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The computer of the future

Posted on 03/01/2015 8:28:02 PM PST by leopardseal

It might actually be that something like this would be possible with today's technology or it may be more like five or ten years out, but this is the computer I'd like to have. The thing would look like two Iphones held together face to face with magnets or snaps of some sort and fit in a shirt pocket. You'd take it out of your pocket, take the two halves of the thing apart, and set the one half on any flat surface to be the mouse. The other half would sit on the same surface and somehow generate a holographic screen and keyboardwhich could be used like any desktop computer.

In other words, a fully functional desktop computer which you could carry in a shirt pocket with nothing else needed to run.

Thoughts anybody??


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: computers; electronics; holographs
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1 posted on 03/01/2015 8:28:03 PM PST by leopardseal
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To: leopardseal

Why the mouse? It should have a camera that follows your fingers and detects taps and gestures....


2 posted on 03/01/2015 8:33:44 PM PST by null and void (As always, keeping a low profile with anything you do is to your advantage.)
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To: leopardseal

There is a mock up of a future computer that is your cellphone. When you get home, you dock it to a device that a monitor and other computer accessories are connected to.

That’s where I think it is headed to.


3 posted on 03/01/2015 8:37:42 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: leopardseal

I’d be happy just to have XP again.


4 posted on 03/01/2015 8:37:57 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: leopardseal
The movie Johnny Mnemonic featured the ideal computer of the future.

All it was was a pair of glasses and a pair of gloves.

Looking through the glasses you could see a screen as big as you wanted. With the gloves on you could type on a virtual keyboard, move a virtual mouse, do all the stuff you can do with an iPhone.

That's the computer I want.

5 posted on 03/01/2015 8:38:49 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: null and void

They do have a device that uses infr-red that does that. I think a mouse is more functional.


6 posted on 03/01/2015 8:39:56 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Tapping with your hand seems imprecise.


7 posted on 03/01/2015 8:42:20 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: leopardseal

Think smaller. Much smaller. Think nano.

The future computer will be nearly invisible.


8 posted on 03/01/2015 8:44:59 PM PST by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: leopardseal

I’ve actually seen a proof of concept of something like this on youtube. Not exactly what you describe, but it involved projecting holographic images from a wearable device. It was a while back and I don’t have a link, but maybe you could find it if you use the right search terms.


9 posted on 03/01/2015 8:45:16 PM PST by balch3
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To: Jonty30

When you see your virtual fingers pecking away at a virtual keyboard through your VR headset then you can be as precise as you want.


10 posted on 03/01/2015 8:45:42 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: leopardseal

I see computers of the future as being similar to modern helmet-mounted heads-up displays used by our military pilots, only far more advanced and powerful in a computational sense. But instead of being integrated into a helmet, they’ll be integrated into an ordinary pair of glasses or sunglasses, or maybe even implanted somewhere in the human body... brain, eye, etc.


11 posted on 03/01/2015 8:55:05 PM PST by LibWhacker ("Every Muslim act of terror is follow by a political act of cover-up." -Daniel Greenfield)
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To: Jonty30

Is this what you’re thinking of

https://www.leapmotion.com/


12 posted on 03/01/2015 8:59:20 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: leopardseal

your close but actually somewhat off center. The actual path (IE what is happening) is called convergence. Interestingly this is a trend that has been happening for decades. To understand the past/present/future of convergence you need to understand moore’s law. Because of moore’s truism we are now at the cusp of combining the mobile computers you use daily into 1 system that you just use in many different ways.

OK so your now like dude WTF are you talking about. Do you have a cell phone? That’s actually a computer. You got a nook/kindle/ipad that’s a computer. Got a GPS system (yup its a computer) Did you go buy a google nest thermostat (yup that’s a computer)

Timeline
If you spent any brainpower following tech, you know that windows is going under a massive change. W10 unifies the kernel (the base executable that runs every thing) across all platforms. This means that your hardware horsepower will be the limiting factor for using programs or apps. Not the platform (phone tablet computer)

Intel has posted its roadmap to the 10mn process and the issues that popped up putting them 6 month behind schedule. What they have said is that the learning curve for the 7nm process, because of the issues with the 10nm process should be much better. Why does this matter????

Well its all about better faster cheaper.

We’re 18-24 months from your phone being your computer, which will actually the a watch on your wrist and with the correct google glasses will be your TV.


13 posted on 03/01/2015 9:01:19 PM PST by waynesa98
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To: Jonty30

I like my mouse.


14 posted on 03/01/2015 9:08:14 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: waynesa98

My watch talks to my phone. My phone talks to my computer and is connected to the cloud, and my home network.

I believe the computer I want would pass the Eliza test with myself being the tester. It would also project things into my reality and things I want in the computer realm could be simulated...easily.

I fear that at that time, the computers will have most, if not all of the salable skills and I wouldn’t be able to afford it...not having a job and all.

DK


15 posted on 03/01/2015 9:10:34 PM PST by Dark Knight
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To: laplata
I like my mouse.

If you like your mouse, you can keep your mouse.

Regards,

16 posted on 03/01/2015 9:12:12 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: leopardseal

Where is the 4k screen?


17 posted on 03/01/2015 9:22:48 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: generally

Inserted into you. Display directly hooked occipital area.


18 posted on 03/01/2015 9:24:39 PM PST by Paladin2
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19 posted on 03/01/2015 9:26:36 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: waynesa98

I want batteries on a moore’s law schedule.


20 posted on 03/01/2015 9:27:39 PM PST by Paladin2
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