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- gerry87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+100Was it really necessary to use a mechanical arm to pour the coffee?
- Detritus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+66@brivapor: I'll need $3,000,000USD and 5 years, but goddamn it I'll find the answer to your question!
- gameforge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+57What do you mean? My Thinkpad does that. If you throw it, the jets come out, and it flies back to you. You can also ride it to work and burn designs into your carpet.
- krazykor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+39Well that coffee's not gonna pour itself.
- dominasian, on 10/12/2007, -6/+43how long till i can get a lenovo_skywalker?
i need one - Jofaba, on 10/12/2007, -19/+55bysin, no... they're digging you down because you're wrong. It's called refraction/reflection. Do you actually think that there's nothing floating in the air between you and your monitor right now? Have you ever looked at a beam of light coming through a window and seen that tiny galaxy of dust particles moving around? Wait, did you even see the sunbeam? Of course you did. There's no such thing as "thin air" while you're in hospitable locations of earth. Sure, the air gets thinner as you climb really tall mountains, but that's the exception. For the most part, the chances are high that there's enough particles floating around the air inside your house to equal your body mass. So... technology that projects light intelligently to recreate a 3d image, fluctuating the delivery of that image as to maintain a mostly still image recreated in "thin air" by using reflection and refraction is not impossible. Not even improbable. What you saw in the video would be a stupid use of the technology though.
Just sayin. - MoeB, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34i hate you. you crushed my dreams of ever owning a skywalker laptop! damn you!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30are the scientists really that lazy
- bysin, on 10/12/2007, -32/+58I see.. People are mad that its theoretically impossible to project light onto thin air, so they dugg me down.
- tony1122, on 10/12/2007, -5/+30One of them is still running Windows XP. Thats aint no laptop of the future.
- bysin, on 10/12/2007, -13/+38@jofaba
The only thing in the air that reflects light is dust, and the concentration of dust to air is too small. If you did in fact have enough dust in the air where you could reflect light off of it, ambient light would also reflect off the dust, which means you would clearly see a large cloud of dust in the same concentration of the image your projecting. - bysin, on 10/12/2007, -5/+29You do realize its not real, correct?
- sizbo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Jet powered and armored laptops, okay, but DUAL screen laptops? You're dreaming.
- realyst, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21Digg him up. Bysin is correct. In order for us to see the hologram, it would need to be projected on something that would obstruct the light in the air. And typical air dust just will not do it. It's not even a matter of current technology: light is as light does. And light simply does not stop midair, turn around, and aim straight for our eyeholes(actually, frozen photons emit no visible light at all, and require temperatures approaching absolute zero as well as very exotic molecules to get it to freeze in the first place).
You need some kind of backplane/window/diffuse gas cloud to refract the light so that Thinkpad would need to have an aerosol can on top.
The only chance of freeform floating holograms without some form of gas diffusion would probably have to be in the form of free-flying nanomachines or some very trippy trick using quantum entanglement. - Ngai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Well they haven't made the drivers for the Dual Screen Laptop for Vista yet...:)
/sarcasm - wilhoitm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13It doesn't work with a human arm, more research is needed.
- rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -10/+23Holy *****, did you actually believe those Lenovo clips? The wreak of fake.
@jofaba: Thats the most retarded thing I've read on digg. 1) If holographic technology is possible, why do we not have holographic displays yet (real, moving, displays.. not like those enclosed single picture ones at the museum). 2) There is not enough dust in the air to create a holograph like that. "For the most part, the chances are high that there's enough particles floating around the air inside your house to equal your body mass." HAHAHAHAHAHAHA you're saying, for every kilogram / pound of me, that theres a kilogram / pound of dust located in the same sized area. I don't even think there would be the weight of me in floating dust in a whole stadium..
These videos are just viral marketing by Lenovo, they are not real. (how can liquid be detected before it even hits the keyboard?)
Just some really fancy editing. - falloutsyndrome, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14I need a skywalker for my chem class.
- hbweb500, on 10/12/2007, -8/+20Well, a hundred and fifty years ago it was thought impossible to go over 100mph. We can't currently explain how it would be possible to project an image "onto thin air," but that doesn't mean that in 50 or 100 years we won't know how.
In science, never say never. Well, most of the time, never say never. - Ashex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I would like one Jet powered laptop, and linux drivers.
Attach a webcam, and you've got yourself a spycam, or you can just scare the ***** out of people by chasing them with a flying laptop. - dipsetkid23, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12honestly i don't think its that necessary to have jets on the side of your laptop but i guess some of the other things could be usefull
- stubag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10how about a laptop with linux pre-installed!!
- Epic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I'm still waiting until I can stick my laptop on the wall and have it shoot down my enemy's.
- Shuk, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14Nintendo DS Laptop?
- weister42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I would send my kitty for a ride on the flying laptop.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Dual screen laptops should be here soon. The one they have looks lame, LG came out with a cool looking one.
