Ideas: The new Amiga. Yes, it's inevitable!

[alexh]

It would need to have integrated perpetual motion feedback joypad with a sub-cold fusion reactor for power.

[alexh]

ZeBeeDee wrote:
Will it have an optional cup warmer? I like to keep my coffee hot during all these late night coding sessions. I'm prepared to pay over the odds to have this function ...

My computer has the opposite. It has a USB powered soda can chiller.

[alexh]

Being serious for a moment. Ignoring the Amiga aspect for a moment.

What would I like from a next generation computer? Probably a better way of interaction. While the keyboard and mouse remain the best way of getting data in and out of a computer they are not intuitive or natural.

Suggestions:

Multi-Touch screen.
Speech & Handwriting recognition.
Optical control interface. (The computer tracks eye movement perhaps with aid of glasses or a Monocle).
Neural interface ;-)

I worked on an optical control interface at University (decades ago). The system used a high resolution camera embedded in the screen to digitise the position of your head and the black and white of your eyes. It worked fairly well. I was surprised the Uni never tried to sell it!

The idea was for quadriplegic computer users.

[alexh]

@ Persia
We've already had both of those.

But I just realised that a direct mind I/O system would require all Amiga users to have minds :-D

[alexh]

And I COULD win the Euro-Millions lottery (if I actually played) the odds are probably better.

[alexh]

Steril707 wrote:
That's why i compared the PS3 of today to the Amiga of my childhood.

Always getting poor second rate ports of Xbox 360 titles which never use any of the PS3's custom hardware?

Just like the early Amiga days getting crappy Atari ST ports. Yeah I can see your point.

Lets hope as time goes on the programmers embrace the PS3 and actually use some of it's features.