That being said, the move takes place on 21 October, and its not too late to take a chance on creating or investing in one of the many products that have managed to evade larger corporations.
But apart from hoverboards and flying cars what opportunities are still out there
Indoor garden fruit dispenser
The Garden Centre fruit dispenser is first seen in the McFly kitchen. Located close to the ceiling, one can only reach this ‘fruit bowl’ by voice command. It will then lower, in this case to the kitchen table, and retract once used.
The amazing thing about the fruit dispenser, however, is its ability to preserve fruit (and vegetables) as well. And the fruit dispenser promotes good manners to boot. McFly is unable to call the dispenser down by merely shouting fruit!” or hey, fruit!” It takes the magic word please to call the unit down from the ceiling. You would then have to say thank you in order for it not to retract.
Much has already been done in the way of ‘friendly interaction’ between product and consumer. Tokyo scientists have even invented a fridge called the happiness counter which forces people to smile in exchange for food. No smile and the fridge locks itself. This type of technology could be programmed to teach children manners. And, as the happiness counter scientists have found, such forced interaction has a genuinely positive effect on the users mood.
Indeed, the technology that is utilised in the dispenser actually already exists, but has yet to be used in this fashion.
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The LITTER BUG
When Doc finds out that Marty has bought a sports almanac from a memorabilia store in order to make money off of gambling, he takes the book and throws it into a ‘summoned’ trashcan. The LITTER BUG, shockingly orange, was named after the slang term ‘litter bug’, for people who throw their rubbish on the ground.
To prevent littering, the LITTER BUG listens to what you say. If it hears anyone mention that they want to throw something away, it will be at your side immediately.
The moving trashcan is quickly on its way to becoming reality. A Japanese inventor has created the Smart Trashbox, which relies on a Kinect-style 3D motion tracking camera to track pieces of flying garbage.
In that sense, the LITTER BUG is still far from conception and leaves much space for companies to wiggle in and create themselves a self-reliant, moving and street-worthy trashcan.
Mr. Fusion
The Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor was first seen when Doc returned from 2015 and dropped a banana peel and Miller beer can into the unit (which looks like a swanky coffee machine).
Essentially, it converts household waste into energy. It was through this method of throwing rubbish away that Doc and Marty were able to charge the DeLorean time machine. And it appears that absolutely ant type of rubbish will work. Such technology will not only make the world cleaner, but it will go a long way to solving our energy problems.
The process involves nuclear fusion, which has been speculated to be like cold fusion (a hypothetical nuclear reaction that occurs in room temperature that has only so far been obtained in Val Kilmer movie ‘The Saint’).
Although it most certainly won’t be able to fuel a flux capacitor, NASA researchers are on their way to building a prototype device that will be used pm the International Space Station. It will be a mini Trash to Gas Reactor and will be used on missions that go beyond Earth’s orbit.
This is a huge breakthrough, but although NASA seems to have this product cornered, it is still possible to manufacture one for home-use.
Petrol station robots
By now it was envisioned that the entire service station process would be automated. You would park your obviously flying car and a robot would fill your tanks with… Havoline We’ve seemed to miss a few fuel types along the way. But that’s not the only thing the robot is capable of doing. It would be checking oil. Checking landing gear.
And the original Texaco slogan had been changed from you can trust your car to the man who wears the star , to you can trust your car to the system with the star .
Currently we still fill up our vehicles the manual way, but the movie got a huge tick off the list for seeing a ‘pay at pump’ future. Now all we need is the Compu-Serve payment option.
The closest to come to the full automation process is a prototype robot manufactured by Husky and Fuelmatics. Mo the robot is capable of fully servicing your fuel tank.
Infra-red lights and cameras locate the fuel door,” the company said.
An arm with a suction cup opens the fuel door. A nozzle then extends into the fuel tank and releases the desired amount of fuel. Once the tank is full, the nozzle returns to the pump.
And although that’s an amazing accomplishment, it has yet to be able to service the rest of the car as well.
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Rehydrator
In a kitchen scene, Lorraine McFly takes a coaster-sized pizza out of its wrapping and puts it into a Black and Decker rehydrator. In a matter of 12 seconds, the pizza gets heated to perfection and grows in size substantially.
Let’s not forget the perplexing realisation that although the pizza itself was hot, the metal plate beneath it was still normal temperature, as is demonstrated by Lorraine handling it with bare hands.
In many ways, the rehydrator is like a microwave in the fact that it heats food, which can all be done in a number of variety of ‘heat settings’. Lorraine instructs the device to hydrate on level four, please . And dehydrated food is now available for camping trips and emergency kits.
The only thing close enough to the rehydrator is the Maid. It’s a voice-controlled oven/microwave with voice-recognition and gesture control.
Hovercam
The hovercam would undoubtedly be a journalist’s best friend. The concept is that these robotic cameras would hover themselves over to news locations and report on them in live time. In this instance, when Griff is being led away by the police for trashing a courthouse the hovercam is instantly on the scene , generating a the story through the use of Compu-Fax.
It is also capable of taking photos, as is evident by one of its shots being used on the front page of USA Today the day after Griff’s act of vandalism.
At the moment we’ll have to make do with small unmanned aerial vehicles such as the Aeryon Scout. Often quoted as the most sophisticated and highest quality aerial intelligence available today,” its manufacturers hope to use it on military surveillance missions or as a replacement for CCTV.
The Scenery Channel
Briefly watched by Jennifer Parker after arriving at the McFly house, the scene screen is broken and constantly shifts in static form.
It is a window shade that doubles as a video screen. Through this way it’s possible to pick your very own scenery, displaying anything from mountain views, city skylines at night and tropical beaches.
One of the available channels was the Scenery Channel, which broadcast different scenic views on a 24 hour basis.
Although we do have created ‘window scenes’, they are mere posters that can be used to change the workplace wall into a landscape.
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Alpha-Rhythm Generator
As strange as it may sound, there are probably quite a few reasons why this device has yet to be made.
Doc uses the Alpha-Rythm Generator on Jennifer. She tags along when Doc picks up Marty to go to 2015 and starts asking way too many questions. The solution Put her to sleep. The device essentially renders her unconscious for quite some time.
He attempts to use it on Marty Jr as well, but since he’d recently used it on Jennifer it wasn’t as effective. So we can deduce that even in the movie the product isn’t perfect.
It’s been said that the EZ sleep has two lights that shine into a person’s eyes and send similar brain wave patterns shown during the early stages of sleep.
Imagine all the possibilities that it could be used for. We could treat insomniacs (or at least get them some much-needed rest) and could even use the device during surgery instead of giving drugs to patients in order to knock them out.
In 2006 the US Patent Office granted a patent for an “apparatus for inducing energies of alpha rhythm to the human body”.
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