"Invention said to be bigger than PCs and the Internet". enough said. What do you guys think 'IT' is?

http://www.msnbc.com/news/513749.asp?cp1=1

Posibly something pertaining to Revelations in the Bible.

quote:Originally posted by Fuzzball:
Posibly something pertaining to Revelations in the Bible.

hmmm that can be put together with a screw driver and fit in a duffel bag? i dunno, its interesting to think about.

quote:Originally posted by Sol:
"Invention said to be bigger than PCs and the Internet". enough said. What do you guys think 'IT' is?

http://www.msnbc.com/news/513749.asp?cp1=1

Maybe it's an Intel Board without Rambus? Heh

quote:Originally posted by Ymaster:
Maybe it's an Intel Board without Rambus? Heh

hmm around $2000, i think thats kind of cheap to be Rambus memory

quote:Originally posted by Sol:
hmm around $2000, i think thats kind of cheap to be Rambus memory

Haha..A man can dream can he not? I guess thats right up there with the end of the world. Watch it be something retarded like a public dog park poop cleaner.. ect

quote:Originally posted by Ymaster:
Haha..A man can dream can he not? I guess thats right up there with the end of the world. Watch it be something retarded like a public dog park poop cleaner.. ect

I laugh if some other inventor comes up with the same idea and sells it for $19.99 on TV before 2002.

quote:Originally posted by Sol:
"Invention said to be bigger than PCs and the Internet". enough said. What do you guys think 'IT' is?

http://www.msnbc.com/news/513749.asp?cp1=1

It's a long shot, but my friend has been talking a lot about iTV, interactive television. It's the complete melding of Television and the internet. I don't know so much about "building entire cities around it" (like the article said) but it's defeintly a cool idea. Basically, it's like Starship Troopers, you get to select what you watch when you watch it. Blah blah blah. But that article is hyping it up way too much if that's all that it is. Anyways, ITV should be here in about a year. In fact, Microsoft's X-box is going to support it.
Well, that's my 2 cents. Going to sleep now.

It's probably a Swedish penis pump, ala Austin Powers. Someone had to market one .

Way I see it, maybe it robotic prostitution

I'm thinking it's a hooverboard, like in the movie Back To The Future. Here's why

- alternative to products that are dirty, expensive, sometimes dangerous and often frustrating, especially for people in the cities.''

- Kamen's most recent invention is the iBot, an off-road wheelchair that can climb stairs, cover sand and gravel and rise to balance on two wheels.

- So jumping on board for the book ... (maybe the author knows more about it)

- using a screwdriver and hex wrenches ... ( like with a skateboard)

- The question is, are people going to be allowed to use it? -> skateboards aren't always legal

Of course, I could be taking this way to far and could be wrong

WooHoo!!

Finally someone made a Beer replicator! Yesssss

Buy one can and be sustained for life!

"BoogyMan, have you been drinking?"

"No honey, I've only had one beer! "

Yes, Angelus, I think you are right!

Seriously, it sounds like it, the way you described it...

It's wierd, probably not even that big a deal when we finally find out, but it sure is a hell of a teaser right now.

I followed the links last night and thought the boxy thing with wheels that you stood and rode on...looked about the most probable. Then this morning they had the exact same thing on the Good Morning America Broadcast. The dude had invented a Wheelchair that climbs stairs...so this is just an outgrowth of that. THere was a patent for it in 95!. Dunno....doesnt look like it will sell...to me!!! Might be ok for athletic people...but slightly overweight couch potatoes like myself...might have trouble...me...id rather have a motorcycle.

IT will probebly turn out to be a personal bar soap maker, or maybe an automatic chap stick aplicator.

quote:Originally posted by Chillingworth:
I followed the links last night and thought the boxy thing with wheels that you stood and rode on...looked about the most probable. Then this morning they had the exact same thing on the Good Morning America Broadcast. The dude had invented a Wheelchair that climbs stairs...so this is just an outgrowth of that. THere was a patent for it in 95!. Dunno....doesnt look like it will sell...to me!!! Might be ok for athletic people...but slightly overweight couch potatoes like myself...might have trouble...me...id rather have a motorcycle.

Hmmm I think everyone agrees that it will be some sort of transportation device. But seriously, do you think that little scooter will be such a big thing? I saw the same thing you were talking about and I don't think so. They will have to build cities around it? i dunno... just rather interesting to read all the theories about IT.

They have this same thread over at Edmonds. They say the BIG 3 are talking to thte inventor so it must be auto related somehow.

quote:Originally posted by CajnDave:
They have this same thread over at Edmonds. They say the BIG 3 are talking to thte inventor so it must be auto related somehow.

Well, if it were a power source, then the Big 3 would be highly interested in it, especially if IT were a clean and efficient source of power that could be easily harnested.

Then again, if it were a scooter kind of thing, it won't catch on down here in Texas. Too dang many SUVs and Trucks that are likely crush the little thing.

Well, if it is a clean energy, then the oil companies and automobile companies might have something to worry about. I have read a lot of theories on it and some seem rather interesting.

I'll bet it's one of those "Mr. Fusion" power sources that runs on garbage like at the end of Back to the Future. (Remember when Doc Brown got a banana peel and some coffee grounds and dumped them in the back of the Delorean?)

Or maybe it's a flying car that runs on "flubber."

If definitely has to be transportation related. It's the only thing that really determines how cities are built. Also oil companies and automakers are surely to be affected by it. Sound like it would be a spin-off the today motor scooter with some sort of clean energy source. Electric scooters perhaps? Who knows but 2,000 sound kind of steep but we'll have to see.

BTW, I think I saw this on a pinky and the brain episode or was it another show? Who knows, but they marketed the product without even having a clue of what to sell. The hype about the product was so big that it began selling without the people even seeing what it was.

