D: Maybe you could ask your the
D: you could ask the engineering department if we can C: Mm-hmm .
A: Yeah . A good good good thing .
B: But uh A: You want to g to move to your slides ?
C: Yeah , that's right , yeah .
A: You're finished ?
B: Well I just I just made the point ,
B: I don't I don't know if that speech recognition is , you know , even if we can do it , I think it's not really appropriate for uh television environment .
A: Yeah I think so .
B: But um I did have one thing from a previous meeting ,
B: you were talking about um being able to find the remote control
D: Yeah .
B: and I was talking about extendin being able to extend the remote control by having you know , a base station that can control other things as well .
A: Mm-hmm .
B: It might be useful to have some kind of base station ,
B: even if it's just you press on a button on it and uh and the remote control starts beeping , you know , this is a way of finding the remote .
B: Y in that case maybe the maybe the speech recognition the speech thing could be useful just to say I'm here
A: Mm .
A: Exactly yeah .
B: but uh it's probably a bit of overkill if you could just have a a beeping C: C: So it's a speech synthesis kind of thing ,
C: something has been uh stored and it's just uh spoken out .
B: It's speech B: It's it's speech synthesis and s it's speech kind of , not really speech recognition , but kind of pattern matching , yeah
C: Mm-hmm .
A: Oh , good idea .
C: Yeah . That's right .
B: yeah .
A: Very good .
A: Okay , let's move on .
A: So you're two ?
C: That's right .
A: Okay .
C: So this is going to be about the component design .
A: Mm-hmm .
C: So first thing is we need power source for the remote control .
C: So I was of the idea that we can have two kind of power supplies ,
C: one is the usual batteries which are there ,
C: they could be chargeable batteries if there's a basis station kind of thing
C: and on top of that we can have solar cells ,
C: when the lighting conditions are good they can be used so it'll be pretty uh innovative kind .
C: Then uh we need plastic with some elasticity so that if your if the remote control falls it's not broken directly into pieces ,
C: there should be some flexibility in t
B: I guess that fits in with the spongy kind of design philosophy .
A: Yeah .
C: Yeah .
C: So there should C: we should think of something like that
C: and then it should be double curve .
C: The s science for the ease of handling and there are some other issues why we need double curve .
C: Then controls
C: for the traditionals u traditional users we can have the push buttons so that they don't feel that it's an alien thing for them .
B: So , just one second ,
B: when you say double curve , what do you actually mean ?
B: You reckon you could like draw us a thing on the , on the whiteboard
C: Double curve is , you have curves on both the sides if I'm right .
B: 'cause I'm not sure C: So it's symmetrical kind of thing , whatever it is .
B: Okay ,
B: but like , kind of convex or concave ?
C: So , it could be curve , so it could be convex , conve concave , depending on what what we want .
A: B: Mm-hmm .
B: Okay .
A: C: So there are flats , there are single curve and there are double curves .
B: Okay .
C: These are the three things ,
C: and there are different materials ,
C: with plastic you can have double curve but with uh certain other materials we cannot have double curve .
C: So there there was uh there were many other materials like wood , titanium and all those things ,
C: but plastic is I think is the most appropriate one ,
A: Yeah .
C: it'll bring the cost down
C: and anyway it's B: Although , you know , wood could be uh quite a stylish uh option ,
B: if you take like , nice quality kind of wood that's got a nice grain and you kind of put some , some varnish on .
A: Mm but i
A: but there is no elasticity
A: which could be C: Wooden cases B: Well it depends ,
B: I mean , you have the outs the wood itself is not gonna break
B: so you don't have to worry too much about the case being broken ,
A: Yeah but the components inside .
B: it's the inside .
B: Yeah but inside you know you could have you can still have some kind of cushioning that's not visible to the to the user .
C: Mm-hmm .
A: Yeah .
A: Very too expensive to do .
C: Mm-hmm .
D: Yeah .
B: And I mean you could also , you can have just a very thin veneer of wood as well .
A: And also uh A: Yeah but it's more easier to do a banana in plastic than uh in wood .
B: That's true ,
B: but are we set on the banana idea ?
C: D: Actually
A: Well it look like A: it looks like you are all targeting that
D: I was thinking that the
B: A: yeah ?
D: the shape of a banana is not it's not really handy .
A: Yes it is .
D: Uh I don't know the name o o in English uh D: This C: Is it an e apple which has