What tech innovation are you waiting for (not bikes)?

if you give the hose a good shake I usually find that takes care of that problem.

Has anyone said toaster that gives me the same level of toastieness first time and every time.

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Most people who’ve driven one say the same thing. As long as they are actually paying attention to what the car is doing…….

Reminds me, we need a new toaster.

Seamless augmented reality and limited AI.

The latter will probably lead to effective nanotechnology and will be reliant on room temperature superconductors.

Teleportation – I don’t want to waste time commuting or travelling, self driving/flying etc still means I have to sit there. Cut that rubbish out and just beam me there, then we can save the roads and air for driving fun cars and planes etc, and save a lot to time!

You could teleport bread to a place where they can cook it consistently and teleport the finished toast back.

DezB » Judging by his hands, the “for legal reasons only” fella doesn’t seem fully trusting..

Well yeah, he’s effectively a test pilot in a system that is under active development. He wouldn’t be much good sat in the back with a beer.

If the video hadn’t said “Is only there for legal reasons” I wouldn’t have commented on it!

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 other issues to overcome with using hydrogen?

Self driving cars will limit humans driving, the insurance premiums would be immense to allow a human to drive, years off thankfully

WiTricity seem to be cracking the power through the air problem

– about 7:25 into this TED talk.

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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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For this forum to remember you when you sign in.

Apparently it’s harder to do this than invent teleportation.

Urine powered vehicles. Just think of the current wastage…

You’re thankful that 3000 people a year are killed (in the UK)?

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.[/quote]
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 😛