As I crawl through town on the sky bus to the airport it struck me that growing up in the 80s we must have been sold the idea that by 2016 these things would actually be a bus in the sky. What else should we have by now

World peace.

The 3 day working week

Self cleaning bikes

Hover boards.

Free limitless energy from the power of the atom.

Talking animals.

A simple device that can make a small child go back to sleep at the touch of a button..

cloudnine – Member
A simple device that can make a small child go back to sleep at the touch of a button..

Tazzer?

Teleport

Nuclear fusion, a fossil fuel-free car that has the range of a traditional car and doesn’t rely on electricity produced by non renewable sources, environmentally friendly batteries, efficient electricity storage.

Everyday hydrogen fuel cells and domestic hydrogen production from pv.

wireless power, and more wireless options for images etc, so the back of my TV cabinet doesn’t look like an public information broadcast about dangerous wiring.

A private message function.

Synthetic blood .

The New STW forum?

A private message function.

A privates massage function.

Its the only reason I bought a laptop

A “like” button.

A setting for the car where all the buttons are disabled, but make different noises for when your too early for nursery on a cold morning and there’s a toddler playing in the car

Robots to do the housework….

https://goo.gl/photos/cphsV8iPtxaxA4jz6

Jet Packs?

I’m pretty sure I was promised jet packs

sky bus to the airport

If only there was a better way…..

🙂

Absolutely flashy, though it would still have take you an hour to do the 30min journey. Next time I’m taking the chopper

Forgot! You’re in the last century Tazzie, aren’t you!

this.

Melbourne at the moment, there is no traffic to the airport in tazzie, flight delayed now too…

To be fair it’s not much fun (or fast )on the M4 to Heathrow

Hoover boards ,rail round the house while cleaning.

^^ this

Stoner – Member
Everyday hydrogen fuel cells and domestic hydrogen production from pv.

This… or some small nuclear device that did the same thingy.

During the 70’s growing up in the States, we had all sorts of made science TV programmes, things that not only entertained, but informed.

Seems quite odd that today we’re only just starting to embrace it all.

Self cleaning bikes

That could probably be done using something like Ultra Every Dry:

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvTkefJHfC0[/video]

In fact watch this (slightly insane) Japanese coverage from 6:25 and you’ll see it repelling water off a bike.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBQY0wZbYJc[/video]

Now I am off the iPad I can actually post the picture.

The solar powered Mango / Avocado ripener. With one of these you just won’t want a hoverboard

a way to cheaply and easily provide food and water to every human on the planet.

you can keep your hoverboards, flying cars, robots, child-tasers and whatnot, we could actually feed everyone if we put our minds to it…

Absolutely flashy, though it would still have take you an hour to do the 30min journey. Next time I’m taking the chopper

I’m not sure the chopper would get you their any quicker either

turbolasers

Hydrospanners

A way to teach WCA how to post images on an iPad.

I way to repair badly broken bones without screwing bits of metal into them, and/or make new ones, not spindly little metal things.

I need a new elbow goddamit!

A battery that lasts weeks on a single charge, that would allow advances in so many areas.

The SunShip.