The future is now!

[AxezCore]

In the last year or so I've read and heard of a lot of interesting stuff that makes the future of sci-fi movies seem not so far away. So i was wondering if anyone else have anything to contribute to my little list of futuristic gadgets? :)

some of these i know for a fact, others I've only heard about but can't confirm:

Teleportation:
some scientists at the university of Aarhus in denmark have now managed to teleport a laserbeam from one point to another.

Holograms:
I've been told that someone has managed to make a real 3-Dimensional projected hologram, but haven't been able to find any solid info on it.

Cpu printing
With a special kind of semiconducting ink it is now possible to print out a fully functional cpu with your deskjet. (puts a whole new dimension to downloading 0-Sec) :D

Monitors

Because of a new kind of material it's possible to create computer screens you can roll up like a newspaper and bring with you when you go anywhere.

another kind you can take a bucket of special paint, then you can paint your entire wall, add a powersource and a cable and voila.. you have a new monitor. :)


Thats just a little of the new advances in tecnology.. feel free to add your own additions :)

[Oberon1879]

Wooot! we have to go back to the future marty!

[mbassy]

well, if you look at things from star trek,

the sliding doors, laptops and mobile phones are already here,
medical science is heavily working to develope a tricorder-type of all-round device and stephen hawking said he's working on the warp drive :D

who knows how big warps technology will take when we reach quantum computing

[Nina_Guy]

I seriously doubt that CPU printing works. The structures are way too small to be printed with normal printers, and if you just make them bigger they will need more power and get a lot hotter!

[The RaVeN]

We still need to able to travel in the space-time contineum... :)
I just read an article about time-travel.... We are not that far away... :D

[AxezCore]

Originally posted by Nina_Guy
I seriously doubt that CPU printing works. The structures are way too small to be printed with normal printers, and if you just make them bigger they will need more power and get a lot hotter!

I can't remember where it was i found it, but it's some professor from M.I.T. who made it... at the current stage of technology it's possible to print out a 100 mhz cpu.

[Picard]

aah nice.. but my country will always be delayed :(

[The_Don]

Seems really cool

[Defkon1]

Soon we'll be beaming around the world and beyond lol

[dr0ap]

hxxp://science.box.sk - all news, all science related, cool site

[Mork from Ork]

Like Picard, We here in Canada will have to wait an extra year or two for any new technologoes to show up. Once they perfect that teleportation it will take us a year to realize everyone else is gone LOL :cool:

[MudPuppy]

I don't remember where, but some time ago I read something about certain "forbidden" inventions that would be stopped or taken over by the military, Gov, blabla. I know invisibility was one of them.

I, myself am looking forward to cold fusion and a decent alternative for the car-engines :)

[Zorlack]

RE: time travel. I have a buddy of mine who works at a ski resort on Colorado.. telluride very nice if anybody plans on a trip. anyway, he has a friend who works in Los Alamos. this Los Alamos guy clamied that there are a group of top researchers working on a time machine, apparently they have been at it for quite some time too.

[mbassy]

Originally posted by Zorlack
RE: time travel. I have a buddy of mine who works at a ski resort on Colorado.. telluride very nice if anybody plans on a trip. anyway, he has a friend who works in Los Alamos. this Los Alamos guy clamied that there are a group of top researchers working on a time machine, apparently they have been at it for quite some time too.

time travel is something i don't believe to be ever happening.
i don't believe it's possible at all, i don't believe in this
'past-present-future-are-one' crap :)

i could be wrong but it sounds ridiculous to me

[Zorlack]

oh yeah it sounds like a joke to me too, but this guy really believes it so who knows :D

[DR_SP0CK]

If timetravel had happened we should have noticed it by now ... i mean someone from the future must have been able to go back in time .. we have 1bil years+ ahead of us that people could have figured out a timemachine and gone back .. if so we should have met them before :) argh im getting confused again.

Anyway there was a car built that could run on water at almost no cost at all ... the only problem is that the oil companies in the east (from my point of view) bought the whole deal and silenced it.

just imagine how much money they would loose if something like that hit the market full scale.

As for teleportation .. yeah sure. . beam me up scotty :)
i know theyve been able to move a lightbeam .. but what they have really done is not actually mooving the atoms or anything .. theyve slowed down the light to the point where it stops and then transfered it and thus making it look as if its been moved although in reality it hasnt so i doubt it will be here in the next 100 years or so .. and even if it is .. itll still take a voule of decades or so before it could be applied on a larger scale.



Holograms: yes .. it shouldnt be that hard to accomplish ... it sure is managable (sp?) ... although i doubt it would be projecting it on nothingness .. you have to have something like smoke or something to project it on. i actually think its rather close ... but the thing is ... what use would they be without AI?


foldable screens , sure ive seen those ... but the thing is .. theyre all black'n'white .... there are several different types but they all operate on a fairly same level.

