Other than AI ideally. I’ve long been fascinated by CRISPR.

Wanna hear about niche tech or anything y’all find fascinating

  • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Zero knowledge proofs. I’ve worked in the industry for a couple years now, and I’ve got a lot of hope it will actually help us fix the internet, stop spam bots, and allow for people to interact with better control over their data.

  • tias@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago

    It’s AI but a specific use case of AI: an android at home to take care of the housework. Cleaning my dishes, doing the laundry, vaccuming and putting stuff away where it belongs are obvious use cases. But also:

    • Go through your fridge and throw away everything that has expired or gone bad.
    • Take care of your cat while you’re away on vacation.
    • It’s your personal fire fighter.
    • It paints your house or does any kind of house maintenance.
    • Let’s say you’re in the middle of playing a board game on your dinner table but need to put it away for the night. Ask the android to memorize everything and put it away. The next time your friends come around to play, it can place everything in exactly the same spot.

    Possibilities are endless.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Maser drills: https://newatlas.com/energy/geothermal-energy-drilling-deepest-hole-quaise/

    In a nutshell, it’s a economically brilliant idea: take hand-me-down microwave(ish) spectrum lasers from fusion research, drill holes deep into the crust (leaning on the fossil fuel industry), then hook up the resulting steam to existing coal plants, so you don’t have to build anything else. The coal plant gets free geothermal fuel, they move onto the next site: everyone wins.

    It’s taking a worryingly long time though. I hope it gets enough funding.

    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      6 months ago

      Oh i recently read a bit about it but honestly. Not my field.

      I just want energy to be transformed, I like solar but nuclear is where its truly at.

      China has a lot of nuclear projects going on

    • tias@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      This is the key to so much. Worried about Nestlé monopolizing freshwater? With nuclear fusion we can just take any old seawater and remove the salt. Worried about the war with Russia? With nuclear fusion we can become independent of all gas from Russia and cut off one of their biggest income sources. Lots of special materials are expensive because electricity is expensive - with nuclear fusion electricity is practically free. Over time we can get rid of any coal plants etc. that produce CO2.

  • rabber@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I’m really nerdy about camping gear. The shit coming out every season is just insane.

      • rabber@lemmy.caEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I bring an actual pillow. It’s worth the weight

        Staying dry is still an issue

          • rabber@lemmy.caEnglish
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            6 months ago

            Sorry I mean keeping yourself dry is still a problem and a huge debate in camping gear. Look up the goretex controversy for example haha

  • Didros@beehaw.org
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    6 months ago

    In response to you, have you seen GATICA it’s a great movie that shows clearly why that tech scares me.

    I think batteries are super interesting, and sodium solid state batteries are a pretty huge innovation, but graphene batteries will be utterly insane if we can get there. Very interesting stuff.

    Graphine being a single atom think sheet of carbon, which is dope!

    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      6 months ago

      I’m aware of the movie but havent yet seen it. Although I seem to remember someone else brought it up in conversation a while ago now that you mention it.

      I’ve heard of innovation in batteries but don’t know what its about. I’m gonna have to research that!

      Thanks for that.

  • juliebean@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    trains. i know it isn’t particularly new technology, but i am still excited about it.

  • Markus Sugarhill@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago

    Just was in a talk of Jennifer Doudna. Thank CRISPER will cure many cancers in about ten years is incredible. Too bad it will be too late for my parents, but still.

    To answer your question: phones and medical devices are incredible. Due to my moms pancreatic cancer she is a diabetic now. Her fingers can’t feel anything anymore due to all the piercing. But now she gets a new sensor on her arm and has continuous glucose readings. And she can apply that by herself. And I get warned if she has low sugar. This bus amazing.

    Shootout to GlucoDataHandler, which does a better job than Abbott’s own app.

  • Sunsofold@lemmings.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Any technology is cool if you look at it in isolation. I just can’t get terribly excited because I generally doubt they will be used in a sensible/humane manner.

    Med tech is looking cool. It’s one of the few unambiguously good uses of AI. AI systems for reading scans, detecting disease, etc. seem like they could be used to make medicine faster, easier, and more affordable, but I have doubts that the tech won’t just be used to increase profit margins and somehow mess things up to benefit insurance company executives.

    CRISPR/synthBio looks like it could do amazing things, but I have to wonder how long until things hit the sweet spot, intersecting democratization of powerful tools and destructive ideology, and lead some lunatic or group of lunatics to develop a society destroying bioweapon.

    It’s hard to get excited about the development of a new power when you look at who’s likely to hold it.

  • NuraShiny [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I hear this wheel thing is pretty cool. Supposed to be, like, round. Rollin all day long.

    Nothing bad could come from that, right? Right?!

  • Aksamit@slrpnk.net
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    6 months ago

    With home IPL (laser hair removal) being easily accessible now, I’d like to see other useful lasers developed for home use as I have a tattoo I’d like to remove.

    I’m not particularly following this technology though, just moderately hopeful, which is as excited as I can get these days, that it’ll come along and be affordable before civilisation collapses.

    (It’s not a tat of anything shameful, I just don’t like having to go outside or talk to people if I can possibly avoid it.)

  • minibyte@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Aptera. A solar panel on the roof of an electric vehicle. They’re slashing the power needed per mile in half because of weight loss and aerodynamics. That helps increase the range, especially for highway driving 400-1000 claimed miles on a charge depending on the model (40, 60 or 100kwh). It would be nice if they integrated v2x technology so you could use it as a generator.

    I’ve been burned before by these too good to be true projects that never see the light of day, so I’ll believe it when I start seeing them on the road.