Years back they were talking about eyepieces with interfaces that could be controlled by eye movements...whatever happened to those?
Spoilers The Flash - Season 5
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I think everyone laughed at the wearers
Though I assume you're talking about devices such as the Google Glass which hit issues such as privacy and safety amongst other concerns.
Just a idea but if Meta powers can be accessed through tech, which is something i'm not quite sure I understand maybe their is a backlash in the future against tech so maybe future cell phones aren't advanced or even used like it is today. Or maybe it's something of a mix were maybe the rich have access to tech but the poor no longer have that access.
Jason
Jason
I've never used them, so what's the privacy issue? That other people can see what you're looking at?I think everyone laughed at the wearers
Though I assume you're talking about devices such as the Google Glass which hit issues such as privacy and safety amongst other concerns.
Safety I can see, but we already have people wandering the streets with their faces in their phones, oblivious to their surroundings...never mind people driving while using their phones.
Exactly. The underlying tech changes, but the human interface stays the same, as in my keyboard example. A gesture-based computer interface like swiping on smartphones is simple and straightforward enough that it's likely to endure well into the future, and indeed many portrayals of futuristic holographic displays, from Minority Report to Nora's wrist-top computer in episodes 2-3 of the season, have shown that kind of gestural interface still in use. (Indeed, I think Minority Report showed it before it caught on in real life.)
It's the tech that has the powers, because it's imbued with dark matter. Spencer wasn't a metahuman; it was her phone that had the hypnotic effect on people. And Cicada's dagger absorbs people's powers. I'm guessing Cicada has a bit of shrapnel from the satellite embedded in his chest and that the dagger is another fragment of the satellite, so that he and the dagger are linked.
Okay I think I get it. It's kind of like using a app to get a super power. But can someone access more than one power on a phone?
Jason
Also, I think, in regard to the phone itself, Nora was mostly just excited to have a present from her dad. Though, getting a piece of throwback technology can be fun too. Imagine traveling back to the 1980s and getting a cassette walkman as a present. You would probably enjoy playing around with it even though you're used to CDs and Mp3s.
No, presumably each object contaminated by the dark-matter-infused debris from the satellite will have its own unique power, just like every person affected by dark matter has their own unique power. Cicada's dagger does one thing, Spencer's phone does another, whatever object the team encounters in the next episode will have yet another power, and so on. The same power-of-the-week formula they've been using for 4 years, just with objects now instead of people. Which might give it a similar flavor to Warehouse 13 or The Librarians, both shows about hunting down objects-of-the-week that had dangerous powers.
No more while wearing Google glass you could invade the privacy of other people as you walked down the street for example filming other people without them being aware.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/mar/06/google-glass-threat-to-our-privacy
Okay that makes sense. The example I would have went with was "The Lost Room." Sounds like a fun idea. I can already see a black market type of situation happening.
Jason
It seems to be a pretty common trope. There was also Friday the 13th: The Series, which had nothing to do with its namesake movie series but was about hunting down cursed objects.
This is kind of like saying "gotta sell those pans" because Iris was making pancakes in the episode... I really don't think there was anything sponsory about the use of phones in this episode, if they really wanted a stealth marketing campaign they would have used newer phones...
Considering that the whole episode was basically about an evil phone, I don't think phone companies would've been keen to sponsor it.
I wonder if we're going to end up with some sort if predestination loop in which Iris disables Nora's powers because she knows it will lead to exactly these circumstances (including, eventually, Nora saving Barry).
Although, predestination aside, it makes a lot of sense to disable powers until a person fully reaches adulthood. I'm not sure what to make of Nora feeling that her sense of identity had been violated, though. Does she have a point, or is she just blaming Iris for a somewhat normal sense of teenage isolation or lack of belonging?
Although, predestination aside, it makes a lot of sense to disable powers until a person fully reaches adulthood. I'm not sure what to make of Nora feeling that her sense of identity had been violated, though. Does she have a point, or is she just blaming Iris for a somewhat normal sense of teenage isolation or lack of belonging?
This is kind of like saying "gotta sell those pans" because Iris was making pancakes in the episode... I really don't think there was anything sponsory about the use of phones in this episode, if they really wanted a stealth marketing campaign they would have used newer phones...
haven't watched the episode yet if there's any IT related sponsorship/stealth marketing on the Flash it's very subtle and in the past when they've shown smart phones it's been a variety of them.
Bit more of it Arrow where they have Dell monitors everywhere.
I saw an episode of something within the past week (maybe a Daredevil episode) where a character was holding a phone handset at an awkward angle that clearly displayed the Cisco Systems logo to the camera.
Except that the show literally has a smart phone as a sponsor. Don’t know if Nora happened to be using the same model, but the point is that the show wouldn’t bad-mouth smart phones if they have a smart phone company as a sponsor.This is kind of like saying "gotta sell those pans" because Iris was making pancakes in the episode... I really don't think there was anything sponsory about the use of phones in this episode, if they really wanted a stealth marketing campaign they would have used newer phones...
Again -- the episode was about an evil hypnotic smartphone.
The phone wasn't evil.
Team Flash should have kept it to reign in other metas and meta objects.
Team Flash should have kept it to reign in other metas and meta objects.
