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Zhao Ziming came out of Jinchen Villa and drove to Dream Company. Although it was late, the arrangements had to be completed.

Whether the "Dreamless Bracelet" launched on June 1st will bounce or be postponed depends on how the production line is debugged.

After many investments, Dream can be said to be strong and talented.Although the balance of income and expenditure on the accounts is severely imbalanced, investors don't care, so they don't worry about it.

Even if half of the inflow of tens of billions of funds is wasted, there will be 5 billion. Putting it anywhere is enough to produce drastic changes.

Although Dream has no big-explosive products for the time being, it has also produced a lot of black technology, which is very popular among some hardcore players.

"Blind people's vision" glasses, "brain portal" system, intrusive brain-computer interface equipment, "Dreamland" series...

Because the products are well done, the technology is strong, and there are many bright spots, Dream is often dubbed "China's No. 1 Black Technology Company", and every new product launch is highly anticipated.

The dreamless bracelet (Direct Dreamland) pre-sold this time was even more heatedly discussed by the majority of netizens. The pre-sale volume was nearly 100,000 units and hundreds of millions of funds were returned.

Although the company has ample cash flow, there is one point that can be saved. A company that cannot generate profits cannot last long. Relying on Zhao Ziming's unilateral support is not a healthy ecological model.

He Gan got the news, waited at the door early, and greeted the boss into the laboratory.

As the hands-on ability of his subordinates became stronger and various breakthrough talents emerged one after another, he also gradually left the front line and began to transform into a boss-type expert.

Zhao Ziming rarely interferes with Dream's internal affairs, nor does he make private visits on a whim. He is promoted suddenly when he sees a person with outstanding ability, and he respects him very much, and he also takes his opinion as the criterion for personnel appointment.

After a long period of time, He Gan also let go of his mind, got rid of the worry of being surpassed by his subordinates, and began to change himself and adapt to the company. He now mainly controls the overall direction, coordinates the relationship between brothers, raises capital resources, and introduces high-tech talents.

The pretty secretary Sun Yu followed behind them, holding a pile of materials in his arms, in response to questions from the boss at any time.

Although Zhao Ziming knew that He Gan had an unusual relationship, he closed one eye without affecting the operation of the laboratory.

On the one hand, he had a very bad head in his early years and had a female secretary, and set an example for everyone. On the other hand, there is a difference between closeness and sparseness. Naturally, there are strict regulations for screw-type employees. There is one thing to say, but for genius The type of scientific researcher, to some extent, needs to open up the Internet.

He Gan is one of them. Although his scientific research ability is not top-notch, his management ability is very strong. This is not the era when the world could be rampant on its own a hundred years ago. There are hundreds of people in scientific research projects, none of them. A good leader cannot exert the power of the team.

It can even be said that genius scientists are very important, but genius scientist leaders are more important.

If it were for someone else to play as a female secretary, he would not have long eyes and would have been cleaned up a long time ago. In order to establish a good corporate culture, Zhao Ziming would even rush home his lover, and would not tolerate others doing it.

It can only be said that people are not the same. In order to win over, Zhao Ziming ignores many of his faults, including improper relationship with female secretary, using scientific research funds as bonuses, and buying personal belongings to be offset. .

It can even be said that as long as the other party can always satisfy him, Zhao Ziming will forever tolerate it.

He Gan cleared his throat and started reporting:

"At present, the first production line has been debugged, with a daily output of 5,000, and a defective rate of 0.1%. The factory gave feedback and asked whether we should adopt the whole machine inspection or check every procedure?"

In addition to the core components, the Dreamless Bracelet needs to go through ten processes. If the inspection is stopped as soon as a problem is discovered, the time wasted will be large, and it may take several times the time before.

Zhao Ziming didn't hesitate: "Continue to use the previous testing standards, stop inspections when problems are found, and go step by step."

The Magic Mirror series has always been learning the practices of Japanese automakers, stopping production and testing, finding and solving problems, and bracelet production is naturally no exception.

