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Posted by Ford James in Tech
This bounty idea comes courtesy of avrona who wants you folks to predict the next tech that will make a comeback and become popular again. After all, vinyls, cassettes, polaroids, flip phones, typewriters, arcade machines, and more have done the same in recent years, so what's next?
Pick some old tech and justify your chance in 50 words or more to win $2!
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Stainless steel body, bulky square sides, and those iconic gull-wing doorsājust look at the Cybertruck! The new Hyundai Santa Fe and other manufacturers are embracing that '80s bulky style. Itās the perfect time for the DMC-12 to make a comeback!
Iām not talking about that recent DeLorean nonsense that looks more like a bar of soap than a car. I want simple, plain designs with rough edgesāsomething futuristic, like the engineers of the '70s envisioned for the 21st century.
#NoToRoundSmoothCars!
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Sensorama
When I saw this post, I tried to remember some old technology, then I remembered a project I did for college about virtual reality, in which I had to delve deeper into the origins of VR.
Sensorama was an innovative technology at the time, it simulated an immersive and multi-sensory experience. The device is as the image above shows, you sat and glued to the screen inside where the experience of a motorcycle ride through the streets of Broklyn was simulated. And in the middle of this ride, the machine user could feel the wind on their face, the vibration of the motorcycle and even the smells of the city.
Sensorama is not actually a Virtual Reality device, but it is the predecessor of today's devices and concepts that we have about it, and I think that this idea of āā"feeling" through Virtual Reality is not far off, Sensorama was a rustic device from 1962 that didn't have much technology but had a very cool idea, which I believe will return soon, but I also have no doubt that something like this already exists.
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I feel like physical media such as dvds and physical video games, we are in the era now where these are massively being phased out with streaming services and also the introduction of digital consoles, however we are also in the era where old digital services are being shut down, see 3ds Store, PS3 store, and some movies and tv series only stay on streaming services for a limited amount of time
I'll give it about 5-10 years and you'll start to see DVD's and physical video games start to make a comeback, there will be a big contraversy, e.g when PS4 online gets shut down and people are not happy about losing licences and access to games that we will realise the important of physical media!
Flip phones surely
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Optical drive bays in PCs! With how anti-consumer the modern video game industry is becoming, people are realising having their games on physical media is pretty smart! However, almost not modern PC cases even have 5.25" bays. That is why my rig uses the Fractal Pop Air, one of the few modern cases to still support the format. And with recent advances in tech making discs more spacious than ever, they can actually hold modern games in a reasonable amount of discs!
However, I don't think it will be just about optical drives. Hardware manufacturers are straining to find new and innovative PC hardware products, and the return of 5.25" bays in cases could allow manufacturers to explore this format again. We used to have awesome front panel audio interfaces, screens, and more, and the possibilities are truly endless about what else you could fit into your front disc drive bays that aren't ODDs.
LGR did an awesome video showcasing all the different panels companies used to make:
