[JSilver]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxVS5nYFnkA

[Manic!]

Go Microsoft!!!

[TekDragon]

Great conceptual ideas, but how many of these would actually be embraced by business and consumers? I see a lot in there for geeks and technophiles, but thats it.

[$_$]

Great conceptual ideas, but how many of these would actually be embraced by business and consumers? I see a lot in there for geeks and technophiles, but thats it.

once something becomes easy, functional, and affordable it will be embraced by the general public

[will068]

Great conceptual ideas, but how many of these would actually be embraced by business and consumers? I see a lot in there for geeks and technophiles, but thats it.

If it was inexpensive and has a coolness factor, it's a hit.

[_Hotsauce_]

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If a business could be more effective at doing business, why wouldn't they? If a consumer could make their every day life easier/better, why wouldn't they? If a school could be more effective at teaching students, would they say no?

Doctors can already do surgery's over the internet using web cams and robots. Have you seen the Microsoft multi-touch "Coffee table"? Just a matter of time for the software to come out to make it available to all businesses (cheaper). There are tons and tons of companies developing large multi-touch displays/software. What's the use of multi-touch? It's a super smart white-board.

As for the news paper, print-news companies are already suffering greatly. Digital paper (not sure of the exact name) is already in development....The "hardware" would be a one time purchase, then you would pay $1 for the content. It's the exact same as the news paper, except no cutting down trees/waste/ink costs.

Look at the original computer for example, I'm sure people were thinking the exact same thing. "Oh that's cool, but why would an every day person need one?"

They will happen, just a matter of time and money. Mainly the cost of technology to drop, as it always does, then the mass markets will have it.

[Eastwood]

Microsoft should build electric cars. At least they'd make it right.

[tamiya_s2000]

yea n the handhelds r only gona cost like $2342356847 each right?

[Hondaracer]

^ prices come down in time

the touch screen paper would be pretty cool, and very doable even with technology now

[El Bastardo]

Its shit like this that makes me hate assholes like Linus Torvalds even more. Yes, you're making a great alternative to mainstream software but you don't have to attack Microsoft by being motivated purely by cash to work within the computer industry.

Microsoft brought the computer to the common user and helped put one in almost every household (sorry, Apple) and is continuing to be innovative in a field that is over saturated by imitators.



In case you didn't notice, I hate Communists... and Linux

[.Renn.Sport]

Microsoft should build electric cars. At least they'd make it right.

:haha:

its gonna over heat and give you RROD

[willystyle]

With this technology, it's been said that jobs as a waitress in restaurants will be eliminated cause there won't be a need for waitresses to take orders. The display will be built on to the table, everything from ordering to paying will be processed on the dining table. The only procedure that requires a form of human assistance will be the delivery of food from the kitchen to your table.

Of course, this is only one of millions of uses for this technology, but just imagine how much money you can save if you don't have to hire 8-10 waitresses to serve in your restaurant. This technology will pay for itself when it becomes mainstream.

[El Bastardo]

Big deal. Automation cleared out people pushing buttons and pulling levers in elevators and it wasn't the end of the world, was it?

[asian_XL]

http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/8260/1256909es1.jpg

[Jason00S2000]

Great conceptual ideas, but how many of these would actually be embraced by business and consumers? I see a lot in there for geeks and technophiles, but thats it.



Laugh...


15 years ago you could not sell a website to a business to save your life...



...now, a business without a website, doesn't have much business...(generally)


We can only guess how much more advanced things will be in another 15 years, I'm sure it will blow our minds.

[chun]

Just an interesting comment that someone posted to the vid: Microsoft produced this "future vision", implying that it intends to develop in the direction of what was shown... but it's not like they committed to any of the projects. Just another advertisement.

[hotjoint]

Just an interesting comment that someone posted to the vid: Microsoft produced this "future vision", implying that it intends to develop in the direction of what was shown... but it's not like they committed to any of the projects. Just another advertisement.

:werd:

[KenM]

Just an interesting comment that someone posted to the vid: Microsoft produced this "future vision", implying that it intends to develop in the direction of what was shown... but it's not like they committed to any of the projects. Just another advertisement.

you need to watch that video again. A lot of those technologies shown have been leaked out on tech sites before as prototypes.

