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Large-scale low-cost metal 3D printing. We're _very_ close and it could be a game changer for a number of industries since the price for one unit is very close to the mass-production per-unit cost. It could allow custom-fit application or modification of a design on a per-customer level for things that would in the past require significant outlay. If I need a new part for something that's no longer supported, no prob…
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Voting systems are hard because most democracies expect ballots to be confidential. Is there a blockchain-based voting system that allows a voter to have high confidence that their vote was counted, but doesn't allow someone else to be able to know how that voter voted?
Aparrently, someone has it figured out: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_bismark_e_voting_without_fra...
There are rumors of phones with batteries lasting longer than 5hrs. I'm still not sure if true or not but when it happens it will revolutionize what you use your phone for. It may even replace the watch completely some day. Obviously I insist they still need to be as thin as they are now. That is much much more important than batteries.
New, exciting tech making its way in to boring, old industries. And I mean boring , old industries. There's an unbelievable amount of backwards business process that's still out there. Unless you've experienced it first hand, I really don't think you can fully appreciate how manual the "business world" still is. For the past year I've been working with an intermodal trucking company building an app for owner-operator…
I built exactly the same system just over 13 years ago. I'd love to be doing that now as the technology wasn't really there back then. GPRS and windows mobile was all there was. You're right. It sounds boring but it was great fun!
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Hadn't heard of this until now! Thanks!
https://xkcd.com/1053/ I am glad you have heard it now! I am typing this on a T420s because I refuse to use anything but the old seven row keyboard and hope I can move to the Retro in October :)
ARKit. Apple has solved few real world AR problems, which were usually hard for an average app developer to get started with. But with ARKit, apple, is "trying" to do the heavy lifting in terms of plane and object recognition etc. Another thing is the platform of distribution. People will use AR apps, which will hit the app store after September like crazy. And these same people, will be primary audience for Apple he…
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I built exactly the same system just over 13 years ago. I'd love to be doing that now as the technology wasn't really there back then. GPRS and windows mobile was all there was. You're right. It sounds boring but it was great fun!
We're building a similar at product at https://loaddocs.co and hiring, if you are interested.
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OData appeared before the GraphQL with the similar ideas.
Cool, which ones? I think the concept of requesting a response shape was inevitable. It's one of those "obvious in hindsight" ideas. You see many "GraphQL is similar to x, and x failed" comments on here, but I'm not sure x ever came close to where GraphQL is at the moment. Good ideas fail sometimes. E4X failed, but JSX and its variations are game-changers.
Forming data requests on the client/consumer side.
> JSX and its variations are game-changers.
don't be so sure
Smartdust. (And the opening of geospatial database tech that can support all the data...)