Corning Glass, the future.

[JulesMaximus]

WTF? That guy had to get up to turn on his TV! What kind of fucked up future is that?

 

[angminas]

Good morning, John Anderton! Have you checked the CBS traffic report yet? Would you like to try the latest toothbrush from Crest, John Anderton? John Anderton, tap here for tips on making scrambled eggs with Pam cooking spray! Missing Mom, John Anderton? Buy a plane ticket from United today!

 

[moshquerade]

WTF? That guy had to get up to turn on his TV! What kind of fucked up future is that?

couch potatoes gasped

 

[96Firebird]

On my last co-op, we worked with Corning on some flexible glass for an idea for a flexible medical device. They got it real thin, but it would still crack. The glass was thinned to 30 microns thick, but it was hard finding a substrate that it wouldn't crack. I really do hope flexible glass is in the near future, it could be a great thing.

 

[ioni]

Walk up to your tv to use it? What is this 1940?

 

[Nintendesert]

Motherfuckers can't even get off their cell phones now to look at the world around them let alone actually live in it, and here we want to add more of that shit where the father cooking the eggs wasn't even actually there. He was already entrapped by another damn display. Wake up and first thing was jacking back in. What a shitty future.

 

[Jeff7]

Motherfuckers can't even get off their cell phones now to look at the world around them let alone actually live in it, and here we want to add more of that shit where the father cooking the eggs wasn't even actually there. He was already entrapped by another damn display. Wake up and first thing was jacking back in. What a shitty future.

I know. There was absolutely no sign of any sort of wireless neural interface with any of those devices, or brain implants to enhance our mental capacities.
Darn future, what the hell.

:awe:



Though depending on your view, they're interacting with more of the world than any previous generations have been able to.
Heck, moving away from the family doesn't even mean it's a "years-long goodbye" like in centuries past. And in Corning's glorious glass future, it's even easier than it is now. Efficient social interaction.

 

[Bateluer]

That being said, to hell with seeing e-mail on the bathroom mirror. That would end up with a broken mirror and a bloody fist, if the first thing I see when I'm brushing my teeth is how some crap at work has an issue.

What the bathroom mirror really needs is a camera, 720p, with multiple microphones for noise canceling. So you have no retreat from teleconference.

 

[Born2bwire]

I saw this a few weeks ago.

Welcome to the wonderful world of GLASS!!! That's right, in the future, everything will be made of glass. Fuck you plastic!

It reminded me of the old promotional future videos that companies used to make. Some of them, usually the auto industry, are hilarious but others are rather accurate. For example, Bell Labs' vision of the future from 50 years ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWc_WEBfOjo&t=4m50s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd9SR-ZDCGE&t=2m0s

I'm still waiting to be able to call home to turn on the A/C.

 

[twinrider1]

There are already internet-controlled thermostats.


And Trident...it's "en masse," not "in mass."

 

[Jeff7]

I saw this a few weeks ago.

Welcome to the wonderful world of GLASS!!! That's right, in the future, everything will be made of glass. Fuck you plastic!

It reminded me of the old promotional future videos that companies used to make. Some of them, usually the auto industry, are hilarious but others are rather accurate. For example, Bell Labs' vision of the future from 50 years ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWc_WEBfOjo&t=4m50s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd9SR-ZDCGE&t=2m0s

I'm still waiting to be able to call home to turn on the A/C.

Just a quick link here to throw in...

 

[CptObvious]

So...the future is exactly the same as now, except everything in your home/office is a giant telescreen. I mean touchscreen.

 

[Born2bwire]

Just a quick link here to throw in...

Ha, I knew that would come up sooner or later.

My favorite though is "A Young Man's Fancy" which tells the story of how electrical appliances can be used to hook the boy of your dreams.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwOta-bFxa0

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

People in glass houses sink ships...

 

[SunnyD]

There is such a thing as being TOO connected. Sadly, this is the future.

I knew I should have opted for the stock instead of cashing out my options when we got bought out way back when.

 

[sdifox]

Look at the demo. It seems like the touchscreen = the cooktop.

Let me explain this. There is no way in hell they will put touchscreen on top of heating element. That is called class action lawsuit waiting to happen.

Fridge, sure. Stove top? Are you nuts?

 

[ioni]

Let me explain this. There is no way in hell they will put touchscreen on top of heating element. That is called class action lawsuit waiting to happen.

Fridge, sure. Stove top? Are you nuts?

The video was kind of boring, so I jumped through it, but did it show a touch screen ontop of the heating element? My parents have a touch screen cooktop. There are no buttons, but you touch labeled areas on the glass to turn elements on/off etc.

 

[MrChad]

I waited for the precogs but never saw any.

 

[sdifox]

The video was kind of boring, so I jumped through it, but did it show a touch screen ontop of the heating element? My parents have a touch screen cooktop. There are no buttons, but you touch labeled areas on the glass to turn elements on/off etc.

I was responding to Trident's idea, nothing really related to the video.

 

[PottedMeat]

The video was kind of boring, so I jumped through it, but did it show a touch screen ontop of the heating element? My parents have a touch screen cooktop. There are no buttons, but you touch labeled areas on the glass to turn elements on/off etc.

direct link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38#t=1m06s

there is no screen on the element, the controls are some distance away

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Not close. I swear they've been 'demoing' this kind of shit for many years now. It's at least 20 years away before we get a decent amount of this kind of tech.

I only watched the first half of the video, but I can say with a pretty high level of confidence that just about everything I saw is achievable now. Cost is a different matter but like everything else, I imagine that it would drop relatively rapidly once introduced and widespread adoption begins.

That said too, it will be UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLY expensive. You know how much those Microsoft Surface things cost? I think it was, what, over $5000? (Cameras and all that shit) Imagine how much it'd cost if the fucking surface can heat up to 450F+ degrees. (You could use induction to heat things, but the surface will get just as hot...)

Microsoft is in big trouble IMO. Windows 8 being available for ARM is a step in the right direction but like previous MS efforts in the mobile and tablet market, I'm going to guess that it won't be adequate or see widespread adoption. Look at the embarrassing pummeling they've been taking in the smartphone market for years.

 

[Fayd]

the cost of a standard glass-ceramic cooktop plus a section for a touchscreen glass? you don't actually think they'd put a heating element directly under a touchscreen do you>

i realize it's just to demo possibilities, but... shit, i prefer gas ranges now. i'd definitely prefer gas over some electric glass range...

 

[alkemyst]

LOL WTF. We had slate tablets TEN YEARS AGO.

hence he mentioned CURRENT GEN.

Very different than 10 year old tech.

 

[soulcougher73]

Time to get in on some stock before it takes off

 

[Lotheron]

hence he mentioned CURRENT GEN.

Very different than 10 year old tech.

Thank you.

The tablets 10 years ago were simply laptops with a rotating screen and a pen for an input device. I'm talking current tablets with multi-touch capacitive screens that are incredibly thin and light devices with the power equivalent of computers of not too terribly long ago.