In the field of high-end car production, Japanese companies only need 16.8 hours to build a car, and there are only 34 faults for an average of 100 cars. In Europe, including BMW, it takes an average of 57 hours to build a car. There are 78.7 problems with the car.

The Japanese automobile factory's approach is: any worker on the production line has the right to stop the entire assembly line, so that all workers wait for him to solve the problem.Knowing that there is such a problem on the spot, making improvements on the spot, and teaching everyone a lesson on the spot can largely avoid similar mistakes in the future.

In Europe, for example, BMW's approach is that after all the processes of a car are completed, a special group of people will check whether the car is faulty, and then solve the faults of the car.

If it’s just a few cars, it’s okay. If it’s an assembly line with tens of thousands of cars, it’s a big disadvantage.

It takes longer for the Germans to solve the problems with a built car than for the Japanese to build a new car.

Of course, the method of discontinuation detection also has a big drawback, that is, in the initial stage, the production efficiency will be greatly reduced, which is almost intolerable.

If you want to have the best of both worlds, the output is low at the beginning of production, and the whole machine is used for testing. After the output expands, you can learn the Japanese model and solve the problem if there is a problem.

However, it was too late at that time, and the conversion cost in the middle was too great to change the gate.

He Gan is not surprising, the boss has always believed in and promoted the creed: Do only one thing at a time, and solve the problem when you find it, instead of waiting for the problem to accumulate and then solve it in a unified way.

He even sent Fuxi's statistical data to all personnel in the company: programming bugs, the time needed to solve the problem on the same day, and the time needed to solve them after a few weeks, are 24 times different.

While reporting product data, while chatting about research progress, He Gan focused on the "dream control system". It has surpassed the "blind people's vision control system" and the "brain portal" system, and has risen to the first rank, with importance and brain The machine interface is on par.

"The Dream Band has gone through two iterations, and the third generation will be launched now. The first generation includes a microcontroller on the glove and a small pressure sensor on the palm. The subject puts on the glove before going to bed. Make a fist and apply pressure to the sensor. At the same time, the electroencephalogram (EEG) sensor monitors the electrical activity of the brain. If the hand and head sensors detect that the subject is sleeping, the muscles begin to relax, and the brain waves begin to change. An intelligent robot will say a pre-set sentence. This sentence aims to prepare the subject’s brain to change the content of the dream based on what the intelligent robot says."

Zhao Ziming had seen the first generation of products. He was shocked at the time. He only felt that the future has come. He didn't expect the development to be so rapid afterwards. Now even mature products have been made. He Gan really contributed.

I don't care about keeping the little secretary anymore. It doesn't matter whether it's getting confused or not realizing it.

It is naturally impossible to order and prohibit such things as supporting a small secretary. You can only rely on the parties to figure out what the big bosses do not do. You should carefully weigh them.

"The first generation of products has many problems. For example, the EEG equipment is very expensive, and the signal is quite complicated to understand. In addition, the palm sensor has only two states (on and off), and sleep is a gradual process, experimental The fineness is not high."

He Gan took the document handed over by the female secretary and continued,

"In order to make up for these shortcomings, Gao Yongyan designed a new version, replacing the palm sensor with a flexion sensor, which can measure muscle tension at a higher level of granularity. In this way, researchers can monitor the degree of muscle relaxation. As the subjects gradually fell asleep, at the same time, the brain wave signals were replaced with simpler biological signals, such as heart rate, and the smart robot was replaced with a mobile phone APP, etc..."

While talking, Gao Yongyan came out of the laboratory and greeted the two bosses.

Zhao Ziming smiled and asked him, "It's so late, haven't you rest?"

He Gan praised: "Leader Gao always eats and lives in the research room, and he has a desperate style of Saburo."

"Pay attention to your body. Scientific research is a long-term job. How can you persist without a good body," Zhao Ziming said.

Gao Yongyan nodded and turned back to the topic just now.

"This time the bracelets for fixed production, it can be said that the technology is very mature, without additional equipment, it can monitor the subject's eyelid movement during sleep, so as to start, hypnotize or build dreams."

