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Here are some examples from CES:
Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?
#2LTO Tape drives that run their cooling at 100 percent power when idle and have no particle filters https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34502596
Re: Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?
#3Compost bin that requires a subscription. You send the compost via mail to a processing facility https://www.fastcompany.com/90834481/nests-co-founder-design...
Re: Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?
#4Compost bin that requires a subscription. You send the compost via mail to a processing facility https://www.fastcompany.com/90834481/nests-co-founder-design...
We should normalize having chickens in the office.
Re: Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?
#5LTO Tape drives that run their cooling at 100 percent power when idle and have no particle filters https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34502596
Tape drives need to be disrupted. They are way too expensive.
Re: Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?
#6Compost bin that requires a subscription. You send the compost via mail to a processing facility https://www.fastcompany.com/90834481/nests-co-founder-design...
It would be interesting to see an environmental impact analysis of use of mail vs a compost cycle that’s does not use mail. Find it hard to believe they’re reusing the labels, boxes, plastic wrapping, etc too.
Re: Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?
#7LTO Tape drives that run their cooling at 100 percent power when idle and have no particle filters https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34502596
Not saying this isn't true, but you made the thread and the video. Is there anyone else talking about this?
Re: Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?
#8Compost bin that requires a subscription. You send the compost via mail to a processing facility https://www.fastcompany.com/90834481/nests-co-founder-design...
Here in Germany we have to split our garbage and one "bucket" so to speak is compostable and gets taken by the regular garbage trucks and I assume is composted in large facilities. That seems like a more reasonable approach because it scales to a whole city doing it
Re: Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?
#9The motions on the recent Boston dynamics demo video were eerily realistic and humanlike. Sure preprogrammed but still that smoothness stood out to me as something new
Re: Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?
#10Compost bin that requires a subscription. You send the compost via mail to a processing facility https://www.fastcompany.com/90834481/nests-co-founder-design...
Here in Germany we have to split our garbage and one "bucket" so to speak is compostable and gets taken by the regular garbage trucks and I assume is composted in large facilities. That seems like a more reasonable approach because it scales to a whole city doing it
And then the yellow bags for plastic, which they take to SE Asia on the otherwise empty container-ships, so that it gets dumped on a beach or into a river, while Germany fills its quota for recycling.
Sorry for the cynicism, this was the case a few years ago, maybe not anymore?