constantly changing: the sun, freshly hitting frosted objects, causing steam to rise off of them, and dew to glisten in the light. No camera can capture THAT.
...In other news, I actually developed what I think is a neat idea for a universal translator. It wouldn't work for visual or pheramonal cues, being purely off of spoken (and written) language (and maybe other sounds that aren't strictly speaking, but still classify as communication), but it'd work something like this:
A cybernetic implant using advances in microchip technology, embedded into the brain. Working off the idea we 'think' in a language, it'd take sounds and translate them into the user's base language (using a built-in library), effectively filtering noise to allow for understanding. Then, to respond, the computer would use its understanding of both languages to tell the user how to say what they're thinking, in the target language.
Might not be perfect, but seems cool!
...In other news, I actually developed what I think is a neat idea for a universal translator. It wouldn't work for visual or pheramonal cues, being purely off of spoken (and written) language (and maybe other sounds that aren't strictly speaking, but still classify as communication), but it'd work something like this:
A cybernetic implant using advances in microchip technology, embedded into the brain. Working off the idea we 'think' in a language, it'd take sounds and translate them into the user's base language (using a built-in library), effectively filtering noise to allow for understanding. Then, to respond, the computer would use its understanding of both languages to tell the user how to say what they're thinking, in the target language.
Might not be perfect, but seems cool!
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