Basically the idea is to minimise the use of powerful processors in mobile devices.

Here’s the situation analysis.

[Off Topic]:

This morning, I wrote on Facebook and Twitter

Genesis 3 – The Fall of Man

¹⁶ To the woman he (God) said,
“I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing;
with pain you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.”

I sneakered as my sister is about to go through child labour today!

An hour later after some good Kin Kin Pan Mee, I’m at my office. Then I stumbled on the following verses.

¹⁷ To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’
“Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat of it
all the days of your life.

¹⁸ It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.

¹⁹ By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”

That basically means I’m stuck to work the rest of my life. As a result of man’s sinful nature. Sigh~…

[/off topic]

(back to the story)

1. Consumers of information are moving away from the traditional DESKTOP setup to a more mobile, wireless activated system. Whether it is Wifi at a coffee place, or 3G over a telco Data network, we are slowly but surely, being less dependent on the desktop.

2. Laptops and netbooks and iPads are the future. Mobile workstations have become a commonplace.

3. However, sometimes we need fast processing capabilities.

The solution?

It is a borrowed idea from Cloud Computing. It is a smaller scale, where fast Multicore workhorses are located in one location. It can be shared. And the processing power is shared using Wifi.

Let me give you an example:

The year is 2016. We survived 2012, and then some.

We’re all holding iPad 4GSX, the latest most coolest piece of handheld technology.

It is still a 10 inch screen, and the battery life is still awesome. But the speed isn’t that fast anymore (in 2016 terms). Since we have built in 3D cameras to record and YouTube 3D content, a lot of rendering would be needed (I would imagine). Games run great normally, but for advanced processing, a portable solution isn’t really there yet.

So what I do. I go to the local Inter-planetary Starbarks! Hook onto their GigabitWifi and use their basement servers.

There’s a shared monster, lying underneath the cashier’s counter. It has 4 processors with 16 cores each (64 in total). It didn’t cost much to setup, perhaps RM 5000 of tomorrow’s money. But with that capability, my 3D video footage is able to get rendered in a reasonable time. I am borrowing processing power, which has, now become cheaper.

Remember, mobile devices are traditionally slower, despite efforts by Intel’s low-energy low-power consumption chips, and Apple’s Custom A4 chip which has made leaps and bounds.

We are still limited by physics.

SO there you have it, another awesome idea by Philip Khor. Shared computing, across GigWifi.

(p.s. If you didn’t understand the above techno-jibberish, tweet me @philipkhor and I’ll try to explain it better to you!)

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Or… at least I have a hint what the codes might be ;)

Just saying Hi and Bye would cost RM 6.60 per 12 seconds. I think I wanna get into the Sat Phone business. Its expensive, but “certain people” need it to “do their transactions”, right? Milk these mo’fos!

All I need are 8 birds. Put each in: S. E. Asia (for the Thailand and Indon “unreachable groups”), Afrika for the Ivory trade, Australia for the Kangaroos, South America for the Salsa dancers and of course central / eastern USA for our guy from Chicago and 2 over Europe / Gulf :)

Phailed Sat is what I’ll call it.

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LED Lights have been used widely for many applications. In interior design, this form of light is prominent in modern design to give a room a futuristic ambiance.

If you have a mobile phone, you are probably used to the interference it can cause to computer speakers whenever a Text Message or a Phone Call comes in. Upon careful observation, the pulsating sounds on the speaker varies, depending on whether you have an SMS or a phone call.

My idea is to have LED lights connected to a simple frequency detector chip / box. The room will turn flashing Yellow when there is a Text message and flashing Blue when there’s a phone call.

One of the cool effect you’ll get is, that the room will change colours even before the phone rings as the signals give a 2-3 second warning before the phone beeps!

If there are 3-4 simultaneous signals coming in at a same time, the two colours will start flashing followed by a third colour which indicates high activity.

The application for this device would be for Classrooms to be SMS / Phone interference free. No longer can students send SMSes under their teachers’ nose.

In hospitals and operation theatres, the security personnel can quickly identify “hot zones” and escort the offenders outside accordingly.

In lecture halls / convention centres when a Speaker is giving his keynote speech, we can identify who is busy text-ing.

Likewise in Cinemas, the person who is disrupting the movie will have his seat lit up like a Christmas tree, where others can throw popcorn at him.

The chips are already there. The only thing needed is to make the sensor directional and sensitive to target the right areas. Also, interior designers and building planners need to integrate beautiful looking LEDs capable of different colours into their designs.

It would be a fun to have lights blinking randomly and in different intensity / colours in a room. Now you’ll know when your partner is tweeting about how bad you are in bed.

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