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What is YOUR flying car?

TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME

Teacake's Pleather Dome
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You've been waiting a long time for someone to invent it. Maybe you believed for a long time that it was inevitable.. and yet it has failed to materialize and transform your life into sparkly wonderfulness.

I'm going with calorie free alcohol today, WHERE IS IT. Surely a fortune is waiting to be made!!
 
How about having all transactions carried out by thumbprint?

No need for cash, no credit cards to be stolen, no need to carry a wallet...
 
The thumbprint thing is a big one for me. I REALLY want that.

I'm still hoping for the self-driving, safe electric car that runs for hundreds and hundreds of hours on one charge.

And, of course, a teleporter. Fuck the airlines.
 
I still want that robot vacuum cleaner to vacuum my apartment, while I am away. I know it is out there,..

and what about the automatic medicating robot dispenser, hooked up to my body. I can't never take my meds as prescribed but with the robot dispenser their would be no timing mistakes :) .. which reminds me I need to take meds now.. :)
 
I still want that robot vacuum cleaner to vacuum my apartment, while I am away. I know it is out there,..
You mean a Roomba?

Well, I was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes when I was twelve, and they told me the cure was five years away, which is what they told my older brother when he was diagnosed, ten years before me, and what they tell kids when they're diagnosed today. So, I'm waiting on that cure. I even got my hopes up a few years back when some mice were cured...before I understood just how rarely animal trials translate to humans. The past couple of years have boasted some pretty positive research, though, so maybe it's time to get my hopes up again!
 
I once pondered on the impact of a fully commercially available medical tricorder in speeding up the medical process. While there may be reservations from the diagnostic sector, I thought of the advantages in that it would mean tests could be taken and results returned in minutes, freeing up waiting times and resources. It was at that point that my senior told me to shut up and get back to work. :rofl:
 
700 dollars is too much for Roomba, they should pay me for my dust I leave on my floor.. the half-life of my floor dust alone makes more money then it is worth..

As for diabetes I have the type B that is adult onset, as a result of psych meds that caused overeating, and then diabetes. I just took the psych and diabetic meds after I ate a meal. but .. I needed to take them earlier then I did thought I had forgotten till reminded by the post above. That is just not a reliable system at all. I am basically at my wits end for systems of taking meds that are reliable, .. The options are all tried and ineffective ,, ,.. it is just my want to live in my own timezone that causes what might be an abstract existence and keeps me from having regular dosing of meds. :(
 
^Could you not just set multiple alarms in your phone with the label "Take Meds" or something? Failing that, my mom has memory issues and when they were at their worst she had a phone service that would call her up when it was time to take her medication. She no longer needs it, but it was useful for a time.

I'm assuming by "type B" you mean type 2. :) Type 1 is very different, especially in that if you forget to take your insulin, the results are fairly extreme fairly quick. Before I switched to a pump, though, I'd sometimes have problems too. Specifically, injecting insulin had become so habitual to me that I would quite automatically check my blood sugar and take my shot first thing in the morning before I really woke up (it takes me ages to wake up). There were several occasions when I would find myself unsure whether or not I'd taken it a half hour later. At that point, I'd just have to risk letting my blood sugar start climbing, because a double dose could easily have been fatal. Now I can just look in my pump because it keeps a record of it all. There has to be some solution to helping you keep to your medication schedule! It's so important!
I once pondered on the impact of a fully commercially available medical tricorder in speeding up the medical process. While there may be reservations from the diagnostic sector, I thought of the advantages in that it would mean tests could be taken and results returned in minutes, freeing up waiting times and resources. It was at that point that my senior told me to shut up and get back to work. :rofl:
I thought it'd be nice to have a little STD test kit...something that could check for all your basics. Just keep it in the nightstand next to the condoms, a little drop of blood and everyone's in the know!
 
How about having all transactions carried out by thumbprint?

No need for cash, no credit cards to be stolen, no need to carry a wallet...

I’d hate this and can see so many problems. I’m sure there would be safeguards to prevent someone just being able to hack your thumb off but even so how easy would it be for someone to force your thumb onto a pad? You could argue it might even make it easier to mug someone and I wonder how many things you inadvertently push your thumb against every day.

Or maybe I’m a curmudgeon who’s strangely increasingly not impressed with innovation, which is odd for a sci-fi fan I know :lol:

As for what I’d like to see, two things; the first is a cure, or at least more reliable preventative measures, for dementia and Alzheimer’s, the second is more manned space exploration. I want to see men and women on Mars, great gleaming spaceships off to explore the solar system, not little unmanned probes, and in line with this affordable space travel would be great, not a quick sub orbital flight, I mean a proper “ please strap yourself into your seat, our arrival time on Lunar Base 1 is midday” kind of space travel. :)
 
^Could you not just set multiple alarms in your phone with the label "Take Meds" or something? Failing that, my mom has memory issues and when they were at their worst she had a phone service that would call her up when it was time to take her medication. She no longer needs it, but it was useful for a time.

