Electronics (Futuristic Inventions and Cool Stuff)

If you know about or have created an invention yourself that I might want to put on one of my Futuristic Inventions and Cool Stuff pages, please let me know about it. If I think it's cool or useful enough, I'll add it to my site as soon as possible. Remember, there has to be a web page, web site, blog, or YouTube video about it that I can link to. Thanks.

Note: I will not invest money in your invention, so don't ask. I also don't require you to donate before adding a link. If I like it, I'll link to it.

Play Your Favorite Atari 2600 Games on One Cart

Drop hundreds of your favorite Atari 2600 game files on an SD card, pop the card into the Harmony Cartridge, and you're ready to play games on your Atari 2600! You do have an Atari 2600, right? If not, what are you waiting for?

Not only can you play all of your favorite games without dragging out a bunch of cartridges, you can also test your own games that you make the hard way or the easier way with batari Basic.

Learn more at atariage.com

Classic USB Joystick

Recapture the magic of the late 70s and early 80s with a Classic USB Joystick Controller! Say goodbye to clumsy keyboard fumbling. Now you can finally play classic Atari games on your computer using a real joystick (the way they were meant to be played). Grab your joystick and feel the excitement!

Learn more at legacyengineer.com

Your Own Miniature Golf

The Putting Challenge Ultimate Edition has 72 electronically changing contours automatically created by a patented breakthrough technology.

Four 18-hole courses on two skill levels (2 Amateur and 2 Pro).
Authentic Game Mode or challenging Practice Green Mode.
Computerized keypad displays and announces player's turn, hole number, penalty strokes, average putts-per-player, and even cheers for a hole-in-one.
Automatic ball return rolls the ball right to your feet after every putt.

For indoor use only (wall outlet required).

I hope they make a version of this technology for indoor miniature golf. It would be great to have the putting areas change shape from day to day. Imagine how much fun that would be and how much repeat business a miniature golf place like that would get. Until then, there's always the commercial edition which is better than nothing.

Learn more at gl-tech.com

3D Printer

With Z Corporation's color 3D printers, a company can quickly, cheaply, and easily make just about any realistic color prototype in only a few hours using CAD data. The objects look so real that you may not be able to tell the difference between the prototype and the finished product. Simulate woodgrain, have detailed coloring, intricate artwork, labels and other text. This isn't the same boring, fairly simplistic stuff we've seen before. You can print full-color complex objects from linked chain to freely moving ball bearings peeking out of an object they are encased in.

In the near future, for those of us without a business and the money to buy one of these 3D printers, we should be able to go to any modern copy center with our CAD data and have them print out a realistic 3D model for us. After these 3D printers become even cheaper, people who have the space and some extra cash will finally have a chance to buy their own. Amateur artists will be able to design original 3D CAD sculptures and then bring their creations to life in only a few hours in the privacy of their own homes. Families could let their imaginations run wild and create all kinds of things. Print out models for school projects, presents made with love such as knickknacks for mom and grandma, original toys straight out of little Timmy's imagination, and so much more.

Learn more at zcorp.com

Teleportation

Quantum Teleportation is something to keep an eye on if you're interested in Star Trek style futuristic inventions. Most people didn't think that Quantum Teleportation was possible and now many are saying that it probably won't lead to a useful Star Trek type of teleporter, but they're making the same mistake again. If Quantum Teleportation was thought to be impossible, why make any more statements about the impossibility of anything else? With imagination and the ability to learn from past experiments, humans can learn do just about anything if given enough time.

Experimental Quantum Teleportation - The Innsbruck Experiment

Prof. Anton Zeilinger

IBM: Quantum Teleportation

Wired News: Beaming Is Believing

Wikipedia - Quantum Teleportation

ElectronicsGadgets, toys, games, and other cool stuff.

Electronics
Gadgets, toys, games, and other cool stuff.