A Tricorder. All of those sensors that can tell you everything about anything...
Funny how the jet pack never really worked out. Figgered they'd have that perfected long ago.but the OP constraint that it has to be a plausibly near-future tech kind of rules it out, along with 90% of the obvious answers.
Failing that, a James Bond
Definitely a hoverboard, or ironman suit, or some other combination of compact power source + propulsion device (or energy-less propulsion, not sure if hoverboards actually had a power generator). Would be the fastest way to change the way our species operates in a few million ways.
Did hoverboards have a power generator? As far as I could tell it was just some handwavey 'magic magnet' that kept it upright.None of that is possible without a high output generator
Did hoverboards have a power generator? As far as I could tell it was just some handwavey 'magic magnet' that kept it upright.
Hell Biff even had a complicated jet thruster thing going on, if it was already powered it wouldn't need that. Just put another pad on the backside.
well what exactly constitutes 'legit tech' from a movie that we don't already have? If it's 'legit' then we already have it yeah?Op said legit tech. The movie hoverboard is not possible period.
well what exactly constitutes 'legit tech' from a movie that we don't already have? If it's 'legit' then we already have it yeah?
We got people in here bringing up transforming motorcycles, fusion generators, and time machines, but you throw shade at a hoverboard?
Shrug, we already have fan-propulsion hoverboards right now, and musk is putting stupid monopropellant thrusters into cars, that ain't too far of a leap from beta iron man suit.legit as in possible and in a reasonable time frame. Time machine and hoverboards are fantasies. Transforming bike in that movie is a remote possibility.
This is super cool but will probably kill you in a New York minute.
Food replicator…so I don’t have to watch YouTube food videos and just drool but can enjoy as well.
no, it will just kill us off faster. I mean the inventor of Segway drove off a cliff... imagine 3D movement.Shrug, we already have fan-propulsion hoverboards right now, and musk is putting stupid monopropellant thrusters into cars, that ain't too far of a leap from beta iron man suit.
Not saying those specifically are feasible/practical, my whole point was that a low power micro-propulsion, or very high energy generator with a moderate-power micro-propulsion system would massively change how mankind operates, beyond things like a tricorder or whatever.
We got too many people anyway. Consider it a way to extend our climate change induced dieoff.no, it will just kill us off faster. I mean the inventor of Segway drove off a cliff... imagine 3D movement.
Weight to fuel ratio was always an issue. They're getting close with battery tech though.Funny how the jet pack never really worked out. Figgered they'd have that perfected long ago.
Apparently there are some super short duration thrill ride type units, but nothing for any long duration travel or commuting.
Op said legit tech. The movie hoverboard is not possibleperiodWITH CURRENT TECHNOLOGY BUT EASILY POSSIBLE DOWN THE ROAD.
Fixed.
Seriously something like a real hoverboard eventually being made isn't even much of a stretch.
How? What scientific principle will it be based on? We cannot even detect graviton yet.
You've answered your own question. Impressive!
(think of all the formerly "impossible" things we now do routinely)
not too sure about that one, from what I understand she was not anything like Elizabeth Taylor but more like Richard Burtonyeah theres actually a crapload of problems with time travel.
Dont care.
I wanna see Cleopatra fucking.
Don't make a rookie mistake with your time machine. Like going back in time and killing Hitler.To find out details, cuz frankly the Warren Commission did a shit job.
BUT, stopping Kennedy's death could have far reaching implications and maybe some of them would be terrible.
Cannot risk a paradox. Might destroy the universe.
Don't make a rookie mistake with your time machine. Like going back in time and killing Hitler.
Me? Going back to 1980. Apple stock!!