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I'm waiting on stem cell treatment to be available for a reasonable price rather than the many £1000's it is at the moment.
An office coffee machine that can make barrista quality espresso & rejects crap beans.
Efficient production of hydrogen so we can get rid of petrol cars and use hydrogen fuel cells
The new forum.
Aren't there [i]other[/i] issues to overcome with using hydrogen?
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Self driving cars will limit humans driving, the insurance premiums would be immense to allow a human to drive, years off thankfully
[url= https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_giler_demos_wireless_electricity?language=en ]WiTricity seem to be cracking the power through the air problem[/url]
- about 7:25 into this TED talk.
Affordable (for home use), effective, 3D printers capable of depositing steel or titanium.
85% efficient solar panels.
A space elevator.
Nuclear fusion.
I don't give a toss about the phone and computer stuff as that already does way more than I need it to, but a pair of walking boots they dry themselves like in BTTF2 would be quite useful.
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Apparently it's harder to do this than invent teleportation.For this forum to remember you when you sign in.
Urine powered vehicles. Just think of the current wastage...
[quote=whatyadoinsucka ]Self driving cars will limit humans driving, the insurance premiums would be immense to allow a human to drive, years off thankfully
You're thankful that 3000 people a year are killed (in the UK)?
[quote=stuey ]WiTricity seem to be cracking the power through the air problem
- about 7:25 into this TED talk.
> http://witricity.com/
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Hmm - there wasn't very much gap between Tx and Rx, and the devices only powered up when in the right place. It's not exactly creating the sort of charging environment people seem to want (or even what he's claiming for it).
Wholemeal crumpets in sainsburys.
Cost effective, highly insulated, lightweight building materials that can be fitted to existing buildings.
Either a way of feeding the world's population as it grows, or an ethical way of allowing medicine to improve but keeping the global population at a sustainable level.
And Joe 90s glasses so I can download peaty or Danny Macaskill or whoever I need at the time. But without the glasses because that causes a lot of bother.
Great story, but there've been plenty of geniuses since then and they are all of the opinion that beaming power to devices is not practically possible.
I'm no engineer, but the main stumbling blocks would seem to be the inverse square law, and the same issue that microwave transmission has: cooking any living object within a few metres of the charger, like high-power radar, or television transmitter masts.
I could be wrong on the latter, but I think I'm right.
I'm no engineer, but the main stumbling blocks would seem to be the inverse square law
Well you'd focus the beam to avoid that. I think Tesla's idea was wireles power transmission between receiving stations, like they do for communications - instead of long wires. To do it for a device, wherever you are, you'd have to have focusable beams directed at the device. Not impossible, but daft given that anything in the wayof that beam would get a full dose. Every electronic item would need huge shielding. Although if your coffee was getting cold you could just put it between your phone and the transmitter and get it warmed up 🙂
Wholemeal crumpets in sainsburys.Cost effective, highly insulated, lightweight building materials that can be fitted to existing buildings.
Are you talking about the same thing?
A space elevator.
First you need a single molecule filament fibre that can be woven into a cable, or maybe synthetic diamond mono-crystal. Then the cable/s have to be twice as long as the distance to the orbital station as a counterbalance.*
*See Arthur C Clarke, Larry Niven, Neil Stephenson and other SF writers.
Thanks, Mol, you've clarified my thinking; I thought I was on the right track, but I don't know quite enough about the details.
Basically, if you're going to those lengths, a cable is just so much simpler! 😀
Molgrips, was an attempt at a list but I ran out of steam due to a lack of quality crumpet in my life.
Wrist mounted, touch-screen, moving map GPS. My Foretrex 401 is great, but that would be next level.
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Garmin epix?
Quantum computing 🙂
The singularity.
One of those things from Star Trek that makes food etc when asked.
Shoes that fit my feet, 3D printed probably.
3D printed organs.
Gene therapy.
The Culture.
...and Non-Newtonian Brie. That's a total winner right there.
Ohohohoh, a forum that supports webM 😛