What is a new electronic device you would like to see?

[Leros]

There are so many different electronics devices. What do you think is lacking?

 

[Sinsear]

My own Death Star

 

[zerocool84]

Holographic chicks like in The 6th Day. No backtalk FTW :thumbsup:

 

[Heller]

Toilet

 

[darkswordsman17]

One that allows me to punch people through the internet.

Incidentally that same technology will introduce the digital glory hole which will subsequently be followed by the downfall of society.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
One that allows me to punch people through the internet.

Get out of my brain!


I'd burn through a dozen of them in P&N alone!

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
One that allows me to punch people through the internet.

Incidentally that same technology will introduce the digital glory hole which will subsequently be followed by the downfall of society.

oh dear

 

[funkymatt]

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
One that allows me to punch people through the internet.

Incidentally that same technology will introduce the digital glory hole which will subsequently be followed by the downfall of society.

exactly, can you imagine the prank phone calls you could make with this?

hello-argharghargh

 

[Bignate603]

Originally posted by: zerocool84
Holographic chicks like in The 6th Day. No backtalk FTW :thumbsup:

Virtual girlfriends/sex would make crack look like candy.

 

[PottedMeat]

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
One that allows me to punch people through the internet.

Incidentally that same technology will introduce the digital glory hole which will subsequently be followed by the downfall of society.

Wasn't that called Fu-Fme or something a few years back?

 

[Red Squirrel]

A device that plugs via firewire into your head (some body modding required) and whatever you think, actually gets done. If you are imagining a picture, you open photoshop, boom, it gets done. Or even in paint. You open notepad, boom, an incredible breath through application is created, you compile it, ... , profit!

Just make sure it's not Microsoft that makes it. There would be some kind of security flaw in the drivers that would allow an attacker to remotely execute code directly on the victim's brain, causing serious injury or death.

I like the punch over internet idea.

PoIP - Punch over IP.

 

[Jesusthewererabbit]

Time machine

 

[darkswordsman17]

Originally posted by: funkymatt

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
One that allows me to punch people through the internet.

Incidentally that same technology will introduce the digital glory hole which will subsequently be followed by the downfall of society.

exactly, can you imagine the prank phone calls you could make with this?

hello-argharghargh

Yeah, people think pictures of cock and balls on say Xbox Live is bad, imagine if they could actually teabag you.

 

[SagaLore]

A flat LCD with builtin mic, speakers, and high resolution camera, that has full VOIP support.

Today's teleconferencing capabilities still suck.

 

[Oceandevi]

Nano-Factory.

 

[TridenT]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
A flat LCD with builtin mic, speakers, and high resolution camera, that has full VOIP support.

Today's teleconferencing capabilities still suck.

Those do exist... :-/

 

[Baked]

I want a self contained dust vacuum in my PC. I hate dust in my PC.

 

[Jeff7]

A "newspaper" replacement. It would be a large touch-panel display, about the size of half of a full newspaper sheet, or maybe a quarter sheet, and would need to be quite thin.

Each morning you'd download the newspaper sections you want, and "flip" though them like you would a regular paper. And no more "turn to page blah blah blah to read more," you'd just touch the "Full article" link, and it would show it. Then press "Back" to go to the original page. Images could all be in color, and touching one would enlarge it; touch again to go back.

The interface would need to be quite simplistic, not much more difficult to use than a regular newspaper, and with about as many features. Don't make the damn thing capable of sending e-mail, don't give it a keyboard, don't try to make it do everything. Just a simple news display device, nothing more. More features = more power consumption = more weight = more cost. It should be no more expensive than a year's subscription to a standard newspaper.
The comics page could be customizable, only showing the comics you specifically select. This could mean you could get more quality in comics, since you could get more "offensive" material, versus the sanitized "family-friendly" banality of most comic sections in newspapers. Maybe eventually you'd be able to integrate webcomics right into the page.

Oh, and anyone who tries to make it display pop-up or animated ads will be promptly thrown into a tree shredder with dull blades.

Result: No need to pay drivers to deliver newspapers, no need to truck around tons and tons of paper for printing and then recycling, and no bulky printing presses to run or maintain.



I just need a few million dollars for R&D. Anyone interested?

 

[Alone]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
A "newspaper" replacement. It would be a large touch-panel display, about the size of half of a full newspaper sheet, or maybe a quarter sheet, and would need to be quite thin.

Each morning you'd download the newspaper sections you want, and "flip" though them like you would a regular paper. And no more "turn to page blah blah blah to read more," you'd just touch the "Full article" link, and it would show it. Then press "Back" to go to the original page. Images could all be in color, and touching one would enlarge it; touch again to go back.

The interface would need to be quite simplistic, not much more difficult to use than a regular newspaper, and with about as many features. Don't make the damn thing capable of sending e-mail, don't give it a keyboard, don't try to make it do everything. Just a simple news display device, nothing more. More features = more power consumption = more weight = more cost. It should be no more expensive than a year's subscription to a standard newspaper.
The comics page could be customizable, only showing the comics you specifically select. This could mean you could get more quality in comics, since you could get more "offensive" material, versus the sanitized "family-friendly" banality of most comic sections in newspapers. Maybe eventually you'd be able to integrate webcomics right into the page.

Oh, and anyone who tries to make it display pop-up or animated ads will be promptly thrown into a tree shredder with dull blades.

Result: No need to pay drivers to deliver newspapers, no need to truck around tons and tons of paper for printing and then recycling, and no bulky printing presses to run or maintain.



I just need a few million dollars for R&D. Anyone interested?

They've already got something like that. I think it's CNN.com

 

[shortylickens]

One that can summon a bevy of hot blondes in a range of 200 feet.

I should think the keys from a Ferarri would suffice.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Holograms instead of a monitor - so much more desk space!
Oh, and video editing software like what Precrime uses in Minority Report. Imagine how easy it would be to splice video!
Oh, and games where all of your commands are carried out by thought - no more saying "my keyboard is sticky, you were lucky."

Actually, decent holograms would completely change handheld electronics. We'd no longer be limited by small device size, and the device could do anything.

 

[BALIstik916]

Originally posted by: Sinsear
My own Death Star

 

[Raduque]

I want to record my dreams to a video file and play them back.

 

[GeekDrew]

A PDA phone, better than the crap that's currently on the market. One that will sync the same dataset with multiple PCs, without problem. One that will sync the same data set to another PC that is hosting the data usually stored on a third PC. One that has plenty of RAM, so it doesn't run infuriatingly slowly. One that has many GBs of solid state storage space on-board, so that I can load it up with music and take it everywhere with me. One that is open-source. One that had enough radios on-board that it could have a signal in any place of the nation where there is any cell signal of any kind. One that has a community behind it, with plenty of apps and games available for it.

 

[SoulAssassin]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
A flat LCD with builtin mic, speakers, and high resolution camera, that has full VOIP support.

Today's teleconferencing capabilities still suck.

Do you really want videophones to be common place in the house? Do you want to have to worry about what you look like when you answer the phone? Do you want to actually have to look at the person? I would rather be able to zone out watching tv while talking to my Mom or whoever than have to look at them and pretend like I'm interested.