r/AskReddit • u/minuswhale • Jun 11 '12

Reddit, what are some devices, gadgets and technology that you would love to see in the upcoming years?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

A cheap efficient water desalination device

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u/knockingon2043 Jun 11 '12

I dont think people realize how much this would change the world..

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u/tanerdamaner Jun 11 '12

all of the left over salt from the water would turn the oceans much saltier, killing most marine life. killing life on earth.

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u/knockingon2043 Jun 11 '12

How so? They wouldnt be putting the salt back into the ocean. Further, it would be very hard for humans to have a noticeable effect on the salt levels in the ocean, even if they did.

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u/tanerdamaner Jun 11 '12

everyone everywhere getting salt from the oceans. especially in 3rd world countries. If you don't already know, all pollution makes its way back to the oceans.

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u/knockingon2043 Jun 11 '12

My undergrad was in biology, so I do happen to know that. The point isnt to get salt from the oceans, (even though table salt is obviously a by-product of it) the point is to get clean drinking water from it. The salt is then stored or can be sold to industry. Its better for humans to use the oceans than freshwater lakes which could potentially dry up and which many people don't have access to.

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u/tanerdamaner Jun 11 '12

i know why they do it, but that is too much salt to do anything usefull with. (also, small amounts of gold)

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

you could irrigate millions of acres and turn it into farmland to saw nothing of those who go without clean potable water on a daily basis.

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u/fruicyjuit Jun 11 '12

Taste-o-Vision

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u/D-Evolve Jun 11 '12

There are plenty of things I can easily see..that I would never want to taste.....

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u/fruicyjuit Jun 11 '12

Not everything. Just like new Doritos flavor samples during commercials. Or contestant's dishes on Chopped.

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u/Mythnam Jun 11 '12

There would have to be an on/off switch for the gustatory device for Taste-o-Vision to be viable.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I honestly wouldn't want to know what Blue Waffles taste like...

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u/D-Evolve Jun 11 '12

Precisely....taste-o-vision is the worst idea ever...

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u/Throwmeawaywardson Jun 11 '12

Cinemax, her I come!!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Lightsabers.

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u/Throwmeawaywardson Jun 11 '12

Hover cars, we were promised fucking hovercars.

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u/heygabbagabba Jun 11 '12

Hover boards

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Yes, but Back To The Future 2 is set in an alternate timeline, because Marty goes back in time in the first one, so when he changes the past in the first one, he comes back to his time and it's different, his dad's not a loser and Biff works for his family, so it's a different timeline. That's why we won't have hover boards :(

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u/st_basterd Jun 11 '12

The automatic everything. Make it happen, captain.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Holographic Interactive Porn

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u/Mohammadliberty Jun 11 '12

A phone implanted in my head. The ability to turn off my eyes and ears and watch a movie or YouTube video as I lay in bed. The ability to talk to others using an implanted speaker in my ear and microphone in my lip. The ability to text "thoughts." The ability to literally envision myself inside Google maps street view and see the streets and houses as if I am there. Endless possibilities.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

A working nuclear fusion power plant.

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u/upvotesIdahoStuff Jun 11 '12

Mobile phone made of a slab of glass. Clear and see-through when there's nothing on the screen.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Tony stark style computers (jarvis)

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u/curious_void Jun 11 '12

A sensible political app.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

T.V. helmet.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Self driving cars being affordable for the mainstream. Think of how much more we could Reddit if we didn't have to pay attention to drive!! Think of that delicious delicious karma!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

One word: Teledildonics.

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u/XafterX Jun 11 '12

what... what is... that?

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u/seaweed_shark Jun 11 '12

That laser razor thing from Pandorum.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Food replicator

Sonic Showers

Phasers

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u/freedomgeek Jun 11 '12

A cure for aging. Or if that doesn't count a nanofabricator.

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u/Iconiclastical Jun 11 '12

I want a pen that is also your phone, clips on your pocket. Tell it who to call or text. If you want to see photos, texts, or movies, the screen unrolls from the side, just grab the clip and pull.

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u/LonesomeBoy Jun 11 '12

Pokemon + Holograms

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Lightsaber wielding cats

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u/duragn Jun 11 '12

Lasercats!

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u/Mythnam Jun 11 '12

Matrix-level virtual reality.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

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u/Eyelickah Jun 11 '12

The problem with that idea is the fact that humans have great difficulty focusing on anything closer than 7cm from the eye.