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Software_Goddess
07:20 PM

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This guy really needs a tweezers, a razor, a loufa, and some moisturizer! #singularity
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Nathan Obbards
06:59 PM

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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn #singularity
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met2art
06:46 PM

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Anything that requires a user to wear gloves or glasses is junk that will swiftly be relegated to obscurity in a scrap heap. Such novelty junk has been around for years and nobody wants it because it doesn't accomplish anything. I'd love to see the day where standardized Direct Neural Interfaces are de rigueur for the majority of typical computing applications. Unfortunately, the typical generational techno-inertia that we see is likely to be drastically compounded when it comes to tech involving surgical procedures. We already suffer buyer's remorse shortly after we buy the latest video card or CPU. How much worse will it be when it involves surgical procedures that fiddle with brain tissue, or optic nerves?

For these reasons, and many more, I foresee screen technology (whether LCD screens or projectors of a sort) remaining the standard for many, many years to come. We're social animals, and sharing the view is part of what we love. If anything, I see displays becoming larger, with higher resomolutions, and being easily "painted" onto walls. Anything else seems like pipe dreams inspired by 80s cyberpunk fiction (which has not aged well.) #singularity
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tylerbrainerd
07:31 PM

@met2art: Yeah! If they have to wear anything that sits on their face or clips onto their ears or that they wear on their wrist or...

wait, that stuff is working and people do want it. especially bluetooth headsets and wireless headphones. they just have to be reliable and cheap. #singularity
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met2art
07:50 PM

@tylerbrainerd: Earpieces for phone calls aren't in the same category. Telephone conversation always has been, by and large, direct to the ear since its inception. Bluetooth is simply an extension of the standard way people use their phones... having the conversation privately directed to their ears. The fact that it is wireless isn't revolutionary, nor is the fact that it is smaller. The basic function it performs has not changed at all, and it doesn't preclude one from performing other tasks by imparting limitations on perception of one's surrounding.

Moving from a LCD monitor to a privately viewed headmounted display is a radical shift in usability that places enormous limitations on the product. It puts more burden on the user with little practical benefit, and hinders the performance of other tasks. This is why no headmounted display has ever caught on as a practical alternative for daily use of a computer or portable computing device. #singularity
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nutbastard
06:43 PM

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the mouse and the keyboard are interesting devices, not unlike, say, the steering wheel.

they do more to accomodate the inherent limitations of human anatomy than take advantage of it.

even the concept of the GUI falls into that category. it's modeled around simply making something accessible for humans. it's current form is obviously better than its original form, but inevitably, our limits limit IT.

imagine if you could do computation without going through the physical middleman of your eyes, ears, and hands for input and feedback. it's the next logical steps, but i wonder if it's not a terrible idea to leave some limitations in place.

in a world where to think it is to do it, i could see people getting seriously hooked on brain based computing. information/stimulation addiction may well be a reality in a few more years.

i mean, look at how helpless some modern people feel when rudimentary technologies like electricity or long distance communications are suddenly unavailable. i believe there is even a psychological term for trauma caused by a sudden absence of technology.

now imagine you've been jacked into a cerebrally interactive computing system on a constant basis since you were say, 5, and you're 30 now, and it goes off. #singularity
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Platypus Man
06:24 PM

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Looks cool, but how far away are we from this? #singularity
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dragon:ONE
06:15 PM

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We've had wearable computing for ages.

Remember this? It's from 2000 or so - the Xybernaut Poma. Wearable Windows CE device, for about $1500. If these little suckers caught on, we'd probably have heads-up displays a lot more mainstream and probably nice wearable i7s in our pockets. #singularity
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Michai
06:10 PM

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I say weave a giant flexible organic led screen into a womans tank top and then apply some augmented Reality software to it... if there is a reason, boobs are it! #singularity
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Noobs-R-Us
05:33 PM

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Wow! What a low tech stove. #nikons100pj
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farcedude
05:07 PM

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I think what I'd want instead is a separate pocket projector that I could plug an sd card into (among other inputs) and look at the pictures that way. I think this is one of those areas that two separate devices can do better than one. What I hope this does is move the technology along to where a less expensive (<$100) pocket projecter is a possibility. #nikons100pj
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Hello Mister Walrus
03:04 PM

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It's not a netbook. It's a "booklet"! #nokiabooklet3g
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nutbastard
04:16 PM

@Hello Mister Walrus:

actually, since nokia makes it, it's a 'nooklet', which is not to be confused with a cranny, though both are of similar dimensions. #nokiabooklet3g
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Wilson Rothman
02:18 PM

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That whole HDMI output but no 1080p video really confuses the crap out of me. It's like Nokia doesn't actually understand what HDMI is. #nokiabooklet3g
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sp00nix
02:20 PM

@Wilson Rothman: I do. It's a slim, modern video port that will allow such a tiny machine to have some sort of video output. #nokiabooklet3g
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N@tedog
03:26 PM

@Wilson Rothman: I think they were going for the primary benefit of HDMI. It's audio and video on one cable firstly; ability to handle 1080p secondly. #nokiabooklet3g
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Kaiser-Machead
02:16 PM

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It's really a shame, considering how nice this thing looks. If I was going to pay $600 for a netbook, I'd rather get a Lenovo S12 with the NVidia ION, 2GB of RAM and 250GB HDD. #nokiabooklet3g
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psychiccheese
12:58 PM

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"it allows a regular geek to haul a 200-lb. backpack as if it weighed as much as a couple of physics textbooks"

So... it does nothing? #exoskeleton
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GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
12:44 PM

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Daniel Wilson, you got magic legs! #exoskeleton
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
12:41 PM

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Chaank: Hard tech, for a hard world. #exoskeleton
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