Ask HN: Where do you find weird and wonderful future tech nowadays?

"future technologies" is pretty wide open. aka could start a separate ycominator companion site and still leave out a lot. ;)

One helpful approach I'd use would be to use a search engine(s) to help narrow down the focus a bit. aka "omni alternative";"tech podcast"

Yeah, typcially way to much info indepenent of what term(s) one uses; but great for getting a grasp on what's relate; prunning ideas dont want to conside; and new takes/views on "old" stuff.

Obviously, have to concept prune by default & necessity. Also bit more "customized overload", too

try search one day, wait for some time (day, week, month, year(s); do same search terms -- get an idea of how quickly things are evolving.

note: for given term(s)/topics, might seem to disappear, but things changed enough that the "search" is obsolete! try same search on multiple search engines!

A few prune/starter search category ideas:

1) Lot of self project blogging aggrigate & individual/group sites (vs. 80's & the dialup bbs). just try a term(s)/author and prune away!

general: www.indistructables.com / youtube / https://www.thingiverse.com/

directed: blinkenlights.net ; "tech magazine", grab a term/author/story & search

2) Searching foundational sites (gnu/mit/ieee/acm); sites containing citation/papers (csail robotics spinoffs) websites, aka cmu robotics, mit csail, georga tech, etc.) either for whats being done or reviewing what's cited in paper(s). aka hardware needs software & vise versa.

3) In the search vein, sometimes just doing search for things like the 1920's mechanical tv, ardrino punch card reader, and/or 3d printed project can turn up some fasinating stuff/ideas.

general: hackaday / makezine

directed: check out a project's url / citations / inspiration / etc.

general "thing a group/individual has done" : www.creativeapplications.net has limited set of examples on home page with archives stuff available to subscribers.

http://technovelgy.com/ what was once 'future tech'.

aka what Asimov ideas are still yet to happen? / What sci-fi writer ideas is SpaceX going to run into?

4) search term "open source projects":

https://medium.com/@likid_geimfari/the-list-of-interesting-o...

https://www.oshwa.org/open-source-hardware-journals/ https://opensource.com/tags/hardware

I enjoy the Linux mobile space: https://linmob.net/ is a good blog to start.

That community happens to be interested in other topics such as decetralization and repairable hardware too.

thx. sadly the least skimmable format it could be :)