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EGPWS - stops airliners accidentally flying into mountains.
Home Assistant - full control over your smart devices, internet optional.
Sierra Leone hospital - their first hospital that has a neonatal unit, already drastically reducing the maternal mortality rate.
PMSM - electric motor that can exceed 95% efficiency.
Proton - allows almost any game to run on Linux.
3D printing - much cheaper rapid prototyping and custom parts. Even used on the ISS.
Heated Rivalry
Solar panels combined with House batteries or Vehicle to grid is cheaper and more reliable than a backup generator, and in many cases, is even cheaper than using energy from the grid.
The majority of materials in each battery and solar panel can be recycled into new batteries and solar panels at end of life (often after 25+ years), so the raw resources are only needed once.
Most new batteries don't use rare or controversial materials.
Andor is arguably the best Star Wars content since the original movies
Heat pump technology has come a long way recently. In locations that stay above 0F (-18C) they're now competitive with fossil gas furnaces for performance and cost (cost results may vary based on local incentives). Many units now work below 0F too, but they get more expensive/less efficient
Personalized mRNA vaccines to prevent pancreatic cancer recurrence after surgery have had some promising early results in clinical trials. This is one of the hardest cancers to treat, so this could be huge.
Heat pumps work great and are super common to install on homes where winter temps drop well below that. They're so efficient they're worth it even if you use supplemental heat for the coldest part of the year.
Andor was indeed great
As someone who focus on low/no-tech (edit: and older stuff in a general manner), I must say it's a tricky question. But the answer is still obvious for me: medications.
I should have died many years ago, and if I'm still alive today (nearing my 60s) it's thx to constant innovations in the medical fields and research in pharmaceuticals (and also thx to radical life changing decisions, but those would not have been an option at all without new medications to begin with).
Elden Ring is, so far, the near-perfect culmination of 7 previous entries in the genre. Every iteration of pretty much every system they have built is at its peak in this game. It somehow manages to be an easy to get into entry for first time soulslike players while still challenging anyone who has played them all. It has its share of issues, not least of which are performance related, but it is also the biggest and best in terms of player experience and QOL improvements made over the course of 8 titles when including this final entry.
Eight titles? Demon Souls, three Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Elden Ring. If you count Sekiro (I don't), that's seven. What am I missing?
Webb space telescope
Fully homomorphic encryption doing useful things
Higgs boson detected (oops, 2013)
Solar power and battery storage cheap enough to displace fossil energy and let ordinary people go off grid
New tacqueria in my neighborhood is actually pretty good.
What more could you want?
Fully homomorphic encryption doing useful things
Like what?
Private information retrieval with just one server! Nobody thought that was possible.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~csd-phd-blog/2024/piano-private-information-retrieval/
Shit like this is what makes me realize I'm an engineer and not a computer scientist. I get the logic, but not so much the practical math.
It seems like there's a lot of unknowns for where PIR is best used, though. Like using DNS as their example has a lot of issues (that they mention). In what cases is it really best to download the whole dataset (temporarily) to just then go back and query the server on that dataset?
Though maybe I'm just not that creative of a thinker.
New tacqueria in my neighborhood is actually pretty good.
And I'm only finding out about this NOW?!
Gaming:
Music making:
PS: A ten year old GTX 1080ti can still run most modern games at 1080p...which is still a very popular entry level monitor resolution.
Still running a 980ti Classified, there's only a handful in the overlap of "Games I want to play" and "Games I can't play" diagram at 1440.
Induction burners for cooking are pretty cool. All the heat of gas with none of the "slowly poisoning you and may explode".
For super duper recent news, the Giant Panda has been moved off the endangered species list and into Vulnerable status.
My favorite 3 things of the last decade
Electric cars, Incredible performance, low maintenance.
Steam deck, great fun in a small package, great to play games before bed
Podcasts, seriously there's one that will speak to you.
Bonus: taskmaster, it's entirely free on YouTube, it's a worldwide phenomena, simple low stakes fun, akin to the great British baking show without the manufactured drama (not that there's much in gbb)
Batteries are about to get really good. Solid-state is close and that should be huge.
And for those not aware, by "close" they meam that solid-state batteries are being manufactured in mass this year.
Plus sodium batteries are going online too, though at a much lower rate due to the cost of lithium going down causing many sodoum battery manufacturers to declare bankruptcy since they're having trouble with sales
Are we talking about the Donut Labs battery, or is someone alse promising to bring solid state batteries to market this year? My gut says Donut Labs is like 1/8 odds of coming through.
