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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
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AR, cyberpunk style (Score:5, Interesting)
I'd obviously want an implanted computer interface. I can't believe this wasn't included.
A true and accurate and transparent lie detector (Score:5, Interesting)
If you could actually create a true and accurate and transparent lie detector,
It would change the way we interact with people. It would be almost as good
as a mind reader and would definitely change politics among other things.
A wider color spectrum... (Score:5, Interesting)
...actually covers many of the other options.
If your wider spectrum extends into gamma frequencies, there's your radiation detector.
If it extends into infrared, you'll be able to see the heat given off by live wires, which is "good enough" generally for your electrical field detection -- assuming you're wanting to know which wire to (not) cut.
Infrared would also let you see involuntary changes in blood flow patterns, which again should be "good enough" for your lie detector.
If you extend the definition of "color spectrum" just enough to also include the ability to detect the polarization of light, then you can very easily determine the location of the Sun at all times during daylight (and dusk) hours, even when it's cloudy. That's again generally "good enough" for a compass.
Doesn't do a whole lot for sound, though, I'll admit....
Cheers,
b&
Echo-location (Score:3, Interesting)
Either like Daredevil, or paired with the ability to emit ultrasonic pings...
Re:Like every other male over the age of 8... (Score:5, Interesting)
No, no, what they're asking for is backscatter X-ray vision.
Personally, though, I'd rather simply be able to read people's minds, see their thoughts, and mentally speak to them while at an arbitrary distance.
And from now on, stop playing with yourself.
Re:Breaking it down... (Score:4, Interesting)
It surprises me that people want more hearing, a sense we already have several octaves of range in, versus wanting better vision. Our vision is just about a single octave; extending it to the range of our hearing (about 10 octaves) and we'd be seeing from the ultraviolet down to the middle microwave. Shift our vision down some +3 and -7 octaves around what we see now, and we'd be seeing wifi noise and microwave ovens.
And since most of our clothing is designed to not block infrared heat from leaving, with that you would have comic book vision!
Re:A true and accurate and transparent lie detecto (Score:5, Interesting)
It took me years to get over the cultural difference with all the platitudes after I moved to the US. I was used to answering as honestly as possible without offending, and might say "Tired; I didn't sleep much last night" when asked how I was.
I do better now - if I feel moderately okay, I can say "fine", and if not, I can always say "How do you do" in my best European accent, and it'll be accepted as charming or eccentric.
I do better with euphemisms too, but it took a while. I don't want to rest or take a bath; I want a pissoir or a lavatory. "Men's room" works, mostly. And I still have some trouble distinguishing "adult" from "adult". The opera is adult entertainment, no?
I still can't do the fake smile and bubbly voice, though. Nor looking people in the eyes - that's reserved for ophthalmologists and lovers.
Mixed forces (Score:4, Interesting)
Memory (Score:4, Interesting)
And user-selectable delete, or better even, trashcan.
How about *really* seeing colors? (Score:5, Interesting)
It would be interesting to have true color vision. Right now, you have three chemicals in your eyes, which means that you truly only see three colors. For example: your eye is unable to distinguish between true orange light and a mix of red-and-yellow that stimulates the chemicals in the same proportion. When we mix primary colors, we don't truly produce a new color - we are just fooling our measly three chemical detectors.
Imagine if you could directly perceive hundreds or thousands of individual frequencies of light? What might the world look like?
Re:A true and accurate and transparent lie detecto (Score:5, Interesting)
Humans are amazingly bad at telling a lie from the truth (or amazingly good at telling lies).
It has been scientifically tested [amazon.co.uk].
echolocation (Score:4, Interesting)