Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

Things that should be here technologically already/Technology suppression

24

Comments

  • #32
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    longshanks wrote: »
    Give me some whiskey and two Scarlett Johansons please holodeck. One blonde, one brunette.

    What about red headed Scarlett...?

    Give me three Scarlett Johanssons please holodeck...

    Ah, technology ain't it great. 3 more scarletts and 3 beyonce chasers please, and whatever you're having yourself holodeck.


  • #33
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    kingtiger wrote: »
    ahh its been done

    http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/07/storedots-bio-organic-battery-tech-can-charge-from-flat-to-full-in-30-seconds/

    Now we just need it as a consumer product


  • #34
    Dramatik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 932 ✭✭✭Dramatik


    I wish someone would invent silent lawn mowers and silent hoovers, I'm sick of being woken up from a nice kip by either one of these items.


  • #35
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Why cant they just design a Concorde that holds 400 people (800 at that speed is ambitious) and charge passengers an extra premium? Its a no brainer.

    If its a no brainer why don't you design and produce one.


  • #36
    Stainless_Steel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭Stainless_Steel


    Get an engineering degree. You will then understand to some degree what these hair brain ideas take to implement.

    You will then be told how daft you are when you ask your board for capital approval.

    You will then be out of a job as a loony engineer.

    You will then not ask stupid questions on the internet.

    You will then have more time to use the internet as a masturbation aid.


  • Advertisement
  • #37
    Echoes675
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 256 ✭✭Echoes675


    Hoverboards! We've all wanted one since we saw Marty McFly with one in Back To The Future pt2!!


  • #38
    Gbear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    Tail Docker wrote: »
    A car that does 200 mpg. Where's the profit in that? Going by the computer industry, we should have cars that cost €3000 and do that mileage in their sleep.

    There's nothing in particular that makes computers twice as cheap/powerful every 18 months but it's just a general trend in efficiency and technological development.

    I don't think there's any particular reason it doesn't apply to the combustion engines but there's no reason why it would either.
    I doubt it applies to the efficiency in mining, production of textiles or farming yields either.

    If you look at companies like Tesla, clearly you can find a market for super-efficient cars and it would be in companies' interests to make them.

    The sabotage they're facing from the car industry's cosy relationship with the state in the US has been a stumbling block but it hasn't stopped them from trying and, as far as I know, succeeding.

    I don't think the logic lay-people use to make claims about technology being held back are usually underpinned by a good enough understanding of the relevant engineering problems.


  • #39
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,245 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    If we can send man to the moon and and un-manned missions to Mars why cant we fully charge a smartphone in 60 seconds or a Tablet in 2 minutes?
    Short version: fast charging means sending the energy over the wires in a shorter period of time (more power), which would take thicker wires and generate more heat in the process, something the batteries don't like either. The only way around the power/heat problem is superconductors, a subject getting intensive research.

    There are fast charging stations for electric cars (like ESBs), which are beefed-up to give an 80% charge in 25 mins instead of 4-6 hours, but you don't want to do that every time. A 2-minute phone charge is a bit much to expect with current electrical technology.

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • #40
    Calibos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,935 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Some peoples expectations of new tech discoveries/developments is akin to someone in the 80's reading about the new fangled brick mobile phones and exclaiming that Motorola are holding back their iPhone beating smartphone because they want to drip feed us the tech and sell us a new mobile phone every year or two between 1984 and 2014.


  • #41
    The One Doctor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,322 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    If we can send man to the moon and and un-manned missions to Mars why cant we fully charge a smartphone in 60 seconds or a Tablet in 2 minutes?

    Ive a funny feeling Apple already have the capability to give us the specs of the iPhone 10 tomorrow, but that would get in the way of things like making money ;)

    What are some of the things that you think should be here technologically already and what technology do you think is suppressed?

    And how would charging a phone in 60 seconds make a difference to your life exactly?

