Inspirational

Dear bloggie,

I haven't seen any inspirational movie lately on the TV nor the cinemas. I'm glad I had the chance to see tis movie on TV2!?



Occupying the late late nite (or rather early early morning) movie slot, the slot justification does injustice to tis very inspirational movie. While the technology involved is rather ridiculous, u just gotta love the loser trumps over backstabbing winners movies.

Ok story in short, Andy is a successful sales guy that decides to dump his job in pursuit for something greater. He ends up in La Honda (Sorta like Silicon Valley), a place where cutting edge technology products are well produced. He been thrown into a shitty impossible project by BIG time player Benoit. The project, create a computer that can be mass produced for $99. Being someone from a computer background (a f*ckin degree), this sounds like "This must a f*ckin joke right?" to me.

Well, Andy recruits some of the more oddballs personnel for this project since no one is willing to enroll for this crazy project. An indian, a social phobia overweight dude and a nutcase cum cleanphobia dude, which all 3 happens to be among the more brilliant minds when it comes to computers. The team had a hard time to cut cost of a normal computer to $99. Till when Andy's pretty neighbor babe gave him inspiration with the phrase "Simplify, Clarify, and Economize". The team then came up with the idea of uploading the whole s/w application into the internet, hence eliminating the requirement for hardware such as hardisk, CD reader, etc. Still short from $99, they even further came up with the idea of throwing out the monitor by replacing it with a hologram projector. Last is the removal of keyboard and mouse by replacing it with a pair of gloves that is link to the computer.

Before they manage to complete the software to tie the hologram projector, gloves and internet together, Benoit however forces them to abandon the project or quit their job. They take a huge leap of faith and quit their jobs. Hence now jobless, they find refuge in a old garage where they resume work on the $99 computer. They manage to complete the computer and rename it eMagi (E Magic). Often u think once a hard task like producing a cutting edge technology priced at $99, the hard part is over. Turns out, the team's attempt to sell their product didn't go as well as they wanted. That is till one lady express her interest to put a stake of 51% for tis product (Remember guys, 51% is always a sign for backstab). Desperate for $, the team agreed to the deal. They ended up being burnt as the lady told them, as major stakeholder for the product, she sold the product patten for a cheap price to a bogus company, which turns out belongs to Benoit. Typical big name business guy screws small nameless innovator scenario. All is down and glum for the team till they remember that they actually signed a contract with La Honda before they left stating La Honda is eligble to use the designs for the eMagi. Gunning for a payback on Benoit, the team try to convince the La Honda head to allow them to use the design for eMagi. Turns out Benoit already left La Honda and La Honda is on the brink of collapse due to ".com bubble burst". The team gets the rights and further pushes the design of eMagi, discarding the glove for laser sensitive detectors (hence eliminating the gloves) and a more compact design (a tube size like a small water container). On the demo for Benoit eMagi, the team screws Benoit by frying his demo eMagi and demos theirs in return. The happy ending is the team wins the gals, fame and moolah.

Also there was reference to Malaysia, the team actually made 10,000 bogus order for Benoit's eMagi to a company in KL!? LOL! Overall while the idea of $99 for laser sensitive & holographic projector sound pretty absurd and impossible, I do believe these ideas for eMagi sound pretty doable and creative. I meant take a look at our computer nowdays anyway, the application on the Internet is actually an advancement of the typical server service flow, heck Google Docs, Youtube, Facebook is an example of such possibility is workable (Sorta making the computer a dumb terminal).