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
A high end phone with a headphone jack and Linux that works with banking apps.
Agreed, sadly not a technical problem but a business one. Unless governments step it I don't see this changing.
It will eventually but of course it depends what is really meant by "high end".
As the decades roll by I find I care less and less about "high end" and more and more about avoiding bullshit. While presently the portion of people who would buy such a phone is too few to make manufacturing viable, I suspect that portion will grow in the coming decades as millennials get older.
wait til he learns what android is
headphone jack
I am using Android right now, it's very locked down - not that it's not the lesser of two evils.
Why do you need a headphone jack? Any DAC in a phone is going to be useless if you’re saying because of HiFi Audio. And when it comes to using a HiFi DAC I’d much rather just use a USB-C powered port for my headphones.
iOS is based off of Darwin which was based off of BSD Linux. So was MacOS for that matter.
I'd like a headphone jack because it interfaces with the handful of devices I have that also have one, some of which are not easily replaced - like my 10 year old car.
Comparing iOS to Linux is like saying cats and dogs are the same. Like sure maybe at a really high level in that they are both operating systems but similarities end there. The biggest and most glaring difference being open source vs. proprietary. Even android which is actually based on Linux is a far cry from typical Linux experience and leaves me wanting more freedom to tinker outside of the walled garden.
My phone has a Hi-fi DAC. One of several reasons I haven't "upgraded".
Why does it need to be high-end or Linux if all you're gonna do is render some banks' webviews?
The snooze button on my alarm clock needs to actually pause time, so I can sleep until I'm not tired anymore.
Great idea and great username.
Thanks
That made me lol. Thanks.
A small and lightweight smartphone with high end specs, especially tele camera, and a privacy respecting OS such as GrapheneOS
Add foldable, built in pen, macro camera, laser focus, headphone jack (and a good dac), xenon flash, ideally swappable battery, waterproof and im sold - is that really too much to ask?
Where's that screenshot of Homer in that car he designed?
So, any of the xkcd phones?
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:xkcd_Phones
I'm surprised people wanna use pens on such a small device
Note 9 2.0
Probably all of those devices that can help fight climate change the news keeps talking about at least once a month.
The trick is that Capital wants a device that can stop climate change and make money at the same time. Something they can sell. Like cold fusion, or efficient sequestration, or solar shades, or some other bullshit product that makes money. But the truth is, saving the world doesn't make you money, and it isn't free. Bill Ney said it best:
What I'm saying is the planet's on fucking fire. There are a lot of things we could do to put it out. Are any of them free? No, of course not, nothing's free, you idiots! Grow the fuck up, you're not children anymore. I didn't mind explaining photosynthesis to you when you were twelve. But you're adults now, and this is an actual crisis! Got it? Safety glasses off, motherfuckers.
You know how Ctrl+F helps you find specific words in browsers? I want that in real life.
Maybe some special glasses with this ability built-in?
residential inventory bot sounds awesome
I think they have minecraft mods for this
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.
I've wanted this for so long!
Take a look at rewind.ai
Cool software for the mac and they plan to release a personal device that records everything and do what you ask plus more
does this count?
I would love to have an open, hackable, linux-based eBook reader.
Isn't there a project for that is working on that concept?
Edit: Found it! It's called openbook
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@lemmy.dbzer0.com you've got some options!
The older Kindles are basically this. Most of their software it runs on are shell scripts under the hood.
reMarkable, open-ish but runs Linux and active dev community
Just an open source e-ink device with the build quality of a Kindle. Nothing fancy.
e-onk device
A donkey?
An electronic pig?
reMarkable, been using gen 1 then 2 for years now, runs on Linux and active dev community
less slick and much smaller community but the PineNote also works with Linux, kind of.
Remarkable looks cool, but I was talking about a dedicated e-reader. They probably won't bother because their differentiator is the writing.
There needs to be one that is kindle adjacent, ru s linux, and comes with a ton of selections from project gutenberg, selling a little bit above cost. Thats the only way I could see this working.
Remarkable would be awesome if I could read my Kindle books on it. It seems to me that most e-ink tablets are good at either taking notes or ebooks, but none are really good at both...
Instachill, microwave oven for cooling.
Just a big "fuck you" to entropy. Yes please.
Here you go: https://www.irinoxhome.com/eng/freddy
They've got blast chillers, that are like air fryers/convection ovens, but cold.
