new ideas ideas and technology

[Corey]

I'm not sure if it's an actual water car, but more a long the lines of a completely stand-alone hydrogen engine. No need for gasoline or any other product to cause the reaction.

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Yeah, that's probably it... Well would like to see a Trully 3d interactive video game, you could use your feet to walk, feel stuff with YOUR hands, that would be cool.

[Guest Crimson Spider]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by (<AA>) [/i]
[B]Yeah, that's probably it... Well would like to see a Trully 3d interactive video game, you could use your feet to walk, feel stuff with YOUR hands, that would be cool. [/B][/QUOTE]

The neural interface thing would make that possible. But there is still the problem of sharkers like me who want to hack the game and cause mass destruction. :devil: Other than that, a truly 3-D video game would be cool. Better if it was a MMORPG like .hack/sign.

Something that they probably already have that I haven't heard of would be a basket that warms up you clothes when you take a shower so when you come out, you have nice warm clothes to combat the much colder world outside. Or you can use it when you go swimming.

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[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by James [/i]
[B][color=#808080]If you've seen Minority Report, you might remember the newspaper that the guy is reading on the train. You know, he's reading it and it says "News Flash" or whatever on the main page...and it's all animated.

That technology is actually possible.

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Well, If they can do that on paper... can't they do that on, like a T-shirt? Wouldn't that be AWESOME?

[Harry]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by dr.septagon [/i]
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In the night I feel fresh and more 'motivated' to do work and during the day I can sleep more and maybe go out and do somethin fun. [/B][/QUOTE]
Thats probably only you. I can't sleep at all during the day, If I stay up all night I can't sleep during the day.

[James]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by (<AA>) [/i]
[B]Well, If they can do that on paper... can't they do that on, like a T-shirt? Wouldn't that be AWESOME? [/B][/QUOTE]

[color=#808080]They can't actually do it on paper. It's done on a special material that is somewhat like plastic but more flexible (so you can roll it up and stuff.

However, in order to do this, they have to fit millions (hundreds of millions) of parts inside the material (I forget if it's transistors or silicon chips or what...I can't remember lol). From what I remember, it's a sort of fibre that uses light to display a colour (and thus, an image). But the fibre can be controlled with electronic impulses that are transmitted remotely. So you could change the colour of your t-shirt by walking past a beacon or something, you know?

So you might go into the auto-show or something and as you walk past each stand, your t-shirt has pictures of that manufacturer's car on it or something. I mean, I doubt it'd be that intrusive (advertising on your clothing lol), but there are LOTS of cool possibilities.[/color]

[Wintermute]

Yeah there's more carcinogens in a spliff than in a cigarette, but the biggest pot-smoker I know only has 5 a day, and I know plenty of people who have 30 or 40 cigarettes a day.
Any kind of drug is dangerous, including alcohol, if abused. A close friend of mine drunk an entire bottle of red wine when he was 2. He didn't die, but he may well if he has any more, ever. It's given him a liver disorder, which means he just can't handle any toxins like alcohol or cannabis. Someone tried to spike his drink the other day, in (relative) innocence. Luckily it was spotted.

There was a theory that DNA could have evolved from something like this CSD (Crystal Storage Device). Information could be stored in the faults in the crystal. There are stupendous amount of combinations, and because it's on the atomic scale, there's an almost unlimited capacity.

The problem is how to read it. We wouldn't be able to use it because we couldn't extract the information from it. If information is stored on the atomic scale, which it would have to be for a crystal to have a huge storage capacity, it would be almost impossible to read. Light or lasers couldn't do it, because the wavelength is too large, there wouldn't be sufficient resolution. Electron beams can't get down that small either. It would look very cool though, if we can figure out a way.

About the neural link to computers and the environmental interface, track down and read a copy of 'Neuromancer' by William Gibson. It's from 1984, I think (haven't got a copy to hand) and he pretty much came up with the whole concept. It's quite a scary portrayal of an all too possible future. Plus you may see where the name Wintermute came from!

