What do cell phones look like in the year 2144?
Obviously they won't have a screen anymore. They'll be pop-up displays. So if you're sitting on a train and your romantic partner sends you a steamy selfie...guess who has an audience?
Has this annoyed anyone else?
If they're tactical screens, that makes sense. But I still don't think transparent displays on personal devices will be a thing in the future.
I suspect it'll be neural implants. embedded on the optical nerve somewhere, injecting hologram-like images into our field of view. Maybe toss in some sort of marking system for our fingertips for the implant to track as an interface device.
this could also conceivably provide tactile feed back through weak shocks to the fingertips, mimicking touching something, giving you the floaty keyboard and private conversations.
Adverts piped directly into my brain? Oh joy
You can be sure that the day someone invents ads that get piped directly into your brain is the day before someone invents an adblocker for them.
don't worry, they'll be so relevant, you'll just think the real content is... just a really clever add. (Okay, so maybe all you'll see is just advertising. but how is that different than YT already is is?)
The same reason I avoid YouTube like the plague 🤦♀️ I can barely open the app without watching an advert
Hmmm.... can you imagine if they figure out how to start pumping other sensations? Dr. Sasquatch soap... making you think you smell like a mangy dog. the not-as-itchy socks company... giving you the sensation of itchy socks.
whatever iteration of as-seen-on-YT wonderbra they happen to be on... only to realize, your manboobs aren't actually that large...awkward.
You can choose between a pair of nintendo power gloves or tattooing your fingertips and little qr-codes on the fingernails.
I was thinking some sort of IR reflective ink. or UV reflective ink tattooes... on the pads and behind the fingernails (ouch)