I just watched Old Dogs a couple of weeks ago and although I was not particularly enthralled with John Travolta and Robin Williams, much more by the story, I could say that there are still some interesting parts of the story. Say, for example, the part where Robin Williams pretended to be the king and his daughter, the princess. Robin Williams is being manipulated by John Travolta via a gear that the latter was wearing. Every flinch, every movement that he does, Williams automatically does, too. I figured, this could be possible someday, but are we really gonna use it to control other people? Just then, WIND answered the question for me.

WIND is the latest in robot technology. WIND, which stands for Wireless Intelligent Network Device, is the brainchild of fuRo (Future Robotics Technology Center). It is a device that you wear on your body and looks like something from the laboratory center of the hospital. It has several points of control, mostly on joints, and transmits every movement that the person wearing it does to a robot. Now, you need not carry heavy luggage since the robot can do it for you - all you have to do is to act it out.

WIND uses SiP chip, a fully functional computer on a single semiconductor.

Whether or not WIND will actually be useful in the future is very hard to tell. Let's wait at what the Japanese will come up with.

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