Geekiest thing that doesn't exist

[Terrifel]

@Priceguy

I love you and I want to bear your children.

Thank you. I try to do my best with what I have.

Actually, now that you mention it, “my children” probably qualify as the geekiest things that don’t exist.

Which is probably the reason why they don’t. I tell myself that this is probably for the best all around.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

One of these days I’m going to cough up the dough for a replica of Anduril: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://imperialweapons.com/swords/special/uc1380b.jpg&imgrefurl=http://imperialweapons.com/swords/special/anduril.html&h=302&w=653&sz=42&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=ZgUwczF7ZHACfM:&tbnh=64&tbnw=138&prev=/images%3Fq%3Danduril%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

[Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension]

@Terrifel

Okay. Okay. Here it is. The Bottle City of Kandor, right? From the Superman comics. I know you can buy replicas already at comic stores, but this one would be intricately, near-microscopically detailed.

AND! Here’s the cool part. Attached to the base, there’d be a viewing gadget on an articulated arm, that you could use to look inside the bottle.

AND! When you look inside, you’re actually looking at a computer simulation of a city! You zoom in on a building or park space in the bottle, and you see tiny people moving about their daily routines! Kind of like “The Sims,” I guess. Only these people would all be decked out in Silver Age Kryptonian garb. And they’d be driving around in their flying cars and hovertrains and whatnot.

AND! the bottle would have hidden sensors to indicate whether its surroundings are light or dark, and the simulation would adapt its activities as appropriate. When it’s dark, the model city would switch on tiny fiber-optic lights, and the viewer would depict people going home to bed or going out to Kandorian nightclubs or whatever. If you shine a light directly into the bottle, everyone shades their eyes and looks up as if to say, “What the heck is that light shining into our bottle?” If you bump the bottle, it trips a motion sensor so that everyone staggers around and falls over inside.

Is this not the coolest idea EVER? I would build one myself if I had skills.

And I would buy one if I had the money. You start building Kandor. I’ll start crushing coal into diamonds with my hands.

[WarmNPrickly]

HAL eyes throught my new house. They would all be connected to a central computer with a simple learning algorithm and speak to me. Also, bonus if the computer actually controls house systems (With an infallible kill switch of course).

[Spice_Weasel]

My husband and I want a food replicator.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

If I had a working, reliable transporter, it’d certainly make my daily commute a snap, not to mention visiting family and friends far away, and going to distant museums and tourist sites I’d probably otherwise never see.

[Myron_Van_Horowitzski]

I want a cover that fits over my CPAP mask: shaped like the Alien facehugger.

[Silver_Tyger]

@OtakuLoki

So, when do the beautiful women who love socially inept nebbishes start showing up?

Come to California and look me up. =^.^=

…

Anyone else feel like the future has ripped us off? I want replicators, at least for food. And transporters. And a computer I can talk to. And… well, not flying cars. People drive badly enough as it is.

I want a tail that’ll actually sway and express emotion. And cat ears. Honestly, if I could go through life without being treated like a freak I’d love to just look like an anthro tiger.

Also, as a writer, I really, really need a machine that’ll read my thoughts and put them to paper or screen, so I can write as I’m falling asleep.
I’ve thought about building a casemod that’ll look like the Cats’ Lair. It’d be in scale with the small figures and show accurate. The head would turn and the power lights would be in the head. The drives would be under the paws. It’s never going to happen though.

[Spice_Weasel]

@Silver Tyger Girl

Also, as a writer, I really, really need a machine that’ll read my thoughts and put them to paper or screen, so I can write as I’m falling asleep.

Yes! And also in the bathtub. And, while we’re on the subject, I want ‘‘hovering books’’ so you can read a book in the bathtub without getting its pages wet or making your arms tired. Thank you.

[OtakuLoki]

@olivesmarch4th

Yes! And also in the bathtub. And, while we’re on the subject, I want ‘‘hovering books’’ so you can read a book in the bathtub without getting its pages wet or making your arms tired. Thank you.

Good grief, YES!
Or a completely waterproof ebook reader… Given that there are waterproof digital cameras available, that I think could be doable, now.

[Raguleader]

@Silver Tyger Girl

Come to California and look me up. =^.^=

A darned shame you live way the heck down in southern CA, I’m up in Monterey.

[Paul_in_Qatar]

The Blade Runner 2019 “Detective Special” Gun as shown here.

[BlueSilver]

I submit that it might be calulator wristwatch (text in Aurebesh font, of course) specifically designed for RPGs to produce random dice rolls while it plays random Monty Python songs. And the best part is that it is powered solely by its wearer’s continuous praise of Terry Pratchett books.