06-05-2019, 07:36 AM
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Monster Storm
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Calgary
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What technology do you want?
I sometimes wonder what kind of cool things technology will bring us.
Last night I was thinking of how my fathers hearing loss is creating difficulty in communication over/on the phone.
I’m hopeful that soon during a FaceTime call there can be real time closed captioning. It would give my father the ability to read what we are saying to him and avoid the frustrations of not being able to hear.
It got me thinking of what types of tech people want to see.
The other two I can think of off are.
Instant translation like Douglas Adams Babel fish and a 3D printer that reuses your household plastics.
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06-05-2019, 07:38 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Sherwood Park, AB
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Teleportation
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06-05-2019, 07:54 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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Food replicator. Earl Gray, hot.
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06-05-2019, 07:54 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Cape Breton Island
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A matrix quality vr device. Come home from work and plug it in. I can watch the Jets win the Stanley Cup in a private box while 3 gorgeous women celebrate with me. If you catch my drift.
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06-05-2019, 07:56 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: May 2012
Location: The Kilt & Caber
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Quote:
Originally Posted by indes
Teleportation
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This x 1000%. No commuting, no airports, no stressful travel days. And if you wanted to, you could go to Rome for some decent pizza for lunch and be back at work by 1:00. 
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06-05-2019, 07:59 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by White Out 403
A matrix quality vr device. Come home from work and plug it in. I can watch the Jets win the Stanley Cup in a private box while 3 gorgeous women celebrate with me. If you catch my drift.
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And that's about the only way you will get to see the Jets win the Stanley Cup. In fake reality.
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06-05-2019, 08:01 AM
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Monster Storm
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nyah
This x 1000%. No commuting, no airports, no stressful travel days. And if you wanted to, you could go to Rome for some decent pizza for lunch and be back at work by 1:00. |
While true you would be in tough with line ups as it would be Iltalian dinner time as well. The Foodaracycle would be a better bet I reckon.
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06-05-2019, 08:04 AM
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nyah
This x 1000%. No commuting, no airports, no stressful travel days. And if you wanted to, you could go to Rome for some decent pizza for lunch and be back at work by 1:00. |
Everytime I'm on some long haul flight, all I can think about is how amazing teleportation would be. Off to Europe for the weekend. Dinner in Shanghai.
Then again, there would probably also be a massive uptick in worldwide crime. So maybe it's for the best we dont' have it.
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06-05-2019, 08:06 AM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Effective Scrubbers that can remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
https://www.jwnenergy.com/article/20...o2-atmosphere/
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06-05-2019, 08:08 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Winnipeg
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Faster than light travel.
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06-05-2019, 08:09 AM
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Ate 100 Treadmills
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Quote:
Originally Posted by surferguy
I’m hopeful that soon during a FaceTime call there can be real time closed captioning. It would give my father the ability to read what we are saying to him and avoid the frustrations of not being able to hear.
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This must already exist. All sorts of real-time closed captioning programs exists. Surely there must be an add on for hearing impaired people already. If not can a separate program be used?
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06-05-2019, 08:13 AM
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Norm!
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Tantalus Field from the Star Trek mirror universe.
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06-05-2019, 08:17 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: the dark side of Sesame Street
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Disintegrator ray gun.
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06-05-2019, 08:18 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by blankall
This must already exist. All sorts of real-time closed captioning programs exists. Surely there must be an add on for hearing impaired people already. If not can a separate program be used?
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Googel has it:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/7/18...iption-io-2019
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06-05-2019, 08:36 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Marseilles Of The Prairies
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Cold fusion
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06-05-2019, 08:42 AM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Calgary
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06-05-2019, 08:56 AM
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broke the first rule
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A thing that makes food or drinks cold quickly. Like a microwave in reverse.
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06-05-2019, 08:58 AM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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My mom had a stroke and lost the ability to speak and use her right hand. There are new technologies on the horizon - glasses that would allow her to look at a screen and spell words; a device that can translate thought waves into speech.
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06-05-2019, 08:59 AM
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by calf
A thing that makes food or drinks cold quickly. Like a microwave in reverse.
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So a freezer?
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Looks like you'll need one long before I will. May I suggest deflection king?
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06-05-2019, 09:00 AM
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broke the first rule
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Faster than that. Way faster.
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