Google will give you results before you even know you want to conduct a search. Google intends to leverage all of that data to transform its search technology into a HAL 9000 style personal assistant that communicates with you through your cell phone.Īs I detailed in this space last week, Google will add proactive interruption as a way to make search even faster than instantaneous. If you're a heavy user of Google services, Google knows who you are, where you are, what you're interested in, who you know and much more. ![]() HAL also knew everything about the people he interacted with. He was able to monitor all computer and spaceship systems. The movie HAL performed its amazing feats in part because it had access to a lot of data. So we can expect HAL to be integrated into our phones one feature at a time.īut Apple isn't the only company with an advantage. The company is also disciplined about rolling out only the aspects of new technology that are ready for prime time. When you pick one, Siri will make the reservation for you.Īpple bought Siri and hired the world's leading expert in HAL-like artificial intelligence robots to lead its iPhone engineering team for only one reason: Apple knows phones will evolve into virtual personal assistants.Īpple's advantage is that it's good at integrating functionality and making it seamless and elegant. Siri will intelligently suggest a few based on your location and preferences. Say you want to make a restaurant reservation. If you've got an iPhone, you can download Siri's "virtual personal assistant" app free of charge. The only difference is that HAL will live in your iPhone. Apple "acquired" Cheyer when it bought the company he co-founded, Siri Inc.Īnd Cheyer is still building HAL. I was already allowing only a 1/8 in thick plexi part between the machined HAL plate you see and the case front, to embed my own forward-facing LEDs for the perimeter spotlight glow effect.Guess what HAL's chief architect does now? Cheyer works at Apple as director of engineering for the iPhone. I can replace the killed portion of the embedded stick with my own parts but frankly having another hole (in the case front, behind the HAL plate) to have to route around is going to make things tough. Kinda funny and the opposite of the issue I thought I might face. Result: the LEDs above the cut-out are lit but below are not. I've spliced the 4 main lines from below the lens cut-out to above the lens cutout. Basically: the input connection is at the bottom end. (This is a custom light stick on a hard circuit board they used, not the standard cut-every-three flex LED strips we're used to seeing). But then the front side traces between LEDs and resistors must only via up thru the board periodically and then the top traces route 'backwards' toward the input connector end, if that makes any sense. From looking at the cut piece it seems like they have 4 parallel traces on the backside which are the obvious 12V and PWM returns for R,G,B.I scraped the board conformal coat off to resplice into these traces across my cut gap. back traces they used are kind weird here. ![]() I've managed to break it and removed a segment where necessary for the lens to pass thru so far, but even splicing across the gap with wires, a few of them aren't lighting up (before the break and splice oddly enough). ![]() It connects to case wiring at the bottom then runs up the center and is left open at the top end (the edge lighting for the case above and below the removable front face is independently wired). Not going to try an internal speaker after all - just stick with using themed sound effects in standard sound settings.
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