[apharmdb]

Yeah perhaps they can pay a royalty to SONY down the line:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa1WRuy-ZCs

[_Hotsauce_]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2SCZvU8sGU
Bendable OLED

[silk]

that was impressive but yet was a bit scary...
with all these technology coming to the market, only the wealthy one could get their hands on... what about rest of the poor people or not so wealthy people ??
i think there will be a huge gap between the 2 groups ....

there is no way for people to catch up with the newest technology with the money we are making right now ...unless the wealthy one

by the time one technology became commonly affordable for most of the people, another newer technology is presented onto the market again

[Noir]

that was impressive but yet was a bit scary...
with all these technology coming to the market, only the wealthy one could get their hands on... what about rest of the poor people or not so wealthy people ??
i think there will be a huge gap between the 2 groups ....

You know, people said the same thing about cars. People would laugh had they known that every household not only just had 1 car, but sometimes 1 car for each family member. And lot of the times one of the family member being a teen.

[Gridlock]

I have a secret hate for Linux fanboys.

They always say there are 100 stupidly named programs that do just what the program that costs 100's does. My problem is there is minimal new developments in the linux fields. Things that make Adobe and Microsoft look archaic. It's all rip offs.

Yes, its stable, and yes its free but ripping off office is one thing and generating new ideas to make office better is something else.

I know, totally off topic, but whatev.

[silk]

^ i got your idea, but look....take tv as example ..
HD TV was introduced 3 -5 yrs ago?? ( not quite sure ) ...
they finally dropped the price maybe a year and half ago? I'm sure 60% + of household owned at least 1 HDTV now., but again..thats after they dropped the price.
now look... OLED is presented onto market... sony is selling a 11" for over $2g ...

im trying to say the NOT SO WEALTHY people will never get their hands on the new product right away, by the time they have it.. a newer version is ready to hit the market.

thats life ? i should try to make more money ?? maybe...
the mark up for the new product is just way up there IMO :D

[bengy]

that was impressive but yet was a bit scary...
with all these technology coming to the market, only the wealthy one could get their hands on... what about rest of the poor people or not so wealthy people ??
i think there will be a huge gap between the 2 groups ....

there is no way for people to catch up with the newest technology with the money we are making right now ...unless the wealthy one

by the time one technology became commonly affordable for most of the people, another newer technology is presented onto the market again

So what? If you want to have cuttin edge technology there is always a price to pay. Cutting edge technology is NOT a necessity, it's more of a hobby. Most people are fine with yesterday's stuff.

[Noir]

So what? If you want to have cuttin edge technology there is always a price to pay.

Only if you want this technology immediately. It's not only the advent of newer technology that drives current prices of current technology down. But aslo product saturation and direct market competition will do that as well.

[_Hotsauce_]

Here's another good example of technology making it to the masses, Solid State Harddrives, compare this to computer systems 10-15 years ago.

2gb continuous transfer speeds from a personal computer? Craziness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs

[Noizz]

the touch screen paper would be pretty cool, and very doable even with technology now

I presume you want it mobile as well, like in that vin disel movie with the touch screen map.

The only problem is how will you power it? battery technology right now isn't flexible and its not thin either. Until we find a new power source there won't be any 100% flexible and paper thin screens yet

likewise with that touch screen credit card, if it is as thin as a credit card, and the entire card is a display... what would power it??? and how would u charge it? maybe solar power? so it absorbs energy? but how would u store that energy? flexible micro capacitors? what about night time?

i think we need a breakthrough in battery technology. li-ion was first introduced in 1991, and there haven't been significant changes other than longer life and higher density.

[Marco911]

Its shit like this that makes me hate assholes like Linus Torvalds even more. Yes, you're making a great alternative to mainstream software but you don't have to attack Microsoft by being motivated purely by cash to work within the computer industry.

Microsoft brought the computer to the common user and helped put one in almost every household (sorry, Apple) and is continuing to be innovative in a field that is over saturated by imitators.



In case you didn't notice, I hate Communists... and Linux

Your kidding, right?

