TVs are soon going to be able to read your moods

Just imagine what life would be like if your television set could work out how you were feeling and offer you programmes that it thinks you might be in the mood to watch. Sounds a bit on the crazy side doesn’t it?

Well even if it does, according Ashley High field, the UK Managing Director of Microsoft the “smart” television sets in the not too distant future will be “naturally intuitive” and will do just that.

They will be able to interact with you, analyze your facial expressions, your body movements and gestures and by taking into account programmers you’ve watched in the past, they will offer up content for you so that you don’t have to channel flick.

Wow! Me, I can’t wait for that, even for the sheer novelty factor.

“Within 5 to 10 years, it is inevitably that television will be controlled much more naturally. It will be more intuitive, like the Xbox, following body movement and facial recognition like project natal.” Mr Highfield told the Daily Telegraph.

In Project Natal you interact with “Milo” a virtual character in the computer who will chat back to you just as a normal person would. Milo will recognize your face, greet you by name, and detect changes in your facial expressions and in the tone of your voice.

“TV will increasingly go that way,” said Mr Highfield.

“This is certainly the last generation that will have a remote control”.

I have no problems ditching the remote, always losing it anyway. What’s really exciting about the Project Natal kind of technology though is how it could change everything about our lives. This really is ground breaking stuff.