I would love the child of a Surfacebook with a Framework laptop; or A bare keyboard attached to a screen, that I could plug my phone (possibly running Phosh) and use it as a hardware for a laptop experience
A high-quality dumb TV.
Get your ads (and security vulnerabilities) out of my damn house.
Just plug a computer into your TV, and never give the TV Ethernet or WiFi access.
FWIW using an Android video projector with VLC connecting to uPnP server, only my video files availble. Otherwise can use its HDMI input but as-is it’s all wireless.
*dumb house.
The only way
I kinda disagree here - I have no problem using smart lights, etc., as long as they’re controlled by a non-cloud system like HomeAssistant. This just doesn’t seem to be an option for more complex devices.
Agreed, “smart” isn’t what matters, it’s more connected and in control, with Internet optional, no proprietary app or weird protocol mandatory.
A high end phone with a headphone jack and Linux that works with banking apps.
Agreed, sadly not a technical problem but a business one. Unless governments step it I don’t see this changing.
It will eventually but of course it depends what is really meant by “high end”.
As the decades roll by I find I care less and less about “high end” and more and more about avoiding bullshit. While presently the portion of people who would buy such a phone is too few to make manufacturing viable, I suspect that portion will grow in the coming decades as millennials get older.
Why do you need a headphone jack? Any DAC in a phone is going to be useless if you’re saying because of HiFi Audio. And when it comes to using a HiFi DAC I’d much rather just use a USB-C powered port for my headphones.
iOS is based off of Darwin which was based off of BSD Linux. So was MacOS for that matter.
A house hold device that can diagnose most sicknesses with a drop of blood or saliva
I want a mid-range phone with a great camera and a telephoto lens.
I don’t need no AI bullshit, I don’t do gaming, I don’t need 32 gigs of ram on a phone.
I just wanna take great pictures.
Just buy a camera. Searching for consensus on this you’ll find people online telling you “well who needs a point and shoot, modern cameras are good enough, the camera you have is better than the good camera you leave at home” and etc, but for under $500 you can get a used or even new decent point and portable digital camera(similar form factor to what everyone had in the early to mid 00s) and it will fit in your pocket, bag, around neck and mop the floor with any cell phone camera when photographing anything you have to zoom in on.
Depending on what you buy you’ll of course have more of a learning curve compared to the ai, but it wont have that over sharpened ai enhanced oil painting look that phone cameras give you when you zoom in a little, and yes the results can be much better. You can take snapshots with fast shutter of birds in flight, stop a helicopters blades, capture precipitation, and of course zoom in a little into things that the cell phone camera would poop itself trying to capture.
Since we’re just talking fantasy: a device that can scan my brain and tell me exactly what medications would help me and be able to issue my a prescription without having to talk to a million doctors.
I was thinking one of those sci-fi medical bays that rebuilds healthy bodies on a molecular level. Would like some of my amputated body parts back in addition to a cure to my ailments, thank you very much.
I would love to have an open, hackable, linux-based eBook reader.
Niche, but I want it. It would look like a blank book, with pages that feel like paper. I’d be able to download whatever text I wanted, and read it like an old fashioned book. You’d be able to change the text as many times as you wanted to.
I love this. Customizable font, type size, and cover too.
FWIW I’m using the reMarkable 2. It runs Linux and pretty fast eInk for sketching and writing notes. It’s not paper but closest to it I tried so far.
A grapple gun that can pull you up a building like batman. I was bummed when I found out those don’t really exist
A sleeping pod for home.
Imagine as you go to sleep it is perfect temperature for you no need for open windows or extra blankets. You just turn the dial and it adjusts it or maybe it even have a curve so that you love for it start cold but wake up warm.
It is pitch black, no need to try block out any light.
It completely soundproof even if you live middle of the city. But it also have speakers just in case you like something in background as you sleep.
I think the future of next-gen housing will be something like this. I’ve been hearing stories on HackerNews about young developers earning good salaries in SF, unable to find a place to rent, so instead opt to live in their cars and go shower at the gym. They do this happily, and it doesn’t bother them.
As someone who used to frequently sleep under his desk as work in my early 20s, I can see portable sleep pods being a really good substitute for the inner city housing problem.
I would rather kill myself than live like that.
That insane! I was thinking like a bed 2.0 not freaking dystopian let’s live in a bed sized apartment.
When you say happily you mean it is better than living in your car right?
That surely can’t be the future that you get!
I’d prefer a house and a garden too, but that’s unlikely for a lot of people now. It’s just not the world we live in. You either are a homeowner, pay exorbitant rent, or are homeless.
Instead of having nothing between homeless and rising rent, it’d be nice to have an inbetween option.
You can wish for any gadget. Just wish for the Capitalism-Destroyer-Button if you want affordable housing. Or fuck, wish for a Halo and rent out the land on it.
American culture around work honestly seems completely fucking nuts.
This was in the UK. I lived on one side of the city right next to a motoroway where it was too loud to sleep and I had no internet. My workplace was on the other of the city. On a rainy night, I didn’t always fancy cycling that distance just to get home for 3 hours of subpar sleep. Sleeping a half-decent 6-7 hours under my desk and then showering the next morning was much easier.
My cats would not like this. How would they tell me about their empty food bowl at 4AM?
I want an extremely low power laptop for programming. Slow processor, e-ink screen with a low refresh rate. I want 24 hours battery life with a solar charger to sit outside and program.
A toilet that can plunge and snake itself.
A toilet that never needs to be plunged or snaked.
a gaming laptop that doesnt overheat constantly ,mine goes up to 80c when im playing overwatch of all games
The snooze button on my alarm clock needs to actually pause time, so I can sleep until I’m not tired anymore.
That made me lol. Thanks.
I’d like a digital personal assistant actually designed to help me keep track of my day to day stuff, rather than one designed to steal and sell all my information.
And it would have a great collaboration, but also a friendly rivalry, going with my robot butler.
Maybe a Palm Pilot would do :p
5 inch android phone :(
