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

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

  • minibyte@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    7 hours 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.

  • NuraShiny [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    9 hours 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
    3·
    9 hours 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.)

  • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    11 hours 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.

  • Markus Sugarhill@discuss.tchncs.de
    8·
    13 hours 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.

  • HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee
    20·
    16 hours ago

    I am excited for the tooth regrowing tech coming up. I’ve got some awful dental work that would be much better replaced by a real tooth

  • Sunsofold@lemmings.worldEnglish
    6·
    13 hours 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.

  • Ziggurat@jlai.lu
    12·
    16 hours ago

    Internal alpha-therapy.

    Imagine, attaching a radioactive atom to a biological marker that fixes to a tumour, and deliver radiation at the very right place, rather than having to cross healthy tissues with radiation.

  • Binette@lemmy.ml
    15·
    16 hours ago

    I used to be excited for ai, and, let’s just say, that excitement has dwindeled due to recent events.

    I’m scared that the same happens to CRISPR honest

    • mononomi@feddit.nl
      4·
      10 hours ago

      I’m studying biology and CRISPR is a crucial tool for a ton of research. So it’s already really useful!

    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      11·
      16 hours ago

      The issue with tech is the economic model its under. I can imagine a million dystopian changes to society.

      The doctor in China for example.

      Hey maybe China starts creating soldiers with four arms and the us does too and you have a new arms race.

      • Binette@lemmy.ml
        3·
        13 hours ago

        well i guess it’s not too recent, but the A.I. boom kinda killed my interests I’ve had 7 years ago. i wish it would go back to its research phase.

        • keepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          2·
          5 hours ago

          I’m old enough to remember when using computers daily went from a dorky interest to something the cool kids were doing (MySpace etc). Obviously, how the two groups approached computers was quite different. Even how they approached social spaces on the internet.

          Idk, haven’t thought about it much but I remember being pretty depleted about being interested back then. The things I was learning with basic coding and stuff could now be done in a couple of clicks, the resources were now more scarce, and the space became filled with money-people interested in promoting their brand

          • ferric_carcinization@lemmy.mlEnglish
            4·
            12 hours ago

            That’s how I feel about cell phones.

            Linux phones might be able to do something about that, assuming they become good enough soonish. Perhaps usable Hurd phones will become available first.

  • chobeat@lemmy.ml
    9·
    15 hours ago

    On the long-term, none. In the short-term, FOSS no-code tools are finally allowing grassroot organizations to have self-hosted, customizable internal tooling without having to rely on devs or sysadmins. This has a lot of potential to overcome the failures of the last decades of hackerist unadoptable software.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
    21·
    18 hours 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.

  • Didros@beehaw.org
    5·
    13 hours 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
      1·
      12 hours 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.

  • Zloubida@lemmy.world
    10·
    16 hours ago

    Manual typewriters. You did not precised the age of the technology in question!

    Do you knew that there are an average of 1’800 parts in a typewriter? That it can print in two colors, with different margins, different interlinear space, tabulations and that some even have things like word count? It’s a marvelous and yet understandable piece of technology. Someone technically inclined can understand 100% of the working of a typewriter, nobody can understand 100% of a word processor.