Colour Me Sincere
Texting is so wonderful.
Read that one way, and I'm a sarcastic jerk. Read it another, and I'm an earnest techophile.
Mere typed words can't convey subtext, but Nokia is looking to change that. The Finnish communicator recently filed a patent for a system that will tell your friends how you were feeling as you were leaving a text, or voice message - and it'll be done through colour. As your friend is reading your words, an LED in their phone will glow accordingly to how you feel, (or at the very least what you told the computer you were feeling at the time).
This brings about a new level of digital communication of course, involving sarcasm, passive aggressiveness, even lust. The next stage is when the computer itself will read your mood and convey your emotion without your having to tell it how you feel.
It makes me a little nervous when we start conveying all of our emotions through our gadgets. (If only you could read what I was really thinking when I typed that sentence just now...)
