What hasn't been invented yet?

[Jell 0 Biafra]

Automated inventing machines.

[balladmaker]

An Armagh kick-out strategy.

[rosnarun]

I think in the near term the advances will be in products we already have and Seamless connections
such as working examples of ATM's
Vending machines that work and always have what you want
Telephone AI that actually is useful
all Machines being redesigned  to fit into the now world like self filling washing machines and Dishwashers that don't take hours to run

[seafoid]

A way to turn a man into a woman

[Olly]

Pants that totally dissolve your shite as soon as it leaves you. You could be standing at a match or at the theatre, let one go and no one the wiser and you can drink champagne the whole way through it trying not to go red faced but what does it matter if you do.

[Armagh18]

Pants that totally dissolve your shite as soon as it leaves you. You could be standing at a match or at the theatre, let one go and no one the wiser and you can drink champagne the whole way through it trying not to go red faced but what does it matter if you do.

Drink that'll give you all the fun of being drunk without the hangover

[rrhf]

Smart Deoderant TM - The Deoderant that changes depending on the women that you may be interested in courting.  Something that might be more attractive to the women say in the Elk, might well differ from what you would need on a night out in BT9. Smart Deoderant TMworks hard to attract the women in the place that you find yourself in... and it wont let you down.. 
Idea 1 - Elon Musk - the smell of success..

[Eamonnca1]

I think in the near term the advances will be in products we already have and Seamless connections
such as working examples of ATM's
Vending machines that work and always have what you want
Telephone AI that actually is useful
all Machines being redesigned  to fit into the now world like self filling washing machines and Dishwashers that don't take hours to run

They probably have smart machines like that in Japan already. I hear you can buy all sorts of stuff there from vending machines

[RedHand88]

Short term there will be much more data driven technology, especially around the home. This is already happening to an extent but there will be much less need to manually press buttons. Loads of automation.
IoT technology, almost everything will be connected to the cloud. Won't have to enter details for insurance as they'll already know how safe you drive or your home is etc.
Longer term possibly nanobots, where we won't have to use smartphones etc. as we can access virtual reality with our brains.

VR gets relaunched every 4-5 years, with all manner of publicity and possibility attached.

But it's never mainstreamed and I sincerely doubt it ever will. And the reason for this is that the vast majority of humans do not like losing full control of their senses. It's just too unsettling to inhabit two spheres at once. Not even pornoland is a viable industry for this tech. Men who want to pleasure themselves in the real world will not be drawn to channelling that elevation from a different world. It just too confusing, nauseating, uneven.

Hence connecting to VR with our brains just won't happen. The technology to do this will appear. The interest levels to generate an industry will not.

Correct. Facebook can launch whatever metaverse they want. People aren't going to give up hours of their day to enter an avatar and goof around.

Even the augmented reality which is more reality based isimited in scope. Please take off your Internet glasses, this is a business meetimg.

Minecraft
Fortnite

You could argue that the kids already do!

[Niall Quinn]

We're probably not far away from seeing a seven blade razor.

[GAABoardMod5]

Robotic/Automatic Real Time Moderation of discussion fora.

[imtommygunn]

Elon will sort you out.

[seafoid]

A fair football championship

[thebigfella]

The entry point to VR too expensive and the headsets too cumbersome. Once the hardware catches up it will become mainstream.

It really won't.

Why Google Glass didn't take off is straightforward. Two simple reasons:

1.  apart from a small group of fashionistas, nobody in history has chosen to wear spectacles when they didn't have to.  The concept behind Glass confused something that is an inconvenience as being convenient.

2. Glass required you to redirect one of your primary senses away from doing something useful, towards doing something that was usually trivial.

VR only works if it takes control of that same primary sense.

Most of us will always refuse to allow this to happen.

You keep getting VR and AR mixed up.

Glass didn't work as a consumer product because the hardware was intrusive and privacy concerns. The enterprise version is still sold and large number of companies have built productivity solutions around it. HoloLens is similar, it's not really ready for mainstream consumers but plenty of use cases in industry where it is being trialled. Architecture and industrial interior design are one of the main proponents of AR.

Your argument about Glass taking away a primary sense is incorrect. It's no worse than a Head up Display on a car, the brain adjusts to look past the augmented information and it's just there. AR glasses/headsets are only one implementation of AR but there is already large number of AR applications available, and Apple has invested a large amount of time in their ARKit SDK to help people build more. 

[Milltown Row2]

This was getting some bad publicity the other day on tv

A metaverse is a network of 3D virtual worlds focused on social connection. In futurism and science fiction, it is often described as a hypothetical iteration of the Internet as a single, universal virtual world that is facilitated by the use of virtual and augmented reality headsets

Basically perverts were using it to interact with children in these chat rooms...

On the visual side of things it looked like the Doom blocky type set up of old, though this was just from the images and video that the reporter was using