What tech excites you the most? (Including upcoming/future tech!)

[KTLChamber]

A tech section! My favorite.

Personally, I'm a huge tech geek, so I get very excited when new tech products are announced.

What kind of tech makes you the most excited? It can be something that's coming in the future.

Personally, I'm really looking forward to on-device AI capabilities, which seems to be the new big thing in all chipmakers.
Though, with how the Pixel 8/8 Pro's allegedly 'on-device' AI turned out lately... I'll be holding my judgement.

Imagine the possibilities! ChatGPT(I know, it won't be as powerful) on your phone! Artificial image generation (lewds) on your phone!

...ehem.

Back to the question. What technology makes you "Oh, that sounds cool, I want that"? And why?

[dragomon2]

On 11/8/2023 at 11:39 PM, KTLChamber said:

Artificial image generation (lewds) on your phone!

...ehem.

Haha, that's always an interesting field lol!
I think one thing that I'm interested in personally is how audio can transform. Like right now we can add reverb and things live, but I'd find it really nice if I could get an eletric violin and play it extremely similar to an acoustic (there's a huge difference in terms of sound production and electrics are kinda like chopping off an arm cause the bow kinda becomes useless due to only having a consistent volume/pressure of sound...). We're already seeing lots of improvements but hopefully we can get to a point where you only need to pay like a few hundred for a mic/speakers that'll emit a desired sound you want, and eventually one can just have a single electric violin that can switch between acoustic and w.e. other sounds. But that seems incredibly far off so for right now, I'm just hoping for lots of advances in the music space that makes it more accessible and cooler!

[GenericUser837]

Audiophile detected lol.

 

About the question, I've recently been seeing advertisements for WiFi 7 using the 6 GHz band, along with 2.4 and 5 GHz, so it's rather interesting to see how that will be implemented, what with WiFi 6 also being relatively new for mainstream consumers.

[KTLChamber]

On 11/11/2023 at 5:52 AM, dragomon2 said:

Haha, that's always an interesting field lol!
I think one thing that I'm interested in personally is how audio can transform. Like right now we can add reverb and things live, but I'd find it really nice if I could get an eletric violin and play it extremely similar to an acoustic (there's a huge difference in terms of sound production and electrics are kinda like chopping off an arm cause the bow kinda becomes useless due to only having a consistent volume/pressure of sound...). We're already seeing lots of improvements but hopefully we can get to a point where you only need to pay like a few hundred for a mic/speakers that'll emit a desired sound you want, and eventually one can just have a single electric violin that can switch between acoustic and w.e. other sounds. But that seems incredibly far off so for right now, I'm just hoping for lots of advances in the music space that makes it more accessible and cooler!

Sounds very interesting. You're right, we can already do this with digital pianos and (maybe) electric guitars, so I don't see what's stopping "digital violins(strings)" with the same set of features from existing.

And like you say, I'm always open to more accessibility!

 

6 hours ago, GenericUser837 said:

About the question, I've recently been seeing advertisements for WiFi 7 using the 6 GHz band, along with 2.4 and 5 GHz, so it's rather interesting to see how that will be implemented, what with WiFi 6 also being relatively new for mainstream consumers.

 

From what I've seen Wi-Fi 6 and 6E routers/access points weren't really consumer friendly in terms of price. Hopefully, the advent of Wi-Fi 7 will make the older tech cheaper...

Edited November 13 by KTLChamber

[dragomon2]

On 11/12/2023 at 2:54 PM, GenericUser837 said:

Audiophile detected lol.

Not in any shape or form lmao. I don't know much about audio. The only reason I "know a lot" is because I'm a violinist lol.

 

21 hours ago, KTLChamber said:

with the same set of features from existing.

Main issue for violins is that it's like intonation with a guitar. Most guitars have frets so in that good bit of space, an A4 will always be an A4. With the absolute tiny bit of movement on a violin, even 0.1mm of movement, the pitch is completely "ruined". The same could be applied to the bow, Idk how electrics pick up violin strings in detail, but it certainly isn't picking up even the tiniest of pressure, placement, speed, etc. I feel like from an audio stand point, violins (and strings) are just disgustingly painful to get kek. Though pianos and guitars also have their own trouble of making it sound natural compared to the soundfont/synths we will hear.