Wall-E is a movie produced by Pixar and Walt Disney. This movie starts with a state of the earth that has been paralyzed and uninhabited. While other human lives in a plane that made by BnL company, its called Axiom, where the plane is facilitated by robots who always serve humans. In all the land, there is only one living creature on earth, it is Wall-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter - Earth - Class), a small robot which has the task to clean up garbage on earth. At first, Wall-E has a big population with the same function, but after a fairly long life, Wall-E eventually just left one and became the only living creature on earth.

Once, when Wall-E was at work, he found a plant in the garbage. It holds one of the Earth to be habitable again. Someday, there was a robot that came from Axiom, she is EVE which has the task to search any flora on earth. Wall-E falls in love at first sight with EVE. When EVE has seen plants that found by Wall-E, the plant directly go into EVE’s body and EVE become non-active. EVE eventually taken back to the Axiom and Wall-E follows EVE up to Axiom.

Captain in Axiom is very happy because there is hope for return to Earth. However, there is a robot that don’t like about that news, it is AUTO. AUTO does not want to come back to earth because he was already holding humanity in the Axiom. How are the captain’s effort to come back to earth ?

I don't want to survive.. I want to live.

Now, i want to talk about the technologies that used in Wall-E movie. In this movie there are some elements of the technology, it is the AI. AI (Artificial Intelligence) is defined as an artificial intelligence entity. In this movie, AI is shown with Wall- E robot that has the task to clean up the garbage on earth. AI’s capabilities is depend on their programmer. AI also have a human’s feelings like Wall - E and EVE do, even the AI can also turn out to be evil like AUTO.

The other element is Human Computer Interaction (HCI). When we develop robots, HCI is important because it was instrumental for the study of how humans can interact with the robot. In this movie, HCI demonstrated in Axiom when humans gives commands to the robot. Instruction is done by an online system, it’s mean when humans perform an input (command), the robot directly respond to the action of the command (output). Human input is performed by pressing a button, and a voice command through a motion. While the resulting output is an real action like deliver food to the humans, told the daily schedule, and any kind like all activities commonly performed by humans. 

Ubiquitous Computing was also present in this movie. Ubiquitous is often called ubicomp. It can be defined as a method that aims to provide a set of computer for the physical environment of the user with a high degree of effectiveness but with visibility levels as low as possible. Someone who is using ubicomp devices will not feel they 're accessing a computer. 

Wall-E movie is not only funny and touching, but also contains some elements of science and technology. From this movie we can learn how humans and computers interact. AI element can be found in this movie, which is how artificial intelligence can be invested in a robot. The robot is given the AI to perform a specific task. This movie is recommended to watch with family, especially with children because it provides lessons to save the earth. 

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Well, now I want to make a video review, the title is "Future Store". I get this video from my lecturer in my college and I want to tell you about that video.

This video explains about the various new technologies that will be realized in the future. That technologies are Smart Fridge, Smart Washing Machine, Electronic shopping List, and Future Store. These technologies are related each other. For example, smart fridge that examine any kind of products out of stock in the fridge and send it to the electronic shopping list for the grocery list. 

One of technology that makes me interested, is Future Store. In the future, this store will be have several from these techologies, such as, Future card. This card storing our personal information and a list of groceries that had been stored in an electronic shopping list in advance. There is a censor that reads our information from the card. Second technology is Smart Selves. This technology is designed to simplify the employees’s work in the store because there is a censor that can capture which products are out of stock. Then the employees will have that information in their cell phone, so they can re-arrange the products in the selves as soon as they can. I like this technology because it can give the information to employee and do re-arrange the sold product faster. Third, Smart Information Terminal. This technology can provide information on a product and there are a lot of menus that can be selected for the product. The information that we get can be sent directly to our mobile phone by phone number that has been saved on the future card. Beside it, we can see directions to arrive at the place of the product and it will be display everywhere. There is also an advertising display for the product we were looking for. Fourth, Smart scales with RFID. In this technology, RFID get the seller’s information like his/her name with censor that available in their watches. Fifth is Smart Trolley. This one is really impressed me. Smart trolley automatically recognizes it’s content and making it easier for us to remember what items have not been purchased. There is a monitor in the trolley and it can display any items in there. Sixth, Smart Dressing Room. If we want to try on clothes, we do not need to use it immediately. With this technology, we put that clothes in a certain place and there is a censor that capture it, so we are like using that clothes in front of the mirror. And if we wanna buy it, we just send that item to our electronic shopping list. Seventh, Smart Mirror. We can try the cosmetic there, with several options that we can choose like foundation, lipstick, eyeshadow, and mascara. We can choose the products and print the photos, then we can send the products that we choose to the electronic shopping list. But, i think this technology is bit useless because we can't choose which cosmetic that we want and we can't feel it in our skin or face directly so we don't know if that product suitable with our skin or not. And the last one is Future Check-Out. In this technology, goods and prices are automatically registered. So, the cashier does not need to take any item to see the price. I think this technology is very helpful because we don't need to waiting the cashier scan our goods to calculate the prices.