I'm assuming by "type B" you mean type 2. :) Type 1 is very different, especially in that if you forget to take your insulin, the results are fairly extreme fairly quick. Before I switched to a pump, though, I'd sometimes have problems too. Specifically, injecting insulin had become so habitual to me that I would quite automatically check my blood sugar and take my shot first thing in the morning before I really woke up (it takes me ages to wake up). There were several occasions when I would find myself unsure whether or not I'd taken it a half hour later. At that point, I'd just have to risk letting my blood sugar start climbing, because a double dose could easily have been fatal. Now I can just look in my pump because it keeps a record of it all. There has to be some solution to helping you keep to your medication schedule! It's so important!

well if they could adjust my meds to my 36 hour a day schedule then that would be fine.. but other then not being able to wake and sleep at normal times in that I sleep 12 hrs and wake 24.. the dr's still think twice a day med taking is possible. but it is not.. And suffer I do.. in the physically and mentally forms in aspects of life. I too do not have a good time waking up.. especially in the times where I have not slept 12-24 hours , last night i slept from 7 pm to the next day at 11 pm and now I am awake and had to decide if I should do morning meds or evening meds..having missed both - I know I get the careless attitude when I have not had sleep, my rational psyche is gone unless I have sleep,, enough sleep. Rationally sleep is the only thing that really "repairs" my thought processes.. When half asleep I just could careless if I take my meds as prescribed sleep becomes the most important thing in life. any alarm or wakeup call is not working to get the meds in me.. =meds and vitamin taking is a 5-10 minute operation or longer if eating is included in the medication "project" that "wakes" me out of sleep- and this is unacceptable so I sleep instead..rather then start one more miserable day.. :( I will actualize a new day that is "fun" were it not for the registers in my brain that all zero out when I sleep.. and is far me interesting then reality actually is. :)

yes type 2 It has been a time since I have talked about type 1 and type 2

And the amount
 
I would prefer to have the Hoverboards than the flying cars to be honest, although I suppose they probably utilise the same technology so if you have one you can have the other.
 
How about having all transactions carried out by thumbprint?

No need for cash, no credit cards to be stolen, no need to carry a wallet...

Or retina, but I don't think it would work myself. We are still several decades away from becomming a cashless soceity. Besides people can be resistant to change, after all it took a time for people to accept Chip and Pin cards of just signing a reciept.
 
I once pondered on the impact of a fully commercially available medical tricorder in speeding up the medical process. While there may be reservations from the diagnostic sector, I thought of the advantages in that it would mean tests could be taken and results returned in minutes, freeing up waiting times and resources. It was at that point that my senior told me to shut up and get back to work. :rofl:
I thought it'd be nice to have a little STD test kit...something that could check for all your basics. Just keep it in the nightstand next to the condoms, a little drop of blood and everyone's in the know!
Even better, an STD smartphone accessory and app that performs that function. Complete with Twitter and Facebook integration, and customisable ringtone for the All Clear. :D

I read last year about some new smartphone add ons that can read blood glucose, but also I read this article earlier this month about new smartphone accessories that take things further, including a medical scanner and a stun gun:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25663424
 
A close-to-lightspeed flying space car that can transport me between Earth and a time-dilated wormhole that is close by yet for some reason invisible to Earth scientists. Future Nick was supposed to deliver the spacecar to me years ago but he hasn't shown up yet, the slacker. :(


700 dollars is too much for Roomba

Trust me, it isn't.

I haven't had to clean the floors for months and they are the cleanest they have ever been. The Roomba is a wonderful gift from the heavens.
 
I've never been good at maintaining a normal sleeping schedule either. The trick is to just set an alarm for meds time, get up for the 2 minutes it takes to take your meds, and go back to sleep. You might even get to a point like I did where you could do it in your sleep, but if you keep your meds in an AM/PM Monday-Sunday labeled pill box, then you won't have to worry about forgetting if you've taken a dose!

I once pondered on the impact of a fully commercially available medical tricorder in speeding up the medical process. While there may be reservations from the diagnostic sector, I thought of the advantages in that it would mean tests could be taken and results returned in minutes, freeing up waiting times and resources. It was at that point that my senior told me to shut up and get back to work. :rofl:
I thought it'd be nice to have a little STD test kit...something that could check for all your basics. Just keep it in the nightstand next to the condoms, a little drop of blood and everyone's in the know!
Even better, an STD smartphone accessory and app that performs that function. Complete with Twitter and Facebook integration, and customisable ringtone for the All Clear. :D
Yes!
I read last year about some new smartphone add ons that can read blood glucose, but also I read this article earlier this month about new smartphone accessories that take things further, including a medical scanner and a stun gun:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25663424
My doctor suggested the iPhone attachment glucometer and app to me a year ago, and my insurance even covered it. The truth is, I didn't consider it for a second. The thought of having something as vital as my glucometer dependent on something as unreliable as an iPhone was not appealing! A few months later my iPhone combusted!
 
Its unfortunate, but I think that most of us have become so cynical and jaded that all of the awesome "Future Tech"TM that we were promised in the past now just evokes fear of all of the problems such tech could cause.

Just look at all of the fuss over Apple including finger print scanning capability on iPhones. Folks went nuts thinking that that was going to end up in an NSA file somewhere. There's no way they would consent to thumbprint payments (at least right now).

Personally, my flying car is the lack of sentient AI and personal AI assistants.
 
^ I completely disagree! I am so thrilled and optimistic about science and technology that I have to work at keeping a healthy dose of skepticism and cynicism, and I think there are plenty more people out there like me!
 
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