Modern technology which is shït.

cnocbui

Cars don't have enough horizontal surface area for solar panels to actually generate enough energy to power more than a fraction of their energy needs.

The exception being the solar challenge races in Australia with cars at the bleeding edge of technology that weigh about as much as a feather pillow.

JohnnyFlash

Bitcoin.

Can handle 7 transactions per second and each transaction uses the same amount of electricity as it would take an electric car to travel across the United States.

beejee

All these car ideas are potentially great down the line.

My thanks to those who will pay through the nose to test these ideas, especially if it works out.

If they don't work out, win-win for me anyway :P

Reisers

Bluetooth headphones

Smartwatches

Illegal streams

Satellite dishes -wtf like ugly and 1breeze and they're out of wack

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The high horse brigade

Reisers wrote: »

Illegal streams

You're not doing it right

cnocbui

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Bitcoin.

Can handle 7 transactions per second and each transaction uses the same amount of electricity as it would take an electric car to travel across the United States.

The average cost of a bitcoin transaction is USD was $1.403 on the 1st of this month. Your quoted stats claim that $1.403 bought $64.34 worth of electricity expenditure - 607 kwh * $0.106.

I have my doubts about the veracity of those figures.

Capt'n Midnight

FishOnABike wrote: »

Touch screen controls in a car! Just give me physical controls I can use without taking my eyes off the road.

17 totally preventable deaths :mad:


https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49319450

Unfamiliarity with the touch screens contributed to two accidents that caused the deaths of 17 sailors, said incident reports.
...
the control systems on different ships had little in common, so sailors often were not sure where key indicators, such as a ship's heading, could be found on screens.

Capt'n Midnight

cnocbui wrote: »

Cars don't have enough horizontal surface area for solar panels to actually generate enough energy to power more than a fraction of their energy needs.

The exception being the solar challenge races in Australia with cars at the bleeding edge of technology that weigh about as much as a feather pillow.

On the first one back in 1987 General Motors "cheated" by using $300,000 worth of gallium arsenide satellite grade solar panels and silver oxide batteries.

Greenwashing has been around a long time.

whisky_galore

Google Glasses. That didn't last long.

The high horse brigade

whisky_galore wrote: »

Google Glasses. That didn't last long.

Were they ever actually released?

ct5amr2ig1nfhp

Flat screen monitors. :mad: Give me back my 24 inch CRT you b**tard's. I don't care if you have to reinforce my desk.

The high horse brigade

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Were they ever actually released?

Not sure if retailed but...
An infamous incident was recorded with a wearer of them going into a MacDonalds restaurant in Paris. The staff behind the counter took exception to the glasses, and damaged them. Used to be on youtube but it's taken down now for the obvious reasons.

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The high horse brigade wrote: »

Were they ever actually released?

They blamed the high price, but in reality they were getting banned from casinos/hospitals/cafes/stripclubs/sportsevents etc for various reasons but mainly privacy infringement.
Chances are that SiliconValley (well SanFran) would have banned them from the entire (public area) city, much like FRS cameras currently are.

There is some protest over the amount of face cameras appearing in London, around KingsCross has a cluster, where the Googley offices are.
Facial recognition is yet another technological scourge.

riclad

You can still buy old crt monitors on ebay, or adverts.ie
Phones with apps that cannot be removed ,
i,ll never use any social media app .They just take up space on my phone.
Why does every basic android app need acess to my contacts or all the data on my phone .
i mostly use my phone for music or as a radio.
There should be a option, for black and white , no colour mode ,to save battery life on every phone .
i think it would be possible to make a digital currency
that would not use so much power ,
there could be bitcoin uk,bitcoin france etc
it would only record payments by users in one country .
so someone in france could send or recieve coins to any company or person
who lives in france .

cournioni

ELM327 wrote: »

Were petrol stations not affected or something?
In a power outage you can't buy petrol either.

Don’t be ridiculous, of course you can. You don’t NEED power to fill up.

Wanderer78

cournioni wrote: »

Don’t be ridiculous, of course you can. You don’t NEED power to fill up.

i guess you could use mechanical pumps used by hand

El_Duderino 09

cournioni wrote: »

Don’t be ridiculous, of course you can. You don’t NEED power to fill up.

True but do filling stations have hand pumps? AFAIK the fuel is stored underground so you'd have to overcome gravity somehow.

Likewise you could point out that you could power your electric car from a generator. It might not or might not be practical though.

Stark

Presumably they would also have issues with payment systems and the meters. Don't think they'd be giving out petrol for free.

That said, petrol/diesel cars generally don't need to be filled up every day so it's likely most people driving diesel/petrol were unaffected. Aside from the people who like to drive around with the fuel warning light on all the time but I don't get those people. Guess it comes from growing up in an area where being close to a petrol station that you could count on being open 24/7 wasn't a given.

tjhook

I'm just going to echo what some others have said - phones that don't have a 3.5mm audio connector.

The problem isn't bluetooth earphones - they do have a place. For me, the problem is that bluetooth earphones are not the best solution for every situation, and it's not necessary to treat wired earphones as a second-class citizen.

I've lost count of the number of times my bluetooth earphones have run out of power at an inopportune time.