A house hold device that can diagnose most sicknesses with a drop of blood or saliva
A sleeping pod for home.
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.
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.
Empathy cannon.
That's a great name for a post punk metal band.
Is empathy the target or the projectile?
I want an extremely low power laptop for programming. Slow processor, e-ink screen with a low refresh rate. I want 24 hours battery life with a solar charger to sit outside and program.
THIS EXACTLY!!!!! YES!!!
I'm not the only one!!??? I feel so vindicated...
reMarkable with its new keyboard, just works.
For sth more powerful PineNote with BT keyboard
screws that don't strip
A reverse microwave. I can heat a cup of coffee in 30 seconds, I want to chill a beer in 30 seconds.
nano dentist chews
you just choose a flavor and chew; it fixes everything after baby teeth
I want an orbital laser weapon that targets people who drive like insane maniacs or raging assholes.
A device to allow me to spread cream cheese evenly on a bagel without getting all over my fingers.
I'm thinking some sort of rotating bagel mount with a silicone tapered spike.
Butt-plug on a potters wheel. 👍
I also wouldn't sacrifice an SD card slot....
Since we're just talking fantasy: a device that can scan my brain and tell me exactly what medications would help me and be able to issue my a prescription without having to talk to a million doctors.
I was thinking one of those sci-fi medical bays that rebuilds healthy bodies on a molecular level. Would like some of my amputated body parts back in addition to a cure to my ailments, thank you very much.
Why not just a device that scans your brain and fixes it instead of requiring medication?
... Well if I had had that done I probably would have had the mental clarity to think of it to begin with. 😂
Yes! Reminds me of this medical diagnostic device they've got on the Rocinante in the series The Expanse.
I want a mid-range phone with a great camera and a telephoto lens.
I don't need no AI bullshit, I don't do gaming, I don't need 32 gigs of ram on a phone.
I just wanna take great pictures.
Devices with a week of battery life. I don't care how low spec they are, I want to be able to go a few days without having to worry about charging.
the PineTime can run for over a week in my experience, but it runs at 64 MHz and has 64kb of RAM, so telling time is pretty much its limit
I use mine for notifications and GPS also. Neat little things.
I mean I used it as an XR controller/actuator but that's not exactly the typical use case and obviously going to drain the battery a LOT faster.
Check out the Hisense e-ink phones. Not great if you watch videos, but for normal phone things they seem awesome.
A modern smartphone (good battery, screen, etc.) running an alternative OS (like Linux or OpenBSD) with the ability to run Android (or iOS) apps I unfortunately need to use.
I recently switched to a Pixel 7a with GrapheneOS and while it's nice, I still really hate the locked down nature of Android (and iOS).
Android is based on the Linux kernel tho
The kernel might be Linux, but the userspace is what makes it Android.
GrapheneOS is more secure than linux: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html
This exists. Get a cheap netbook and stick your Linux distro of choice on it, and then just use it to ssh to things.
This is what I did. I purchased a Lenovo Yoga 11e on eBay for $37. If you get the model that has an Intel processor, you can put Linux on it. With Ubuntu MATE, the touchscreen and auto screen rotation work out of the box. From there a VNC viewer is all that is needed. The laptop I received was in pristine condition.
Do netbooks still exist? I can't seem to find them for sale anymore.
I'm not sure how to stress this enough... I do not want another computer.
I do not want another computer.
I want a wireless interface to the computer I already have.
If they can make laptops for $37 they can make this for $1.
a tablet like the PineTab, just not starting X?
Didn't they make that for video games?
A small screen phone with Linux OS that I can plug into a docking station and use it as a desktop pc. It would replace all of my devices.
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 :/
Nokia N900, 2023 edition. 🥲
There is actually a phone that matches how you want it: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
Literally just an android phone, but it comes pre-rooted and one of the system apps is a scripting language, similar to how the TI-83 comes with TI-BASIC. It's bullshit that we're carrying these powerful super-computers everywhere but with less user empowerment then a mid-tier calculator.
(yes, I know you can root your phone and install termux and python but I want that to be the default)
I’d like a digital personal assistant actually designed to help me keep track of my day to day stuff, rather than one designed to steal and sell all my information.
Robot that could completely clean my house while I'm at work.
That would save me so much time.
Bonus points if it could also cook healthy meals.
