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
I’m with you, still rocking my Galaxy Note 9 with a cracked screen because its better then all other options. I have looked at the Sony Xperia 1 devices because they have everything I want but they are very very expensive.
A device that is the size of a pen drive, costs a fiver, produces unlimited energy with zero carbon footprint, and has access control restrictions built in so anyone who is a politician or bureaucrat cannot use it.
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
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.
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.
A machine that perfectly dispenses things: The perfect amount of cereal + milk in a bowl The perfect about of squash and water The perfect amount of soap/shampoo The perfect amount of moisturizer
An Android phone with a decent processor, one decent camera on the back (no front facing), a 1440p 5.5" OLED screen, a headphone jack, and long term update support for a reasonable price.
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?
As I stare at the mess of charging cables and USB stuff on my floor, I look forward to when we will charge things wireless-ly.
An app on my phone so that when I point my camera at a street, building, landscape, the app will overly identifying info.
A laptop without a screen, instead a projected holographic screen with tactile feedback.
When my laptop is far away, across the room, I want a tiny, moldable item in my hand. Just press, next song. Not a wireless mouse, something way tinier, can adapt to tiny finger movements.
A flexible material that can be molded into shape, locked into place. So many uses.
I’d like to hold my phone, and in a quick gesture “throw” data to my laptop.
Thank you. Knew I’d seen it a sci-fi show, couldn’t remember which one.
Now if you can tell me which sci-fi tv show or movie had someone on a spaceship whose job was to listen for, interpret cosmic noise, and he’d do so by immersing his head into a band of sound at his workstation … been bugging me for weeks.
Ooh I don’t know. That sounds interesting. Is it a band like a speaker that makes a ring around his head facing inward? Or some hologram thing or what?
Um… hold out your hands like you’re holding an imaginary box. But instead of a box, it was a visible, undulating, holographic field, and he’d dip his head into that field. I remember computer displays behind him, it was his specialized work station. A few other shipmates would make fun of him for disconnecting, zoning out so much.
FWIW XR standalone headsets are Android based so you can have Termux in there, or even connect to a desktop via e.g Alvr. It’s not holographic but … it’s a computer, you can even use a BT mouse and keyboard if you want.
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