What technology are you eagerly anticipating hitting mainstream?

[Dragnov]

The self-driving cars. Although I dont' think it will be mainstream in my lifetime.

Have sex while the car is driving!

 

[Miramonti]

I want a fast portable pc that I can use wirelessly to surf any website while traveling, use it as a cell phone, mp3 player and pda etc. etc. - ALL in one.

I guess some may be out already, but it needs to work anywhere in the country.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
dang MachFive , that sounds like a good idea

I like it.

 

[waylman]

virtual virtual sex

 

[Luagsch]

me thinks of shadowrun-stuff: implants, implants and implants.

 

Cure for cancer and aids.

 

[Luagsch]

Originally posted by: SammySon
Cure for cancer and aids.

w00t: then we can again start smoking and fvck whoever we want

but seriously: good call here.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Besides the android pleasure-bots?

I'm still waiting for the commercial space industry to arrive and make a lunar vaction possible.

Thanks to Ashcroft we're getting 1984, why can't we have 2001 instead? (Hopefully without 1999 while I'm there.)

 

[gotsmack]

Mpeg4 camcorders that don't have choppy vodeo and records at hdtv resolutions.

30fps doesn't cut it, I'm thinking they need more like 45-60fps.

hdtv resolution mpeg4 camcorders are being released arely next year, but it will be another year or 2 before they get the video to be smooth.

 

[slackerinabox]

Originally posted by: gotsmack
Mpeg4 camcorders that don't have choppy vodeo and records at hdtv resolutions.

30fps doesn't cut it, I'm thinking they need more like 45-60fps.

hdtv resolution mpeg4 camcorders are being released arely next year, but it will be another year or 2 before they get the video to be smooth.

Don't mean to be snobby but 24fps is actually an IDEAL.. What I want is a mainstream hi-def DV camera with 24fps progressive scan.. They exist..60FPS is what standard video cameras are right.. A 60fps film standard was around but it failed miserably because it looked too much like video. trust me, unlike FPS' high frame rate is not what you want for video..

 

[everman]

Cold Fusion.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: rgwalt

Originally posted by: atom
Android pleasure-bots.

 

[phatj]

definitely alternatively fueled vehicles... hydrogen, what have you. Darn oil industry! :evil:

 

[TonyG]

I want one of the infra-red keyboards that a company developed, seemed they had plans of mass producing them but it never happened.
Also, hover technology, flying around on a board or in my car.

 

[slackerinabox]

Originally posted by: TonyG
I want one of the infra-red keyboards that a company developed, seemed they had plans of mass producing them but it never happened.
Also, hover technology, flying around on a board or in my car.

What are infra-red kbs? do you means wireless? There are plenty out there.. I had an IR wireless kb.. Sucked compared to my RF keyboard..

 

[NutBucket]

Originally posted by: everman
Cold Fusion.

DING DING DING!! We have a winnAr!

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: TonyG
I want one of the infra-red keyboards that a company developed, seemed they had plans of mass producing them but it never happened.

The IBM PC/jr had a wireless keyboard in 1984.

 

[silverpig]

Fusion power plants, fuel cells.

 

[HappyPuppy]

Back in the '50's and 60's dirty magazines used to have advertisements at the back of the mag. One of them was "The Auto Suck". You could use it while driving your car, or you could plug it into a transformer at home. It promised pleasure beyone measure.

Being a poor lad at that time, the son of hard working but struggling parents, I never had the money to send away for an "Auto Suck."

As the years passed and I became successful and acquired the discretionary income to afford the objects of my dreams I discovered that the beloved "Auto Suck" was no longer available.

I have been forced throughout my life to make do with "the real thing", you know, flesh and blood women. How crude and Neanderthal.

Just think, with an "Auto Suck" you would never again be bored while stuck in bumper to bumper traffic on the freeway. At lunchtime, while your co-workers were gossiping and wasting their time, you could be in your cubicle getting a nut.

You would never again be bored, like so many of you are, while posting worthless drivel on the Internet. You could have your "Auto Suck" distracting you between inane posts.

Yes, the "Auto Suck" is, apparently, gone. It is a grave loss to mankind but the women are grateful.

 

[CanOWorms]

Originally posted by: Gr1mL0cK
The self-driving cars. Although I dont' think it will be mainstream in my lifetime.

Have sex while the car is driving!

It's getting closer though. Carnegie-Mellon University's robotics lab (I think) made a van that drove across the country something like 99% of the time

 

[wfbberzerker]

electric children

 

[dighn]

teleportation

 

[wfbberzerker]

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Back in the '50's and 60's dirty magazines used to have advertisements at the back of the mag. One of them was "The Auto Suck". You could use it while driving your car, or you could plug it into a transformer at home. It promised pleasure beyone measure.

Being a poor lad at that time, the son of hard working but struggling parents, I never had the money to send away for an "Auto Suck."

As the years passed and I became successful and acquired the discretionary income to afford the objects of my dreams I discovered that the beloved "Auto Suck" was no longer available.

I have been forced throughout my life to make do with "the real thing", you know, flesh and blood women. How crude and Neanderthal.

Just think, with an "Auto Suck" you would never again be bored while stuck in bumper to bumper traffic on the freeway. At lunchtime, while your co-workers were gossiping and wasting their time, you could be in your cubicle getting a nut.

You would never again be bored, like so many of you are, while posting worthless drivel on the Internet. You could have your "Auto Suck" distracting you between inane posts.

Yes, the "Auto Suck" is, apparently, gone. It is a grave loss to mankind but the women are grateful.

you were that old man on the street who propositioned the guy for oral sex, weren't you.

 

[WannaFly]

Hypersonic sound!

(or is that just a voice in my head telling me )

 

[RyanM]

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Back in the '50's and 60's dirty magazines used to have advertisements at the back of the mag. One of them was "The Auto Suck". You could use it while driving your car, or you could plug it into a transformer at home. It promised pleasure beyone measure.

Being a poor lad at that time, the son of hard working but struggling parents, I never had the money to send away for an "Auto Suck."

As the years passed and I became successful and acquired the discretionary income to afford the objects of my dreams I discovered that the beloved "Auto Suck" was no longer available.

I have been forced throughout my life to make do with "the real thing", you know, flesh and blood women. How crude and Neanderthal.

Just think, with an "Auto Suck" you would never again be bored while stuck in bumper to bumper traffic on the freeway. At lunchtime, while your co-workers were gossiping and wasting their time, you could be in your cubicle getting a nut.

You would never again be bored, like so many of you are, while posting worthless drivel on the Internet. You could have your "Auto Suck" distracting you between inane posts.

Yes, the "Auto Suck" is, apparently, gone. It is a grave loss to mankind but the women are grateful.

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