Awesome technology

I cannot resist from writing such a silly blog, seeing what all can we do with electronics and software. I am normally a person who watch very little of the news channels. I keep commenting saying how come we have a channel that is completely dedicated to news. I wonder what these channels have to update for every hour. And how come there are so many people who watch nothing but CNN for the whole day. Also, I am not a big fan of politics. Got some interest in the news during this election season in US. My curiosity who is going to be the Democrat's candidate, Is it Cliton or Obama?

Let me come back, to my technology stuff. There is one other topic I need to mention to talk of my surprise last evening. Its my course at the University "User Interface Design". In this course we had to design a digital wall paper with so many features as if it replaces the home theater. Professor was suggesting a digital panel or a frame which we can use to present in the class. ( This frame is of the size of the wall so that we can present our "iWall" software on it). All we had to implement is some touch screen interface. I wondered if there is any real application of such wall size digital displays.

It was not until I have seen the news yesterday evening that I was surprised to see a beautiful application of the wall size digital displays.

The results, predictions (of the elections), maps and what not every thing is displayed on wall sized digital screen. The person just stands near the wall keeps on zooming and zooming out various parts of the map just by touching with his fingures, draws circles as makers on the screen which are instantly displayed, on one side he shows the pie charts and what not.

The most surprising part of this was when he switched from the map mode to the google screen with google satillite images. "Lets see it in google map" was the words he said and instantly there was google map on the screen at the exact county he touched on the screen. I was so exited to see such a drastic development in technology. I will surely watch this news again during the electionsat least to see the status of this wonderful technology. Hats off to the great minds for coming up with such concepts.