NextFest

anzha writes "This Saturday and Sunday between 9 and 6 pm at the Fort Mason Center's Festival Pavilion in San Francisco, NextFest will be taking place. Organized by Wired and sponsored by HP, The SF Chronicle, General Electric, General Motors, and many others, this is an expo on 'almost there' technologies. Ranging from [in]famous Moller aircar to a 'transparent cloak' from the Tachi Lab at Tokyo University to antibacterial powders from Canada to many, many others. Read more here."

Comments

Games?

[Anonymous Coward]

What about Half-Life2, TF2, Duke Nukem Forever, and SB's HL1 pit map?

Re:Should be called: The VaporWare Convention

[Neil Blender]

The Vaporware Convention takes place every year, but it never happens.

Gargh

[Rick Zeman]

My first thought on what this was involved Steve Jobs and black boxes!

Was I the only one?

[Serk]

Was I the only one that saw the headline and immediately thought of a gathering of NeXT computer users?

I think I'll pass and

[Savatte]

wait for the next nextfest. The last nextfest didn't leave me looking forward to the next nextfest.

Is that "next" or NeXT"?

[jstave]

Actually, I think its pretty funny, given that NeXT Computer played such a pivotal role in making the word "vaporware" part of the common lexicon.

Brainball

[jardin]

"For fun and games, there's Brainball, which is best described as an anti- game, because the goal is to achieve nothing."

Woohoo, I won I won! .. Ah screw it I'm going back to bed ..

ahah!

[abscondment]

Transparent cloaks? I knew Harry Potter was real.

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does this just scare me?

[AgtSmith]

"GE Medical Systems will demonstrate a prototype medical technology designed to give surgeons access to patients' data while operating, without having to touch a computer or other object that would require them to re- sterilize their hands. The technology, being developed with Microsoft..." I don't think my insurance covers BSOD.

Re:Should be called: The VaporWare Convention

[happyfrogcow]

Something already has that title... it's the E3 gaming convention.

Ummm

[nizo]

Other health-related technology on display will include an antibacterial powder developed at the University of Alberta that, when sprinkled on food, can block the harmful effects of bacteria.

Like digestion for example???

Brainball

[nizo]

The object of the game is to move the ball into an opponent's goal area, but the more relaxed a player is, the more he or she controls the ball.

The only game known to mankind that you play better after you die.

Re:It's a Scam

[Anonymous Coward]

Accept it. The thing is real.

Nothing is real until it appears on ThinkGeek.