Asklemmy

A display with a transparent screen and then behind the transparent screen is an eink display.

When I wanted the eink mode the screen goes completely transparent and only uses the eink display. When I want a full colour high resolution display the ink goes black and the transparent display displays the colour content. Best of both worlds.

If transparent displays are cheap enough that they put them on fridges at the supermarket, clearly they've come down in costs enough for consumer electronics.

• Microwave freezer
• Feature phone with all of : keypad, high-resolution screen and camera, headphone jack, dual sim, WLAN, reasonable RAM, and expandable ~memory~ storage. I can find phones with some of these, but not all.

Edit: I knew what I meant /s

Gun from Portal.

Privacy-respecting thought-controlled AR+VR smart contact lenses that correct my eyesight, block out UV, can somehow project sound into my brain, overlay people's names and basic info when I see them and don't remember (or make me remember thanks to the brain interface), and let me browse the internet and work on stuff without using my hands because RSI :(

A toilet that can plunge and snake itself.

• Open source motherboards
• Open source modems for computers and phones
• Open source cars
• GrapheneOS phone with enough RAM to run a decent offline LLM
• Offline AI privacy/network manager designed to white noise the stalkerware standards of the shitternet with a one click setup
• Real AI hardware designed for tensor math using standard DIMM system memory with many slots and busses in parallel instead of bleeding edge monolithic GPU stuff targeting a broad market. The bottle neck in the CPU structure is the L2 to L1 cache bus width and transfer rate with massive tensor tables that all need to run at one time. System memory is great for its size but its size is only possible because of the memory controller that swaps out a relatively small chunk that is actually visible to the CPU. This is opposed to a GPU where there is no memory controller and the memory size is directly tied to the compute hardware. This is the key difference we need to replicate. We need is a bunch of small system memory sticks where the chunk normally visible to the CPU is all that is used and a bunch of these sticks on their own busses running to the compute hardware. Then older, super cheap system memory could be paired with ultra cheap trailing edge compute hardware to make cheaper AI that could run larger models, (at the cost of more power consumption). Currently larger than 24GBV GPUs are pretty much unobtainium, like an A6000 at 48GBV will set you back at least $4k. I want to run a 70B or greater. That would need ~140GBV to run super fast on dedicated optimised hardware. There is already an open source offline 180B model, and that would need ~360GBV for near instantaneous response. While super speeds with these large models is not needed for basic LLM prompting, it makes a big difference with agents where the model needs to do a bunch of stuff seamlessly while still appearing to work in realtime conversationally.

Are bionic spines a thing already? Cause I'd really love it if those could be easily available for all of us with chronic back pain. Hell, even not just chronic - any bs back pain.

Edit: I see now that it has been researched, at least. Here's an article about building a bionic spine but why don't I have something like this at the pharmacy?

Edit 2: I accidentally a word

A bare keyboard attached to a screen, that I could plug my phone (possibly running Phosh) and use it as a hardware for a laptop experience

Those exist!

They're called "lapdocks".

A laptop with fully libre firmware that actually has good specs.

5 inch android phone :(

A television screen you can turn on and off without the remote. A mobile phone that has buttons on the back. A magic stick that can send my husband to the cornfield when he won't leave me alone.

1. A FairPhone that can run GrapheneOS.

2. Dual screen phone (separate screens not foldable) with that can run GrapheneOS

3. Tablet with keyboard case that runs GrapheneOS and has support for Linux apps, so I can replace my PC with something more private and secure

4. Don't know if this is possible but a keyboard where each key can show different icons depending on if the shift or control key is pressed to make keyboard shortcuts easier to learn, but still possible to type without looking

Futurama styled arm brace smart phones. My phone is always with me and smart watches are kinda really lame. An arm brace with a touch screen I can pull off and use would be awesome.

A grapple gun that can pull you up a building like batman. I was bummed when I found out those don't really exist

A high-end smartphone with 16:9 4K screen running a non-Google Linux variant.

A modern Firefox OS phone with a really great camera.

A modern Nokia N900

Multiplayer lucid dreams device

Automatic guinea pig cage cleaner

Lever that sticks out under the toekick on a vanity sink base cabinet, that opens the cabinet doors.

Basically so you can put a trash can under the sink and access it hands-free.

In other words, a cabinet that opens and closes with the same mechanism as a step-to-open trash can, but without the trash can taking up space in your small bathroom.

You’ve got some floss to toss, no need to touch your cabinet door handle just step down on the lever, toss the floss in the wastebasket, release foot and the door closes again.

I was gonna come in here like 'Phone with a physical keyboard' but then I realized I had greatly misread the room...

How about ANY kind of laptop with a keyboard designed for human hands instead of type-writer compatibility (i.e. ortholinear).

homeostasis-r-us.

nano machines + hmi that balances all hormones/ chemicals in my body.

Real-life adblock.

Gender dial, so I can turn it either way and get instant results.

3D printer that can print fully-populated functional electronic devices. Design or download a schematic for, say a new camera or phone, make whatever modifications I want, and just hit print!

Basically a replicator for electronic devices...

A RISC-V laptop that's not an engineering sample. Something like a dell 9370 sort of thing.

I want an updated Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact with all the modern internal bits. Modern processor, sufficient RAM and good enough camera. Doesn't have to be the best, just good enough to keep upwith the times.

More importantly I want the height and width to remain the same; thickness can be increased if required.

Also keep the 3.5mm jack, camera shutter button, notification LED and the sim + micro-sd tray. Dual sim would be a bonus.

A Motorola Droid 4 (SLIDE IN KEYBOARD FUCK YES) with a 5" screen and more recent components. Hell, use mid-high end from 2018, like 3GB RAM and a decent processor would be more than enough for me. Don't forget the earphone jack and easily removable back.

In the realm of pure fantasy, a stealth boy from Fallout, or the similar Stealth thingy from Metal Gear Solid

A Nokia N900 with modern specs and capacitive touchscreen.