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Wired's Wish List For 2013
jpt.d writes "Wired has a nice article on what they wish to be for 2013. It is not too far fetched either! My personal favorite is the roll up television screen made of light-emitting-polymer. How about another Apple gadget? Their first item is an iPhone bracelet, including the functionality of a 'PDA, wireless Internet, a mini iPod, and, of course, a phone.' Notice the Apple logo in the picture." I'd settle for ubiquitous unmetered wireless network access.
BY 2013, we need to have net access (whether wireless or wired) run like a utility rather than a commodity. There is no need to have companies like Sprint trying to make a killing by artifically restricting what really should be a near-limitless resource (bandwidth).
Let the gov't run the backbones.
The problem with all of these combination devices is that no device is going to do everything well. I have a somewhat small wrist and larger watches seem huge. At the same time, I want a large color display for my PDA.
These two things work against each other.
The display on my phone is not important (especially if I can use it as a simple modem for my PDA), but the button size is. I do not want a combination PDA and phone (think Treo and others) since I want a small phone (since I carry that on me at all times) and will take a somewhat larger PDA since I can choose to carry that or not.
So I want a small display phone with non-small buttons.
I want a PDA with a large color display (I currently have at Clie 665c to give an example).
I want a small watch with small buttons (I have a Nike Triax 42)
I want a small camera with a decent display and good optics (I have a Canon S200)
I want a MP3 player with a decent display and small size (I have an iPod)
One thing I really want is a Bluetooth-like personal network. If I pull out my PDA, I want it to sense my cell phone in my pocket and use it to connect to the internet. I want my PDA to recognize my camera and download pictures from that. if I have a laptop with me, I want it to do the same thing.
So available wireless internet is one thing, but I would rather have workable, wireless personal networks (meaning on my body).
Even better would be the ability to have a neetworked storage device somewhere (wallet, etc) that could work as a networked storage device for everything else I am carrying at once. No more carrying a 10gig iPod, a PDA with a 128meg MemoryStick and a camera with a 128meg CompacFlash card. Ideally the iPod would simply be used as storage by all devices without wires.
This would allow easy modularity without trying to pack everything into once device.
[If someone tries to patent this idea in the future, I suppose my idea cannot be used as prior art. I think I have to actually implement the idea, right? Any non-lawyers out there want to comment?]
- (c) 2018 Hank Zimmerman
I believe Wired is right on the spot when it comes to a screen technology incorporated into a pair of glasses. It's really the only thing that makes sense when you need your hands.
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But it's not just for athletes. Technology like that is already being used in medicine (look up stuff while you operate), and I believe that when you couple it with GPS navigation you could do way cool navigational aids (think drawing arrows on the ground, you just follow).
I've been waiting for this a long time already... why can't it be ready now?
.: Max Romantschuk
10 years ago I was posting messages to BBSs with a 14.4k modem, a 14" monitor and a 7MHz PC.
OK, Internet is a bigger BBS, my modem is 4x faster I've got a 17" monitor and my PC is 50x faster.
In ten years expect things will remain much the same but bigger again. Maybe I'll surf Internet2 at 250k, have a 24" monitor? My PC may even run at 20GHz
I found a 17" monitor next to a dumpster recently. Really, it was better than most of my old ones. It's amazing the useful things people throw out simply because something "better" has come along.
I also noticed a PC in the dumpster one time but I decided to pass on thatt one.
With a bit of work (And hopefully photos of my new house and this setup upcoming) a wraparound TV isn't all that impossible. Using a wrapping screen and an LCD projector this should be only minimally hard to achive. I'll post pictures when/if I get this working in my new house. I'm thinking of throwing the front speakers BEHIND the wrapping screen so they aren't in the way.
-Look lively. LOOK LIVELY!!! --Mr. Shmallow
Light-emitting polymers aside, I think one much more interesting field of progress is paper-based dynamic displays. I recently watched a feature about this, and it seems that the technology isn't far off.
But why paper? Because, unlike any kind of polymers that we'll know of in the near future, paper is cheap as heck. Paper also provides excellent contrast and is pleasant to read off. Not to mention the ability to draw stuff on top of it with a regular pen.
I would personally not be surprised if paper-based computer displays rule the earth in ten years.
and was cancelled from production. This company http://www.appliedsensor.com/index.php , was making equipment that analysed gas emissions. Their last product before closing down equipment manufacturing was a hand held scanner. One of the few remaining scanners is now sitting on a shelf in my office so I can check the milk before I pour it in my coffee.
In 10 years Apple (or someone else) might be ready to pioneer the holographic interface to work with this iPhone.
Possible Output Methods
Possible Input Methods
So in closing... everyone complaining about the size of the iPhone being to small to see anything on, is being short sighted.
Rod!
Actually, where are the damn robot servants? The ones who can cook/clean/fetch beer.
