Seventh Heaven

Recently went to a very simplified motorshow and all the beauty of these motorshow is that we get a change to go into the cars without the salesman tagging along at yr side. Oh yes, some did but not many.
Anyway that is not my point.

What surprised me is that we are even allow to sit into 2nd hand relatively new top of the range lexus and bmw. Which is something not experienced in other motorshows.

I mean those cars, though used, are meant to be sold as it is and they allow people to sit, touch, play, jump, wrestle in it. Okay, i am exagerating but u get my point.

So us the group of blokes who couldnt afford the 7 series went to try the 7 series. Which made me recall intimate experience with a 7 series a while ago.

The 7 series is a very smart car. So smart that it does little things for you. For example, in a normal car, when u dont use enough force to close the door, u reopen and close it properly again. In a 7 series, the car will sense the the doors are not tight and tighten it for u thru a host of electronic features.

Boot access and closure is a press of button either at the driver seat / at the boot itself or using the remote instead of physically swinging the boot downwards. Parking brake activated by a button beside steering wheel rather than using hand or foot. Perhaps it is called the finger brake in the 7 series.

Activate steering steers half the steering movement at twice the speed n twice the steering direction at half the speed depending on yr speed.

Which makes me think that if u let one who drives a 7 series everyday drive a normal car, how well can the person drive it? He will be looking for the button to disengage the parking brake, triggering the alarm when he wants  to close the boot, high beam other people when he wants to get the car moving and probably driving with his doors half closed (if he finally get the car going, that is).


Isn't it brilliant? Now you dun even have to take your hands off the steering wheel while you change gear?

Bian Ta You - Must Ta Brake

I finally got a chance to drive a bmw 5 series and experience personally the hearsay of how high tech bmw cars is. (Yes, I have never driven a BMW until now) There is no doubt it is a very intelligent car but the question is that is it too intelligent for certain people.

The i-drive has been criticised for being too complicatd for towkays and people of that level (read: age). Putting this group of people aside, even i myself find some difficulty to navigate the already simplied i-drive. Yes, perhaps the best way to use the idrive is to ignore it altogether. Perhaps idrive (interactive drive) has a new symbolic meaning  already: ignore-drive(ing) pleassure.

Then there are a host of other features like cruise control, climate control, sensors everywhere, air bags all round and the list goes on and on.

The car may be smart but what happens if someone other than the driver need to drive the car. Pass the car keys to a newbie valet and i bet it would take him at least 5 mins before he can at least move the car.

Which is not good when there is an emergency or when there is a need to start the car immediately. Which is not good too for first time bmw driver.

Just look at its evil grin....

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Once again on massage chairs.

Just been to an Oto outlet recently. For those that are not too familar with these sort of health care industry, Oto is a competitor of Osim and they have been around for, to my knowledge, as long as osim.

My parents is interested to get a massage pillow (those that knock your back while you sit on it). We went into this outlet in IMM. While the very professional sales person is talking to my parents, i hop ard the store like a small kid trying all sorts of massage chairs and other small devices they have. Rather childish i must admit but come on, how often u get to go into one of these shops and the salesman dont lock their eyes at you and following you where ever you go. I was fortunate enough to be in such a situation on that day.

Apart from the massages chars, they also have all these smaller (read: more cost effective) products like the big foot, uzap, etc etc.

Which made me think if they are trying to develop their product in such a way that if you put all these functional products together, you sort of get a complete massage chair. Nevermind the cost and disintegration, what matters is that IT CAN BE DONE!

So if you hate concepts like instalments or borrowing money just to buy the full massage chair that cost thousands of dollars, you now do have another alternative of buying each part, paid in full and then buy the next part when u have the money and then perhaps after you got all the parts you just intergrate them together.

How about that?

Bad Hair(cut) Day

While having my haircut today at my usual chain of retails haircut stores, they had a screen to keep you entertained becos hairdresser now doesn't really talk to you.

It is not hard to see why though. With all ages of people flocking to these store, it is hard to find a perfect fit hairdresser-customer for the conversation topic to start. So how? Hairdressers start talking to each other (even when the hairdresser is executing a difficult cut) while the poor customer is left alone there, praying hard that the hairdresser does not cut a hole in the beloved hair

The company apparently is aware of this problem but because of the nature of human, they are not able to completely eliminate it. Therefore they brilliantly improvised the situation and place a small LCD TV in front of the customer so that customer can 'sort of' be entertained with commercials. (Brilliant, as the company gets revenue too)

Speaking of commercials, i saw this o-something massage chair with this infra sensors that you put in front of you near your abdomen for some reason.

I could help but think of the first massage chair that i have seen. The first generation message chair is just a chair with some electrical mechanism inside the leather chair. Then they added the legrest portion, and then the armrest portion, and later the music synochornisation and improved with a av synchonisation.

What's next?

Someday they would have added enough things till around you till yr massage chair becomes a spaceship wrapped around you where you could indulge in the ultimate relaxation experience. It could probably take you into another dimension right in the comfort of your own home.

Any taker?

7 yo can steal yr car and drive better than you in the future

I received this email a couple of days ago about the new mercedes SCL concept car. With the images (below), there are some provoking phrase which i thought i will share it here.

'Imagine a 7 year old stealing yr car and drive it better than you.' Of course they did not talk about the racing and crashing part becoz that is what computer games is all about.

However, look at how the high tech cars are now. I have just watch review videos that the new lexus LS range being able to parallel park itself, keep within the lane all by itself. It probably have radar guided cruise control, so if the car can drive and park itself, why is the driver there for? If this is the case, why not just program the car to transport you from point A to point B at a push of a button?

Lazy People Rejoice...






 

This is the part: You drive the car with a joystick.
Imagine a 7 year old stealing yr car and drive it better than you.