5 tech marvels we love from Disney's 'Iwájú' | 0F37F6V | 2024-03-01 10:08:01
Within the futuristic Lagos of Iwájú, hovering road hawkers strategy flying automobiles with steaming snacks, the town's tricycles (kekes) have advanced into tiny helicopters, and robots enthusiastically trim the hedges of opulent estates.
A collaboration between Pan-African media company Kugali and Walt Disney Animation Studios, Iwájú is a beautiful Afrofuturist sci-fi journey set around 100 years from now. In the gifted arms of director Olufikayo Ziki Adeola, manufacturing designer Hamid Ibrahim, cultural marketing consultant Toluwalakin Olowofoyeku, and a gaggle of artists and designers from Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, and Nigeria, the collection visualises a vibrant, formidable tech landscape for the Nigerian metropolis, while importantly not dropping the humanity or ignoring the social reality of its residents.
"'Iwájú' is a part of a phrase in the Yoruba language that's truly 'Ojó iwájú,' which accurately means 'the day ahead' or principally the longer term," explains Olowofoyeku of the collection title.
The collection' pleasant protagonist is sensible, enthusiastic, empathetic 10-year-old Tola Martins (voiced by Simisola Gbadamosi), whose high-powered tech government father Tunde (Dayo Okeniyi) loves his daughter to bits however does not spend almost sufficient time together with her. Nonetheless, their lives are brimming with covetable tech that distinguishes their class and privilege in Lagos. And it is right here that the collection really gets artistic with the varieties of units operating the near-future metropolis and who gets to make use of them.
How tech marks class and privilege in Iwájú
Tola and Tunde reside in a fountain-flanked, architectural marvel of a mansion within the affluent island neighbourhood of Ikoyi, away from the densely populated mainland the place Tola's greatest pal Kole Adesola (Siji Soetan) lives in the busy Ajegunle Market. Kole is a tech whiz who works as Tunde and Tola's gardener, and although he does not have access to all the flamboyant tech making their lives apparently simpler, he definitely knows the right way to make it work.
"In Lagos, we've got the mainland and the island with an precise physique of water separating the two areas," manufacturing designer Hamid Ibrahim stated in a press statement. "One aspect of Lagos is full of principally wealthy individuals, and the other aspect just isn't as wealthy as the other one. To have the rich aspect be unique and converse to the culture of Lagos, we designed it to have sculptured buildings as if the rich people have been dwelling in an art piece that represents Lagos. On the mainland, we go all to extremes the place houses are made out of journey containers modified into houses."
Not only contrasting Tola's life of privilege and naivety with Kole's road smarts and practicality, the screenplay, written by Adeola and Halima Hudson, attracts specific consideration to the digital divide in their lives. Their greatest friendship is captured in photographs taken on Tola's fancy smartwatch while Kole's smartphone is all the time on the fritz. Tola obliterates ranges in her digital actuality recreation (embedded in a pair of pink glasses) while Kole is a first-timer utilizing the tech. Tola's family uses a ritzy flying automotive to quite actually rise above visitors, while Kole barely has sufficient money to pay for drugs for his ailing mother.
</div> However past demonstrating class and privilege, there's a sinister aspect to the tech-drenched world of Iwájú, as the collection villain Bode DeSousa (Femi Department) wields an arsenal of gadgets and synthetic intelligence to realize dominance in Lagos. Having constructed a felony empire in the city's underbelly, Bode now harnesses know-how and physical may for diabolical means.
To create such a posh, futuristic narrative set-up for Iwájú, the manufacturing staff has dreamt up a cornucopia of slick units and gadgets. And since we love when TV and movies dabble in impressive hypothetical tech (from Black Panther to Loki) we've collected five of the tech marvels that stood out in the animated collection.
5 tech improvements we love from Iwájú
1. Sensible bonnet
We love innovative beauty tech. In episode 1, Tola uses the sensible bonnet she slept in to select her coiffure for the day without having to carry a finger. It is like Cher's wardrobe software from Clueless or a smart mirror or brush but even better — as soon as Tola settles on her type, the system actively works on her look beneath the silk. It takes about two seconds and she or he's prepared for the day.
Tola does not depart all parts of her private fashion to the tech in her room, nevertheless; when her private assistant robotic tries to recommend to her a variety of outfits for the day, Tola ignores all of its picks and opts for one thing just a little extra flamboyant and expressive for her 10th birthday. Solely Tola knows it's go peacock print or go house.
2. Flying hawkers
On a trip within the household's flying sensible automotive, Tola notices a fleet of flying road hawker robots hovering around the visitors, selling numerous delicacies. Every comes outfitted with a video display displaying the seller's face and robotic arms manage the products and transactions sitting atop the robot. So long as we do not have flying cars soaring about the skies, I assume we cannot actually need these, however as soon as we're up and away in our automobiles, so too will come the hawker tech.
three. Sensible glasses
OK, so these are already in our lives, however the sensible glasses in Iwájú have two issues going for them: the know-how makes it apparent when somebody is utilizing them, they usually truly look damn good. The closest we have come to sensible glasses wanting truly in fashion is the current run of Meta's latest Ray-Ban smart glasses, the AirGo 3 spectacles, or the XREAL Air glasses (Oppo's recently unveiled AR glasses look fairly delicate, too).
</div> <hr class="mx-auto w-full border border-gray-100" style="max-width:48rem !important;"> In the collection, Tunde and Bode both use AR glasses for their work and in each instances the lenses flip purple to indicate they're in use, which is courteous to others on the very least. Nonetheless, they completely invade people's privacy with the knowledge they ship utilizing facial recognition tech — and you may see by means of Bode's glasses, Tunde's sporting an encryption device of some type which scrambles the view of his face for intrusive units.
four. Backyard robots
This one feels somewhat Jetsons, however it's still cute. To assist him handle the immense sprawl of Tola's residence grounds, Kole makes use of a gardening robotic to trim the verge. It is slightly busted, shutting down easily, nevertheless it's greater than a robot lawn mower, and fortunately Kole's a savvy tech engineer who can get it again on monitor easily.
5. Sensible pets
Look, I'm not saying our pets aren't sensible. My canine is the smartest of the neatest, don't even attempt me. But in Iwájú, Tola's new pet agama lizard Otin (voiced by Weruche Opia) comes with somewhat additional security — it's truly a robot brimming out of its giant eyeballs with superior AI. Scanning all environments for potential threats and facial recognition, and outfitted with GPS, Tola's lizard is a multipurpose reptile. Because the collection progresses, Otin turns into more self-aware, understanding its objective and connection to Tola.
</div> The actual cause for Tunde's robotic guardians is darker than a easy gimmick, however we cannot spoil that for you. We'll simply say we've by no means heard a better purpose for getting a robot pet.
Iwájú is now streaming on Disney+.
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