Name a technology you'd like to see in the near future

[Muse]

-----> https://www.amazon.com/OXO-Good-Grips-POP-Container/dp/B000VJ08RK/ <------

I also use a vacuum sealer & food buckets with gamma-seal lids (twist-on lids with ring gaskets). The bonus with most vacuum sealers is that they have a seal-only function, so if you're done eating half a bag of chips, you can push the air out, stick it in the machine, and heat-seal it back together to extend the life & prevent bugs from getting inside.

Those (off Amazon things) are eye popping expensive. What I do with chips, cereal, etc. is remove the screw on lidded bottles, whether glass or plastic, of which I have ample supply from previous store purchases. Doesn't suck out the air, so that's a negative. I refresh the chips in my toaster oven. That freshens even chips from just-opened bags in a couple of minutes + cool down.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Waaaaay more genetic engineering.

 

[Red Squirrel]

A GPS in every airliner and the air traffic control system to stop relying almost solely on radar. It's not like we've had reliable GPS technology for decades or anything.

Basically what ADS-B does.

 

[Paladin3]

Basically what ADS-B does.

Sweet! It will be nice when it's fully implemented, but it does seem like it was a long time coming.

 

[Paladin3]

Seems dicey - relying on onboard systems. Active ground radar and ground observers are more ... surefire. You can detect / locate UFOs without them identifying themselves.

Flying isn't purely a matter of navigating waypoints.

I'm no expert, but I don't think anyone sane is talking about removing the human element entirely in favor of going onboard systems only. And it's not like GPS is some new, unproven tech we can't trust at all. The system we have now is crazy outdated. The ADS-B system Red Squirrel mentioned sounds like a fantastic step up from the little bit I've just read.

 

[Muse]

I would buy a cooking robot in a heartbeat.

I arguably already have cooking robots:

My bread machine
Blender with food processor attachment
Microwave oven
Toaster Oven
Refrigerator/Freezer
Searchable recipes database / Searchable internet
Telephones (but I never order pizza!)

Ah, but I'd trade them all for a good woman!

 

[Muse]

This might exist, don't know, but couldn't find it when I tried:

If I close my browser or it crashes or I restart my Win10 PC, I will be informed when I restart the browser how many windows and tabs were open. I'd like to be able to find that out without closing the browser or restarting the machine.

 

[Carson Dyle]

This might exist, don't know, but couldn't find it when I tried:

If I close my browser or it crashes or I restart my Win10 PC, I will be informed when I restart the browser how many windows and tabs were open. I'd like to be able to find that out without closing the browser or restarting the machine.

So you just want a count of the tabs you have open?

Tab Count extension for Chrome

 

[Kaido]

I arguably already have cooking robots:

My bread machine
Blender with food processor attachment
Microwave oven
Toaster Oven
Refrigerator/Freezer
Searchable recipes database / Searchable internet
Telephones (but I never order pizza!)

Ah, but I'd trade them all for a good woman!

If I had a dollar for every marriage proposal I've gotten since I've learned how to cook, I could have bought an island by now

 

[dasherHampton]

Assisted living robots can't come soon enough. Long term care insurance will soon be out of reach for normal Americans.

Even if they're prohibitively expensive, say $100,000, they still will easily pay for themselves fairly quickly for people who don't want to shell out $120,000 a year to exist in a decent nursing home or assisted living facility.

They would need to have the ability to help an older person with limited mobility bathe themselves, dispense medicine, provide an AI companion to play chess or checkers or CoD with, control things like lawn mowing and floor cleaning robots, load and unload a dishwasher etc.

 

[Muse]

If I had a dollar for every marriage proposal I've gotten since I've learned how to cook, I could have bought an island by now

Hey, I can cook, but not like you. Um, I'm not proposing here...

 

[Muse]

So you just want a count of the tabs you have open?

Tab Count extension for Chrome

But I've never run Chrome. On this XP machine I'm running Opera, actually. On my Windows 10 machines, Firefox or Mozilla offshoot Pale Moon. Or Edge if I have the notion for whatever reason.

Edit - Looks like there's a Tab Counter for Firefox, gonna try it out.

 

[Muse]

Assisted living robots can't come soon enough. Long term care insurance will soon be out of reach for normal Americans.

Even if they're prohibitively expensive, say $100,000, they still will easily pay for themselves fairly quickly for people who don't want to shell out $120,000 a year to exist in a decent nursing home or assisted living facility.

They would need to have the ability to help an older person with limited mobility bathe themselves, dispense medicine, provide an AI companion to play chess or checkers or CoD with, control things like lawn mowing and floor cleaning robots, load and unload a dishwasher etc.

I kind of imagine that cheaper assisted living situations that aren't too bad that are remarkably cheaper will develop before too long considering the aging of our population.

 

[kage69]

Something that prevents your wife from putting expensive, finely honed knives in the dishwasher.

 

[Muse]

Something that prevents your wife from putting expensive, finely honed knives in the dishwasher.

I like to dry them after washing to prevent oxidation of the edge. I do the same with my shaving equipment and store where the humidity is low. My razors last a really long time, therefore.

 

[yhelothar]

Delivery drones.

An automatic cooking machine that's like the Keurig (China is coming out with some).

A biometric device that collects an assortment of health vitals and can be used with machine learning algorithms for precision diagnosis and early prevention, or provide health suggestions for preventative action.

An automatic clothes folding machine.

Eradication of mosquitos (we have the technology for it now called the Gene drive.)

 

[Ichinisan]

Eradication of mosquitos (we have the technology for it now called the Gene drive.)

I'm sure there would be devastating unintended ecological consequences.

 

[IronWing]

I'm sure there would be devastating unintended ecological consequences.

Totally worth it.

 

[SKORPI0]

 

[Kaido]

An automatic clothes folding machine.

Boy do I have news for you:

 

[Muse]

I'm sure there would be devastating unintended ecological consequences.

I've often wondered. Not so sure. Some species eat mosquitoes, but is it essential to their survival? Bats, birds, maybe some lizards. I doubt it. I think we might survive their disappearance easily. The upside would be enormous.

 

[KeithP]

I like to see a system where your internet traffic is constantly monitored. Then, after 30 days, you would receive a email with a bunch of links to information presenting opposing viewpoints to those you appear to hold.

You would not be allowed to view anything else on the internet until you read the information in those web pages and passed a test on the content proving you read it. Only after doing so would you be allowed back on the unfiltered internet.

You won't have to agree to opposing viewpoints but you will have to prove you understand them or no internet for you.

-KeithP

 

[lxskllr]

Found soldering chick's mother!

 

[zinfamous]

I'm sure there would be devastating unintended ecological consequences.

maybe not, really. IIRC, there isn't a critter out there that depends on mosquitoes as a significant part of their diet. I think for bats, which eat tons of mosquitoes, it's maybe 1% or less of their diet? I do think it's fine to assume the worst when one begins suggesting eradicating an entire phylogeny or, at least, the specific species that are vectors for the worst diseases (taking out aedis, and the other ankle biters, would likely eliminate yellow fever and malaria), but it may not be that big of a deal in the end. Mosquitoes aren't even serving to keep other species in check.

This mosquito expert, whose livelihood depends on mosquitoes, thinks that making them extinct is a great idea
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/07/09/the-mosquito-solution

 

[DietDrThunder]

Wow! Steaming hot pizza and no oven mitts when taking it out of the oven. The material the pizza pan is made of could make someone a fortune.