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
Feature phone with all of : keypad, high-resolution screen and camera, headphone jack, dual sim, WLAN, reasonable RAM, and expandable memory storage. I can find phones with some of these, but not all.
In my experience this most often comes from a failure to perform routine maintenance, and Windows being a bloated rotting whale, decaying on the beach, slowly expanding and spreading its horrid filth across the entire system. Give your computer a new life by cleaning out all the dust, reapplying thermal paste to the CPU, oiling fan bearings, and installing a lightweight Linux distro, or at least a fresh whale carcass (clean windows install).
totally understandable which is precisely why I’m sharing, it’s sadly a surprising situation and I can’t say if it’s a trend, just sharing my personal experience.
I know about the Boox devices, but the double screen is the main selling point for me. As far as I know, there’s nothing similar offered by any other manufacturer out there. The PadMu comes close, but it’s two separate devices (no hinge) that you have to pair via Bluetooth and place side by side, and the pairing process is slow and cumbersome.
Well yes, any E-Ink device should be able to open a PDF, but PadMu gives you the ability to sync two devices so you can place them next to each other and display two pages at once. I think it has additional features specifically for working with sheet music, like an infra-red sensor for turning pages by waving your hands in front of the device. I know the Gvido has that (Edit: But the PadMu actually doesn’t; it’s all software enhancements and the dual display mode).
This review showcases the side-by-side display (double mode) feature at around 4:20. Can Onyx devices do that? I haven’t checked, but my guess is no.
If the main difference is the dual screen thing then it’s not much use for me. My main use case with sheet music is writing it, not reading for performance - so I’d actually prefer to work on just one screen at a time.
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.
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.
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.
I would love this - except that my wife and I would want completely different ambient temperatures and I don’t want to sleep in a different pod from her.
Yeah thats bit rough but maybe like one side you heat the wall, bottom and roof it could offset a bit? The other side cools just a tiny bit. You would not get as cold as you want but maybe it would be good enough compromise.
Plus if you have the problem of her hoarding bed less likely she does on your side.
But if you are the bed hoarder it probably won’t help her.
This is really specific. But I have wanted it for years. A switch for two 3.5 mm sound. Basically plug two inputs into the box, have 1 output and a simple physical switch that would let me flip back and forth.
A robotic AI pet. Like a small dog or cat. Preferable able to read my body language and react to it. In a low price range that I can afford. Everything on the market is too dumb, too expensive, too hard to program and there is non that can read body language.
Something that plugs into my PC where I can plug my headphones into it, and it creates two virtual audio devices that I can fade between by turning a knob.
This way I can independently adjust the volume of my game and YouTube, like being able to turn one or the other down or off independently of each other without having to tab out or adjust in-game settings.
This exists but the one I have seen relies on installing software on your windows PC, idk if it works without Linux and/or devices other than their own
The one I mentioned is from steelseries, but there should be sound mixers available which work via software connection or maybe you can try to get it made with a raspi or another sbc, either yourself or by asking a friend who would be interested in making that for you.
Yoooo I think this is exactly what I was talking about! I guess I just wasn’t searching the right words, or maybe Google sucks more than I thought nowadays lol
If you want the best idea, just look at the last paragraph and ignore everything else.
Entirely too many to write about here in entirety, but I’ll write a few that I remember ATM:
A setup, so multiple devices, of: a feature phone based on flipper zero with buttons on it like it’s a fidget toy (but actually functional) and a foldable tablet that looks like a notebook (Lenovo yoga fold)
A tablet based off of Pixel C, MacBook, ROG Flow Z13 and/or Pixelbook with magnets in the body to stick it anywhere like Google tablets usually have, the look and keyboard of Pixelbook (it’s just a personal favourite), trackpad and SoC from Macs, gaming capabilities from windows, and a screen with the new 3D tech (for designing 3D prints), microLED, and 240 Hz+ VRR
A controller based on a combination of dualsense, xbox elite, and steam controller with a low energy display doubling as a trackpad in the middle
Screen tech which is capable of giving actual tactile feel of buttons so I can have double screen or foldable device without sacrificing on a keyboard good for touch typing.
A mixed reality headset as small as sunglasses with capabilities of the best of them
A headset which I can stick around my ear and get audio directly into my nerves with very little if any invasive surgery
Basically Nokia morph concept but in real life would also be really cool
While typing about magnets I remembered the actual thing I really want to exist currently: polymagnet based devices and accessories. It can be so futuristic if implemented properly, and a game changer, though I assume it’s not mass production ready yet or someone would have applied it. Everything else is just my imagination running wild, not that I consider this a reasonable thing either.
But bone conduction will still be affected by noise around me, no? And I’ll also be at risk of damaging my hearing if I try to keep the volume high enough to counteract noise, or am I mistaken?
Laptop: I want a ~13 inch laptop with a nice keyboard, a decent trackpad, and a quality 1080p LCD screen, with a very efficient low power ARM processor akin to a Raspberry Pi running some well tested flavor of Linux, and the rest of the machine is just battery. Something that can do some web browsing, some word processing, spreadsheet, let me use bash and vim and ssh and such, that doesn’t suck to use because it’s “for early adopters and serious hackers only.” Like imagine the machine you’d get if the Pinebook Pro legitimately cost $600 rather than $200, is what I think I want.
Phone: I want a 4.5 inch phone with a physical slide-out keyboard that has modern, performant internals that can smoothly run its own UI plus reasonable web browsing and communication/text app capacity. It should be able to play 720p video from the internet flawlessly (this would be a perfectly fine resolution for the screen) and it should have at least 4000 mAH of battery. Any camera from any phone I’ve owned in the last 10 years is acceptable.
Audio Equipment: I want ANR over the ear headphones that provide enough ANR and/or PNR that I can use them as hearing protection in the wood shop while I’m using my planer or router or whatever, that work perfectly well over normal bluetooth, that have all physical button controls, no touch sensitive whatever, and do not have any kind of app.
For the laptop, it already exists. Just get a used base 13" m1 macbook air and install Linux on it. Solid build. Ultra portable. Best-in-class trackpad. Good keyboard. Inexpensive-ish. More than enough performance for what you want and great battery life.
How small are you talking? I feel like there’s decent Chromebooks out there and phones that work well with keyboard attachments that might meet a bit of some of those parts depending on your use
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.
I want an updated Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact with all the modern internal bits. Modern processor, sufficient RAM and good enough camera. Doesn’t have to be the best, just good enough to keep upwith the times.
More importantly I want the height and width to remain the same; thickness can be increased if required.
Also keep the 3.5mm jack, camera shutter button, notification LED and the sim + micro-sd tray. Dual sim would be a bonus.
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