Truly future hardware

mokimoki
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in Future Apple Hardware edited January 2014
Some really future hardware...



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Cupertino, CA -- January, 2003 -- Apple has announced today its withdrawl from the PC marketplace. Says Apple's luminary CEO, Steve Jobs, "We just plain ran out of geometric shapes. There is no point in continuing"



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I think when Steve Jobs finally goes senile, there will be a MacWorld with a platform rising from the floor, and on the pedestal, the spotlight will shine down on...

Absolutely nothing.



"Isn't it amazing? We managed to make it so light and etherial, the computer just blends into its surroundings."



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It is interesting that the only sense computer makers haven't tried to make a way to perceive is smell.



Jobs will introduce a way to send and receive smells, causing the Internet to be brought to its knees as kids worldwide fart into their iScent using the Smell-U-Smell me software



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Comments

  • Reply 1 of 9
    katekate Posts: 172member
    Hilarious! LOL!
  • Reply 2 of 9
    andersanders Posts: 6,523member
    The smell thing: Someone actually tried to do it some years ago but even though they got a working beta it never made production.It was mainly thought of as a way to make games more realistic. It only made the top ten waporware list in Wired a couple of years ago. I have never heard about an input device only output. An input device would give spam mail a whole new meaning.



    What have never been tried to make digitally is taste. But then again: who would ever eat anything that didn´t taste of anything in itself and was enhanched with artificial flavour? Some kind of tasteless tofu that taste like Valhrona :eek: <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />





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  • Reply 3 of 9
    nonsuchnonsuch Posts: 293member
    [quote]Originally posted by moki:

    <strong>

    I think when Steve Jobs finally goes senile, there will be a MacWorld with a platform rising from the floor, and on the pedestal, the spotlight will shine down on...

    Absolutely nothing.



    </strong><hr></blockquote>



    This will be the "iPlatonic," a computer so perfect in its conception that its existence transcends mere physicality; you simply sit around and contemplate using it.
  • Reply 4 of 9
    gnomgnom Posts: 85member
    [quote]Originally posted by moki:

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    It is interesting that the only sense computer makers haven't tried to make a way to perceive is smell.</strong><hr></blockquote>





    compare the smell when you unpack a new Mac to when you unpack a PC.

    Notice how the Mac smells? The must have put something in the plastics to make it smell that way, "normal" plastik don´t smell at all or it even stinks.



    bye.
  • Reply 5 of 9
    giantgiant Posts: 6,041member
    [quote]Originally posted by Anders:

    [QB]The smell thing: Someone actually tried to do it some years ago but even though they got a working beta it never made production.It was mainly thought of as a way to make games more realistic. It only made the top ten waporware list in Wired a couple of years ago. I have never heard about an input device only output. An input device would give spam mail a whole new meaning.

    [QB]<hr></blockquote>



    Yeah, me and a friend of mine did an installation for Burning Man 2000 called the Ol' Fac Tree that was based on smells. We got calls from that company and my friend did some sort of interview with them, but nothing materialized. I haven't even thought about it for a year.
  • Reply 6 of 9
    composercomposer Posts: 212member
    FYI: I also heard an entire program on NPR (science Friday I think) talking about this gadget. I seem to recall that the inventor thought it might be useful for perfume companies trying to sell products online.



    Imagine walking into a 16-year-old girl's bedroom after hours of surfing...
  • Reply 7 of 9
    andersanders Posts: 6,523member
    Burning Man? I never quite understood that concept. For me its sounds like a music festival like Glastonbury, Reading, Hulstred or Roskilde without the music and even though I have many times been drunk and high six days in a row and because of that missing 95% of all the music I wanted to hear at least I had the excuse.



    Whats the idea? Is it a big outdoor geek thing or is it more like spring break a la MTV? How many people attend? How many days.
  • Reply 8 of 9
    wrong robotwrong robot Posts: 3,907member
    [quote]Originally posted by Nonsuch:

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    This will be the "iPlatonic," a computer so perfect in its conception that its existence transcends mere physicality; you simply sit around and contemplate using it.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Which I would actually buy
  • Reply 9 of 9
    wrong robotwrong robot Posts: 3,907member
    [quote]Originally posted by Anders:

    <strong>Burning Man? I never quite understood that concept. For me its sounds like a music festival like Glastonbury, Reading, Hulstred or Roskilde without the music and even though I have many times been drunk and high six days in a row and because of that missing 95% of all the music I wanted to hear at least I had the excuse.



    Whats the idea? Is it a big outdoor geek thing or is it more like spring break a la MTV? How many people attend? How many days.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    My knowledge of burningman is there is a pretty diverse group of people that collect in the desert for a few days, and do wacky things, my brother has gone to the past 3 burningman(burningmen?) and Of hte pictures I've seen there was lots of nakedness and quasi sexuality, mixed into alot of modern art-esque stuffis, for all eternity mwa ha ha ha ha
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