It consists of lots and lots of small crystals/plasticpearls or other semiconductors, one side is black and another is white ... when you apply a current they turn around kind of like an LCD screen.. so you could actually be reading the text in "white'n'black" on the backside (you would need to read through a mirror though since it would be backwards)

The only real advantage i see with this is e-books and similar stuff, you could probably use it for screens but the refreshrates would probably be really really bad kindof like playing a moving game on an old portable computer.


Im glad to say i actually got no idea what a printable cpu would be good for but it sounds kinda cool :)


what im really interested in is the advancement on AI and robotics though .. robots are getting really smart really fast ... just check sony's AIBO for example.

[The RaVeN]

Originally posted by DR_SP0CK
If timetravel had happened we should have noticed it by now ... i mean someone from the future must have been able to go back in time .. we have 1bil years+ ahead of us that people could have figured out a timemachine and gone back .. if so we should have met them before :)

Actually that's a wrong assumption. It's actually like this:

Lets think that someone creates a working time-amchine in the future...

Q: Why haven't we seen anyone from the futeure back here in the past?

A: To know that a person is from the future he has to tell us that... Thus we can figure out that timetravel is possible... And our knowledge of the future timemachine will interfere with the creation of the time machine this guy has travelled with... And thus this guy wouldn't exist.

In conclusion: At the exact moment we create a working time machine, we will meet people from the future... Confused?? :D

[djfxp]

monitors rolled up like a newspaper sounds like a good idea! :)

now they just need to make disposable computers u can use once and throw away! :)

[DR_SP0CK]

Yeah there are several different ways to theorise that.

First theres the issue about parallell timelines or separate, then theres the future alteration thing.

What if the future we live in is because someone went into the past and made the future of the past into what the past is now (lol)

also if theres only one timeline one guy couldnt actually change the future because it would already have happened :)

argh .. why dont we discuss where the end of the universe is and what is beyond it while were at it? :)

[mbassy]

Originally posted by DR_SP0CK

argh .. why dont we discuss where the end of the universe is and what is beyond it while were at it? :)

there's a restaurant i've heard :p

[The RaVeN]

Originally posted by DR_SP0CK
argh .. why dont we discuss where the end of the universe is and what is beyond it while were at it? :)

LOL... Lets all get totally confused... Then again there are even more theories about the end of the universe than there is about time-travel... It's hard to prove your point.. Unless you've been there :D

[Magic]

Originally posted by djfxp
monitors rolled up like a newspaper sounds like a good idea! :)

now they just need to make disposable computers u can use once and throw away! :)


they have... it's pretty much anything with windows 9x :D

[Dijital]

what about cloning?

maybe we'll have clone wars sometime soon :eek:

[reep]

wow, the future sure looks bright ;)

[portisnine]

RE:
Holograms:
I've been told that someone has managed to make a real 3-Dimensional projected hologram, but haven't been able to find any solid info on it.

There a a few holographic ( or volumetric) displays being developed. The only one I've seen pictures of running looks a bit like a crystal ball, and the graphics appear inside that. Ive lost the link to it running, but I did find this info....


h++p://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20011127S0057

Explains a bit about how they work. It looks cool running. If i rediscover the link, ill post it here:/

EDIT;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

Found the link....
h++p://www.actuality-systems.com/

Not bad eh??:)

[DR_SP0CK]

Wow thats really cool, i bet it would be even niceer in real life.

But what i dont really understand is why? :) what use could you possibly have for something that needs a big crystal ball to work (unless ofcourse you want to be a fortune teller and can get the weatherchannel on that thing :))

but like i said .. really cool :)

[AxezCore]

Originally posted by DR_SP0CK

Holograms: yes .. it shouldnt be that hard to accomplish ... it sure is managable (sp?) ... although i doubt it would be projecting it on nothingness .. you have to have something like smoke or something to project it on. i actually think its rather close ... but the thing is ... what use would they be without AI?


Actually I think it's only a matter of time, both with holograms as well as invisibility. It's a question of "bending" light rather than projecting it... and if they can stop light it's only a matter of time before they can bend it.

[Eerica]

Sounds really interesting. I am looking forward to the future. Especially the developments in the space technology.

- An other Star Wars fan :)

[kgrandpa]

Some scientist a couple of months ago claimed that he had conclusive evidence that Einstein's theory of relativity was basically a load of bollocks :)

Can't remember where I read it now though, think it was in the local paper.

If that was the case, then time travel would theoretically be possible, 'cos this geezer claimed that he knew of objects that had travelled faster than the speed of light - and that the speed of light isn't actually constant as Einstein believed.

They also said that if a time machine was possible, that it would only be possible to travel back in time to the date that the machine was invented (although they didn't give a reason. I can't imagine that being right though)

And on the subject of people coming back from the future and telling us about this time travel - people have been doing that for decades but society has branded them all nutcases and schizos :)

On the hologram front, I am one of a growing number of people who believe in something called the Holographic Paradigm - which hypothesises that everything in the universe is in fact a hologram - including ourselves.

When you read up on it, it starts to make sense. I'll try and find some links for y'all.