Something small enough to take salt out of water should be able to remove bacteria, silt and other large molecules that make water bad to drink. You may need to run it through another filter to make it drinkable but the vast majority of contaminants should already be removed.
JJust use laser projection?
Combine http://www.virtualdevices.net/ with laser projection and you'd have an interface nearly anywhere. Granted you'd need a surface to project on but in the urban environment that shouldn't be too hard to find. That and with spoken commands you should be able to control the device just fine.
I'm just going to wait for the flexible displays. Then I can buy one big display and flex it around in an arc. I think that would be way better than $1200 for 3 displays. If they are smart with the new tech when this kind of stuff comes out then you will be able to have as many 'view boxes' as you want on a single display. That way one display can be as many as you want. If you had the cash you could even do a full wrap around display, heck maybe they will make display domes.
It is a much more complex matter to make a system that is capable of driving itself with out guides. A functioning system is used in making 'bots' for computer games. They have way points and directions built into the map. Why not use something like that for our highways. Just use a simple cheep method of indicating where the road lanes are and what is up ahead.
Use a system much like they use in shopping centers to keep people from stealing merchandise. Put those emitting strips in the road itself spaced out. Each 'tone' indicates what lane you are in. It would not cost all that much and the tech to detect them could be installed in cars. You could even use strings of tones to tell cars what's up ahead.
Then cars can detect what's going on around them and where they are. That would make it much more possible to have the car drive from one place to another with minimal costs.
A lot more would go into it but the system could be implemented easy enough for now.
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Something small enough to take salt out of water should be able to remove bacteria, silt and other large molecules that make water bad to drink. You may need to run it through another filter to make it drinkable but the vast majority of contaminants should already be removed.
JJust use laser projection? Combine http://www.virtualdevices.net/ with laser projection and you'd have an interface nearly anywhere. Granted you'd need a surface to project on but in the urban environment that shouldn't be too hard to find. That and with spoken commands you should be able to control the device just fine.
Not necessarily so. http://www.liftport.com/
I'm just going to wait for the flexible displays. Then I can buy one big display and flex it around in an arc. I think that would be way better than $1200 for 3 displays. If they are smart with the new tech when this kind of stuff comes out then you will be able to have as many 'view boxes' as you want on a single display. That way one display can be as many as you want. If you had the cash you could even do a full wrap around display, heck maybe they will make display domes.
It is a much more complex matter to make a system that is capable of driving itself with out guides. A functioning system is used in making 'bots' for computer games. They have way points and directions built into the map. Why not use something like that for our highways. Just use a simple cheep method of indicating where the road lanes are and what is up ahead. Use a system much like they use in shopping centers to keep people from stealing merchandise. Put those emitting strips in the road itself spaced out. Each 'tone' indicates what lane you are in. It would not cost all that much and the tech to detect them could be installed in cars. You could even use strings of tones to tell cars what's up ahead. Then cars can detect what's going on around them and where they are. That would make it much more possible to have the car drive from one place to another with minimal costs. A lot more would go into it but the system could be implemented easy enough for now.