And if you wanna watch the video, here it is ..

For me this video is very inspiring. There is also a new technology that we get, it is RFID. At first I haven’t understood what RFID is until I browsing about that.  And finally I got it. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is the wireless non-contact use of radio-frequency electromagnetic field to transfer data, for the purposes of automatically identifying and tracking tags attached to objects. The tags contain electronically stored information. Some tags are powered by and read at short ranges (a few meters) via magnetic fields (electromagnetic induction). Others use a local power source such as a battery, or else have no battery but collect energy from the interrogating EM field, and then act as a passive transponder to emit microwaves or UHF radio waves (i.e., electromagnetic radiation at high frequencies). Battery powered tags may operate at hundreds of meters. Unlike a bar code, the tag does not necessarily need to be within line of sight of the reader, and may be embedded in the tracked object.

In my opinion, using RFID tags in grocery store is very useful. As we know, long checkout lines at the grocery store are one of the biggest complaints about the shopping experience. Soon, these lines could disappear when the Universal Product Code(UPC) bar code is replaced by smart labels, also called radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. RFID tags are intelligent bar codes that can talk to a networked system to track every product that you put in your shopping cart.RFID tags are an improvement over bar codes because the tags have read and write capabilities. Data stored on RFID tags can be changed , updated and locked . Some stores that have begun using RFID tags have found that the technology offers a better way to track merchandise for stocking and marketing purposes. Through RFID tags, stores can see how quickly intervening the products leave the shelves and the which shoppers are buying them .

RFID tags are already used in major countries in the world such as America, the Philippines, Hong Kong, etc. RFID tags are very helpful in terms of tracking and reading information. For example, the I - Pass system in Illinois and also South Luzon Expressway E - Pass in the Philippines are already using RFID tags for their electronic toll collection. The tags read vehicles pass the toll gate as soon as possible and that information can use to discharge their toll account. It is of course can make the traffic in the toll gates less than traffic commonly. Other examples such as seismic sensors could be read using RFID transceivers, so it will simplifying remote data collection. And in terms of security, RSA Security already has a prototype tools that can locally to download the RFID signal clock. It allows a person will be able to avoid identification .

Conclusion :

By using RFID tags on a technology is very helpful in our life . RFID tags can read the information from technology that has been using RFID tags , so the RFID tags can be used for example in the grocery stores, toll gates , and in the human body as well . However, due to the high price of RFID , just few countries that are already using RFID tag. Besides having a highly sophisticated functions , RFID also has some disadvantages, such as RFID tags could be read by others without the owner's permission.

References :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-frequency_identification

http://teknikinformatika-esti.blogspot.com/2012/01/pengertian-rfid-radio-frequency.html

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Hello.. Haaiii everybodiihhhh...
uhh i haven't been writing in this blog for 3 years i guess. There are many story that i don't share yet in this blog and i am missing with this blog actually. Lol...
well, i am trying to use english in my blog because "huh hah huh hah" english is sooooo important to me lately. Since i was in SarMag (Sarjana Magister), i have a responsibility to be an extraordinary person. hahahha i don;t know what i am talking about exactly ._.
Anyway, this is my first post in english and my first post after about 3 years. so, i am sorry if there is maaaannnyyy mistakes in here.hihi..
i am trying to use english because my thesis will be present in english and if i wanna go abroad i must good in english to.
oh yaaa... besides i am busy with my task from my college and courses, alhamdullillah my team pass the first stage in pkm. Do you know pkm? yap,,, Program Kreativitas Mahasiswa (I hope i am correct) haha.. and my team will make a program english education for student in elementary school. My jobs in there is draw 4 categorys, and there is 15 pictures in each category. its mean, i must draw 60 pictures. so, i feel very tired and you know, i am not the person who like drawing sooo huh i am trying very hard to draw that pictures. and i have been drawing for 3 weeks and i think the result is so-so. Well, i wanna put that picture, mm i mean my first project picture. yap. and if you dont like with the picture, you can just look at that for a second and just let it flow. haha... i am just kidding. if you have any comment for that picture you can comment in this blog and thank you for read my blog ^.^

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