What is the device you want, but that does not exist?
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
Most current phones with keyboards are more like micro laptops (where you have to put it down and type with all your fingers) than phones like BB (where you type like on a phone). Last BlackBerry models were not bulky at all and had great keyboards.
The PineTab2 is PINE64’s successor to the original PineTab Linux tablet computer, featuring a faster processor and better availability. The tablet is available in two configurations, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage or 8GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage.
I don’t want a tablet and I don’t want pathetic specs. Take a flagship XPS and shove a RISC-V cpu into it. That’s what I’d like.
Oh, forget the remote, if the stupid device connection systems between consoles and TVs managed to not do the exact opposite thing to what you want 95% of the time I'd take it.
Although robust HDR support on Windows would also do it for me.
WebThings (or Home Assitant) with Zigbee plugs and Zigbee (or BT or WiFi, whatever) button remote, it exists. Otherwise can use your phone to control those too.
PineNote exists too, though it’s often out of stock. Remarkable tablet has a pretty decent hacking community, and gives you its root password in settings. Kobo devices have been able to run aftermarket software for years, and recently there’s been progress in booting a complete OS. If you’re okay with Android there are even more choices. @crunchpaste you’ve got some options!
Now that we’re on the topic, an idea for an eCafe where there are plenty of physical books, but you can plug in the reader to a machine to fully download the book so you can read it offline.
I think I want to learn more about coding and find a bunch of leftist buddies and make shit that’s actually “innovative”.
Roughly 10 years ago Ubuntu was planning an Ubuntu phone which would do just that. I remember backing it on kickstarter, but it never made it to release :/
Chat gpt now has a feature that will let you take a picture of something and tell you what it is. There was a new contraption that showed up at my work when we combined offices and i used chatgpt to find out that it’s a manual comb binding machine used to bond books and other such things together. What’s neat is that if it can’t tell what something is from one picture, you can take additional photos to help narrow it down.
Pretty trivial technically speaking, you record everything once you get people consent, then you transcribe with e.g whisper.cpp or whatever else you have, search within the transcriptions and generate a link back to the original files, if need be, with seeking timing to double check.
A VR headset that is lightweight, has a decent battery, and has controls dictated by gesture and eye focus (so I can finally start sketching out 3D geometric objects and exploring a fun idea I had for a model of hyperbolic space)
Im doing that with Quests HMDs, including with my own code e.g git.benetou.fr/utopiah/text-code-xr-engine/ and… far from perfect but works today. If you need more lightweight but not standalone then BigScreen might have a better option. Gestures do work well but aren’t super precise for now but I imagine the trend will keep up, especially with Vision Pro.
Privacy-respecting thought-controlled AR+VR smart contact lenses that correct my eyesight, block out UV, can somehow project sound into my brain, overlay people’s names and basic info when I see them and don’t remember (or make me remember thanks to the brain interface), and let me browse the internet and work on stuff without using my hands because RSI :(
Alright dude, you and I need to talk about the limits of what you can do with your biology.
I’ve had and solved all of those problems via biohacking. Except for the eyesight correction (though I have found it’s affected by inflammation, hydration levels, and nutrition to a larger degree than I would have predicted).
I remember the day someone just told me “You know, you can cure plantar fasciitis. It’s not some thing you have to live with forever”. I was blown away. And they were right.
Now you’re complaining about all these things you seem to think are fixed aspects of your body, that you have to live with until technology fixes it for you, but they’re not.
FWIW Monocle is open. Lynx XR is also working toward that. SimulaVR also but didn’t try it.
PS: missed the thought controlled part… iMHO for this we need quite a few more years. Basic control sure but nowhere near what even the most basic keyboard could provide. I’d argue combining inputs, e.g controllers, hand tracking, mouse and keyboard, will keep on being muct more efficient unless there is a medical need for it.
PPS: had carpal tunnel, switch to all ergonomic few years ago, never looked back
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.
A true virtual reality. Not goggles, but the kind that hooks up into your brain and consciousness. One that’s indistinguishable from real life. The kind where you can basically just live your entire life in some kind of a virtual multiplayer where quite literally anything is possible. You could be hooked up to an IV that feeds you optimal diet etc. go off the deep end if you want.
I know how it might seem crazy to see something like that as a desirable thing, but I really think it would solve many of the issues in the world. I don’t think you’re “wasting your life” if you’re being happy in a virtual world, and I don’t see a reason why you couldn’t be happy there. You could have your own private world(s) and others would have theirs. There would be public worlds also with a ton of real people aswell as AI, and people could visit your worlds aswell if you let them. Just think about the possbilities. Why ruin the planet when you can have abundance in the virtualverse.
Have you read Ready Player One? Cuz they more or less did that in the book. If not, I highly recommend it. The sequel isn’t quite as good, but was still fun.
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