Zhao Ziming: "Both functions?"

Gao Yongyan: "Yes, although the main function is sleep aid, the main function is always there, just like the front and back of a coin."

Zhao Ziming didn't care when he heard the words, "Pay attention to confidentiality."

He Gan nodded: "Okay, please rest assured, Mr. Zhao, only a few of us know the specific situation."

Gao Yongyan continued, “Our goal has always been to wear as comfortable as possible, cheap, and non-invasive, making it easier for users to fall asleep during use. In addition to the changes in appearance, the leading ideas of the three generations of products are different.”

Zhao Ziming: "Oh?"

Gao Yongyan: "The first-generation product is equivalent to repeating Edison's steel ball experiment, but instead of waking up the subjects completely, it prevents the subjects from entering deep sleep, effectively prolonging the state of hallucinations before going to bed. Once the volunteers are before bedtime In the state of hallucinations, intelligent robots will ask them what they are thinking and record their answers.

"The dominant idea of ​​the second-generation product is to interact with dreams. When sleeping, the brain loses a lot of frontal lobe functions, which means associations and active thoughts. A person loses his sense of self, time, and space, making it easier Use divergent thinking. This kind of thinking is closely related to novel and weird ideas, which are ignored when you are fully awake."

"I remember that when I came last time, there was a reminder in the designed experimental project. Did you mention a rabbit in the ear of the subject?"

Zhao Ziming heard the words and remembered.

Gao Yongyan nodded and explained: "Yes, the reminder experiment is to consciously induce micro-dreams to see if it will lead to the explosion of creativity that Edison and others dream of. It includes "alternative use tasks" and "classic creativity tests." ", "Micro-dream operation", "lucid dream experiment", etc.

"The test results showed that although not all subjects remembered what they said to the robot, they all remembered and reported that they saw the prompt during their sleep state and successfully activated and remembered the stimulus to the aforementioned dream state. , Which means we have a viable system for controlling dreams."

Zhao Ziming smiled, "It's incredible."

Gao Yongyan led Zhao Ziming to a laboratory, "This is the fourth-generation product I have conceived, which completely uncovers the neural mechanism of hallucinations before going to bed and cracks the secrets of dreams."

Zhao Ziming looked at the huge, cold, metallic cabin instrument, and didn't know what to say. He was really a scientific madman.

Suddenly an idea flashed through his mind. He and Gao had been promoting the experiment to be harmless. Is it true?

This huge high-speed rail machine gave him a shuddering feeling, and it was easily associated with the crazy laboratory in science fiction movies and novels.

In any case, the content of dreams is generated in the brain, and almost all of Dream's projects are related to this, and human research on the brain is far from enough.

Whether there will be an undetected impact, no one knows.

However, these ideas came and went quickly in his mind, not to mention that there is no definite evidence to show that even if there is definite evidence, he will not stop moving forward.

The overseas laboratory just established in South Africa...

"However, this is only an emerging field of research, and more tests are needed. The number of existing subjects is far from enough," said Gao Yongyan.

"Don't worry, when our products are launched, there will be as many subjects as you want at that time."

He Gan comforted his subordinates, turned his head and said to Zhao Ziming:

"Dream phenomena are difficult to grasp because their effects vary widely, including vivid illusions and dreams, as well as external psychological cues that are almost unrelated to thoughts before going to bed. Although its neural mechanism has not been fully studied, the frontal lobe of the brain has an important Strict control seems to be relaxed due to drowsiness, which produces an unexpected sensory experience, so it will take a long time..."

Zhao Ziming gave him a relaxed smile, "Don't worry, I don't know the specific technology, but I'm good at spending money."

"Haha", all the people present laughed.

Zhao Ziming continued, "After so long of thinking about things, everyone knows who I am. Just do it with confidence."

Gao Yongyan seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, "In addition to obtaining more human data, the current research direction is to develop a less invasive version and integrate it with invasive brain-computer equipment!"