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    Cool new stuff. What new technologies are you excited about?

    Me? I’m excited about 3D printers. As these things get cheaper it genuinely going to change the world. Scratched your bike – just print off a new panel!
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    Quote Originally Posted by gnjackal View Post
    Me? I’m excited about 3D printers. As these things get cheaper it genuinely going to change the world. Scratched your bike – just print off a new panel!
    Shit - how much will Warehouse stationary charge for the ink cartridges for those puppies....

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    Technology does not excite me to the point that I must have. I still have to think about things when I switch to DVD from TV
    Keeping things simple in life works best for me, I do have ABS on my new bike, does that count?
    My phone is one of those Samsung flip open things with a camera (which I don't know how to work) and has a standard Telecom screen picture thing, which is quite nice. It's a tree and sea view.

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    I love technology, but unfortunately the shit we put out is all but fuckin useless in many many many cases. Given the current state of fuckwitery that's called the financial system, I'd rather see the money go in to shit that was useful for the future of human beings and not shit that kills people or follows your eyes or responds to your voice or recognises your face or drives itself or is built to cost or kills people etc...

    Essentially shit like this or this.
    I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!

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    Space technology seems like its starting to take off again. Always amazes me how you can fly a probe all the way to mars and pretty much land that shit exactly where you want it, even with the communications delay.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Reibz View Post
    Space technology seems like its starting to take off again. Always amazes me how you can fly a probe all the way to mars and pretty much land that shit exactly where you want it, even with the communications delay.
    Even more when you consider that on the apolo missions, the astronauts were literally having to write the computer code for the return trip, after they got there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Reibz View Post
    Space technology seems like its starting to take off again. Always amazes me how you can fly a probe all the way to mars and pretty much land that shit exactly where you want it, even with the communications delay.
    Oh yeah - that whole drop from space, parachute, then use thruster to land was cool. I mean - there are some seriously clever dudes out there!

    Where do you start????
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    This is very cool too, but will be super-abused by advertising agencies....

    http://www.viralviralvideos.com/2012...nd-the-corner/
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    batteries. Really small ones. And energy dense ones.
    RF gear, pc encryption, organic led, rfid implants for the worldbank/human cataloguing the jews are doing, chemical and resource intensive farming, devising machines to ensure human obsolecense...

    drones scare me and i need to develop countermeasures.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Akzle View Post
    drones scare me and i need to develop countermeasures.
    How ya gonna do that from your commune hippy?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drew View Post
    How ya gonna do that from your commune hippy?
    id love a 50 cal. Unfortunately. Not effective.

    Im thinking tesla coil.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drew View Post
    How ya gonna do that from your commune hippy?
    Aye.

    **

    Lacks continuity.

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    A total revamp of cars, bikes and houses would be a start.
    Its all there already, but vested interest keeps the bollocks rolling

    Hi speed tubes that spit small groups of commuters across large distances at high speed. Auckland to Welly in 15min.
    Vandals may put rocks on the lines though
    Sort of like the fibre optics of travel

    Battery tecknologies
    Handheld health scanners like on star trek
    Flying frisbees

    Sterility guns where you can sterilize a whole country from space

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Reibz View Post
    Space technology seems like its starting to take off again. Always amazes me how you can fly a probe all the way to mars and pretty much land that shit exactly where you want it, even with the communications delay.
    Yeh that's certainly one of the better areas. Most of the other stuff strikes me as lacking in value, 3D printers, wifi lightbulbs etc, nice to have but kind of feel the production cost outweighs what you can actually do with them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Akzle View Post
    id love a 50 cal. Unfortunately. Not effective.

    Im thinking tesla coil.
    Wait, a Tesla coil can be made to more effectively remove far off remote controlled planes, than a 50 cal rifle? Or did I misunderstand what you meant by "drones"?

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