- selanep, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8yeah, why would you want a laptop who's screen wants to fight you?
- ameba, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8What about LG's ebook, with dual OLED screens and runs on liquid fuel?
http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/02/lg-debuts-ebook-concept-laptop-with-oled-screen-liquid-fuel/ - SeBBBe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/umpc/default.mspx
This is what Origami became. Essentially tiny, but full featured (and overpriced) PCs. - CatalystGhost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'd rather not have my fingers raped by not having a springy keyboard. Unless they've got a touchscreen that's virtually made of a really soft gel about 6 inches thick, I don't want it.
Oh, but other than that, I agree wholeheartedly. - abdim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5the holographic projector was good... i want one in my pda
but we probably have to wait for holographic porno before it becomes mainstream technology - ricodued, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"theres no real pratical use for the jet powered laptop idea"
Laptop frisbee. Duh. - Jofaba, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8I'll digg up as it's a neat collection of videos and I love anything that sparks conversation about future technology. But, and not to be a downer or anything, these technologies are just plain stupid.
Hover jets: Completely unnecessary. When you drop a laptop, the reason damage occurs is because moving parts are subjected to jarring motions that damage their motors or arms. Solid parts, like the plastic, break because they are fragile. A solid state laptop with high density plastic that can sustain a fall would be a much more feasible and cheaper use of technology. I'd be more impressed with the laptop that can fall than the one who has to protect itself from a fall. They already have rugged laptops that the Armed Forces use that are pretty damn good at doing just that. The technology for commercial affordable laptops that can withstand a 6" fall is maybe 2-4 years down the road. It's not even worth calling it "future technology". It's just inevitable.
Hologram projection: As I stated above, it's not impossible at all. It's already a tried, tested, and used technology. It's just that in most cases an aerosol is added to the space being used to increase visibility. The technology of holograms being projected into a space without additional aerosol to that degree of visibility is maybe 10 years down the line commercially. I don't think it'll be used to trick people into thinking you're at the computer typing though... Instead, it'll be used for virtual girlfriends. Just think of it!!!! Got my fingers crossed to getting virtually laid sometime in the next ten years X
Acceleration detection: C'mon. We already have laptops that know they're falling and power down to protect the hard drive, and we've also already got keyboards that are waterproof. There's not even a reason to make the laptop stop what it's doing. Let whatever liquid is falling fall, turn the damn thing upside down and be done with it. If people weren't so addicted to the clickity-clack of keyboard keys, then we'd already have solid state touch-pads in use much like you're used to using on your microwave and ATM machines. As virtual projection keyboards become integrated into phones and pda/pocketpc's over the next 5 years, people will become used to replacing the "feel" of clickity-clackity with the sound of it, and then keyboards and laptops with buttons will become something of the past.
Want to see future technology for a laptop? Picture replacing the keyboard part with a touch screen. While you're writing it's a keyboard. When you're drawing it's a tablet. When you want dual screen you turn it on it's side, it recognizes the transition, flips the screen and turns the touch-pad into another and projects a keyboard onto the table in front of you. That's technology that's maybe 15 years down the line if developers really drag their feet. It's technically feasible today but the commercial market is very slow to adapt, and even once it's on the market, it'll be years before it's affordable.
Sorry to rant, but I'm a science fiction writer and it irks me when "the future of technology" is so poorly viewed. - ryansmith18, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Wow, what Star-Trek galaxy are all you nerds from?
- stubag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4hmmm so we are going to develop to hover laptop before the hover car.....
- TheIguana, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5So if this is what Windows/Linux laptops will look like.... what will macs look like?
Iggy :P - cablefish, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5what ever happened to the Microsoft Origami? Wasn't that supposed to be the 'future'?... wonder if the site is still around...
meh. can't be bothered to look too far. but here's the thing from Engadget from about a year ago... now that i think of it, it looks rather zune-ish...
http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/24/microsofts-origami-project/ - quick5pnt0cobra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yea, jet powered laptops. Those come at the same time we see nuclear powered vacuum cleaners and flying pigs.
- zeromancer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3well. seeing as how you posted that 7 hours ago. and i'm typing from my laptop. i'd venture to say that you're wrong.
- robharper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, vacuum tubes are coming back.
- wilhoitm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Dude, get a ****ing fast internet connection. It is the year 2007 by the way!
- TheQuikOne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Batman's Laptop!
Did the shield one remind anyone else of the Bat Mobile? - hypercube33, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Now that I wouldnt mind. More nuclear power...
- Tabris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Because each one of your posts are longer than the article.
- redneckblues, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3So does my prototype PS3 controller.
- MauiMac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2((( Those videos are so FAKE! )))
- weizilla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3seems like it would be really really hard to touch type on a dual screen laptop
- Mackofalltrades, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How about a Laptop Gun?
- cowabuse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yes
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