What is the Next New Technology

[PingSpike]

Japanese sex androids.

 

[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.

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: arcenite
dual core nuclear bombs

with hyper threading!

 

[Kadarin]

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.

 

[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

 

[Lorax]

whatever it is, it will be used to distribute more porn.

 

[ZoomStop]

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.

Sorry, but I would need linkage to believe. Probably the only way to achive this right now is though directed solar energy that is then picked up by photoelectric cells or converted into heat/steam for power. Not quite what I meant. And Tesla could get energy to jump all over but I think for a technology like this to be useful you would have to be able to do it without vaporizing everything in the path.

 

[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)

 

[ZoomStop]

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

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: AcidBath
OK, I am NOT an electrical engineer, but AFAIK electromagnetic energy != electricity

electricity is the most ambiguous word ever.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Some computer driving my car for me.

 

[Lorax]

i happen to think the minority report movie has some cool, and maybe realistic, views of future tech... except for the precogs of course.

 

[TechnoPro]

Originally posted by: Looney
Elimination of all venereal diseases.

Celibacy?

 

[BigToque]

Originally posted by: TechnoPro

Originally posted by: Looney
Elimination of all venereal diseases.

Celibacy?

:Q

I hope not

 

[FallenHero]

CONROE!

 

[AMCRambler]

Hydrogen fuel cells

 

[AMCRambler]

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.

I've seen something on this a couple years ago. Something like they took electricity and changed it into a high power microwave signal, and then converted back on the receiving end to electricity. It wasn't very efficient though.

 

[neovan]

teleportation! beam me up scotty!

 

[0]

Warp Engines the size of Walnuts!

 

[thirtythree]

Whatever it is, I'm sure you'll see it on American Inventor first! (kidding)

 

[DaiShan]

I'll tell you when my patent goes through!

 

[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.

 

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: AcidBath
for a technology like this to be useful you would have to be able to do it without vaporizing everything in the path.

Dammit, you're just like every other Marketing schlep out there. You tell us to create something and then when you do, you decide to throw in all these sh*tty "parameters".

:roll:

 

[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.

 

[Jfrag Teh Foul]

Porkchop sandwiches!