It's a very inventive book, lots of things have been based on it or influenced by it since. If ever of you have ever seen Johnny Mnemonic, that was lifted wholesale from it. They didn't even change Johnny's name! In the book it's just a tale from one of the character's pasts though, it doesn't impact on the plot.

And worrying about microwaves from mobiles is like standing in a shower and worrying about a water pistol. I'm microwaving a muffin right now, the microwave's in another room, and I bet it's affecting me more with microwaves than my mobile. EVERYTHING gives off a little radiation. If you live in an area with lots of Granite, you live in an area with high background radiation. There's really not much to worry about.

What else? Oh, the immune system machine boost. What exactly would they do there? I can't think of any way in which machines would actually help there. It's a cool concept, but there's no real point. You'd be much better off finding a way to stimulate the relevant site s to up the production of Macrophages and similar.

My microwave doesn't have a problem with super hot and cold spots in my pizza, because it has this cunning gizmo which rotates the pizza for you! (sorry, sarcasm coming out to play)

I would really not be happy in a world where replicators could produce anything you wanted them too. That would be a world where anyone could get anything. Pizza, a pet, a new couch, a thermonuclear device, a pot-plant, viruses, a mobile phone, a gun......
The worlds making enough of a stink that 10,000 litres of Anthrax are unaccounted for. Imagine what it would be like if anyone could make some whenever they want. Or Ricin, which is apparently even worse.

Cool though it would be, I'm not sure mankind is ready to handle that kind of technology. Often enough I'm not sure mankind is mature enough to handle the technology it's got.

While the technology to make eye implants is probably not that far off, the technology to make them NOT look like Borg implants probably is. We would not be able to make them look anything other than hideously unnatural, at this stage.



Sorry, getting all scientific and pedantic is a bad habit of mine! It's what comes of being a sci-fi fan and doing Biology, Physics, Chemistry and Maths for A level.

I would like to point out that I may well be wrong. People often are on this sort of thing. We cannot conceive all the possibilities the future may contain, and many things are seen as ridiculous and impossible, until someone manages to do it.

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[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Wintermute [/i]
[B]And worrying about microwaves from mobiles is like standing in a shower and worrying about a water pistol. I'm microwaving a muffin right now, the microwave's in another room, and I bet it's affecting me more with microwaves than my mobile. EVERYTHING gives off a little radiation. If you live in an area with lots of Granite, you live in an area with high background radiation. There's really not much to worry about.
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Dude... You're cool...
Anyway, about the stuff you said on microwaves, true, cellphones may not be that harmfull, but all the radiation we're getting, our body is not really equipped to handle. I saw a strange TV show one day where a guy had this device, it made an annoying beeping noise when it detected electric radiation, it beeped practicaly where ever he pointed to with it, and the guy says, "this device is very senstive to electricity, but your body is over 100x more sensitive". Sorry I can't be more percise.

And to James, that would be so cool, and I didn't mean on paper, I was just in a hurry(as usual). Cool topic Dr. S.

[Wintermute]

Radiation can cause mutations in the cells of the body, but that's really not much to worry about. The overwhelming majority of genes in a cell aren't used. They're also quite resistant to mutation. Also, even if an active gene is damaged, the odds are what it will be changed to is total gibberish. It won't work, the mutant cell dies. End of story.

1 in ten cells in the skin have mutations in them. There are millions, billions of cells in the skin. How many of you have skin cancer? The odds of mutations doing anything harmful, as you can see, are VERY low. Cancer, incidentally, is caused by a specific mutation in a specific gene, which means that cell starts dividing constantly and uncontrollably.

So are bodies really are quite well adapted to deal with it, we've been subject to most of it for all of history. Our bodies may be sensitive to it, but they're also quite resistant to it.






incidentally, if by some stroke of very bad luck, any of you actually DO have skin cancer, I apologise.