Crazy looking new technology

aligator_am

Just found this vid and think it's fascinating, I know the finished product is a few years away but it's mad to think how rapidly technology has developed, doesn't seem like that long ago since everyone had one of those wash and go Nokia brick phones

Have a look and let me know what you guys think.

MODS: apologies if this isn't in the appropriate forum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKBjt5z_EcY

Biggins

Works on the same principle as the table keyboard - see: http://hubpages.com/hub/Celluon_CL850_Laser_Keyboard

There is also a wall projection systems too.

IvySlayer

I want an LCARS keyboard/desktop

evil_seed

Minority Report

AnonoBoy

I got one of those yokes alright. I use it all the time.

Handy as feck.

For instance, I ran a search on you there alligator_am and came up with this link: Look familiar?

D'Agger

The TED talks are great for seeing whats coming around the bend regarding technology, always keep an eye out for them

mahamageehad

Thats unbelievable crazy stuff!!!

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Has anyone used a Commodore 64 lately???

Now thats crazy technology!!!!

Load the tape before you go to work just so you can play it when u get home.

Liamario

I can't see that progressing into a mainstream product to be honest.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Good luck trying to text while driving!

nyarlothothep

IvySlayer wrote: »

I want an LCARS keyboard/desktop

LCARS is a pretty bad interface no? I mean one button can take up half the screen and when you press the graphics none of them light up to show they're activated. Also 3d representations will have 1992 quality pixellation.

starbelgrade

Ted: I think it might work, Dougal. I know it'll work. It will work.

Dougal: It won't work, will it Ted?

Ted: ...It won't, no.

jd007

AnonoBoy wrote: »

For instance, I ran a search on you there alligator_am and came up with this link: Look familiar?

Jesus!! Change your profile pic OP!

AnonoBoy

Liamario wrote: »

I can't see that progressing into a mainstream product to be honest.

Nope.

Them 'home computers' didn't take off either.

DubMedic

Alt 1977.

My name is URL

If it hasn't got 3 boobs it isn't worth a fcuk

Mr Benevolent

Those TED lectures are piss. Soon as I saw Bill Clinton on the list of lecturers I laughed. Biggest group ego massage ever. And that technology is sh!t.

L.Jenkins

That shít is fúcking cool. I want one!

Pauleta

Witchcraft :mad:

Seriously though, that is amazing.

fonecrusher1

Bet ya there wasn't a dry crotch in the house after they showed that projected number pad on the big screen.

Bonito

My name is URL wrote: »

If it hasn't got 3 boobs it isn't worth a fcuk

redtube.com -> Search -> Chernobyl.


NSFW.

maninasia

Too much information = Not Useful

D'Agger

maninasia wrote: »

Too much information = Not Useful

Unless you can filter it:

D'Agger

Confab wrote: »

Those TED lectures are piss. Soon as I saw Bill Clinton on the list of lecturers I laughed. Biggest group ego massage ever. And that technology is sh!t.

Yeah inviting people with deep pockets who could potentially invest in products featured - moronic alltogether!

Elbow

benwavner wrote: »

Good luck trying to text while driving!

Tut Tut :P

maninasia

PaulieC wrote: »

Yeah inviting people with deep pockets who could potentially invest in products featured - moronic alltogether!

They are one-sided lecture type ads promoting things. It would be better to have a debate format, there is always more than one side to things.

D'Agger

maninasia wrote: »

They are one-sided lecture type ads promoting things. It would be better to have a debate format, there is always more than one side to things.

True but isn't TED where new tech is unveiled as such, if I was promoting a technology I'd spent ages developing then I'd certainly want to use TED to promote it - without debate, the debate can begin once the tech progresses towards actually coming to fruition.

Obviously there's more than one side to things but I think TED is good for giving a snipet of where the next great piece of technology could come from - like the mobile phone projector idea in the OP - who knows what that could spawn

syklops

Biggins wrote: »

Works on the same principle as the table keyboard - see: http://hubpages.com/hub/Celluon_CL850_Laser_Keyboard

There is also a wall projection systems too.

The reviews for them aren't that great though. Typing on a flat table gives you sore fingers and joints, because on a normal keyboard the springs beneath the keys act as shock absorbers, and reduce the effect on fingers and finger joints.

There is also greater room for mis-typing. On a regular keyboard, there is a sound after each key press, and a physical result of the key press(the key goes down). With the table keyboard there is no physical result, so when typing at a medium to fast rate, there is a greater chance of errors, with a lesser chance of spotting typos.