There are humans that can already do that
Something that lists my tasks automatically and displays them in order in my HUD like an objective icon in a videogame. Could be made combining goblin.tools with smart glasses or AR glasses.
This would help me a lot. I have ADHD and a bit of executive dysfunction, and having a constant reminder in my vision would help me staying on track of what I need to do.
Does anyone actually use that site? I can't see how it's helpful. It gets technical stuff wrong all the time
A brain implant that I can store a short memo in. I have a very bad working memory so it would be incredible to somehow store lists/numbers longer than 4 items in my head without hacking it by whispering the list to myself over and over.
If nobody else wants it, I guess I'll claim the time machine. With a money printer on the front, please. Thanks!
Wot's dis, then? Future laddie printing counterfeits? Blokes like you make me sick, they do. Roight, you're coming down to Scotland Yard to answer a few questions, then.
A display with a transparent screen and then behind the transparent screen is an eink display.
When I wanted the eink mode the screen goes completely transparent and only uses the eink display. When I want a full colour high resolution display the ink goes black and the transparent display displays the colour content. Best of both worlds.
If transparent displays are cheap enough that they put them on fridges at the supermarket, clearly they've come down in costs enough for consumer electronics.
Interesting, both are sold, namely transparent screens with e.g LG and eInk monitors e.g Dasung so... could make for a cool prototype. I imagine though that studying the costs, economical and ecological, a "boring" screen might be better in most cases.
Look up the Mobvoi Ticwatch Pro 3. I have that watch and it has something like that, but not with e-ink
Technically speaking LED displays are transparent. You would just need a good backlight. It would be a good DIY project.
An American high speed train. Also, a machine that instantly dries you off after a shower.
I feel like the latter is more likely
machine that instantly dries you off after a shower.
♪♪♫ meet george jetson.... ♪♪♫
I just want an affordable 10" color e-ink ebook reader, that has natural colors, so it is good enough to read modern comics on.
Edit: I forgot to mention "affordable"
Edit: I knew what I meant /s
Gun from Portal.
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 :(
Real AI hardware designed for tensor math
Coral TPU
A toilet that can plunge and snake itself.
Are bionic spines a thing already? Cause I'd really love it if those could be easily available for all of us with chronic back pain. Hell, even not just chronic - any bs back pain.
Edit: I see now that it has been researched, at least. Here's an article about building a bionic spine but why don't I have something like this at the pharmacy?
Edit 2: I accidentally a word
A laptop with fully libre firmware that actually has good specs.
A television screen you can turn on and off without the remote. A mobile phone that has buttons on the back. A magic stick that can send my husband to the cornfield when he won't leave me alone.
I am fascinated by ow many answers I have seen on here were once a thing we could do, ten, twenty years ago, and can't any more. Like the TV with a goddamn switch on it so we can turn it off without a remote.
Yes, thank you! That was my sentiment, exactly
Most TVs I think still have a few buttons, usually hidden on the edge or back, which allow you to turn it on/off, source, and volume.
If you have a Chromecast with Google TV, cast a video from any app on your phone will turn on the TV if you setup the Chromecast to control your TV. I have mine setup such a way. With my Samsung TV and soundbar, connected via optical audio, the TV and the soundbar both turn on when casting a video.
5 inch android phone :(
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
Those exist!
They're called "lapdocks".
lapdocks
TIL
I've been wanting to make my own cyberdeck based off my phones dex and parsec to my VM but currently I just use a small USB hub to a kvm so I can switch between my work computer and my phone attached to a monitor but it's not cool and portable
I love my NexDock 360! I mostly use it as a mobile screen for a Roku or as an interface when I need to set up bare metal servers.
How about a wireless lapdock for my desktop, so I can have the processing power in mobile form.
Slap Linux on a cheap craptop and SSH into your desktop
Futurama styled arm brace smart phones. My phone is always with me and smart watches are kinda really lame. An arm brace with a touch screen I can pull off and use would be awesome.
A grapple gun that can pull you up a building like batman. I was bummed when I found out those don't really exist
I was gonna come in here like 'Phone with a physical keyboard' but then I realized I had greatly misread the room...
Multiplayer lucid dreams device
Lever that sticks out under the toekick on a vanity sink base cabinet, that opens the cabinet doors.
Basically so you can put a trash can under the sink and access it hands-free.