    Chances are that if it charged in 60 seconds you'd just whine about it not charging in 10 seconds.


  • Advertisement
  • #42
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,606 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    kingtiger wrote: »
    its a prototype

    its just shows that its possible

    Iirc you can only cycle it a few times.


  • #43
    Hoop66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,273 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    eoin_mcg wrote: »
    Hoverboards! We've all wanted one since we saw Marty McFly with one in Back To The Future pt2!!

    I don't. I always thought he looked like a smug prick on that thing.


  • #44
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    The One Doctor wrote: »
    And how would charging a phone in 60 seconds make a difference to your life exactly?

    Because it would charge in 60 seconds.


  • #45
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Stainless_Steel wrote: »
    Get an engineering degree. You will then understand to some degree what these hair brain ideas take to implement.

    You will then be told how daft you are when you ask your board for capital approval.

    You will then be out of a job as a loony engineer.

    You will then not ask stupid questions on the internet.

    You will then have more time to use the internet as a masturbation aid.

    The brutal truth :pac:


  • #46
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    bnt wrote: »
    The only way around the power/heat problem is superconductors, a subject getting intensive research.

    Will they eventually be as cheap to make as standard chargers? Thats all Apple and Samsung will care about


  • #47
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    Biccies that make the tea for you.


  • #48
    JohnMarston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,881 ✭✭✭JohnMarston


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Screw that,
    Bring on Replicator technology.

    I second this. First thing i'll be ordering is an Earl Grey. Hot


  • #49
    Bongalongherb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Like this

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-JFPePh6yM

    Hologram computers should have existed years ago, but no sign of them still.
    IvaBigWun;91733984]Like this.

    Or like this...


  • #50
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    You can keep your futuristic phones and your food replicators, I'd be delighted with just this:



    Although less claw-like would be good.


  • #51
    Bongalongherb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    Candie wrote: »
    You can keep your futuristic phones and your food replicators, I'd be delighted with just this:



    Although less claw-like would be good.

    I wouldnt mind one of those devices to change my hair from grey to any colour, that would be nice :D


  • Advertisement
  • #52
    Shakespeare's Sister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭Shakespeare's Sister


    Silly no? When a rocket-ship explodes... and everybody still wants to fly.


  • #53
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,833 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    When will they make a hoseless hoover.

    feckin hardship dragging the bloody yoke around the furniture.


  • #54
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Stainless_Steel wrote: »

    You will then have more time to use the internet as a masturbation aid.

    So much porn. Such little time.


  • #55
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    When will they make a hoseless hoover.

    feckin hardship dragging the bloody yoke around the furniture.

    Sure you can even get one in Aldi that you don't have to operate yourself!

    http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/technology/robot-wars-is-aldi-s-robot-vacuum-cleaner-up-to-the-task-1.1741741


  • #56
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Bongalongherb wrote: »


    Or like this...


    Looks nothing like him?


  • #57
    mad muffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    alan4cult wrote: »
    Because we didn't send a man to the moon.

    Neil Armstrong's fist says otherwise.


  • #58
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Davarus Walrus wrote: »
    Japanese shîtters. They have heated seats, jets of warm water and warm air, phone docking stations and a modesty button you can press to block out the sounds of a particularly unpleasant movement. None of these features have made it to toilets in Europe.

    Or the Middle East, a bowl to even sit on would be a nice touch.


  • #59
    Mal-Adjusted
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,659 ✭✭✭Mal-Adjusted


    For technology supression, i'd imagine the electric car.


  • #60
    Dayum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 687 ✭✭✭Dayum


    We can send robots to discover Mars and yet large aviation companies are still working with 60's technology. We should be eating breakfast in Dublin and Dinner in Sydney at half the price we're paying now.


  • Advertisement
  • #61
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    Will they hurry up with affordable 3D printers so I can download a house, a car and a gun. Just to answer the anti-piracy dips.


Advertisement
Advertisement