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

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

RISC-v

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.

Fusion power and small modular reactors.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

honestly uterus transplants , from what ive read its actually developing really well :)

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.