What Objects or Technologies Will Be Obsolete by the End of the Decade?

[rollyic]

Modern designs let it run from a standard USB charger.

hindi kaya hindi tunay na vacuum tube yun?

[_Cathy_]

I would love to have something like an authentic nixie tube clock...

What is that? Nixie tube?

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[ZENMasterTYL]

What is that? Nixie tube?

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condoms that are made of glass, for total protection

[ghosthunter]

What is that? Nixie tube?

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Nixie tube is a display system made back in the 1950s using charged plates and shaped wires inside vacuum tubes. Each tube can display a number (0-9) or even letters. This was before the invention of liquid crystal displays and LED. Nixie tubes are still manufactured today but in small numbers only. There are also fake nixie tubes that use LED instead of the charged wire system inside the vacuum tubes.

There is a following for nixie tubes today because of the cool retro feel of the tubes. The usual item would be nixie tube clocks and temperature displays.

[_Cathy_]

Geek talk is so ***y

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[CVT]

How I wish to minimize transportation as we know it by the end of the decade....

Teleportation... That would be neat....

Beam me up Scotty!

:beam:

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[ZENMasterTYL]

e-readers (e.g. kindle and nook)

[admiral88]

Graphene replacing li-ion and li-po batteries. According to what i've read so far, it can be as thin and as flexible as a sheet of paper, i-charge lang for a few minutes, pwedeng gamitin for hours...wow! Imagine its limitless application!

[Retz]

ano na kaya mangyayari sa tsikot.com come 2020?

[12vdc]

Optical fiber with its wavelenght division multiplexing replacing all copper infrastructure. All telcos are leading to this route, one fiber in a box data + phone + tv. Wireless would still have limited bandwidth, so not much to expect for the mobile phones.