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Old Feb 28, 2011 | 08:55 PM
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Glass (giant iPad) world of the future

I thought this video was cool enough that I watched the entire thing.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38
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Old Feb 28, 2011 | 09:02 PM
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I want to live in that world. There's like NO people and NO traffic. Aside from that, I don't really like any of their future vision.
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Old Feb 28, 2011 | 09:09 PM
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Windex just had an orgasm.
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Old Feb 28, 2011 | 09:16 PM
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Originally Posted by stogie1020
Windex just had an orgasm.

Sig material!
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Old Feb 28, 2011 | 11:06 PM
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Originally Posted by stogie1020
Windex just had an orgasm.
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Old Feb 28, 2011 | 11:19 PM
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Originally Posted by stogie1020
Windex just had an orgasm.
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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 12:20 AM
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She needs Navi to find her way to the office?


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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 12:56 AM
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This is going to revolutionize the porn industry. Soon we'll have life-size porn stars in our walls
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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 12:59 AM
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Originally Posted by merlinsbeard101
This is going to revolutionize the porn industry. Soon we'll have life-size porn stars in our walls

Will Windex clean that up?
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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 04:22 AM
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Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 06:53 AM
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Neat vision, but no way it's economical.
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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 08:51 AM
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cool vision, i wouldn't be surprised if in reality it actually started happening
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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 09:03 AM
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looks expensive
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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 09:11 AM
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Originally Posted by stogie1020
Windex just had an orgasm.
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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 09:12 AM
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I'll be honest...I think it would be pretty badass to live in a world like that.


Where do I sign up??
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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 10:05 AM
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I like that a lot. Pretty crazy
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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 11:43 AM
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Isn't this the sort of thing that Microsoft has been working on for a while now? It's called "Surface" or something like that.
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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 12:33 PM
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Nice concept with some very cool applications.
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Old Mar 2, 2011 | 02:32 AM
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ohh and :ibyumchaandapplethisandthat:
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Old Mar 2, 2011 | 03:15 AM
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lol... i like how they put their phones on the table and it displays the pics.... it would suck if your gf's private pics get displayed for everyone to see, or your txt messages from your girlfriend that your wife on the side saw
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Old Mar 2, 2011 | 07:08 AM
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Cool, but its a germophobics nightmare
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Old Mar 2, 2011 | 07:12 AM
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Cool, but its a germophobics nightmare
Not true. Once our world is made of glass everyone will be rich, clean, and "work" in fashion. Germs will be a thing of the past because the glass will be germocidal.
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Old Mar 2, 2011 | 07:17 AM
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oh.
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Old Mar 2, 2011 | 07:37 AM
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You know those funny videos of people running into nicely-cleaned glass doors?

There'll be a shit-ton of them in the "near future" Comedy awaits!
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Old Mar 2, 2011 | 08:12 AM
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i dont know about this, too much tech. Its like everything in the house could possibly be your phone. Imagine that annoying family member that keeps blowing up your phone and everything in the house starts ringing
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Old Mar 2, 2011 | 08:23 AM
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I thought it was bad enough with my Blackberry demanding that I pay attention to it and work for free at home. Now the mirror in the bathroom is going to do the same? Fuck that.
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Old Mar 2, 2011 | 08:25 AM
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You could probably set it so that the phone thingamajig nearest to you would start ringing instead of everything.

Which is perfect for people that are too lazy to go downstairs to answer the phone.
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Old Mar 2, 2011 | 09:06 AM
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Originally Posted by PimpCL23
lol... i like how they put their phones on the table and it displays the pics.... it would suck if your gf's private pics get displayed for everyone to see, or your txt messages from your girlfriend that your wife on the side saw
yea, something like that exists already with the microsoft surface, or maybe was a proof of concept? and hasnt really been implemented yet.
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Old Mar 2, 2011 | 09:08 AM
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Originally Posted by PimpCL23
lol... i like how they put their phones on the table and it displays the pics.... it would suck if your gf's private pics get displayed for everyone to see, or your txt messages from your girlfriend that your wife on the side saw
In the future, we'll have wives on the side? We're not very smart.
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Old Mar 2, 2011 | 12:40 PM
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She needs Navi to find her way to the office?


LOL... thought the same thing when they showed that. Those people on the glass planet sure are stupid...
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Old Mar 2, 2011 | 06:13 PM
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I don't like the idea behind that glass stove. Go to set something on what looks like a counter and burn the house down.
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Old Mar 2, 2011 | 06:20 PM
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Looks awesome and I used to have a flat top that was very simaliar, you just ran your finger in a circle on a flat surface to turn the burner up or down and it would light up.

When the kids move the phone onto the counter, are they now talking to the counter? The phone was way over on the other side but yet she could hear them I would assume and it almost looked like she could see them
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Old Mar 2, 2011 | 06:23 PM
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Is my cell phone in the microwave or is the microwave in my cell phone?
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Old Mar 3, 2011 | 09:43 AM
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When the kids move the phone onto the counter, are they now talking to the counter? The phone was way over on the other side but yet she could hear them I would assume and it almost looked like she could see them
Noticed that too. Are we also to assume that the counter has a built-in floating camera allowing Grandma to still see them once the call was transfered from the phone?
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Old Mar 3, 2011 | 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Bearcat94
She needs Navi to find her way to the office?


I do it all the time but just to see how long my commute will be.
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Old Mar 3, 2011 | 09:52 AM
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The finger prints would drive me crazy...
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Old Mar 3, 2011 | 09:55 AM
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Noticed that too. Are we also to assume that the counter has a built-in floating camera allowing Grandma to still see them once the call was transfered from the phone?
Same thing I was wondering. Reminds me of "Minority Report"
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