domingo, dezembro 18, 2005

O verdadeiro choque tecnológico

Millions of women have breast implants. They used to be based mainly on silicone until there was a health scare and they moved over to using bags of saline solution. More recently, the health scares seem to have gone away, and silicone is starting a comeback. So why not still use a combination of silicone and other plastics in the implant, but do something useful with them? One implant could house a range of gadgetry such as an MP3 player and the other store the woman’s entire music collection – we call this concept mammary memory!

Estas palavras provêm de um artigo de Ian Pearson, um futurólogo da empresa BT Laboratories, publicado no jornal sensacionalista britânico The Sun, que descreve o projecto de um implante em silicone, com MP3 integrado. Numa mama fica o leitor, na outra o dispositivo de memória (mamária!) que guarda a colecção das músicas.

Para os mais interessado(a)s fica aqui o artigo integral.