In the last two week I had shared with you guys two incredible technologies that might happens in the near future and two brilliant inventions that are already exist recently. Now in the final part, I'd like introduce you two invention that will soon go into mass production, which are the Hoverbike and the Personal Robot.
5. Hoverbike
Hoverbike is a common name of any vehicle that can hover. It first appeared in the Star Wars movie series in 1977 and had quickly become the most famous sci-fic props in the world. It later appeared in Looper, The Island Movie and hundred of action video games because of its popularity.
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| In Star Wars series characters use hoverbikes lifted by repulsorlift engines |
Is The Hoverbike About To Become Reality?
If you have ever dreamed of driving on a super cool hoverbike like the hero in the movie, then you may feel excited about what I'm going to share now. In 2014, the Russian startup Hoversurf has started developing a hoverbike and finally, they officially posted up the trailer video of the world's first manned hoverbike, the Scorpion-3 in 2 months ago.
the Scorpion-3 :
When Is It Going To Be On The Market?
Good news is you don't have to wait to own a hoverbike anymore. The Aerofex Aero-X will be the world's first commercially available hoverbike when it goes on sale in this year. But since it will cost about 85,000 dollars, I will continue to walk on foot.
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| The Aerofex's hoverbike |
6. Personal Robot
Have you ever thought about having your own robot?
After the successful of the personal computers, the Japanese and French's scientist came up with the idea of the robots that useful for individuals. They worked together and gave birth to Pepper, the world's first personal robot. It not only can read emotions and react to the users but also has evolved to have emotions. We have "1000 Peppers" that were already on sale in Japan starting June 20, 2015.
Do We Really Need The Personal Robot?
It has been two year since Pepper was first introduced to the world and this very first personal robots has caused a lot of arguments. The most serious question among the scientist is that do we really need the personal robot?
Advantages And Dis advantages Of Having A Personal Robot
Peppers were made on purpose to help users deal with any problems that may happen in their everyday lives. This personal robot can learn as many languages as you want and can work for 12 hours continuously without resting. It can chat with you when you feel bored. It is very smart and knows a lot of skills. As long as you own a personal robot you will have an assistant, a staff, a translator, a teacher, a friend and even a kid as the same time!
But do you really want to have such an easy life?
(If you still feel interested about having a personal robot please don't read the paragraph below. You will hate me.)
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| illustration of putting our world in a robot hand |
Some scientists afraid that the appearance of the robots may lead to the degeneration of the human intellectually because we don't have to do anything to "survive" anymore, and that is the problem because we all learn how to be better from our mistakes. Bruce Lee once said "Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one". Can you image you life always be fine and good without any troubles? What's so interesting about a life like that?
Anyway, meet Pepper :
So it comes to the end and I have to say that I'm actually enjoy writing the articles during last 3 weeks. To choose the themes everyone might feel interested about I had seen about a hundred different studies of new technological, and it's very impressive since I never know that human beings could be so creative and talent.
If you're still interesting in any others new tech and you want me to write an article about it, please leave a comment and let me know.
The hoverbike is freaking cool. However, as far as I'm concerned, some laws should be introduced before people can use this state-of-the-art bike to commute. I also love the idea of personal robots. Recently, I have read an article about personal robots. It says that the occurrence of personal robots could deal with the aging society. In the future, robots would co-exist with elders and take care of them.
回覆刪除I have read the article about that, too. But if everyone all think that they'd better let the robot take care of them then I afraid it will lead to an even more seious problem of low birth rates.
刪除Scorpion-3 seems to be a combination of a drone and a motorcycle lol.
回覆刪除I do consider buying a hoverbike if I had enough money because it's really awesome. But I'm wondering if the speed of the hoverbike can be higher since Scorpion-3 seems slow in that video. Your opinion about the personal robot makes me think of the scenario in the movie "Wall-E". In that movie, owing to the cutting- edge technology, the only thing people have to do is lying in a sofa just like a potato. I don't want that happen in our future, either. Anyway, your last 3 articles is so interesting, and I will expect someday you could write more about it if you want:)