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[DBest]

If you was to make any kind of new technology, what would you make.
I would love to make a device that could record your dreams and play it back to you anytime, or make a virtual reality where you just sit down in your spare time and you feel like your in another world (compatible with other users of course), mostly technology taking advantage over the mind.

[bthssurvey]

umm.. a device to make one invisible?

[NickC]

bthssurvey, on Apr 2 2007, 08:49 PM, said:

umm.. a device to make one invisible?

OHHH that would be awesome!!!!!

I was thinking the sherlock holmes world where cars fly. No more traffic!

[naharissya]

NickC, on Apr 3 2007, 11:35 AM, said:

I was thinking the sherlock holmes world where cars fly. No more traffic!

there would be air traffic in that case.

I want something portable that will type what i say. say i have a 10 page essay to write, my hands would be pretty tired at the end of all that but if i had something that will type what i recite, then i'm good.

[z2z007]

Try Dragon NaturallySpeaking

http://www.nuance.co...urallyspeaking/

Expensive but it is a great product

[Charles]

I have the Dragon Naturally Speaking. You get tired of speaking much quicker then you get tired of typing. Your voice starts to hurt and its really slow.

[NickC]

z2z007, on Apr 3 2007, 10:42 PM, said:

Try Dragon NaturallySpeaking

http://www.nuance.co...urallyspeaking/

Expensive but it is a great product

What if you have a strong accent? And the computer doesnt understand a thing you say?

[tycoonboy388]

I think you train these kind of programs to recognize your voice by reading a book or something to it. So its only going to work for your voice, and it's able to recognize most of your speech. You're going to have to go back and fix things up though, just to be sure everything you said is right.

[DBest]

it's like a double edged sword, you type to much it's slow, boring, and your hands hurt. You talk to much it's troublesome since you have to talk quick, it hurts your voice and a lot of errors. Now if it wrote or drew what you thought, that would be something A person could make billions off of that, theirs going to be a lot of wires to your head though.

[leo2car]

Commercial transport and tourism on the Moon.

[EndocrineFlippa]

Charles, on Apr 4 2007, 08:02 AM, said:

I have the Dragon Naturally Speaking. You get tired of speaking much quicker then you get tired of typing. Your voice starts to hurt and its really slow.

i cant see that happening... its like reading in class or giving a speech... you're voice isn't going to hurt from speaking an essay... but then again i guess it depends on what you're writing

[teknite]

Dragon Naturally speaking is much more of a hastle than actaully just writing out what you have to say.

[azntechguy]

teknite, on Apr 10 2007, 11:05 PM, said:

Dragon Naturally speaking is much more of a hastle than actaully just writing out what you have to say.

Yes, particularly the endless "voice training" thing at the beginning. When my dad brought home that software and installed it, I gave up after finding out that I have to read a passage a second time! No thanks, I'll risk carpal tunnel instead of a sore throat.

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Going back on topic... anything that really enhances my experience on the computer (just short of making computers "alive"... I still like to have complete control over them), I'd invent if I can.

[randomania3]

hmm, what about a portable music player with which you can type in a song n it'll find it for you online from a site thats free, so you'd never have to download stuff and that kind of thing you could simply find the song whenever you wanted (granted there was a website with all songs legally free.)

[Quixotic]

randomania3, on Apr 15 2007, 10:19 PM, said:

hmm, what about a portable music player with which you can type in a song n it'll find it for you online from a site thats free, so you'd never have to download stuff and that kind of thing you could simply find the song whenever you wanted (granted there was a website with all songs legally free.)

You mean an mp3 player that streams songs from a website?

[randomania3]

basically. it'd be so much easier than all that downloading...

[DBest]

randomania3, on Apr 16 2007, 04:26 PM, said:

basically. it'd be so much easier than all that downloading...

I agree. I hate all that nonsense that's involved in downloading. why download it when you could get it anytime. My brother always downloads these songs just so he could listen to it on the computer when he goes to the shower. Why can't he just go on youtube, or aolmusic? It's definitely a hassle.

[HockeyInJune]

About the device to make one invisible... We might be closer than you think. This was on the cover of the Science Times a couple of weeks ago.

Light Fantastic: Flirting With Invisibility
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/12/science/...e5b&ei=5070

[Neo]

A neurotransmission interpretation algorithm. It's a requirement for augmentation of living organisms with fully responsive non-living parts. Imagine a world where a lost arm is replaced with an appendage which doesn't respond based on crude mechanical manipulation, but rather on will (in the bio-chemical sense), just like the original.

DBest, on Apr 16 2007, 05:24 PM, said:

I agree. I hate all that nonsense that's involved in downloading. why download it when you could get it anytime. My brother always downloads these songs just so he could listen to it on the computer when he goes to the shower. Why can't he just go on youtube, or aolmusic? It's definitely a hassle.

Your brother's behavior is actually quite in line with the decentralized spirit of the internet. Remember, what's here today maybe not be tomorrow, so it's important to have backups--especially since information, which is virtual, does not take up space (minus the hard drive). If you need a good example of why this is a good idea, think back to what happened when the Library of Alexandria was torched.

Edited by Neo, 16 September 2007 - 07:50 PM.

[mango]

Anti-stupid techonology