The perfect stone wall builder.
You get a truckload of rocks, 3d scan them so you have a model of each one. Then a computer uses some search algorithm to find the best fits and it gives you plans for building a wall with those rocks where they all fit together with minimal, if any, cement.
my girlfriend hates this idea.
Do you know last.fm? It kind of does that, at least for music: whatever you listen to on your PC is ‘scrobbled’, then matched with data accumulated from other users, from which it generates a list of artists you’d be likely to enjoy that you can immediately start listening to as an online radio station. There’s also a firefox applet so I can just now push the ‘play’ button in the lower right corner of my browser window and my recommendations station automatically starts playing. It’s not always accurate, but I have found quite a few new artists to like thanks to it.
If someone I’m talking to on my cell needs a phone number from me, I look it up on my cell’s contact list.
at that point, i want to press a button that sends that phone number from my contact list to theirs.
instead, I have to look at the phone screen, then hold it to my face, recite a few numbers, look back at the phone, recite a few more numbers, etc…
the person I’m talking to writes down those numbers somewhere. And then has to enter them manually back into his/her phone, and also enter the name, etc.
i would take all the time this would save and still spend it pressing buttons on a cellphone…
One problem with this approach is that many people don’t actually use the remote that came with the TV to control the TV. If they have cable or satellite, they probably either program the remote for the receiver box to control the TV, or buy a universal remote to control multiple devices.
That box just tells me an estimate. I wanna dump the food into a dish or put a pile of grapes in a bowl and get an exact count.
I would like someone to invent a way to interpret the hints my wife gives me and convert them into actual requests which can be followed. Of course having this might actually require me to do something. Nevermind.
That’s for women dude, I’m a healthy, hairy virile ,stud:dubious:
Notice I said “keywords.” If I read an interesting news story about someone named “John Smith” and want to find out more, just keying “Smith” or “John” or “John Smith” into a search engine is going to be massively unproductive. Some of the stuff I search for tends to be rather esoteric, and using a low number of words (like say less than ten) isn’t going to winnow down the search results to a manageable number. What I’m talking about would allow you to key in a nearly unlimited number of terms and only spit out results which had all of those terms in the page, and not just most or some of those words.
Same thing for teeth! (And while those bots are working, their buddies could be re-plating the enamel.)
I meant that I actually had hair in my 20s, so the duct taped hair wasn’t a good analog to the real thing.
Ouch. Explaining my lame jokes hurts.
Actually what we REALLY need is a pill to re-grow teeth that have gone.
Put me down for a mouthful:p
Is this easy enough for you?
Me, I want a Personal Digital Assistant. No not those dumb PDAs they sell today, a real, honest to goodness assistant. A device that has voice recognition, can schedule and remind you of appointments. It can do research, download information on movies, restaurants, stores and give it back to you instantly. It can look up traffic, give you directions, store hours, recommend restaurants and such based on your observed preferences. It can tell you when there’s an email from your mother, but knows not to bother you if it’s from your uncle, who only sends jokes. All without you needing to handhold the device, you make a conversational type of request (PDA, are there any good restaurants around here?), and it returns a conversational type of answer (Do you want Japanese, Mexican or Steakhouse? The Japanese place is highly rated, but kind of pricey.)
Holy crap! It’s about time somebody invented that!
Sure, that’s nice.
But, what will we do Tuesday?
How about a cheap electric battery that is so efficient, that gasoline is discarded as inefficient?
You could always text them the number.
If we were living in a B sci-fi movie, all we’d have to do is reverse the polarity on a microwave.
A fertility on/off switch, so only planned pregnancies can occur.
Also, a scanner that can be used to instantly tell you any diseases a person has. That way, if a woman is on birth control (or if the fertility switch has been invented), and you are both clean, you don’t have to use a condom.
You can see where my priorities lie.
that doesn’t quite do the trick.
at least on my phone, I’d still have to key the number in to a text message, & i’d have to type it into my contact list if I were the recipient. no shortcut to moving info from contacts to text message, or vice versa.