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Predict a future technology

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  • #32
    beano345
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭beano345


    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    Pills?

    Yeah except without the come down and jaw grinding!


  • #33
    philstar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭philstar


    (i hope) a car in which the steering wheel and pedals can move from the right hand side to the left at the click of a switch, it'll make driving on the continent much easier


  • #34
    Technophobe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭Technophobe


    I have a funny feeling that some super car will be invented.. Something like a de Lorean that can time travel..
    ...nah probably not...


  • #35
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Prints page.


  • #36
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Real time location info on all aircraft, the unturnoffable type.

    Not like the old one that anyone could switch off.


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  • #37
    Legs.Eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I have a vibrating contraption for mine.


    Yes but these vibrating toothcleanermacgooglelators still involve moving the feckin' thing around the mouth. Had one and hated it as well. Something you can stick in your gob (oooh patron etc etc) that does the job in second. Like one of them snazzy Dyson hand dryers that dry your hands with one insert. Ye dig?


  • #38
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Bolt cutters that turn into handcuffs when used by low-life bicycle thieves.


  • #39
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    beano345 wrote: »
    A mood changer, some kinda device that you hit a button and changes your brainwaves or whatever (I let some one else figure that out) to happy

    We have that already, it's called booze.


  • #40
    .Henry Sellers.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 567 ✭✭✭.Henry Sellers.


    A force field that covers your body so if you fall it 100% protects you from injury, or a mouthpiece that works like a fishes gills so you can breath underwater without having the need of oxygen tanks.


  • #41
    ziedth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,081 ✭✭✭ziedth


    I reckon there will be holographic cinema/TVs sit there and the technology fills the room somehow.

    As much of a gimmick as 3D is the jump in quality between say watching Gravity and watching Jaws 3D thirty odd years ago is staggering. So 50 years from now who knows.


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  • #42
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    A machine that cleans your teeth thoroughly in seconds. Can't believe we're still scrubbing away with toothbrushes in 2014!

    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I have a vibrating contraption for mine.

    WikiHow wrote: »
    Womenn have them, a vibrator.


    Puts a whole different spin on "Oral B" :D


  • #43
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I have a vibrating contraption for mine.

    The joys of dentures.


  • #44
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    All electronics will harvest energy from around them with the main supplementing if more power is needed. Also tables that let you put your TV on them and electricity will flow through the base (this kind of exists already but is being focused for recharging batteries). No more wires.


  • #45
    boobar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭boobar


    Reboot

    http://carpaper.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/future-technology-gadgets.jpg


  • #46
    Aongus Von Bismarck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    Extremely fast travel in tubes. West Coast of Ireland to New York in an hour job.


  • #47
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Alpha Dog 1 wrote: »
    3d printed homes.

    ziedth wrote: »
    I reckon there will be holographic cinema/TVs sit there and the technology fills the room somehow.

    As much of a gimmick as 3D is the jump in quality between say watching Gravity and watching Jaws 3D thirty odd years ago is staggering. So 50 years from now who knows.

    shruikan2553 wrote: »
    All electronics will harvest energy from around them with the main supplementing if more power is needed. Also tables that let you put your TV on them and electricity will flow through the base (this kind of exists already but is being focused for recharging batteries). No more wires.


    Solar powered 3D printed homes with holographic walls, floors, and ceilings for the totally immersive experience! Wake up in the morning and don't like the colour of your walls? Change them, change your whole surroundings to the virtual tour of the Grand Canyon! Imagine taking a shower surrounded by scenery from Niagra Falls, then kicking back James and the Giant Peach style to explore the fascinating world of insects from the comfort of your living room... :D

    Only to be interrupted by your boss projecting into your home and telling you get back to work :(

    Needs more thought... :o


  • #48
    EoghanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭EoghanIRL


    A 3d printer which prints 3d printers .


  • #49
    beano345
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭beano345


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    Extremely fast travel in tubes. West Coast of Ireland to New York in an hour job.

    Like a blow dart pipe?


  • #50
    Dave_The_Sheep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,916 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    Sooner or later, we'll run out of space to inter our dead.

    After that, we'll end up doing what we will also end up doing with the rest of our, forgive the term, remains. Rubbish, random crap, unusable byproducts.

    Into the sun will it all go. The tech to do that cost-effectively. That's going to be worth a bloody fortune.

    Not my idea, various sci-fi books/shows/etc have referenced it at times.


  • #51
    Samsgirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,217 ✭✭✭Samsgirl


    Cloning someone to go to work for me. Preferably to be invented before 10 am tomorrow.


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  • #52
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    beano345 wrote: »
    Like a blow dart pipe?

    You mean Dorsh, surely?


  • #53
    mulamike
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15 ✭mulamike


    Body swaps by transferring your consciousness to someone else - like house swaps.


  • #54
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Its something that nobody living here in the year 2014 will ever think of

    exciting isn't it:)


  • #55
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Its something that nobody living here in the year 2014 will ever think of

    exciting isn't it:)

    You've invented a coffee-cup lid that never leaks! I'm right, I just know it. :eek::):pac:


  • #56
    Oregano_State
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭Oregano_State


    beano345 wrote: »
    A mood changer, some kinda device that you hit a button and changes your brainwaves or whatever (I let some one else figure that out) to happy

    that's what drugs do.


  • #57
    Chet T16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭Chet T16


    Smart cars with auto driving and collision avoidance. They'll report back to a central command centre so the location of every car is known which will allow for automatic traffic management and it'll all go great until a cyclist gets in the way.

    Also voice control that works.


  • #58
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    A programmable hair cutter. It looks like one of those big hair dryers that you see women sitting under in the hairdressers but there's a shaver inside it. You program in the length and style you want and it gives you the perfect haircut. It's so good it will put hairdressers and barbers out of business and no one will ever have a bad haircut again.


  • #59
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Its something that nobody living here in the year 2014 will ever think of

    exciting isn't it:)

    A 2015 calender?


  • #60
    SterlingArcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,767 ✭✭✭SterlingArcher


    Hoverboard, so I can outrun Biff and his cronies.


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  • #61
    Joe Doe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 557 ✭✭✭Joe Doe


    Pretty much everything listed here is surely possible and indeed likely already in lab development. The only catch is the IP & patent pending holders usually take 10yrs to draw up product/legal/marketing plans for maximum monetization through competitive risk reduction analysis before route to market.

    So < 10ys from now commercial retail will see graphite, nanotech, VR, AR, AI tech and regular space tourism.
    ...and industry may avail of zero-point energy, ion-pulse travel, cold nuclear fission etc.

    Anyone know if Ire has a state futurologist with outline plans for the next century underway?
    Or maybe its just lots of debt management suits n' quangos?


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