From a sound quality perspective, bluetooth has a built-in disadvantage. Also, batteries degrade over time. What's the point in buying a good (pricey) pair of earbuds when no matter how well you look after them, their battery life will be inadequate after a few years? I'm resigned to buying cheap ones that I consider disposable. So another negative for sound quality when compared to my old Shure earbuds or in-ear monitors.

Latency - not a problem for music or calls, but the bluetooth earphones I've tried had a slightly annoying lag between audio and picture. I'm not sure if that's just the devices I happened to use, but apparently not. I imagine it would be even more annoying with a game. There 's a reason PC gaming headphones generally don't depend on bluetooth.

I know there are dongles for wired earphones, but (a) the dongles won't fit well into the little earphone cases that come with wired earphones, (b) they're another thing to lose/break, and (c) if wires are annoying for some, a wire with a bulge on it (where the dongle joins the earphone) must be even more annoying. I assume it's also still a pain to listen while needing to charging the phone?

There was no need to remove the headphone jack. We already had waterproof headphone jacks, and there was that video of a ordinary guy who modified an iPhone to add one. Space was not the issue.

As I said, bluetooth earphones do have a place. But I think that for many people, so do wired earphones.

whisky_galore

Stark wrote: »

Presumably they would also have issues with payment systems and the meters. Don't think they'd be giving out petrol for free.

That said, petrol/diesel cars generally don't need to be filled up every day so it's likely most people driving diesel/petrol were unaffected. Aside from the people who like to drive around with the fuel warning light on all the time but I don't get those people. Guess it comes from growing up in an area where being close to a petrol station that you could count on being open 24/7 wasn't a given.

Driving around with the warning light on regularly isn't very wise anyway.

Sir Guy who smiles

mrcheez wrote: »

... or control your lights
... or control your TV
... or control your central heating
... or read out latest weather forecast
... or read out news headlines
... or add reminders

****ing best invention in past 10 years imo

CoBo55 wrote: »

All of which you can actually do yourself... If you got out of the armchair.

In fairness, you would also have to learn to read.

Sir Guy who smiles

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

It's an obsolete technology that had its hayday during Edwardian times. Hydrogen cell technology is the future.

Hydrogen cells are five years away from being perfected, and have been for the last 25 years.

Sir Guy who smiles

L1011 wrote: »

Hydrogen cell needs reliable and efficient electric drivetrains. They aren't going to appear from nowhere, current EV developments are driving them

Yeah it's still an electric car, all you are replacing is the battery.

No less a red blooded male than Ian Fleming wrote years ago how much more efficient electric motors would be to drive car wheels than internal combustion driving a gear box. He had no concerns over climate change or even oil shortages; his point was that ICE turned most of it's energy into heat but an electric motor put most of it into SPEED!

Sir Guy who smiles

Still waters wrote: »

I've no idea what half the **** ye are talking about is, i have switches for my lights and coal for my heat, would alexa clean out the fire for me, and would an electric car pull my digger up the corkscrew hill, the only thing voice activated in my house is the missus, if i ask her to make me a cuppa she usually does, usually i might add, sometimes theres a glitch in the system where she'll tell me make the fcukin thing myself but otherwise she's reliable

You'd want to watch that glitch, it could be the first sign of a bigger systems failure.

Sir Guy who smiles

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Hydrogen is only a way of storing energy.

You have to make it first.

You can make it from water. But half the energy goes into the oxygen so it's way more energy efficient to make it from natural gas.

So in reality it's a fossil fuel.

It is easier to make straws from plastic than paper-but plastic straws have disappeared from almost all the big fast food chains over a period of a few months.

If we get enough renewable power-an we may never do that!-hydrogen may find it's niche not in going into car's tanks, but as a backup to wind or solar. During the day half of the solar power stations output could be diverted to splitting water into H2 and O2. Come sundown, pump those gasses into a giant fuel cell and put that power into the grid.

Now giant tanks of hydrogen will be dangerous! So, since you also need sunlight, put the whole kit and caboodle in the desert.

Sir Guy who smiles

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

Or just take a sensible balanced approach.

Don't be silly.

We are on the internet.

Sir Guy who smiles

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Should never have been taken out of the air, should be still flying, was never anything wrong with them

That just proves his point; flight technology went backwards not because there was something, wrong, because of external factors.

If Concorde stopped working that wouldn't be technology going backwards, that would be a bug, which possibly could be fixed.

dotsman

cournioni wrote: »

Don’t be ridiculous, of course you can. You don’t NEED power to fill up.

You do realise petrol stations require power to operate? Without electricity, the pumps don't pump.

Ardent

Zelda Flabby Manicure wrote: »

Wired headphones are a thing of the past for me for quite a while already and will soon be for everyone. Bluetooth all the way, couldn’t be dealing with wires.

That's fine if you don't care about music and happy to listen to compressed sh1tty audio.

Sir Guy who smiles

Okay, I've kind of got addicted to replying to this thread and I need to put in a summary of why it resonated with me.

I think the problem a lot of people have with minor technological upgrades to existing is when they are a) poorly executed or b) unnecessary. Many are both.

I heard an English comedian say one " My mother bought a banana holder. Bananas come in their own holder."