Ihsan Magazine - Back when we were suburban pups, all we wanted in the whole wide world was a hoverboard. There was just something about the idea of a floating skateboard that drove us wild. Forget the fact that some of us couldn’t skateboard to save our lives, if our parents had come home with one in hand, we’d learn. But the hoverboard, unfortunately, is looking more and more like it’s going to be one of those inventions that just isn’t going to happen.
Still, considering all that’s been invented in the last 100 years alone, the sky’s the limit for future gadgets. Internet Access on Contact Lenses? Time Machines? Mind Control? Who wouldn’t want to tap into a mainframe capable of monitoring and controlling people all around the world? I mean, sure, you could use it for evil, like the corporations in the conspiracy series Tyranny, which is looking more “real” than “conspiracy” these days, but you could also use it to do good.
Beyond some of the more outrageous, futuristic concepts, there’s a fair share of gadgets in the pipeline that we’re allowing ourselves to get cautiously excited about. Sure, these things might pale in comparison to a hoverboard, but they’re still cool enough to satiate your inner geek.
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1. The iTrainer with Smart Shoe
The iTrainer, which Apple patented last year, takes your workout to the next level. It reads your body rhythms and chooses your music based on where you’re at in your workout. With the Apple smart shoe reading and decoding all the information that can be found in your footstep, you’ll be world champion iAthlete in no time.
When you first step into a kitchen, the cutting board is not the first thing you notice. But this ain’t your grandmother’s cutting board. This cutting board – devised by Jess Griffin and Jim Termeer – is packed with state of the art technology. Part of the board functions as a digital scale. All you have to do is slide that pile of chopped onion over to the side and the cutting board informs you just how much it weighs.
We currently have microchips so small they can hardly be seen by the human eye. But how about a microchip so tiny that you can shove it in your eye? Crazy, you say? According to Babak A. Parviz, a bionanotechnology expert at the University of Washington, the technology exists. It’s only a matter of time before we start shoving chips into contact lenses, allowing the wearers to not only see better, but see things that no one else around them can see? It’s like those guys that walk around talking to themselves, and you’re not sure they’re on cell phones. Except now you’ll have people reading weather reports while they’re pretending to listen to you talk.
We love our iPhone, but we can’t tell you how many times we wish that it could do absolutely everything we ask it to. Current technology allows us control over our living room gadgets, but how about preheating the oven or turning on the hottub? Well this is not far off. Apple has patented a plan to turn the iPhone into a kind of universal remote, akin to the one in the movie Click. Well, not exactly like the one in Click – that one could freeze time and space. This one could only control your Xbox 360 and the ceiling fan. But if you’ve ever wanted to turn on your gaming console and cool a room at the exact same time, this news is just as big.
After the hoverboard, the number two thing I wanted to have was a Holodeck, like the one on Star Trek. And if you’re ready to convert your garage into a virtual playground, you can have one! A company called CyberCarpet has put together an omni-directional treadmill connected to a virtual reality system. That’s the first step in a million-plus series of steps towards every home having their own room where fantasy becomes reality and reality, well, becomes arduous and unimportant.
6. The Pencil Printer
This handy contraption prints documents out with a pencil, which lets you erase any mistakes it makes. All you have to do is find a way to make your handwriting look exactly like Helvetica and you’re set. On top of that, you can re-insert your printed sheet and let the Pencil Printer erase everything. We’re bringing pencils back!
We like our laptops, but we’d like them a lot more if we could hang them in our closets. That’s the idea behind the fabric laptop, which Fujitsu unveiled a few months back. And by unveiled, we mean they kind of put it out there. But that’s a step in the right direction, right? Here’s hoping they dump enormous amounts of money into it. We’re tired of how hard and sturdy our machines are.
My favorite coffee shop doesn’t have any outlets, so I’m pretty eager for the days when I can just show up with my flannel laptop and charge it sans the burdensome cord. Think about it. Don’t cords seem like something out of the stone age? Why are we still using them? They’re like braces. There has to be something better. Luckily, we’ve got a team of engineers at MIT who’ve figured out how to make wireless electricity a reality. The ironic part is that their computers keep dying mid-experiment. Maybe they should work closer to outlets.
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