As we all know Pinky and the Brain were not successful in their bid for total worlddomination, lets hope Case and Bezos (you pick which is pinky) can deliver a good product.

quote:Originally posted by Angelus:
I'm thinking it's a hooverboard, like in the movie Back To The Future. Here's why

- alternative to products that are dirty, expensive, sometimes dangerous and often frustrating, especially for people in the cities.''

- Kamen's most recent invention is the iBot, an off-road wheelchair that can climb stairs, cover sand and gravel and rise to balance on two wheels.

- So jumping on [b]board for the book ... (maybe the author knows more about it)

- using a screwdriver and hex wrenches ... ( like with a skateboard)

- The question is, are people going to be allowed to use it? -> skateboards aren't always legal

Of course, I could be taking this way to far and could be wrong

How cool would that be, having your own hoverboard. Although $2000 is alot of money. But a hoverboard does sound like a resonable theory

Why does a hooverboard sound resonable? How would such a thing function by moving the air beneath the board? How much energy would take to do such a thing, and has this been done is small sizes?

Hmmm... I'd say it was one of those tube transportation systems from tv shows like 'Futurama', but that's too big. I agree, it's probably a hoverboard-type thing. Although, that's too obvious. The thing that they'd really want to keep under wraps was how they'd power it. Jetpack? That's totally feasable (Anyone who's seen the Bond movie 'Thunderball' has seen one in action), but they're currently only available for military use. And, they generate a huge amount of heat, so the important part would be a new power source.
Another possibility is something along the lines of extremely portable real estate, but the main reason I would say that is that the real estate buisness is a dirty buisness.
And although 'Mr. Fusion' is a possibility, it's not gonna change the way cities are built.
If we extrapolate it, what do you think of when you hear Ginger? Ginger Snaps?
Maybe, just maybe, a personal teleportation system. Maybe not, though, because that would REQUIRE a city to be rebuilt to make it.
Anyway, when they say what it is, it's gonna be one of those 'My god, why the heck didn't I think of that?' situations.

My vote on what IT is:
Perpetual Motion Machine
Cold Fusion
Hover Technology

Possibly, but unlikely IT is:
Transporter Technology
Another type of energy device
Ion propulsion technology (I hear that the Air Force has a more advanced type of this technology than NASA)

quote:Originally posted by d-zen:
Why does a hooverboard sound resonable? How would such a thing function by moving the air beneath the board? How much energy would take to do such a thing, and has this been done is small sizes?

What I meant was that someone proposed a resonable answer to the question, I wasn't trying to imply that hoverboards are resonable. Sorry for the poor wording.

I'm waiting for flying cars

Extrapolate something from the codename?

Hmmm.... Ginger... Perhaps it's an automatic cookie maker!

Oooooo!!!! I know! It's a Chinese Food maker! Whoooo rah! That's great!

Here is the answer to IT!!!! or maybe just another rumor, not really sure. I copied this from one of the Fourm at Edmunds.

In the Washington Post today there is an article about a secret invention being made by Dean amen, evidently the Thomas Edison of our day. Harvard Business School is putting up $250,000 in an advance for a book on I Ginger' which will be "a product so revolutionary" that it will change the world.

What they say it is is a wearable car, a motorized unicycle that won't turn over, no matter what. They have a sketch of it in the paper. Evidently you will be able to scoot around town on this, then fold it up and carry it. Speeds will be fast. It makes those little scooter thingies that are so popular obsolete. This thing is right out of the Jet sons.

According to the article the Ginger' is top top secret, heavily funded, and will be "an alternative to products that are dirty, expensive, dangerous and often frustrating, especially to people in the cities." I want one.

quote:Originally posted by CajnDave:
Here is the answer to IT!!!! or maybe just another rumor, not really sure. I copied this from one of the Fourm at Edmunds.

In the Washington Post today there is an article about a secret invention being made by Dean amen, evidently the Thomas Edison of our day. Harvard Business School is putting up $250,000 in an advance for a book on I Ginger' which will be "a product so revolutionary" that it will change the world.

What they say it is is a wearable car, a motorized unicycle that won't turn over, no matter what. They have a sketch of it in the paper. Evidently you will be able to scoot around town on this, then fold it up and carry it. Speeds will be fast. It makes those little scooter thingies that are so popular obsolete. This thing is right out of the Jet sons.

According to the article the Ginger' is top top secret, heavily funded, and will be "an alternative to products that are dirty, expensive, dangerous and often frustrating, especially to people in the cities." I want one.

Hmm.. if so I am unimprerssed. I hope I don't get too many of them caught in the front grill of my car

quote:Originally posted by Angelus:
I'm thinking it's a hooverboard, like in the movie Back To The Future.

I really think you're onto something. When you think of changing the way vities etc work, a simple method of transporatation fits everything mentioned on that list....

quote:Originally posted by JDC:
How cool would that be, having your own hoverboard. Although $2000 is alot of money. But a hoverboard does sound like a resonable theory

IF it is transportation-related and can do close to as much as your basic car (transportation-wise) thats CHEAP compared to the cost of buying a motorbike, hyundai etc.

The article also states that it will change the way we think. Those two things, the city information and the way it will change the way we think leads me to believe it wont be a sccoter. I hope its a hoverboard. That would be cool. If it's a scooter, I am going to be really disapointed.

quote:Originally posted by Sol:
The article also states that it will change the way we think.

Maybe its really a procedure that opens up a small hole in the back of your head for an electronic jack, like in Keanu Reeves in "Johhny Mnuemonic". Then you can have people follow you around and punch buttons that give you pleasure when you do the right thing, and shock you when you're thinkin' "wrong"...