Sulphur on 27/9/2010 at 21:45
More appropriately,
cool fucking ass science.
I gotta, have to link to this Tom's Hardware article I saw today: (
http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/545-Technology-Future-Wireless-AI-robotics.html) http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/545-Technology-Future-Wireless-AI-robotics.html
Within are things that I didn't know about, and things that I did.
Things that I didn't know: Toshiba plans to have personal nuclear reactors selling within a decade? Hey, 50's retro-futuristic fiction ain't all shit and giggles.
We already have ready, usable almost commercial tech to project holograms into 3D spaces? Helloooo 3D movies! (3D porn viewable from any imaginable exterior angle! woo!)
Move over induction battery chargers, wireless electricity's almost ready to reach our homes? (Stick an induction coil into a socket, stick another coil coupled to it into a peripheral of your choice, and it zaps electricity over to it right across through the ether and through you with no ill effects to either! I've been waiting for this for so long. The applications are almost endless. It's...
beautiful.)
Sulphur on 27/9/2010 at 21:51
Whomever set that up needs to be given a Darwin award
Queue on 27/9/2010 at 22:05
Or a copy of Hustler.
...idle hands lead to evil deeds, you know.
Sulphur on 27/9/2010 at 22:09
Now that you mention it, wireless electrostimulation does have its applications.
Al_B on 27/9/2010 at 22:09
Have they solved the problems with efficiency of coupling power over even a short distance? It's cropped up every few years as "the next big thing" and clearly it works on a small scale as simple inductive coupling - and I could see it working if embedded into a work surface you place your laptop onto.
However, as general power distribution over a greater distance (even a metre or two) I'm yet to be convinced. Like you, I'll be very happy if it's possible but I'm cautiously cynical for now.
demagogue on 27/9/2010 at 22:19
Don't forget about laser-induced hydrogen fusion power plants, quantum computers (at least quantum-lite), cheap commercial space flights & solar-sail spacecraft, custom engineered life forms (to eat trash and carbon, for meat without killing, for all plastics, etc), nanotech medicine, energy, and engineering; the theory of everything in physics, the theory of consciousness & a genetic map of the brain (combined with custom life forms, another future of computing is computer chips that are organically grown into brains), a world without widespread poverty or hunger in any country, entire buildings manufactured by "3D printers" from the back of trucks (that's already being done now), a couple of new countries (Palestine, West Sahara, others?); elimination of the post office, broadcast tv, landline telephones, personal checks, print newspapers ... Lots of things potentially on the horizon and within our grasp.
Sulphur on 27/9/2010 at 22:22
The cynicism is crushing! I am crushed! Crush me no more, no moooore
crushed :(
at least leave the 3D holographic movies alone, dammit
Mortal Monkey on 28/9/2010 at 01:20
They're not holographic. It's a combination between stereo separation (like with red/green glasses) and lenticular lenses (like those silly cardboard pieces covered with bumpy plastic). Also, nobody bothered inventing cameras that can film from every angle at once, so you'll have to make do with polygon dicks.
Now that I've shit sufficiently in your cornflakes, I'll make up for it with your weird science namesake: (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-XbjFn3aqE) Sulphur Hexafluoride.
Edit:
Quote Posted by Article in OP
The concept of wireless energy came about during the late 1800s, while an article featured on Space.com sparked an interest with mainstream media as it discussed wireless energy transfers in space. Now, 10 years later, we've recently reported on devices in development that actually do recharge and power other devices without the need for cables and wires.
Queue on 28/9/2010 at 03:27
Quote Posted by Mortal Monkey
Sulphur Hexafluoride
I'd brush my teeth with it. Nothing says "fresh and whitening" quite like Sulphur.
