Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future

Anonymous Cow writes "This week, the editors of TechEBlog have compiled a list of the 'Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future,' from solar powered LEDs to memory LCD screens, it's all there." Urinal gaming stations! How did no one implement this sooner?

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virtusphere looks quite fun

[bobamu]

all the joys of the varied alien landscapes of fps and maybe practical real world simulation, be it lacking the feeling of jumping/climbing and the feeling of freefall, plus of course the lack of weight.

Maybe if they could make the "sphere" the actual projection screen, mount it on something mobile and maybe have some kind of force feedback bodysuit? Hmm, I feel a patent looming. :)

And the heliodisplay is completely cool, a volume projecting version would be even cooler.

Only if awesome == craptacular

[brunes69]

Watch the video again, and look closely. That board is going *very* slow, slower than any skateboarder I have ever seen. When presneted with evena small ram it just looks like it falls off the other side, it doesn't jump at all.

No speed == no air. No boarder is going to want these things unless they either seriously beef up th ehorsepower somehow, or allow manual foot intervention to speed them up just before the ramping begins. Otherwise it's just a glorified pre-teen mini-scooter.

Not entirely new

[Deadstick]

I had some stock in a company called Chill Can Corp circa 1965. It had a patent on a self-cooling drink can looking much like the one in TFA...it went nowhere.

A cardboard forerunner of the urinal game, called Whizzers, was marketed in the 70s.

rj

three quick alternatives

[zogger]

you can get various flashlights with instant or close to it light without disposable batteries. Freeplay makes a windup light, which would probably be the best for your purposes-bright and right there- (they make good quality stuff, I have two of their clockwork spring radios), and you can get the "squeeze as you go" light (looks like handgrips) from various online sporting goods places (these would be the least expensive, I have seen them as low as five bucks, but you lose one hand for doing work as you have to keep squeezing), and you can get flashlights that you shake for a few moments/minutes to get some light for a few moments/minutes.

With that said, any of the LED based flashlights you can score most anyplace with good quality batteries will last a LONG time in normal use compared to a normal incandescent styled bulb. The biggest problem there is that they last so long the batteries might corrode on ya before the juice runs out.

Re:Pot to piss in...

[Technician]

This might be good to potty train kids but I don't see its function in a rest stop.

Knowing my kids, this would hardly be used to improve hygene. When they run out of proper game tokens, they will move on to other things to continue the game such as fingers. Somehow having the kids play games with the touch screen in a urnal does not seem like a way to improve hygene.