Pomegranate phone

[Dave Denton]

posted on April 12th, 2010, 11:59 pm

Last edited by Dave Denton on April 13th, 2010, 12:04 am, edited 1 time in total.

    Check out the latest tech in mobile technology: Pomegranate phone

posted on April 13th, 2010, 12:27 am

Lol, a built in coffee brewer, shaver and a harmonica.? 

posted on April 13th, 2010, 12:34 am

lol that was funny

posted on April 13th, 2010, 12:45 am

pretty cool.  Other than the obvious stuff, alot of it seems like it will be realistic soon in the future.

posted on April 13th, 2010, 1:07 am

This would have been the perfect April Fool's Joke.
The coffee maker and Universal Translator were great.

posted on April 14th, 2010, 3:32 am

This is a joke, right. Tell me this is a joke. There is no bloody way this stupid little thing could do everything they claim it can. And besides who in their right mind would want some ridculous thing like this. The projector I get, that makes some sense actually. The UT is a stretch, but not out of the realm of possibility. But I draw the line at having my phone make coffee and double as my shaver (and I don't even have a cell phone; of any kind).

posted on April 14th, 2010, 3:39 am

I know, but there would be people that would buy it. especially if it had a coffee maker

posted on April 14th, 2010, 3:50 am

Actually, it's a real phone.  I have one on pre-order right now.  I hear their coffee singles are expensive, and that most of their money will come from selling the coffee, not from selling the phone itself.

posted on April 14th, 2010, 4:26 am

Well i see the universal translator as completely unbelievable actually the shaver and the harmonica is more believable than the UT. For that matter they will shrink the coffee maker before they will be able to perfect the UT.

posted on April 14th, 2010, 4:33 am

cept you have the problem of too much matter and not enough space.  no way you could fit a whole cup of water in that thing.

But you may still be right   the interface was pretty high tech.

[Dave Denton]

posted on April 14th, 2010, 8:25 am

Last edited by Dave Denton on April 14th, 2010, 2:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.

  Actually it's the GVT who will suffer the most from it's lack of "space".
I could be wrong though, maybe in the near future something that small will be able to hold that much of data on it.

posted on April 14th, 2010, 11:18 am

a lot of it is reasonable the harmonica is actually not that difficult, normal harmonicas are simple tech.

the coffee maker might be harder, but the idea isnt too hard i dont think, i do think that nobody will make a coffee maker/phone because it would be very expensive R&D for something that doesnt make life much easier.

the shaver i can see as well. maybe the vibration function could act as the driving force behind the blades

a lot of the tech exists but is in its infancy. the ability to understand speech exists, but isnt perfect. the ability to then translate this text also exists, but isnt perfect. then the ability to synthesize the voice that speaks the translation sounds funny as well. but the tech already exists, it just needs to be improved. google translate can already translate text and then speak it aloud in english. the UT as shown in the video was different from the star trek UT because it waited until the end of the sentence before translating which makes sense. the trek UT translated on the fly, which isnt plausible because word oders can change between languages, a word coming later in the sentence could change the meaning of an earlier word.