Like most men I know I hate shopping and will do my utmost to delay a trip into town. When new clothes become a necessity I go to one shop and buy everything I need for the foreseeable future. Speed and efficiency are my priorities and woes betide the eager sales assistant who tries to offer their advice.
My lovely girlfriend, on the other hand, sees shopping in an altogether different light. It is a drawn out process of trying every shop and every combination of garment to find the right look. It is not a chore but a day out to be enjoyed socially, which invariably means me trailing her around heaving high streets, offering advice on how she looks. I can manage half an hour or so but my humour is guaranteed to sour after the third or fourth shoe shop.
Last weekend was different. We were trialing the new Woobius Eye app, trying to find novel uses for the new technology. I had lost my patience somewhere on the second floor of Zara and demanded a coffee in the Nero’s down the street. We have been going out for long enough for her to know when my limits are being tested and agreed to meet in twenty minutes. She had more shoes to try on.
Off the hook and considerably more relaxed I settled down with my coffee and the papers. A gentle buzz in my pocket from my iphone awoke me from the oasis of calm and revealed an invitation from Laura to share an image on Woobius Eye. There she was in the changing cubicle a line of shoes and skirts hanging on the rail. ‘Does this look ok?’ appeared on the screen ‘What about this belt?’ ‘Looks great’ I replied, adding, with a great big arrow,’but I prefer that one.’
Amazing. I had managed to offer my constructive advice, reclining in a sofa, without having to even open my mouth. The future is indeed a little brighter.
A girl shopping is a novel use for the Woobius Eye and the mind boggles at the thought of 6 girlfriends all offering their advice from assorted locations around the world. What the story really reveals is the huge potential the Eye has in fundamentally changing the way people are able to communicate to each other by supplementing verbal communication with real time visual communication.
When one recognizes that statement the potential for use is vast. Just off the top of my head I can think of quite obvious applications in the education sector, (remote teaching), the health industry.( remote diagnosis for GP’s), archeology,(identifying objects on site) photographers, crash investigators, forensic policing, film crews, engineers on oil rigs….. You get the picture. I even have a farmer friend who intends to make it an integral part of his ditch digging programme.
Essentially Woobius Eye benefits anyone who works in ‘the field’ and needs to share data, either for expert advice, or approval of a decision, with a head office anywhere else in the world. A natural progression of this thinking is for the general public to benefit from the expert advice of specialists wherever they may be. I can imagine a large utility company using it as part of their customer support service.
My boiler, for instance, was playing up recently and I had a lengthy and at times incomprehensible chat with a gruff northern engineer who was trying to sort the problem out. I couldn’t really understand his instructions and he couldn’t understand my inadequate description of the problem. Had we both had Woobius Eye to hand we could have cut the conversation to five minutes.
Woobius Eye clearly has a multitude of uses in every sector of life one can think of. Our problem is we don’t believe we have thought of all them. The list is long, but could be longer, so if any you can think of more applications for the Woobius Eye please do get in contact and post a message below.
