What sorts of tech gadgets do you imagine we’ll have in the year 2044?
February 13th, 2010 Posted in Gadget Reviews
Right now we’ve got iphones, ipods, remote starters for your car, powerful computers that are the size of a childrens book, wifi, hands free, GPS, TomTom, digital cameras, voice activated everything, etc…
Almost 40 years from now, how do you think those existing luxuries will be improved upon or what new things do you think we’ll see? Try to keep it to consumer electronics too. Military tech is another story.
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February 13th, 2010 at 9:46 am
A lot of bionic implants to interface with technology. That is if we haven’t killed ourselves by then.
February 13th, 2010 at 9:46 am
I always thought that we would have bigger bedrooms so that this special bed can be installed that would run on this metal rod. As you fall asleep and into the different R.E.M. Alpha, Beta, Theta sleep patterns the bed begins to move around the room slowly copying the same movements of the waves in a calm sea, or the Tai Chi movements and it would actually move around and upside down too depending on what sleep stage you were in, and this would improve circulation and help the body adjust to different types of pressure, but the bed would be very expensive but I can see it in my mind! Also, I think eventually, maybe before 2044 we will all live in little communities underground and even work from our homes. For example: If you were a bank teller, you’d get up at your house, then go to a special room in house and turn on computer and when a customer would want banking things, he/she would turn on their computers and dial you up and all transactions would be electronic, and this would be for a lot of jobs, but your job would be located right there in the community and so would your bank, restaurants and all sorts of mall type stores, but all within reach of your home. Wars will be fought thru the computer only!
February 13th, 2010 at 10:19 am
I love kseigal’s idea about the bed! I want to make love in a bed like that! 8^)
We are seeing a lot of integration now–cellphones with cameras and GPS, GPSs with MP3 players, etc. I think we’ll see a lot more of that. TVs, computers, media players, GPSs, cellphones, internet terminals, etc. etc. will all come together into general ‘electronic devices’. They’ll probably come up with some good name for them, like iGizmo.
Notice how small cellphones and MP3s have gotten in just the last few years. It’s just a matter of time before we’re wearing them on the ear like a bluetooth earpiece, and then -inside- the ear like a hearing aid. These could also have GPS and guide you to your destination with voice commands. (“Now turn left up there by the gas station. It’s the fourth house on the left, with the birch tree. Watch out for that kid on the bike!”)
I have seen ‘glasses’ that have little TV screens on them. They could be made into real glasses that you wear all the time. You could watch TV on them, or other kinds of media, or use them as computer monitors. They are always with you, always connected to the Internet, integrated with your phone and your GPS and your MP3 player and video camera and. . . well, you get the idea.
We are now only starting to realize remote-control devices. I mean calling your phone and entering codes on the keypad to turn on your heat, record stuff on your TV, thaw something for dinner, warm up your bed, etc. We’ll see a lot more of this integrated into the Internet and your personal in-ear phone/media device/Internet terminal.
WiFi will die, and good riddance! It will be replaced by something more universal. Wireless Internet that you can carry with you anywhere. Maybe a satellite-based system that you can use anywhere in the world, like GPS is today.
February 13th, 2010 at 11:17 am
fingers crossed – teleporters!