I saw recently they've cured Parkinsons for the first time, and I think HIV can be reversed now. So that's pretty cool.
Oh, and I don't know if you've noticed, but they fixed airport and hotel wifi. I don't know why I thought shitty wifi in hotels and airports was something I would have to live with for the rest of my life. It just always was that way, so I thought it would always be that way. But the last time I went on vacation, blazing public wifi at the airport and at the hotel. with video playing. We are the future.
You're gonna have to link that Parkinson's news.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stem-cell-therapy-parkinsons-china-b2880000.html
I think it was probably this one that I read, though they did not use the word cure. They significantly improved symptoms.
Good thread, since I hate a lot of "new" things. It'll be good to read about the good ones.
I'll add: GrapheneOS (and other custom phone OSes) giving us a choice besides being tracked by the big corpos.
Same. Updated to Graphene almost two weeks ago and have been loving it so far. The only thing I'm missing is the built in call screening. I get so many spam calls.
What do you use for call screening?
As of now, nothing. When I was on stock android I had the Pixel built-in call screening. I might try a third party service but I haven't found one I like yet.
Car back up cameras.
Waze
2025 Seadoo GTX models
Many Broadway Plays
Keypad front door locks
Online DVRs
Legalized gay marriage
Legalized pot
Waze was founded by former members of Unit 8200, but has been owned by Google since 2013. I do like that it can alert people to the presence of police, but that's about it.
Edit: Gay marriage is pretty cool, though!
Are the superchargers lasting longer on the new doo's? I've been out of the loop for a while but I never really cared for the rotax supercharger setup. Kawi made the ultra fugly on the last update though.
Fallout tv show
Love the question! Urban infrastructure. At least in my city. I get super stocked whenever I see a new construction site. Not only because I get the feeling that the tax money is actually being used but also because these projects are more often than not really cool. Wider pedestrian spaces, third places and just safer more pleasant areas. Sometimes they only do it half heartedly and didn’t thought about something but the direction is the right one. Of course this is easily done especially considering how hostile they made city’s after ww2, i’m still happy about it though. :)
I live in San Diego, CA, which apart from a bit of rain in December and January, has really nice weather year round. They've been slowly upgrading the bike lanes to provide better isolation from cars. There's still lots of room for improvement, but I bike most everywhere these days and it's awesome. With e-bikes becoming so cheap and widespread, I can't help but think better bike lanes would benefit a lot of people.
I'd love to live in a place like that. when they build anything here, I know its taking away current infrastructure, small businesses, and open spaces with an over priced, cheaply built, high rise apartment building.
Dropout TV! I like Make Some Noise, it’s got the old Whose Line feel.
Dirty Laundry, Gastronauts, and Game Changer is where it's at.
Very Important People is great, I don't quite understand how some of the costumes are done, so it's extremely impressive.
protected bike lanes
air fryer
advances in solar energy
The only new thing of air fryers is calling them air fryers, they've been around for decades.
most people have massive air fryers under their stove tops, they just dont call them that.
Kirby Air Riders. I waited 22 years for this sequel and it delivered. I'm actually blown away by how much Sakurai has managed to evolve on the concept.
Quite a lot of modern anime. My list of all-time favorites has become dominated by shows from just the last few years. Apocalypse Hotel, Apothecary Diaries, Bocchi the Rock!, CITY: The Animation, Dungeon Meshi, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Takopi's Original Sin.
SBCs like Rasberry Pi. To have easy to use low cost computers be this powerful truly is the future. We have so many tools available to us these days. With open source software, low cost hard and a bit of learning we can save $1000s of dollars that would have gone straight into the pockets of tech companies.
Electric bikes are cool, I see them growing in popularity around my city and its getting people used to biking who never would have before. Because there are a ton of hills people would hand wave and say oh im not fit enough to bike. Its having a flow on effect, they realise they enjoy biking so they do it more and lose weight. Gov sees people using the bike lanes and invests more in them.
larger hard drives/flash storage, faster/power efficient processors maybe..
Fiber internet. Cheaper than cable/DSL and faster too.
I think that the TinyTapeout concept is super cool (https://tinytapeout.com/). In the past, it was not really feasible to design and manufacture a semiconductor device as a hobbyist... Unless maybe an extremely wealthy one.
Now, we have open source design tools, open process design kit, and the ability but small part of a manufactured wafer.
There are also now multi-project wafer runs for photonic chips at reasonable prices for startup/academia. I think these developments are pretty cool.
App based remote healthcare access (lack of insurance aside)
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