1. The Fish of Lijiang
It is impressing that even the sky and weather is fake and controlled in the fiction. But instead of letting it be always blue and sunny, it will be cool if the weather can reflect people’s emotion. I read about a lamp that reflect weather by changing its color, and similar design can be applied to the fake weather built in the story. When the mayor feels happy, sun shines bright in the sky; when he/she is angry, storm comes. It’d be an interesting design but may cause problem if the weather controller is in a bad mood everyday for a month.
2. Newton’s Sleep
A 4D projection technology like holography display that presents a realistic scene in just an empty room. It can be used in history class where students can leave the texts and the 2D images in books, and step in the lively scenes of historical events. The image projected is not only 3D(looks spatial and real), but also audience can smell, feel, hear it. And if one person touches a projected item, the item reacts. The scenes would be so impressive that students don’t need lots of efforts and time to memorize information for history class. However, since what students see is a surrounding image, what they perceive is very different. They may focus on things that are not important or get distracted. On the other hand, in the situation in the novel, there maybe debate on whether kids should immerse themselves in what’s in the past.
3. The Winter Market
If there is a device that can read people’s mind that not only transfer it into digital signals or data, but to turn people’s imagination into visual videos, designers can convery their ideas about protorype easily, and there is less misunderstanding. After all, designers are either challenged to be a good painter or model builder to express what they are thinking even though they have brilliant ideas in their head. And simply by saying is also hard. And artist can also skip the step to draw or recording images, saving time and money to produce a movie or audio-visual art. But the problem may appear that people’s privacy is exposed to a dangerous position that with this kind of invention, we can easily tell if someone is lying. In addition, people who are employed in film-making and art-making may lose their jobs.
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