In other words, a cabinet that opens and closes with the same mechanism as a step-to-open trash can, but without the trash can taking up space in your small bathroom.
You’ve got some floss to toss, no need to touch your cabinet door handle just step down on the lever, toss the floss in the wastebasket, release foot and the door closes again.
How about ANY kind of laptop with a keyboard designed for human hands instead of type-writer compatibility (i.e. ortholinear).
A modern Nokia N900
A modern Firefox OS phone with a really great camera.
Real-life adblock.
homeostasis-r-us.
nano machines + hmi that balances all hormones/ chemicals in my body.
A high-end smartphone with 16:9 4K screen running a non-Google Linux variant.
3D printer that can print fully-populated functional electronic devices. Design or download a schematic for, say a new camera or phone, make whatever modifications I want, and just hit print!
Basically a replicator for electronic devices...
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.
That's the plot of the Black Mirror episode San Junipero from season 3.
Guys, should I tell him?
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.
A RISC-V laptop that's not an engineering sample. Something like a dell 9370 sort of thing.
PineTab 2 RISC?
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.
A Nokia N900 with modern specs and capacitive touchscreen.
Gender dial, so I can turn it either way and get instant results.
A fucking PC that ACTUALLY has zero problems for however long I have it, its a mystical beast I have yet to come across
A Motorola Droid 4 (SLIDE IN KEYBOARD FUCK YES) with a 5" screen and more recent components. Hell, use mid-high end from 2018, like 3GB RAM and a decent processor would be more than enough for me. Don't forget the earphone jack and easily removable back.
In the realm of pure fantasy, a stealth boy from Fallout, or the similar Stealth thingy from Metal Gear Solid
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.
Give me a normal good smartphone with a 100mm OLED display that I can use with one thumb and I'll never have another want in this world. The iPhone 4 was fine
But.. Why? I could use one-handed-mode and use it with, well, one thumb. That's the best of both worlds. Unless you just want a tiny phone.
I've generally found the one-handed utilities on iOS and Android to be inconvenient and they don't help me well enough with horizontal stretches
(yes I really want a tiny phone)
record yourself after waking up then transcribe then feed to whatever trendy generative AI model of the moment
Almost all the Redmi/poco phones support lineage os at least the unofficial version.
For number 2: https://youtu.be/z-OBapDD340?si=e3Qd2NvO3czdBYhs
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/z-OBapDD340?si=e3Qd2NvO3czdBYhs
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=nsjDnYxJ0bo
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Okay.
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.
Monitor replacement glasses, like NReal Air, that actually are a good enough replacement for my second screen to allow a full day of work.
A lightsaber
A modern electric compact truck like the 1992 gmc sonoma.
Firefox OS
A fairphone with the specs of the ROG phone, or just a repairable rog phone.
a 4k 240hz oled monitor
LFP phone batteries.
Regular looking glasses with live captioning. We get close but it always seems just out of reach.
I've done it few times (with Google Glass, Glass2, Vuzix Blade, Monocle) relatively easy to do but the latency IMHO is what makes it unusable.
Ah that's frustrating. The XRAI looked promising, but it's bulkier than I can wear and my phone isn't compatible with it.
A DVR but for dreams.
I feel like there was a Built to Spill song about that.
Star Trek Industrial Replicator...Star Trek has never really had an episode that explored the magic of what you could do if you had a replicator. Just having ONE, would change the world overnight, and forever. I'd start replicating replicators and handing them out.
An updated Samsung Galaxy Note with a quality stylus (Similar to the one for Note 2), and no bloatware that cannot be uninstalled.
Samsung always has tonnes of bloatware, and the newer Note styluses are (and feel like) cheap plastic. Give me back the aluminum stylus, ffs.
I would like a smart stove. One that you can set to turn on and off remotely. No more worrying that I left the stove on. Why not I ask you? Why not?
Your second wish already exists. It's made by a company called nexdock. I think you can plug your phone in or run it over bluetooth/WiFi.
An unbreakable device that can transport me to any world or time I want It has the be light, small, and not suspicious-looking, and I need to be able to transport the device to me at any time. The things that happen during my visits would not actually affect reality, but instead it would kind of create an alternative universe.
