Immortality and body sharing

While computers get smarter, the brain-IT link will also get better, so you’ll use external IT more, until most of your mind is outside your brain. When your body dies, you’ll only lose the bits still based in the brain. Most of your mind will carry on. You’ll go to your funeral, buy an android body and carry on. Death won’t be a career problem. If you don’t want to use an android, maybe you’ll link into your friends’ bodies and share them, just as students hang out on friends’ sofas. Life really begins after death.

Augmented reality

You’ve seen films where the hero sees the world with computer generated graphics or data superimposed on their field of view. That technology area is developing very fast now and soon we will all be wearing a lightweight visor as we walk around. As well as all the stuff your phone does, it will allow you to place anything you want straight right in front of you. The streets can be full of cartoon characters, aliens or zombies. You can change how people look too, replacing them with your favourite models if you wish.

Concept Cicret bracelet

Of all the modern “smart” bracelets one of the most unusual and interesting can be called accessory Cicret. This device is an external screen for a smartphone or tablet. It is uses as a touch screen on the man’s wrist.

From the mass of existing now mobile devices Cicret must be attributed rather to the “smart” hours, although in shape and size, it is more like a simple fitness bracelet, for example, the device MiBand from a Chinese company Xiaomi.

Unlike the vast majority of “smart” hours Cicret no screen itself. Nevertheless, it may serve as an external display for your mobile device. This paradox is resolved by a small projector that is built into this bracelet.

Capacitive projector of bracelet turns in screen Human skin wrist, on whom Cicret worn. It is not about individual functions, as implemented in the modern “smart” hours, whereby you can see time, the caller’s name person to read text messages and emails. This is full a screen smartphone or tablet. Cicret reproduces all in full screen. The user can use the screen, projected on his wrist, exactly the same as the display of your smartphone – turn the pages, open applications, change settings, etc. Bracelet Cicret is absolutely waterproof. And, then, with it you can go to read the latest news in the bathroom or on the beach without fear soak mobile phone.

Cicret opens up a new era of interaction between man and his mobile device. This bracelet looks like a real device from a science fiction movie. A couple of years ago and it was impossible to dream about the imminent implementation of such technologies, and now employees of the company that developed the Cicret enjoy the test copy of this incredible “smart” bracelet.

COMPREHENSIVE CHECK

Task 1. Make sure you know what the following expressions mean, then use them to fill the gaps in the sentences below. Some of them can be used more than once. Use a dictionary if necessary.

five times stronger, projected on, to wear a wristwatch,

individual functions, high resolution, to predict the future,

external screen, reactive armour

1. The VGA connector on a laptop is used to connect to an … .

2. The concrete material found on the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun was … than modern day concrete.

3. … photos are required for sharp reproduction in our publications otherwise the printing quality is very poor.

4. Super … displays are becoming more common on Windows laptops.

5. The Times of India reports today that “In a breath-taking spectacle, Goddess Kali was … the Empire State Building in New York.”

6. Simply evaluate the … then perform the indicated multiplication or division.

7. To provide added protection, engineers have developed … .

8. Why should a modern man … when he could easily consult his phone for a quick time-check?

9. Super … displays are becoming more common on Windows laptops.

10. Some people think that dreams can … – prophecies, or sometimes called “precognitive dreams”.

Task 2. Match the hi-tech invention name with its short description.

Augmented reality Exoskeleton Active contact lenses Immortality and body sharing Cicret bracelet

This invention is also known as powered armor, that is mechanized by a system of motors. This invention gives a human the ability to live forever. The device resembles a tablet on one’s skin. A human may use this device to integrate display functionality onto a wearable device, enabling on-lens medical monitoring and heads-up displays. This device is a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are supplemented by computer-generated sensory. After a body’s death this device may help to carry on one’s life in an android body. This wearable mobile machine may enable U.S. soldiers to run faster, carry heavier weapons and leap over obstacles on the battlefield. The user is wearing it and simply flick their wrist to summon forth an Android touch-screen surface on their forearm.

Task 3. Give 4-5 antonyms to the verbs from the text.

leap	display	reproduce	carry on	deliver	change

Task 4. Describe the following inventions in your own words. Use the information from the text above if it is necessary.

Task 5. Find in the text the expressions that mean:

1. a piece of new mechanical or electronic equipment with the modern or advanced technology;

2. everlasting life;

3. to connect to someone’s body, use it or occupy;

4. to spend time in a particular place or with particular people;

5. enlarged physical existence;

6. pictures that are made using a computer;

7. settle or find a solution to a problem, which consists of two parts that seem to mean the opposite of each other;

8. a new historical period with a particular character or feature;

9. the activity of being with and talking to other people and electronic devices.