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Corning Glass, the future.

Corning has been sitting on some great patents for a while now, and their business is booming now that the LCD and handheld market is advancing so rapidly.

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.
 
Pretty cool stuff. I wonder how close they (or anyone else) is to actually making this stuff (much less at an affordable price)....
 
Juddog said:
Corning has been sitting on some great patents for a while now, and their business is booming now that the LCD and handheld market is advancing so rapidly.

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.
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I can agree, but I am sure it would be customizable. I personally can't get away from email and texts, most of which make me very happy.
 
Engineer said:
Pretty cool stuff. I wonder how close they (or anyone else) is to actually making this stuff (much less at an affordable price)....
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Well, sadly...this is going to be upscale. The way the world/economy is growing the poor will get poorer.
 
Engineer said:
Pretty cool stuff. I wonder how close they (or anyone else) is to actually making this stuff (much less at an affordable price)....
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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. 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...)
 
TridenT said:
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. 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...)
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20 years?

you fucking serious now.

You realize the "moon landing" was all of just two times that ago. Tech is moving fast if you have the bucks to buy in.

I work for a partner that does DoD and the like as well. Most of the stuff is like magic when you see it. People are buying it.
 
TridenT said:
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...)
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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>
 
alkemyst said:
20 years?

you fucking serious now.

You realize the "moon landing" was all of just two times that ago. Tech is moving fast if you have the bucks to buy in.

I work for a partner that does DoD and the like as well. Most of the stuff is like magic when you see it. People are buying it.
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That's a minimum. You won't see it in mass like this either.
 
TridenT said:
Look at the demo. It seems like the touchscreen = the cooktop.
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i did. the element is separate and he used his finger in a small circular control area to turn it to some setting

if you're talking about the orange heating element expanding has he increased the setting - that's just speeded up for dramatic effect.
 
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Imagine showing a "normal" person 5 years ago a current gen tablet and see what they think (Hint: They'll say it's not possible).

This stuff is not 20 years away, it's less. However, it'll be prohibitively expensive for the general population for a while.
 
Lotheron said:
Imagine showing a "normal" person 5 years ago a current gen tablet and see what they think (Hint: They'll say it's not possible).

This stuff is not 20 years away, it's less. However, it'll be prohibitively expensive for the general population for a while.
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LOL WTF. We had slate tablets TEN YEARS AGO.
 
Yeah, I know what this would result in.

Porn.

Everywhere.


And of course...


(Also, lots of pop-up ads, which can appear on every single wall and appliance in your house.)


But yeah, that looks nifty, and quite attainable, assuming you're pulling in about $200k a year.
 
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