So if I went back in time and killed some historical figure, then returned to this reality, they wouldn't have been killed by me. Or if I went to the fictional world of a book and killed some character, it would happen in a different reality that the one the book takes place in. (otherwise I would have a constant fear of fucking up the entire universe.)
And, of course, I would have to gain the ability to understand, speak, write and read the languages. Also I would have to be immune to diseases they spread and they would have to be immune to the diseases I spread.
Or maybe I have to be a little more humble and say that I want a robot that could clean my room and put all my items in the correct places.
You want a tardis?
I think they want a pocket TARDIS...
ARM devices with general available and useable drivers. I want to install Linux, Android, Windows on any ARM devices fast enough in a similar way it works for x86 devices.
Something like the Gvido E-Ink tablet for working with sheet music, but without all the proprietary bullshit and closed software.
The smartphone that I allways remember missing the most is the Nokia E7, it was such a cool phone.
The design is beautiful, the physical keyboard was amazing, sure Symbian wasn't the fastest or the most modern OS, but with Anna and later Belle it worked well.
I remember sitting in the lobby of a hospital with my E7, I ran Putty Touch on it and was connected to my friend's SSH server, and had connected to my irssi screen session, I had configured touch gestures to scroll in the IRC chat and to switch irssi windows based on if I swiped up/down or left/right, the physical qwerty keyboard made the phone look like a tiny laptop, and I felt like such a hacker.
I was working a job I hated, but on the way home I would watch movies on the phone, and it worked so well.
It was an awesome phone, and someone else thought so too and it was pickpocketed, a year after I got it.
A phone like that is what I want
a gaming laptop that doesnt overheat constantly ,mine goes up to 80c when im playing overwatch of all games
A modern Steam Machine console/PC. I just got the Steam Deck and I love it, but it's roughly PS4 power. I want a PS6 with the same or better SteamOS build that the Steam Deck has. I want simple modular upgradability. I want it to come with a controller that's basically the Steam Deck without the screen, but with the comfort of a dualsense. I want to have a device that can replace both my PS5 and my laptop from 2015. I want the freedom and multitasking of PC with the standardization and comfort of console, updated to this decade.
I mean, technically you could build it yourself and just use PS/X controllers. I know it's a lot more work than just buying it premade but at least you could fulfill your own dream in the meantime.
I'm very interested in doing that, actually! I'm not sure I could do it in a small enough form factor to be what I want without sacrificing power and risking overheating, but I could probably build something bigger that's good to put down on the floor by the tv (no carpet).
a note 9 with postmarketos/android dual-booting and a bigger fingerprint sensor.
They figured out the perfect phone with the note 9 and every samsung has been worse in some way since.
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.
Your second idea has existed in a few different forms, I think Samsung was the last to try it but I can't remember anything about the product
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.
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)
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.
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
A proper glass desk/table like the one in Oblivion. And proper full sized glass whiteboard like in Hunger Games
A Microsoft Duo phone that isn't shit
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.
A direct clone of the Switch JoyCon that works seamlessly on PC and PS5.
A version of the ASUS ROG Flow that is about 20% lighter and has about 50% better battery life when not in dGPU mode.
A version of the MiSTer and/or Analogue Pocket with RetroAchievements support.
Yeah, I'm a weird gamer.
I can't imagine wanting joycons over an xbox controller for my console/controller gaming but I guess someone was bound to love the joycons lol
Well, your wrists don't try to murder you if you keep them bent at an angle for too long, I suppose. Human hands are different, and mine really like having two separate controllers instead of holding just one thing.
But also, the JoyCons are pretty awesome, I find the separate button d-pad very reliable and I don't have a problem with the size at all, so even if they weren't healthier for me I'd love to have a set that works natively on PC.
You can use the Joycons with a PC using One of these
A bag of holding would be pretty sweet, barring that, an open source brain chip.
iPod classic. Add Bluetooth, 1TB flash memory, and USB-C. Nothing else
A train that has a stop somewhere in my neighbourhood.
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.
calyx os pre installed phone by default (pretty much not having to flash after you buy the phone either as a company or an consumer)
A single remote that turns on my PC and TV
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.
I have that. It also controls my lights, thermostat, and cameras.
It doesn't turn on my PC but it turns off the outlet its plugged into. And it could turn it on with something like "wake on lan"
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.
It want the XR headset 10 years from now, today.
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.
I want a small snowboard, like 121 cm, similar to the old rossignol mini, but wide enough for my big ass feet.
