Momenta – A PC designed to wrap itself around your neck
Ah, next-gen PCs. Microsoft’s Next-Gen PC Design Competition’s a great idea in the first place – encouraging inventors to push the limits of what PCs are capable of. The Momenta PC design, though, is something else. Like some prop off a Star Trek show, it looks like some metal symbiote around your neck and has some rather disturbing features as well.
Gizmodo writer Matt Buchanan says there are ‘a million ways this is nothing but trouble’. You might agree with him seeing as the device’s entire purpose is to capture important moments of your life by recording them. No, not quite the way a tape recorder does. See, it’ll be able to detect when your heart rate goes up and it will then record whatever seems to be the cause of that until you tell it to stop.
The Momenta PC is a finalist in Microsoft’s Next-Gen PC Design Competition that you strap to your neck. It records your whole life in an active buffer until it detects your heart rate going up. Then it really turns on, and records whatever’s making you excited until you tell it to stop, so you can check it out later, Cloverfield-style. Or green, poorly lit raccoon-eye-style of a night you actually didn’t want to remember. Or…okay there’s about a million ways this is nothing but trouble. Something triggered by increased heart rate? Will we really want to go there?
Running on Microsoft’s new small operating system, SLIM, it is an interesting application of wearable gadgetry. There’s even 700 MHz Wi-Fi built into this as well as what the inventor calls a ‘projected touch-gesture’ interface. But the inventor might just earn a place writing comedy as he states one possible scenario of the machine thus: "Use of this computer will likely reduce the incidence of violent crimes and provide a visible crime deterrent as evildoers become aware that they will be caught in the act."
I predict that someone will already be prophesying the coming of the apocalypse with this one – oh, no, a machine to stamp the number of the beast onto everyone! The machine’s Big Brother capabilities aside, this is a rather ingenious design that certainly grabs attention. In a worst-case scenario, at least the next installment of the Star Trek television series will have a great prop prototype.
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