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Ask HN: iPhones are mundane. What's the new grail?

1 points by TooMuchNick ↗ HN
I'm writing a comedy about startups, and I need to invent a feasible portable technology that could appear in a couple of years. But the iPhone made such a qualitative change to what people could do while standing on a sidewalk, all I can think of is a hands-free voice-activated search device. And that seems more like a ten-years-out technology.

To be honest, I'm probably gonna go with the above idea, but now I'm wondering: is there any handheld/wearable device that's so close we can taste it?

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seraph321
OLED screens that either fold, or roll up, could free us from the tiny-screen limitations of current mobile devices. These are supposedly very close to reality. The next step is lasers that just draw the image directly on the retina, but that's a bit further down the road.