I rode the mini for years with my feet pointed outward over 45 degrees and ended up doing a lot of damage to my knees.
I pretty much only snowboard in the midwest US, and want something that feels more like a skateboard.
robot butler that does all my chores
A device that allows me to kill any billionaire, world leader, or politician remotely, anywhere in the world, without them being able to stop me.
Time machine, please
Iron Man suit.
basically a better newer Kinect for my kids. something that'd let them dance or play or see themselves in the game without a controller
Rocket car that goes through solid matter.
Something extremely modular and upgradable like the Framework, but with a 4K 120Hz HDR OLED display, that can fold back into 2-in-1 mode and that has connectivity for full bandwidth of an external GPU. Additionally, some way to connect to up to 3 displays at full 48Gbps HDMI 2.1 bandwidth (each) - at least - DP 2.1 would be even better. Maybe via multiple display outputs or some insanely-high-bandwidth port like Thunderbolt 5 for dock connectivity.
The intent is to basically have a tablet-to-laptop-to-desktop experience, with virtually no compromises.
A decent, Tiny Laptop with good battery life and performance
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.
An e-reader running a modern version of Android from an OEM like Google, Samsung, Nokia, etc. I read exclusively using Play Books. I know some exist out there like Onyx Boox, but until they make strides to stay in compliance with the GPL2 they won't get a dime from me.
Holodeck
@OP The Motorola Atrix tried this a while ago, but it wasn't particularly popular with reviewers
A collapsible storage container for pantry stuff, so you don't have inefficienct containers that take up more space than they need to hold the item.
The Big Mazovian Sausage Grinder.
Put simply, a Nexus 6 with Pixel 8 Pro internals, but just a bit shorter in height to accommodate a back of phone FPS
A practical jet pack.
Raspberry pi in a Cisco WIC card form factor.
An iPad pro that has multiple thunderbolt ports and connect to a 4/5k monitor in clamshell mode. I dare you, Apple.
Indefinite lifespan vaccine.
I've gotten into lasers as a hobby this last couple years because deep down I'm still just a kid who craves a lightsaber.
A small, cheap holographic projector (as in projects a glowing volumetric image into the air that I can wave my hand through). It would probably work using femtosecond lasers, but making the optics small and cheap would be difficult.
laptop with a back camera that's on par with google pixel with closed source camera app
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
Back in the day there was a phone called motorola atrix 4g, they made a lapdock for it that let you do this. There was also 3d party company that made lapdocks for modern Samsung phones that support Dex, but I'm not sure if they're still aournd.
A dream recorder. I know scientists have actually made progress on this, remarkably, but it's probably 40 years away at least from being a "device" that offers any kind of clarity. Also, may as well as well state I want it to capture how you feel too.
https://youtu.be/mciEZKSvva8?si=WrN3wVu7MR354eJ6
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Fairphone, but with full Linux kernel support including drivers.
There are can crushers that are wall-mounted. I want one I can just hold in my hand to make crushing a can slightly less annoying. But standing by the wall to do it is just as much of a hassle.
A large format (12 inch) tablet running Linux with stylus and external monitor support
A boring answer, but a new pixel with a headphone jack lmao
But I would love one of those tablet laptops that can also run Linux. Iirc, they just run android for now.
A high-quality dumb TV.
Get your ads (and security vulnerabilities) out of my damn house.
They exist, they're just not cheap since they're meant for enterprise use and should last much longer.
At least for most smart TVs, they're completely operational if you never connect them to the Internet, though.
You still end up with awkward, overcomplicated UIs that make using the TV in basic ways unnecessarily obnoxious.
Just plug a computer into your TV, and never give the TV Ethernet or WiFi access.
Manufacturers have gotten smart to that, if you don't agree to the terms you may not get the full features. Not just the smart features.
*dumb house.
The only way
I kinda disagree here - I have no problem using smart lights, etc., as long as they're controlled by a non-cloud system like HomeAssistant. This just doesn't seem to be an option for more complex devices.
Get a pyhole. No more ads (or devices phoning home) in your home network.
*Pi-hole
Already got one. A lot of devices seem to route ads over channels that can't be blocked without compromising other device functions.
FWIW using an Android video projector with VLC connecting to uPnP server, only my video files availble. Otherwise can use its HDMI input but as-is it's all wireless.