If your typing quite quickly, and your finger does not strike the key correctly, you usually know you mis-typed and can check what you have written very quickly(often within less than a second). Typing on a flat surface with no feedback, means you have to concentrate harder on what you are typing.

Some of these new technologies are great, but alot of them are a step backwards. Touch screen desktops would be an example of this.

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The_Minister

aligator_am wrote: »

Just found this vid and think it's fascinating, I know the finished product is a few years away but it's mad to think how rapidly technology has developed, doesn't seem like that long ago since everyone had one of those wash and go Nokia brick phones

Have a look and let me know what you guys think.

MODS: apologies if this isn't in the appropriate forum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKBjt5z_EcY

Soc > Expand Your Horizons

maninasia

PaulieC wrote: »

True but isn't TED where new tech is unveiled as such, if I was promoting a technology I'd spent ages developing then I'd certainly want to use TED to promote it - without debate, the debate can begin once the tech progresses towards actually coming to fruition.

Obviously there's more than one side to things but I think TED is good for giving a snipet of where the next great piece of technology could come from - like the mobile phone projector idea in the OP - who knows what that could spawn

Sure they are fun to watch, you can get a heads up on what people are working on. But they are not deep enough or multi-sided enough to learn anything. The same goes with programs on the National Geographic or Discovery channel (if you have ever seen them). They come across as promotional events aka Steve Jobs latest product launch . What you can really learn from are looking at people arguing different points of view, then look into some of the references they give. Ted is style over substance.

I thought the whole project things onto a cornflakes box or hand pretty lame myself. I've no time to do that. There are better technologies where you could just pick it up and sensors in your phone and box could give a run down on it. But in the end it's usually too much faffing around.

D'Agger

maninasia wrote: »

Sure they are fun to watch, you can get a heads up on what people are working on. But they are not deep enough or multi-sided enough to learn anything. The same goes with programs on the National Geographic or Discovery channel (if you have ever seen them). They come across as promotional events aka Steve Jobs latest product launch . What you can really learn from are looking at people arguing different points of view, then look into some of the references they give. Ted is style over substance.

Fair point, I just think they make interesting viewing, even if they are one sided I'd still watch them.

I thought the whole project things onto a cornflakes box or hand pretty lame myself. I've no time to do that. There are better technologies where you could just pick it up and sensors in your phone and box could give a run down on it. But in the end it's usually too much faffing around.

Same here - don't see myself going around with multi-coloured finger covers trying to find "the most environmentally friendly toilet paper" - I do think the video I posted about Pivot to be good though. Studied it in college this year - could be very usefull in taking way too much data and processing it into information that's useful - depending on the person using it.

fonecrusher1

FFS its basically a little computer linked up to a projector that you hang off your neck....:rolleyes:

Load-a-bollox.

maninasia

There are many companies working on analytics of data in the US. Big companies and government like to use them but they tend to work with big concrete datasets. As for picking up on a new idea, maybe. But you may also lose out on ideas by spending too much time looking at analysis of fixed data instead of going onsite and seeing what happens with your own two eyes.

Plus, the analysis of any situation is only as good as the data put in. How do you know that data is correct, do you know if it is relevant? I know these systems are being promoted by software companies but I think they will miss out on the big picture or little details sometimes. The world isn't all online. I wanted to download the pivot app to check it but then I saw it would record a history of every website I have visited...no way!

They can be useful, according to the application. However for personal use they need to be easily integrable into phones or glasses so you don't have to be lugging more crap everywhere.

D'Agger

maninasia wrote: »

Plus, the analysis of any situation is only as good as the data put in. How do you know that data is correct, do you know if it is relevant? I know these systems are being promoted by software companies but I think they will miss out on the big picture or little details sometimes. The world isn't all online.

The internet is never wrong I wouldn't need pivot myself tbh - but from where I'm coming from - Pivot is the first type of software like this I've seen. As I've said in a previous post - it'll be interesting to see what it spawns. Who's to say they can't improve the integrity of the data being put in etc. etc. - Again it's open to interpretation but to return to the main argument, imo, the TED talks have shown me new upcoming technologies worth looking into, not all of course, but I don't agree that these talks are completely useless tbh - they're a good starting point for discovering new techs - once you look into them further to get a balanced picture

I wanted to download the pivot app to check it but then I saw it would record a history of every website I have visited...no way!

Doesn't google chrome do the same with regard to your browsing history?? It annoys me how much data applications are gobbling up about you as a person - Google in particular, was watching a documentary recently - "Google - behind the screen" and most of the top execs. looked anxious and side stepped alot of questions when asked why they needed to obtain so much data about their users - it's worrying imho.