To Listen With Your Eyes

While sorting out files to keep or throw out with the closing of Multiply soon, I came across this old Blog I wrote in 2007. I find myself wondering again, for countless time since that Blog was posted, just why there's no more news or even casual talk about this new invention. Has that idea died a premature death?

 

** Listen With Your Eyes - 20th Nov. 2007 **

 

The advancement of technology never stops to surprise, amaze and excite.To help people with hearing difficulties, films and TV programmes usually put on subtitles, with 2 lines on the lower corner of the screen, one for the dialogue, and the other brief information of the scene. For many this results in the necessity to concentrate too much on this corner, distracting from seeing the film or even miss out scenes. It certainly bothers me, even though I am not deaf and have no need to look at the subtitles.

This inconvenience seems to have been dealt with now. A team of investigators/researchers, of the University Carlos 111 of Madrid, has found a solution. Eyeglasses. These are incorporated with liquid crystal of 320 x 240 pixels on the right lens, on which the subtitles appear, seen only by the wearer. They work with batteries that last 3 hours, connected to a cigarette sized box which fits easily in a pocket.

The subtitles can be sent to several spectators at the same time according to the director of the project, Jose Manuel Sanchez Pena, of the Department of Electronic Technology of the University Carlos 111, responsible for the investigation of the Centre of substitution and audio description, under the Ministry of work and Social matters.

Two multinational Spanish firms are interested in the prototype, to be concluded in the beginning of the next year. The initial cost of these spectacles is € 450. Obviously this price will come down once they are manufactured in an extended series. Some cinemas would each have 4 - 6 for people who wish to use them, on Borrow and Return basis.

These spectacles have already been selected by the American "Time" magazine as one of the 3 best inventions of the year, in the entertainment category. Together with an audiometer of radio and portable television, and also the film of animation 'Beowulf' of Robert Zemeckis, for his innovations of real and digital images.

Not having any experience of how audio incapacitated people hear sounds, through using the up to now generally effective hearing aids, I can't help wondering what advantages these spectacles offer, as a more convenient or better substitute. It would mean the person will have to focus not just on the screen but on the eye lens as well.

I would sure like very much to know why isn't that adding to the molestation instead of improvement.

Tags: HearingAids,Electronictechnology 

Elegance & Sexiness

A friend blogged a few days ago on the subject of feminine beauty and sexiness. I found it most refreshing to hear his opinions from a male's point of view and commented on his Blog my own thoughts and opinions. On the whole, we coincided in various points. Mainly, too many women try too hard to mask their natural looks, good or not so good, by using far too much cosmetics.

As to sexiness, that in my opinion is like elegance, there is not a lot a woman can do to acquire these by putting on any so claimed magical products, nor can she go to a beauty salon, a gymnasium or even a cosmetic surgeon to achieve sexiness or elegance. These two elements, though not necessarily inborn, are mysteriously something she either has or has not. A certain dedication and lots of in depth study could help a woman to develop such qualities if she knows well her own possibilities and limitations.

One of the biggest mistake a woman can make is thinking that if she bares her body, she looks sexy. Sure if she has a good and shapely body, showing it will definitely attract lots of attention, more to the point, basic animal lust. Much like a dog smelling out a bitch on heat.

Real sexiness is what and how much her eyes reveals, the subtle body language that tells that she IS sexy. That her looks, gestures, unvoiced words, half smiles are all inviting to exploration, and intimacy that's tender and giving. Even if she is not exactly beautiful. Too many people rush about having sex. Making love is quite something else, definitely not to be rushed.

And, elegance has very little to do with how expensive a woman's cloths are, or whether they are designer wear or not. A Valentino gown or Christian Dior dress can't give any woman elegance, which comes within a woman's being, and shows in the way she moves, walks, talks, and even when she is totally still and silent, in a cotton dress that covers her from neck to toe.

Yet ...... at the sight of her, all men would think: Wow, what a sexy woman!', and other women would be quietly green with envy.

Tags: Elegance,Sexiness,Love,Lust

She Should Have Widely Spread Out Toes & A Yellow Belly

I am making a confession here. I was eavesdropping this morning, in my regular cafe, at my usual table, to 2 Spanish guys who were talking about beauty and ugliness of a woman. It is not a habit of mine to eavesdrop, honestly. I was doing exactly what I do each morning at that cafe, nearly always by myself, reading the daily paper, sipping my coffee and, on certain mornings when the papers have all been grabbed by other customers, I usually just sit quietly. Occasionally deep in thought about nothing in particular, more often than not just let my mind wander or stay blank. It was one of those mornings. I swear I was minding my own business without the slightest interest of what's happening around me. Then ...

 

The quiet-ish conversation at the next table where the 2 guys sat suddenly got very much louder, with one of them raised his voice so much that likely the entire cafe could hear:

 

" Monse? Did you say you think Monse was beautiful? The one that works in the super? But she was ugly! How can you find her attractive, man? " he practically roared : " She is U-G-L-Y! " And he punctuated that with a peel of loud and jeering laughter.

The conversation by then was more like an argument, about the same woman and the same theme, and getting louder and louder, with one of them insisting that Monse was beautiful, attractive, sexy, warm, friendly, and the other was killing himself then laughing so much he could hardly articulate his pretest, that she was so ugly as near bordering repulsive.

 

All that went on while I got so fed up I wanted to go over and tell them the proverbial, time immemorial, and sage definition: " Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder". But that's not ladylike, and I checked myself, diverting my hearing to my own mind of silent thoughts.

 

There's no standard beauty is there? Apart from the created mold of the current specification by the fashion and commercial quarters, that today's woman must be within this to that measurement in their height, weight, shape, and size. Totally ignoring a woman's individuality, her character, her cultural background, her sense of value and humour, all such contribute to, or deduct from, a woman's beauty.

One has to consider too about who is doing the sentencing. That of the observer. If you ask a toad what his ideal female should be like, you will get the answer that she should have huge big round eyes sticking out of her head, an extremely wide and flat mouth, a yellow belly, wide spread out toes, and a dark greyish back with very coarse skin! 

Tags: yellowbelly, beauty, ugliness

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