And you wonder - what next.....?

[dilsburger]

An ultra-thin twistable display screen. Pretty wild.

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/881115p-6140752c.html

[ZURKE]

Could it be the future for television screens also? Don't buy those plasmas yet.:)

[BonedAgain]

WEARABLE computer screens... what a time to be alive... :rolleyes:

BA

BTW Zurke been meaning to tell you, LOVE your tag line. Gonna get it carved on my headstone, posted on a 4x8 foot sign in my front yard, tattooed on my butt, SOMETHING :D

[ZURKE]

I guess, thanks, BonedAgain...:)

[Mark Miller]

This stuff is getting so cool. We are living in amazing times my friends.
mark

[Tamacracker]

damn flexible screens... actually is that damage proof? I mean I can imagine if you drop it on the floor by accident it wouldnt harm it... The one thing that caught me by surprise were the flexible rubber flat keyboard, my friend owns it and I like the idea of the keyboard being flexible, but the keys/buttons aren't stable (can't find the word for it) but you have to press the key right on top of it or it wont type, which made me not want to buy myself one. The one thing that is gonna shock the world is Nanotechnology... if you haven't read up in our future technology go check it out. Also they're plannin on releasing a product some time in the near future (5 years the most) that is like laser, and have no mouse nor keyboard to work with, the keyboard is layed out by the laser and you just touch the keys that are shown right in front of you. It's kinda hard to explain but in other words, if you have the money down the road, toss out your mouse and keyboard and prepare to touch nothin but air.

[Budfred]

What is interesting about this stuff is that Star Trek and similar shows keep having to upgrade their tech to reflect the fact that they are using things in our supposed future that are not always up to today's standards. The signaling device in the first Star Trek is a good example, cell phones already mimic and sometimes surpass them.

[Tamacracker]

hey bro, have you ever heard of nanotechnology goin as far into technology to the point where we wouldnt have to use planes, cars, trains and so on for a long trip.. such as a human breakin into parts smaller than atoms, and bein transferred to another area? Maybe that whole Star Trek thing would end up bein our far future...

[BonedAgain]

BudFred-I wonder when they'll come up with one of those "keyboards" like they have on Star trek, you know the ones with only 5-6 big "keys" you just wave your hands over to accomplish every conceivable task? :D

My understanding is that as far as the physics is concerned "matter transporters" are theoretically possible. Matter = energy, so if you could find a way to convert matter to it's energy equivalent, you could then transmit it with light, radio waves or the like. Trouble is, the amount of energy contained in even the smallest bit of matter (let alone an entire human) is so huge, it would be unmanageable, at least at present.

BA (non-treky :D )

[Budfred]

Matter transfer is not so much dependent on nanotech as it is Quantam physics. They did recently transport light across the Atlantic Ocean successfully. The importance of this is that it proves that transfer is possible, even though it was only light that was transferred. Note that it wasn't projecting light, it was shining it on one continent and the light being sent by quantam means to another... I don't claim to understand how this works, so I can't tell you, but it does work.

As for keyboards with a limited number of buttons to produce huge amounts of data: court transcriptionists already use something like this. A combination of keys produces whole words and allow for very rapid typing, faster than a typewriter could do it actually. With heuristics, it is quite feasible that keyboards could get much simpler. However, I believe that by the time we get to the time in which Enterprise is supposed to be set, computers will be mostly vocally controlled....

[ZURKE]

My wife being from England, I love the idea of particle transfer and all of that,but, how could they ever guaranty that you would be as you were and not have a leg sticking out of you face...ouch!

I hope they make planes go faster......:)

[BonedAgain]

Originally posted by ZURKE
My wife being from England, I love the idea of particle transfer and all of that,but, how could they ever guaranty that you would be as you were and not have a leg sticking out of you face...ouch!

Zurke-I always thought that about 2 years after the introduction of such technology there'd be great controversy that it caused cancer and or birth defects or something of the like.

[/B][/QUOTE] I hope they make planes go faster......:) [/B][/QUOTE]

Judging from the Concord experience, I'm not sure faster flights to England will, ummm, take off :eek: :D

BA

[Mark Miller]

So when are we all going to enlist and leave on the Enterprise?
Mark:D

[gracious]

Live on the Enterprise, Wowzers, could you imagine! Actually I think I would rather live on a living leviathan. Ah, to starburst anywhere in the galaxy.

I am still just amazed at the fact that I can be sitting on my butt and totally control my entertainment system with a little ole remote.:D

I remember those good ole days of having to get up and walk over to the boob tube and actually having to turn the dial knob to change channels or using the volume knob to turn up or down! Kids today just don't know how good they've got it!

[BonedAgain]

Originally posted by gracious

I remember those good ole days of having to get up and walk over to the boob tube and actually having to turn the dial knob to change channels...

Me too, grandpa! :D And black & white sets with TUBES (remember when the TV repairman would come visit???) Calculators? Computers??? I used a bamboo slide rule my 3rd year in high school (right B4 TI came out with their 1st SCIENTIFIC calculators, had an SR10 the next year! WOW! a SQUARE ROOT key!!!) Still remember one of my 1st jobs after high school, place had an adding machine with a CRANK on the side :eek:

Ahhh, memories. Soon we’ll all be wearing computer monitor t-shirts!!! :D


BA

[Budfred]

Well, since we are strolling down memory lane....

I remember a TV we had when I was quite young that had about a 6 inch screen in a console that was about the size of the average entertainment system of today. It was B&W of course...

I think I remember (I was very young) having to pay by the program to watch TV in London, I think there was even a coin box installed on the set and, of course, in living B&W....

I also remember in college that when the first calculators came out they cost hundreds of dollars and were about the size of a small textbook. The engineering and physics people went out and bought them as quick as they were available. There were stories all the next couple of years about having to keep a wary eye out in the science buildings because when someone came in with a smaller version that did more functions for hundreds of dollars less, supposedly the owners of the first versions would come flying out of their offices and fling the outdated ones across the hall at high velocity to smash against the nearest wall.... Never did find out if it was true, but it made a good story...:D :D

[pentachris]

I remember the first VCR my parents bought. No, it wasn't a Beta. But it did have a corded remote control.

[Mark Miller]

Graus,
Your right living in the farscape universe would be cooler. The women were much better looking. Of course we are all right things are just amazing, can't wait for 20 years from now [I hope]
Mark:D :D

[netcoder]

thank you very much!

[Budfred]

Your welcome... who are you thanking for what?????:confused: