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Review: WALL-E (2008)

Last Wednesday, me and my beloved classmates watched this movie. We felt the euphoria together, sad together, cry together, and just kidding :p

To the point, my lecturer asked us to watch and pay attention the film. Honestly, I've watched this movie many times before, yet I still enjoyed it very much since kinda forget about the stories lol. Before telling you about the main idea and my comment for this movie, let me inform you what the WALL-E film is.

WALL-E is a computer animated science film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Andrew Stanton. This movie has received a lot of Awards, such as Best Animated Feature at 81st Academy Awards. The main character in this movie is a Waste Allocation Load Lifter - Earth-Class, a robot which is called WALL-E, designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth far in the future. This movie is about how technology and vegetation affect human life.

This movie begins when the Earth has been covered by garbage due to some reasons, which made human had to leave the Earth and live outer space, in a huge spaceship. This reason left WALL-E placed to clean up the Earth. It is a 'He'. He was made based on an Artificial Intelligence Technoology, as well as AI. Eventually, only this compactor robot that can stand to do his duty. He kept maintain himself by repairing his own self using parts of other units. He did his job very well by making the junk into a cube and stacked them to make it neater. Apart from his regular duties, he liked to collect some unique things and kept them into his garbage truck.

One day, and Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator as known as EVE, sent into the Earth by the human living outter space. She was assigned to look for vegetation on Earth. The EVE's presence made WALL-E surprised and suddenly he fell in love with her until once he gave one of his best collection to her, a growing seedling.

According to this movie, from the technological developments side, the effect of using excessive technology is too harmful. The laziness everywhere, the human rely on the robots, even they don't walk on their own feet. Everytime they want something, the robots can fulfill as they wish. There is no human interaction directly, which is  they do talk to other distant people connected by the technology and they don't notice who the people rigth beside them. As I can say, the technology rule the human life.

The next thing I can see, the human do not take care the Earth. They let the garbage take over the vegetation. They just relize and do care with the Earth when everything bad has happened. We know that this bad behavior has been a majority of human tradition and I can't imagine if that bad things will happen latter on.

In the other hand, I was made amazed by this AI Technology. The human can make the robots perfectly, even they looks as they have a heart and brain like human's. The impacts, some robots can do anything they want, so that the human should have mantain, manage, and control more often than usual. But, I didn't find anything like this happen, it's opposite. The human just enjoy their life, instead the broken / unexpected robots fixed by the other robots too. Looks funny, isn't it?

In the end, many lessons we can get from this movie. All I can say, we certainly can drive ourselves. Don't be a slave of technology since we are the creators of it. Probably the technology could help us very well, in the other hand it can be the otherwise thing, like anti-social. All of those are depend on the human self.

This film teach us to protect our earth as well by showing us how necessary we should growing a seed to recover our green life. We don't have to make a robot like WALL-E to clean up the garbage while we can put the litter on the right place. This film also pretty smart to show us the right things and what the worst things will happen to the Earth and the human self because of their treatment. Personally, I terriibly love the purpose of this movie, that is to persuade us to make our lives better by our right hands.

Review: METRO Group Future Store Initiative

In this globalization era, we know that the technological developments growing faster. And the main purpose is the only to make human life better and more practical. One of the new innovations is about The Future Store. This is created to make the business more efficient and for the customers, it will make shopping easier and more confortable.

In that movie, can be seen there are so many advantages that got from this technology. So, let me describe the whole things I got from this video.

Smart Fridge Signals

This Fridge will give an information on the screen while there are some products that running out of stock.

Smart Machine Washing

This machine will detect and give a warning if there's a different colour or material laundry that can't be washed together.

Electronic Shopping List

It will obtain the information about what products are going to be bought later on. Also, it'll give some advices about products that should be bought based on what's running out from the fridge. This Electronic Shopping List can be provided on the Home PC. On the other hand, you can get some information about Bonus System and Individual Offers as well.

Future Card

The Future Card will provide the Electronic Shopping List that had been updated. It also has a Loyalty Bonus System and Item Location which give a direction where the item would be. This card can be accessed in the Future Store.

Smart Trolley

When we put a product on the trolley, it will automatically recognize what item it is and listed onto the screen's trolley.

Smart Shelves

This is one of the most helpful excellence for the employees. All the shelves will be connected into the Center / Terminal. While there's a shelve which almost runs out of items, the information will be shown on the screen of Terminal and directly inform the employee through the PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) to restock the items.

Smart Infomation Terminal

This terminal will give information about some particular items and provide the recipes based on the items related. This recipes information can be saved in the customers' device immediately by putting their device closer with the terminal. Not only that, if the customers get interested and want to know where the item is located, the customer can press the "location" button and.....surprisingly! the drawing of the item will be displayed on the floor in order to get easier looking for its location.

Advertising Display

This feature will be useful while advertising the product itself. It will attract the customers to buy the item probably by the discount or other else.

Smart Dressing Room

The customers no need to wear the clothing, just hanging it on the place which is provided on the wall and automatically the screen beside will display the customer wearing the clothing. The customer can choose whatever the colour which is available on the screen as well.

Smart Mirror

It's more like the Smart Dressing Room, it capture the customer's face and try the cosmetics product by choosing the best make up that shown on the screen. Also, the customer can print out the picture.

Future Check-out

Goods and prices are registered automatically on the cashier due to the connection between the cashier machine and the smart trolley. So the costumer only have to pay the goods, no need to wait any longer like detecting a bar code or anything else.

So, how did all the stuff connect with each other?
The most technology used in the Future Store is based on RFID. what is RFID? RFID is Radio Frequency Identification. It is the wireless non-contact use of radio-frequency electromagnetic fields to transfer data, for the purpose of automatically identifying and tracking tags attached to objects.

As I tell before that the technological developments is needed to make the human life better. This Future Store will help us remembering all the goods that we're gonna buy with the presence of Future Card. We don't need ask the employee about the product or the location of the goods that needed, since there is Terminal giving all about the information. The innovation system like Smart Dressing Room and Smart Mirror are indeed helpfully as well. Oh..we do not have to worry to wait for the payment too, as the turning time will decrease or probably there is no queue anymore. And there are still a lot of advantages attracting us can't be explained.

Beside, along with the better technology we get, the more cost also that we have to pay. Remembering that all the stuff in that store needed RFID, how the employee maintain the store and the machine, and the other things to do with all the technology in there. At the end, I suggest you guys to keep in touch with each other, don't let the technology blow up the sociality. We still need communicate with the others face to face to make a new friend.