Future Tech in Powerbooks
What kind of cool tech are you guys hoping to have incorporated
into powerbooks within the next 5-8 years? Here are some
things that are on my wishlist.
- Fuel Cell
- Oled Screen
- Holographic Memory
- Blue-ray DVD burner
- Built-in iSight camera
- 3/4 inch thick powerbook
- Surface color that can be changed through the OS
(Polychromatic Skin)
into powerbooks within the next 5-8 years? Here are some
things that are on my wishlist.
- Fuel Cell
- Oled Screen
- Holographic Memory
- Blue-ray DVD burner
- Built-in iSight camera
- 3/4 inch thick powerbook
- Surface color that can be changed through the OS
(Polychromatic Skin)
Comments
Originally posted by mello
What kind of cool tech are you guys hoping to have incorporated
into powerbooks within the next 5-8 years? Here are some
things that are on my wishlist.
- Fuel Cell
- Oled Screen
- Holographic Memory
- Blue-ray DVD burner
- Built-in iSight camera
- 3/4 inch thick powerbook
- Surface color that can be changed through the OS
(Polychromatic Skin)
Fuel cell definately...
The other stuff is neat too.But fuel cell technology would have a huge impact on moblie computing
YES - Oled Screen
BWAH? - Holographic Memory
YES - Blue-ray DVD burner-
YES, BUT MAY BE UGLY...- Built-in iSight camera
YEAH, BUT THERE IS NO REAL NEED... - 3/4 inch thick powerbook
Yet, with the Built-in iSight camera, i think it will be ugly, just because right now I cannot envision a little camera being on the screen, i think it will just ugly it up, and it might use up motherboard bandwidth too often...buy, what do i know? very little, that is why I am here!
It was a small cube-shaped crystal that used lasers to
read & write the data. The other thing about it was
that the data storage was rediculously large,
(about a terabyte on a small 1x1 inch cube). Also data
could be read off of it 1000 times faster than current
systems.
I wish I had a link to the article but this was something
I read a couple of years ago. (It may have been in an
old Popular Science issue.)
http://www.nature.com/nsu/030922/030922-10.html
At one point I know Apple was in discussion with groups about being the first computer maker to work with "paper" displays, but who knows where they are at now.
If Apple could bring this to the PB's or a Tablet, first and best, then they might have another killer device. I would hope that the unix/QE cool display drivers that Apple has invested the OS with, can take advantage of this in an elegant manner and maybe BEFORE Longhorn get it.
cool.
*Backlit keyboard + ambient light screen brightness on 12"
*Built-in DSL/Cable modem
*Gigabit 12"
*Perhaps an optional optical trackball instead of trackpad
*Built-in Compact Flash/MMC OR included USB mem key.
anyone have a link
Something I would like to see Apple implement before anyone else (of course) is the "Millipede" storage device being created by IBM.
A terabyte of memory filling merely the space of one inch. Multiple terabyte hard drives the size of current hard drives would completely be possible.
Originally posted by Robby
dont know what it's called but it's supposdly durable material made from a a company who use to make golf clubs and know they license the stuff .
anyone have a link
its liquid metal your thinking of.
cheers
The Sony TR-1 has it in a tiny form factor, as can be seen at:
www.dynamism.com
system?
Originally posted by mello
Does anyone have any more info about the Millipede Storage
system?
It's an idea that's certainly got legs anyway.....
*puts hat & coat on and leaves in shame*
Originally posted by mello
Does anyone have any more info about the Millipede Storage
system?
MacAddict did a short article about it in their November 2002 issue. The millipede system works like the old analog memory systems (holes in cardboard) except that the Millipede system is really really small. It's made up of a really thin plastic film and a needle made of silicon that is 2 nanometers at it's tip. It can punch 1 trillion bits (1 terabyte) into 1 square inch.
Memory is erased by holes getting designated for erasure and then when new bytes come in they're punched (which is really melting with a 400 centigrade tip) into the area between the designated holes to be erased, pushing the plastic film back to where it was before.
The major hang up with the Millipede is manufacturing it reliably and cheaply. To quote Mac Addict "the smart money says the year 2005."
Originally posted by DefJef
It can punch 1 trillion bits (1 terabyte) into 1 square inch.
Minor nitpicking. 1 trillion bits would be 125Gigabyes. Still quite a bit and still impressive
I'm not sure how well they'd sell here. I think they would be very popular in Asia (especially Japan) and perhaps Europe. The more you walk and use public transportation the more you value something that is small and light.
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/.../vettiger.html
millipede macht ca 400-500 gb pro square inch....
dabei wird aber erst 2005 mit einem "trustworthy" prototyp gerechnet.
die löschhitze killt manchmal benachbarte bits - und wenn man neue daten rein schreibt - dann geht das am schnellsten sektorweise...
sowie auch das löschen...allerdings gehen dabei dann unweigerlich daten verloren - die umgelagert werden müsste...
insgesamt gibt es viel zu tun - aber die sache ist in dem stadium wo die realisation - die baldige - sichere sache ist.
gute info auch im spektrum der wissenschaft - 9/03
ansonsten geht der trend im storage forschungsbereich derzeit aber ins molekulare.
millipede ist schön - weil dicht gepackt - die ausführung über "nadeln an ärmchen" ist aber materialvergeudend....
viel mehr geht - wenn man die moleküle - bzw.atome alle direkt beschreibt!
der ansatz holographischer ram ist hier erfolgversprechend.
damit ist dann aber leider vor 2010 nicht im "mediamarkt in deiner nähe" zu rechnen.
aber darum ist die vorfreude umso größer...denn dann machen wir keinen sprung um einen faktor 1000 sondern einen sprung um den faktor 1 million...
wir kommen dann von tera auf peta - byte.
würde sagen - ein ipod mit video schirm - holographisch in den raum projiziert natürlich - mit einigen petabyte harddisk - pardon - hard "molecular storage device" - würde dann gestatten, alle meine jemals gehörte musik und angesehen filme inklusive aller dokumente und programme die ich besitze - in der hosentasche rumzutragen...
tirili....
schöne neue digitale welt!
mfg
warpspeedster.de
Originally posted by Geddoe
Minor nitpicking. 1 trillion bits would be 125Gigabyes. Still quite a bit and still impressive
yeah. Blame the 1 trillion bits =1 terabyte thing on Mac Addisct. I thought that was wrong but I decided to trust Mac Addict, and they were wrong.
Originally posted by neutrino23
An ultralight iBook would fill a niche. Something under 3 pounds. For quite a while now the Japanese makers have been advertising 999gram (about 2.2 lb.) subnotebooks. These are not your main system. These are just enough to carry with you when you walk away from your main computer (even if that is a 17 inch PB). It is just enough to do email and web surfing and to connect to a projector and give a presentation.
I'm not sure how well they'd sell here. I think they would be very popular in Asia (especially Japan) and perhaps Europe. The more you walk and use public transportation the more you value something that is small and light.
The 2.5 pound Vaio's sell out regularly, but that's mostly in Japan. Looking at some of the new ones that Sony is shipping...they look like small iBooks with funcky cursor controls. I think the US market will grow for those, just like we Americans learned to like small sports cars, Toyota's, espresso and pocket sandwiches.