Thursday, July 16, 2009

Are we really in communication era???

Lots and lots of talk is happening nowadays about the communication era we are in.
Mobile phone companies are continuously slashing their call rates, new technologies are coming day by day.
SMS and other services like voice messaging has been the order of the day and probably now our generation cannot imagine to spend even a single day without these gadgets.
Also worth to mention the video transmission. A cricket match taking place in South Africa can be transmitted miles away without any hassle. But do you think this is saturation of the communication technology....according to you can it get any further???

Hmmm....Many of u might be tempted to say that the present technology has to evolve a lot. Then probably you might think of bandwidth, resolution, channels etc etc how it can be improved....Isn't it?
In fact I also feel that these should improve....
Now start flexing your Grey cells and think can something revolutionary happen in this field?
Something very new? Mostly you would have thought on either sound or vision processing lines...

Now lets start the blog on my thinking here onwards...
First of all what is communication? According to me it is any mode through which human senses can be transmitted over distances. So today if we can send sound over distances it is communication or if we can send visible light miles away it is communication. So if I send smell or taste or touch tomorrow by wire would it not be called communication? If we can transmit any of the human senses over wire would it not be called communication?
Imagine a world where such devises are there. So your mom can cook tasty matar paneer and you can taste the same by wire at some distant place....Or probably you are missing your partner's touch. He/She caresses "TOUCH" transmitter and you receive his/her touch and the same sensation is produced at your place. Or probably you are missing some smell...like the smell of first rain and people at your home transmitted it through the SMELL transmitter and you got lost into your childhood memory...
Sounds like a fable or fairy tale but believe me this is very possible.
Let me explain how. Lets take the example of light. We can produce any color by the combination of three primary colors namely Red Blue and Green. So this is the principle behind any light transmission method. Now we need a device which can convert this light into electrical signals. We have CCD sensors for that. Next we transmit it through wire, satellite or whatever electrical mode we want. At the receiver end we have television which has again the primary color matrix and it shows the picture same to same what was captured by the CCD(Neglecting Noise). So now consider the same for our smell transmission. In principle we need to find few elementary smells which when mixed in different proportion can make any smell. Now we need a transducer that reacts to different smell in different fashion. Like some membrane which gets affected by smell(In fact we do have such membranes. Google for more details). Transfer it electronically. At the end have smell receiver which will have spray cartridges having different primary smells. And the machine determines how much of which cartridge needs to be released.
And your favorite smell is right here, in your room in front of you.....
Same type of fundamental can apply to touch and taste as well....

So we are at present scoring 2 out of 5 and that too not fully(Refer the figure). So do you still think that we are in the communication era??

PS:- Any comments about the sixth sense transmission guys??
Note:- This is author's original idea so you can cheat if you want aas I am too lazy and reluctant to think further on these line....;)(Do not forget to pay the royalty though)