The TV remote is gaining ground in Japan andalusia mouse
March 6, 2009 by
Filed under Technology
TOKYO – The technological rivalry between television and the computer is showing a turnaround in Japan, where most televisions have a direct connection to broadband internet and offers amazing features that leave behind most of the computers.
A grandmother receives a postcard from her granddaughter. Placing the remote on your television and immediately displayed on the screen a photograph of the child mounted on his bike.
The grandmother found the image so funny that choose to use as wallpaper for your mobile phone. Nothing easier, just put the phone on the TV remote to upload the photo.
While the computing giant Microsoft and the U.S. rely on computers, consumer electronics rivals like the Japanese Sony, put all the means in the technological development of television sets.
Most Japanese TV manufacturers Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, Hitachi, have already installed a platform, ‘AcTVila’, which allows rent videos, play games, make purchases online, rent an apartment, preparing a trip, tickets for a show, sitting comfortably on the sofa in the living room.
“For the elderly, increasing in Japan and more accustomed to the remote control of television on keyboards and computer mouse, is an advantage,” says an employee of Sony.
The real innovation comes, however, the combination of Internet access and integration, remote TV, in an integrated circuit with radio frequency identification that multiplies the possibilities.
This allows payment services in a safe, simple and fast. The viewer only has to touch the integrated circuit with a credit card or mobile phone equipped with an “electronic wallet” and the charge goes directly to your account, a method of payment already widely used in Japanese shops and transport.
The integrated circuit on the remote control can also read others’ chips’, establishing links with Internet access to personal data, names and passwords, commercial information, medical records …
Thus, the loyalty card of a shop located on the remote may appear on the screen for Store catalog with the latest promotions.
A tensiometer, a thermometer or a pedometer equipped with a ‘chip’ may send the measurements to a server for storing regularly collected in a ‘dossier’ and create medical charts of evolution, simply by bringing these items to the remote.
The command can also take the form of a touchscreen, as imagined another Japanese company, Faith.
Everything becomes more fun, the buttons are replaced by miniature icons of television, telephone, tensiometer, videos, photos, diary or an electronic book. Just then pop into some other gesture with a finger, and the technology takes care of the rest.
