Re: Laptop of the Future
- From: "Kevin" <webman6@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 13:30:27 -0800
<99m@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I can see we're on the verge of some cool technology in the near
> future. I'm already hearing rumblings about bits and pieces of this.
> It's only a matter of time before it's all combined into one piece.
>
> * No keyboard or mouse -- uses a laser to shoot it on a flat surface.
> You touch type on it and an infrared chip scans your strokes. Requires
> about 4 minutes of training before it works. The "touchpad" is a
> laser-drawn square. Eventually different colors and perhaps an almost
> low-grade projector TV kind of experience could be drawn on the surface
> so that your keyboard looks more inviting than a bright red laser
> surface.
Old news. A couple of years old.
>
> * No hard screen. Instead, you pull a screen out of a roller and it
> snaps into place. The screen rolls back up when done. It uses
> nanotechnology to "harden" when snapped into place, keeping the screen
> from moving in the wind or rolling like a wave.
Old news. At least two years old.
>
> * Therefore, the device takes on a kind of small, long brick-like size.
> Eventually after that, you might even have an iPod kind of size with
> it, where the screen somehow unfolds out of that tiny amount of space
> and "hardens" with nanotechnology.
Wishful thinking at this point.
>
> * Is powered from a rechargable hydrogen battery that, if you were to
> crack it open and look at it, looks just like a metal-hydride battery.
> However, you get 40 hours of uptime with it.
Battery technology is making quantum leaps compared to just a couple of
years ago.
>
> * As a backup power source, some units might also have the ability to
> efficiently use solar power about 100x better than a solar panel can
> operate today.
Wishful thinking.
>
> * DVDs and CDRs are a thing of the past. Instead, you'll be able to get
> square chips that are just as powerful and are less sensitive to
> cracking or scratches.
>
> * No hard drive -- it's all solid-state with holographic quantum
> storage. Imagine 10 TB on a chip.
Don't tell the DVD and CD industry this. They'll have a cow. Holographic
storage has some way to go yet.
>
> * Initial models will probably run hot (as hot as today's laptops) and
> need to have an internal fan inside. Eventually, however, models will
> probably come out with some kind of nanotechnology that cools the
> device without sound or wind.
Liquid Nitrogen cooling cells.
>
> * Affordable WiMax 2 will become the norm in perhaps 2050. You'll be
> able to get an annual subscription for .1% of your salary in 2050.
2050? Assuming civilization makes it through the next 10 years, that is.
By 2050 most of the people using the internet at this very moment will be
dead.
>
> * Some models might even become so compact and, without the fan, they
> could be waterproof or at least highly water-resistant.
>
>
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