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Some possible todays world I would assume. Such as the see-through screens. Arnt LCDs semi-transparent to start with? It just means all the electronics would have to be in the side, and the lighting would leak like crazy.
The end "Book' aka a plastic protecting sheet, i dont see possible period because well, its a sheet.
And the table i know some exists today, large multi-touch tables. Theres many things today that are very similar to it.
React table is a good example of the place an object -> Recognize the object. concept.
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Honestly I would rather my current stuff load information that quickly than replace it with glass. I am more skeptical over the buffering and loading times in the video than the abilities of glass.
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In college I had a friend who was an industrial design major. I remember once he designed a (finger) ring that had an integrated CD player. I pointed out that, obviously, a CD would never fit into what he designed, he just said "eh, the engineers will figure it out..."
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Heh, I came up with an idea for a CD/DVD player not much bigger than an MP3, works using dual wavelength VCSEL technology and a CMOS imaging sensor with a fluidic 3-D lens with a MEMS mirror and piezoelectric motors for tracking, slider and spindle. In theory this would allow you to convert an entire DVD-DL in under two minutes then take the disk out and archive it.
Transmit the content to any nearby screen using light on the fly to get around the irritating lack of bandwidth and it would also be a convenient backup for your entire music and movie library without the hassles of a cable.
The disk reading hardware could do double duty as an optical transmitter as dual wavelength light means double the data efficiency and immunity from ambient light due to the polarisation. Possibly also use the same hardware as a video projector using a 445nm and 573nm direct injection laser next to the existing red VCSEL and the MEMS unit as the beam forming optics.
Now all they need to do is legalise DVD/CD archiving if you own the disk and voila. Only major sticking point is that the memory needed would be in the high terabytes to store any sort of library, perhaps using an array of 64GB uSDXC cards would work here.
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