![]() ![]() ![]() This car, likened to Knight Rider’s KITT, uses sensors to measure vital statistics such as eye movement and pulse, and if it detects tiredness or stress, can generate soothing colours, sounds, smells, as well as making your seat vibrate. In 2005, a new car, the Senso from European manufacturers Rinspeed, put in an appearance at the Geneva Car Show. “Why’s the floor shaking? You keep filling the air with cheap perfume! Turn the soothing music off” Below, there’s a screenshot of us browsing the online guide on a connected Windows Pocket PC…Īrthur Dent versus the computer systems on the Heart of Gold – we’ve all been there! From Fit The Ninth…. Handheld computers with a GPRS connection to the Internet, and enough storage space hold a whole stack of books in a variety of Ebook and PDF formats.Īdd to that, the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide itself is online – in the form of h2g2, the online encyclopedia. Now, in 2005, PDAs and smartphones are all around us. The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy first aired in 1978, one of the central concepts being that Ford Prefect, a roving reporter, carried an indispensable guide – an electronic book that contained online reviews of people, places and things.Ī few years after HHGG appeared on BBC Radio, we saw an early version of the electronic book, in the form of the Psion Organiser (with an amazing 8k of memory!).
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