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Gadgets From the Future
prostoalex writes "A Fortune magazine editor traveled to Japan to discover the next year's technology. The 'gadgets from the future' include ultra-portable Sony VAIO UX90P, ZPN/Kenwood MIURO iPod dock, Mikimoto Beans iTheatre personal iPod theater, Sharp Vodafone 905SH mobile phone with 2.6" screen for watching videos, Nintendo Wii controller and Hitachi WOOO Blu-ray digital camcorder."
Nintendo Wii controller and Hitachi WOOO Blu-ray
*goes of to register some trademarks*
I like cheese
To the world of tomorrow!
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
I actually saw an earlier model to the Sony UX90P the last time I was at a Fry's. So those are clearly not new.
And the eyeglass-TVs have been around for probably at least a decade.
Its called an itheaterr -System.asp
http://sewelldirect.com/i-Theater-Personal-Theate
Looking at the box I'm pretty sure its the exact same thing.
Mod me up, mod me down, do your worst you modding clown.
Must be geared towards HD Nature (Boy) videos.
... is the Blu-Ray camcorder production has halted until they find that secret stash of blue diodes... Should resume sometime in the next 2-5 years.
I don't have a microwave. I do, however, have a clock that occasionally cooks shit.
YANKEES done 9/11 Junior. RIP Corey Bin Ladle
Will the ZPN/Kenwood MIURO work with Zune?
1. Order 20 Vaio UX280Ps from Compusa.com http://tinyurl.com/ylkn5a
2. Mark them up and sell them at twice the price as VAIO UX90Ps
3. ???
4. Profit!
I was just feeling silly...
>Nintendo Wii controller and Hitachi WOOO Blu-ray
First the "Wii" and now the "WOOO?" What the hell is going on over there? Is there some sort of embargo on Japanese phonems these days? Like they ran out of all the other constantants and have to use up their surplus of "W" sounds before they can order more. Did they fire off all the marketing weasels and hire an offshore preschool class as replacements? I don't get it. (shakes head in disbelief)
What a load of shiny, boring shit.
On the trip, his guide was Hiro Nakamura, who kept muttering something about cheerleaders....
Mikimoto Beans iTheatre
Attach a video iPod, game device, or multimedia cellphone, and two two-inch LCD displays embedded in these geeky but stylish goggles create the effect of a 50-inch TV hovering before your eyes
these things have been around for quite some time and they always parade them around in next-gen magazines, but they never seem to catch on.
seems like a lot of "flying car syndrome" to me
Right, there's a joke.
Good. Cheap. Fast. Pick Two.
Ah, Fortune again. Is it Forbes day off ?
One man. From the Future. On an Amazing Quest. For an elusive Gadget.
The IBM 5100.
Oh, wait...
...none of the devices can send video to any of the other devices thanks to DRM.
Looks like I'm going to have to buy the MIB again.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Panasonic Giant-eyed Android Girlfriend. With attachments. Special bukkake tolerance and tentacle action upgrades extra.
Nintendo Real-Live Novelty Puppies that look like latest faddish breed that expire and turn into harmless powder when kids lose interest.
Mitusui Otaku Isolation Pod Apartments with Gigabit Ethernet and pneumatic tube system for delivering toys, take-out food.
He doesn't even know how to spell wiimote. It's pretty obvious.
You know, an appliance specifically designed for accessing and playing YouTube movies. Well, where is it? Does it exist?
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I'm afraid the iPod Theater will make me look like I'm on my way to the Star Trek Convention, good thing I won't be buying one any time soon. Usually those kinds of things are disorienting (especially during action movies!), and those that I've tried don't even work very well. I say, put your money into buying a real 50"screen rather than a simulation.
Braking system? I... I... I just want a flying car. They said I could have a flying car. Where's my flying car? That sinking prototype on Ebay wasn't even "sky-legal."
:(
I wanna flying car! Sniffle.
Just stay in your lane, and don't hog the road from those of us with jetpacks, sonny.
We have rights too!
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"...never produces anything useful except pedo rape animu."
Who the fuck in their right mind would think pedo rape animu is useful except a pedo rapist.
I can understand some of the other projects, but the Wiimote? It's not available in Japan, either. Moreover, the Wii launches in the US (Nov 19th) before it launches in Japan (Dec 2nd).
Apparently, the future is now just 14 days away!
But can it run Linux???
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
They're just tired retreads of existing products. Future should mean completely original and innovative. This is just future as next Sunday AD.
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I predict the next year's hot gadgets will be a fax-enabled rice cooker closely followed by a rice cooking fax machine.
If you ask me, the real story is here. Right next to the aforementioned article.
The "Wii" gets a second mention in this article, for the name alone.
Also in the lineup; Sony's Li-Ion IED's, X-Men III Video Game, Paperless Voting Systems, and last--but certainly not least--Windows Vista.
My personal favorite is the bit about Ultra-mobile PC's.
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cheeeeeeese...
Must . . . scrub . . . frontal lobes . . .
The iPod theater headset has been around for over a decade now, this one is just a retool of the "virtual TV" sold during the 90s. I can't believe they're calling this new.
Took me half a second to find a varient being sold online:
http://www.audio-outfitters.com/ezVision.html
Just because you can mod me down, doesn't mean you're right. Shoes for industry!
more phones, video players and ipod accessories. All slight improvments on an existing theme, nothing innovative.
Ho hum.
Where's my robotic manservant or flying car?
Those have been around forever since around 2000 - 2001, and they keep reappearing as the next thing to be "the new gadget" but seems never to do. Maybe ipod v5 will make them sort of relevant. But I doubt it. People don't want to be caught with nerd helments like that. I don't know if I want one, since the rez on them is so low.
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if they'd get a bit higher resolution it would be alirght.
These ones alot cooler, look like you are from spliter cell, sort of:
http://www.mikimoto-japan.com/beans/beans_hmd/nex
Maybe can do terminator thing as well, if there is an input on it.