Also, wheres the AI programs that can run errands for me, like pay the bills online, record my TV shows, remind me about important dates. Oh, an AI lawyer and account would be nice too.
The cars that can drive themselves, and let me read a book on the way to work.
With dual incomes becoming the norm just to live in the USA, where are the time saving robot/AI programs to give us more time to spend with the family. Work a ten hour day, commute for 2 hours, sleep for 8, doesnt leave much time to eat dinner with the family and and wind down from work.
Amen! I've befriended you because this is the first time I've seen an anti-SUV post on /. outside of my own in the past. SUVs are such a stupid and inappropriate thing in this day and age. But stupid and insecure people in America seem to need these vehicles to soothe their egos without regard to the damage they cause.
-Buying SUVs supports terrorism in a BIG way since those gas guzzling mosters put money in the hands of the criminals doing horrible things worldwide. If they were true patriots, they would stop buying SUVs and demand that our auto industry provide us with alternative fuels.
-Damaging the environment seems to not matter to these fools as well. So what if their grand children or great grand children won't bea ble to play outside because it's too polluted. It doesn't directlry affect them. Selfish bastards.
And then when you confront these idiots with these facts, they get all defensive because they don't want to think about it and hope that some solution will magically appear. Well you know what idiot! You're wrong. It won't! And YOU are a huge part of the problem!
Fuck the war for oil... What we need is a war on US business. Force the auto industry out of business so that someone else can come in to replace it. We need alternative fuels, better mass transportation, and in the end... electric cars. The money being spent on this ridiculous conflict in Iraq would be better spent on re-tooling the auto industry for electric cars, fuel cells and charging station infrastructure. Imagine that... being free of the middle eastern grip. That whole part of the world would be relegated to status: irrelevant. They could nuke each other off the planet for all we care.
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I hope by 2013 that GNU/Hurd will see a 1.0 release.
All the time. For example, Medicare/Medicaid is far more efficient than just about any privately run health plan, and government research is highly efficient and has been responsible for most of the real innovations over the last 50 years.
When it comes to big organizations and big projects, the government works very well. The real question is: what big private company has been better, cheaper, or quicker than the government? Enron? IBM? AT&T? Don't make me laugh. Big corporations are command economies but without the transparency and checks-and-balances of governments, and the often do their business free of they kind of competitive pressures that make markets efficient.
I am all for a private sector and free markets in telecommunications. The trouble is that we don't have it. And if the choice is between unregulated inefficient corporate behemoths and public utilities or strongly regulated private utilities, the latter is much preferable and likely to be more efficient.
No! Now I'm continue to drool over these OLED displays and you sir can have your 120lb CRT displays. I'm sure a lot more of those will start appearing in dumpsters once OLED gets underway.
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CBS has a nice story about OLEDs with a shocking video (Realvideo format) of their flexible potential (see sidebar).
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/11/12/eveni
1) A cure for HIV that is cheap enough to be rolled out in Africa. Failing a cure, a vaccine to stop new infection would also halt the pandemic.
2) A method of world governance that rids us of rogue states that persecute their own populations (Saddam, North Korea et al) and also curbs rogue states with semi-democratically elected leaders who want to attack other states on dodgy pretexts (GWB I'm looking at you)
3) An end to the tech slump, sustained growth in IT sectors, more coding jobs for me!
4) Moore's observation to continue to hold true, more better toys getting cheaper.
5) Following on from that, widespread internet rollouts in the third world. The street finds it's own uses for technology, and the villages will find their own uses for information and commication.
6) Open source software to keep getting better, no more constrictive tech monopolies, and end to DVD region coding and hard crypto staying legal.
My Karma: ran over your Dogma
StrawberryFrog
Personally, I think sunglass contacts will NEVER catch on.
Contacts require:
- Prescription fitting (you definately should see an opthamologist before wearing them)
- Careful application
- Rewetting in dry climates
- Cleaning/disposal
Sunglasses will always be cheaper than sunglass-contacts because of those reasons.
You can take away my crystal clear 0% lag CRT when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
I'm still trying to figure out why anyone would want a LCD for a desktop that's used for anything besides text.
Why, yes, I AM a Pagan Libertarian.
I think, the goggles with integrated display will have some future. Imagine this: A HUD-Display, connected through bluetooth to some Laptop (maybe in your backpack) could give you a huge amount of information. GPS-Navigation, E-Mail, Traffic-Warnings. Connect it to a small digicam, run a persons face through a recognition-software.Lookup the result in your databse et voila: Name, Birthdate right in front of you.
...is disturbingly similar to the "Wall Screens" in Farenheit 451. I wonder how long it will be until Microsoft starts offering their "Ultimate TV" with personalization capabilities that are made to work with digitally created talk show hosts, news anchors, etc. that call you by your name, can see you through video cameras, and change the programming depending on what your do or say in the room. It'll be interesting...