[RRxtar]

that was impressive but yet was a bit scary...
with all these technology coming to the market, only the wealthy one could get their hands on... what about rest of the poor people or not so wealthy people ??
i think there will be a huge gap between the 2 groups ....

there is no way for people to catch up with the newest technology with the money we are making right now ...unless the wealthy one

by the time one technology became commonly affordable for most of the people, another newer technology is presented onto the market again
20 years ago, NO ONE had a computer. no one ever thought they would have a computer either, and if you tried to describe to them that one day, everyone would be able to write on a noteboard that anyone around the world could see instantly, they would think you were a spaceman.

15 years ago, to buy a computer you had to be pretty well off. most basic systems were in the $2500 range and didnt do much other than provide an alternative to a type writer. maybe 10% of people i knew had a computer in 1994.

now you can pick up a brand new computer complete for $400 and i would say 95% of households in canada have a computer, even poor people.

[RRxtar]

The only problem is how will you power it? battery technology right now isn't flexible and its not thin either. Until we find a new power source there won't be any 100% flexible and paper thin screens yet
i thought i watched a youtube demonstration video of something where someone invented a way to wirelessly power something. the technology might be in its early stages, but its a start.

[StaxBundlez]

hahaha
fuck u apple

[_Hotsauce_]

I presume you want it mobile as well, like in that vin disel movie with the touch screen map.

The only problem is how will you power it? battery technology right now isn't flexible and its not thin either. Until we find a new power source there won't be any 100% flexible and paper thin screens yet

likewise with that touch screen credit card, if it is as thin as a credit card, and the entire card is a display... what would power it??? and how would u charge it? maybe solar power? so it absorbs energy? but how would u store that energy? flexible micro capacitors? what about night time?

i think we need a breakthrough in battery technology. li-ion was first introduced in 1991, and there haven't been significant changes other than longer life and higher density.

We now have hand-held computers that have more processing power then the the space-shuttle that went to the moon. Do you really think it's going to take that long to find a new-advanced form of power? I don't. As someone above me stated, they have wireless power sources now (even if in the early stages of development). Put the two together, and there's your answer.

[monkeywrench]

if the would really ends up like that one the distant future, id be pretty happy to see it actually. innovation at its best

[Noizz]

We now have hand-held computers that have more processing power then the the space-shuttle that went to the moon. Do you really think it's going to take that long to find a new-advanced form of power? I don't. As someone above me stated, they have wireless power sources now (even if in the early stages of development). Put the two together, and there's your answer.

i don't object to that. but compare the difference between computing power in 1991 with 2009. now compare battery technology in the same constraint. it has not improved as significantly as computer tech has.

it took 10+ to even begin "wireless" power. wireless power was already present (powered oral-b toothbrushes) but the distance is a constraint. also it is also transmitted through laser (directed), its not like a wireless router where electronics can just feed off of it regardless of location.

think about the consequences to your health by transmitting power from multiple sources all over in your environment, it could be decades before it will be deemed safe by public health.

and think about how that technology would trickle down to the consumer level? the developmental/research and funding required that would have to happen for a company to mass produce a wireless power supply and at what cost to the consumer when we can simply plug it in with a wire?

i would love to see a breakthrough in wireless power, but i doubt it will be in my lifetime, because it just doesn't seem feasible at this point.

[RRxtar]

you do know that when your parents were in highschool there werent even calculators? one of the most basic computer functions didnt exist a generation ago.

whats that technology ratio? 10-1 or something? technology is advancing at a rate where more is learned in the last decade than the previous hundred years.

[CRS]

I can understand why the battery industry has not had the same advances in say in the computer/internet industry simply because computers have a far more vested interest than batteries did.

As soon as computers/technology no longer can operate without some feat of a new battery design/concept, it will happen. As soon as everyone shifts from advancing computers and start investing in new power sources it will happen. And it already has begun with the environmentally friend stages. It is only a matter of time before the whole battery and power industry catch up with technology.

[BoneThug]

that was impressive but yet was a bit scary...
with all these technology coming to the market, only the wealthy one could get their hands on... what about rest of the poor people or not so wealthy people ??
i think there will be a huge gap between the 2 groups ....



there is already a huge gap between the two groups.