What is the Next New Technology

[Epic Fail]

Google 2.0

 

[KB]

An increase in the efficiency of and a reduction of cost in solar panels. No more oil... all solar energy.

 

[Cattlegod]

Originally posted by: AcidBath

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

Originally posted by: HBalzer

Originally posted by: AcidBath
wireless or "beamable" energy. No batteries or anything. All items needing electricity in your house would recieve it from a centralized transmitter in the basement.

Tesla supposedly had something like this in his lab

I do believe you are correct; power can be broadcast.

of course power can be broadcast, what do you think electromagnetic waves are? there is an electric field component and a magnetic field component that travel perpendicular to the direction of the wave, and the power travels in the direction of propagation(ie P=ExH)

OK, I am NOT an electrical engineer, but AFAIK electromagnetic energy != electricity

you are correct on that one.

electricity = electrons
emag waves are not electrons.

the problem with tesla's experiements is that they cooked everything that got in the path of transmission IIRC.

 

[Hammerhead]

Originally posted by: thirtythree
Whatever it is, I'm sure you'll see it on American Inventor first! (kidding)

Bullet Ball FTW!

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

A light bulb that only shines on things worth looking at.

 

[Zombie]

nanobots in your flu shot

 

[elbosco]

Bussard ramjet
Room temperature superconductor
Quantum computers

 

[Glavinsolo]

Robots that can do synchronized dancing

 

[Cattlegod]

holodeck!

 

[TGregg]

Free tequilia!

I wish.

 

[TGregg]

Originally posted by: Hammerhead
Bullet Ball FTW!

The next Olympic Sport, LOL.

 

[Glavinsolo]

Booty Bots All Rap videos will be replaced by there.

NSFW - Robots doing the nasty

 

[BriGy86]

what about a supreme race of people?

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: Cattlegod

Originally posted by: AcidBath

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

Originally posted by: HBalzer

Originally posted by: AcidBath
wireless or "beamable" energy. No batteries or anything. All items needing electricity in your house would recieve it from a centralized transmitter in the basement.

Tesla supposedly had something like this in his lab

I do believe you are correct; power can be broadcast.

of course power can be broadcast, what do you think electromagnetic waves are? there is an electric field component and a magnetic field component that travel perpendicular to the direction of the wave, and the power travels in the direction of propagation(ie P=ExH)

OK, I am NOT an electrical engineer, but AFAIK electromagnetic energy != electricity

you are correct on that one.

electricity = electrons
emag waves are not electrons.

the problem with tesla's experiements is that they cooked everything that got in the path of transmission IIRC.

this is true, but an electromagnetic wave possesses energy. stand infront of a radar and see if you don't warm up.

 

[conehead433]

The Holodeck.

 

[Rubycon]

The person that wrote this in 1992 definitely is cooking up something.

A virus is a sort of invasive molecular microcontroller, and a bacterium could be thought of as a molecular supercomputer robot with bad software. There is talk of slipping nanocomputer controllers into bacteria and injecting millions of them into the bloodstreams of AIDS patients, to follow HIV right into the nuclei of infected cells, and tear the viruses out by the roots.

 

[cirrhosis]

I would think that Total Brain Emulation would lead to some fairly large changes in our overall perspective.

 

[Fritzo]

Robot butsecks.

 

[Minerva]

Wireless Butt Sets. -M

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: gigapet

Originally posted by: DaShen

Originally posted by: gigapet
they are already here.....nanotech, biotech, robotics

jsut give them some time to mature......20 years.

QFT... plus I think there will be a drastic push by some countries for energy conservation. In which case technology and more efficient ways of generating energy will be created.

nano enabled solar panels capable of caputring .001% of 1% of the sunlight that reaches the earth would produce seemingly unlimitted power.

this just boggles your mind thinking of what we could accomplish if we could harness most of sun's energy reaching us

 

[BurnItDwn]

Beer that can stay cold on it's own without the use of a frosty mug.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I dont know about deff the next energy source.

I dont know what it will be but solar doesnt seem to be solving things.

 

[Trevelyan]

Originally posted by: Atomicus

Originally posted by: AcidBath
wireless or "beamable" energy. No batteries or anything. All items needing electricity in your house would recieve it from a centralized transmitter in the basement.

Definitely the best one so far.

Imagine cars powered by transmitted energy, no more need for gasoline!
Switching to alternative fuels would be more feasible since you can build your ethanol plants or other alternative fuel power generators right next to the fuel source and send the power anywhere.

It would be sweet to see beamable energy, but in terms of what is physicall possible, we might as well ask for antigravity boots.

 

[huey1124]

Originally posted by: BriGy86

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

Originally posted by: HBalzer

Originally posted by: AcidBath
wireless or "beamable" energy. No batteries or anything. All items needing electricity in your house would recieve it from a centralized transmitter in the basement.

Tesla supposedly had something like this in his lab

I do believe you are correct; power can be broadcast.

that's what i have heard too, but im skeptical because i have not idea how one would transfer power wirelessly, and safely

my guess, is far improved batteries, since the ones we have aren't all they great

They could improve upon this technology.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/wec.shtml

 

[Trevelyan]

Originally posted by: BriGy86


my guess, is far improved batteries, since the ones we have aren't all they great

THAT will be one of the next best inventions... I was reading somewhere about battery capacity, and apparently while everything else in technology has improved, batteries have hit a plateau...

I heard somewhere that the next big breakthrough with batteries will be ones that recharge fully in seconds! I mean think about it, if your battery only lasted 3 hours, but you could recharge it in 10 seconds...

That's probably the most likely thing to happen I think.