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Taken from "Tomorrow's World" S19 E4
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The things we take for granted.
*Scrolls down with finger*
O man the heavy British accent! XD
I'm British but even THAT sounds different still! XD
+Konata Izumi , I think that is done intentionally for US-viewers. I have seen what you men. lol
454brianbat some brittish people speak like that anyway but that is a REALLY heavy accent xD
Ya, that is just tv British speak. Lol
+454brianbat the uk has a amazing variation of regional accents for a fairly small island...though traditionally the BBC liked presenters to speak 'Received Pronunciation'. - the snotty form Americans are used to...(and can just about understand!)
Scientist: "This is not a toy"
Every 5 year old kid in 2020: are you sure?
This is not a toy..... Oh let's shoot some balloons :D haha😂😁😀
Haha back then
You mean every young kid any year?
Anything's a toy if you play with it.
~Andy Dwyer~
more like 2010s when touchscreen tech really took off
"it's not a toy"
2020: LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO RAID SHADOW LEGEND
FutureBeats ok this one got me 😂
Cocomelon enter the chat*
I thought I was the only one getting that ad because I play lots of mobile games jesus that ad pops up like 10 times a day
@@CassiniDCH 😂😂
@@jerrysoriano9827 yeah it's the worst but gets funny after a moment 😂
"It is nice when it works!" Thats a great marketing tactic to make'm sell!
I don't think he was trying to sell them, just demonstrate a new technology.
I don't think that's necessary to revive a 2 years old post.
This is the BBC, they don't advertise.
Well, he is demoing a new technology, which he did a lot on that show. I am sure a lot of prototypes failed when shooting for the show, so he was relieved that this one actually worked. Kind of easy to lose that context though.
Btw, you can still buy touchscreens that function exactly the same as this, but those are sold as add ons to non-touchscreen monitors, since a digitizer is not required. They have the shortcoming of poor multitouch support since one finger can block vision on another finger.
I did.
Eh it looks interesting but I don’t see this technology ever taking off
True, i can't think of any existing technologies that it would work well with
@@simmerthesauce9228 Same with that new "Network" thing they've got all those colleges hooked up to. I mean, who would want to sit in front of a computer all d-
Alright, thats enough, too meta for me.
@Sei this was a waste of good Money why would anyone buy it
@@abcdxx1059 to fire a gun at a balloon. Humans don't get fat doing things themselves.
The concept of passwords is so unnecessary
Looks like Windows 10 is coming along nicely.
3 years into the future and I am sad to tell you it did not come along nice at all.
@Olando Anônimo Oh, please. Windows 10 is fine.
Olando Anônimo 1 year into the future and it has come along very well.
@@Astra2 4 days into the future and Microsoft has still failed to fix the update corruption issue.
@@Olando89 sai fora tu é br
What is this sorcery?
Damn it I was about to write that.
Damn you. I thought that was a hair. I even scrolled up before trying to brush it off.
fooled me aswell
Huh
@@hippopotamus86 nope i am using dark mode
There's no gun in my phone. One step forwards and two steps back!!
the golden line when upgrading pc
"one step forward and two steps back"
This makes me remember of a radio station in GTA SA where it plays that song, sorry if out of context but its there
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@@creationterminator me too
@@creationterminator lmao i was thinking the same thing
His “it is nice when it works” at the end suggests that rehearsals didn’t go well.
Always loved Tomorrows World. Transmitted live, so always an added sense of what might happen!
Wow, I cannot wait to see how this kind of technology will be implemented into our lives in the near future!
Can't wait to play videogames using this tech!
@Edward Brittas It's a joke-
"It's not a toy"
Mobile phones: let us introduce ourselves.
i mean phones arent rlly toys either
@@LeaksHater we play and use toys for sexual purposes, a phone can be used in that way therefore a phone is a sex toy or toy
Gakamis Gaming As much as I hate it, he does have a point
@@WiiSPMusic no he doesnt. Toys arent sex toys. Sex toys are toys.
Here an usefull XML
toy_car
toy_gun
toy_house
sex_toy
World's first iPod Touch!
It weighed 75 pounds, had a kilobyte of RAM, and the only apps it had built-in were "Tic-Tac-Toe" and "Gun Selfie".
It's nice when it works.™
yeah suuuuure.. and apple product...
Because nothing had a touch screen before the iPod touch.
Nintendo DS: "Am I a joke to you?"
Don't forget paint
@@FortoFight Sega Game Gear: "Newfag lol"
ur pfp is hot
"Not a toy" he would have never imagined...
Great excerpt! If you have in mind any more of these futuristic classics, keep them coming!
More to come :)
+Brit Lab omg at 1:42 that was so creepy. I hope the CIA doesn't know about this technology...oh they already know it
I’ve always wondered how touchscreens worked. It’s nice to know that I finally learned from a video from the 80’s
This is how a touch screen worked in the 80's. Rather low resolution, so much more precise with todays capacitive digitizer. Our local University had a mainframe system ;Plato IV system that also used a IR grid touch screen for the terminals. Developed in the 70's.
That's not how they work now, nowadays they have horizontal and vertical lines of a transparent conductive material with electricity running through them instead of infrared, although instead of the IR getting blocked by your fingers, your fingers cause a change in resistance which can be measured.
@@alinaqirizvi1441 you basically described the same thing they said in the video. They use coordinates
@@phuctrinh2589 yes, same output but very different methods
@@eigenman2571Not so much method, it's a coordinate grid in both systems, but the technology is very different.
steve jobs: APPLE has invented something amazing! a touch screen!
BBC 1982: ...
IBM 1989: ...
Compaq 1990: ...
Samsung 1992: ...
Apple 1993: ...
Apple has invented multi-touch not touch in general.
@@Phoenix-ip5kg I'm sure you can multi touch with this thing.
Andres Romero dumbo apple said they invented a ‘multi-touch’ not a touch screen😑
@@PhoenixCNSTL bruh if you look it up on wikipedia you can see that basically every major research lab was using multi touch since the 70s. Cern being one of the first. Apple is credited with popularising the term and ofc using it in the iphone but they didn't actually invent any of the hardware. The hardware and term are actually so generic that apple couldnt even trademark the term when they tried to.
Forget the Tic Tac Toe name, what makes this obviously an American invention is that the second thing it can do is shoot a gun ;)
The gun thing was all British.
On next weeks episode : Sharks with Laser beams.
could be.....who knows?
you forgot the word "freaking"
as waiting for that :)
LAZER FREAKING BEAMS almost like SOLAR FREAKING ROADWAYS just with lazers and beams lol
Nope, just piranhas.
I first used touch screens in 1982. I was 17, and my dad dropped me off at a convention center in Houston for a computer industry trade show. As I was walking towards the entrance, a stranger approached me and handed me a free pass to get in. That was lucky since I hadn’t considered that there would be a fee to get in. My lifelong passion for computers was only a few months old at the time.
Anyway, once I was inside the building, I looked for information, and there were banks of kiosks with touch screens. Everything was text-based, so no onscreen maps.
There was a lot of cool stuff at the show, but mostly for big business. Halon fire suppression systems for example.
Commodore had a large presence, and they were showing their new computer, which was not yet released. The Commodore 64. It was so much more powerful than anything else in my budget (it was $600). Later that summer it became my first computer.
The second touch screen displays I saw were at EPCOT Center a year later. They were much slicker, with a graphical interface, though they cheated by using a laserdisc system for the visual elements, rather than drawing the visual elements on the screen in real time. You could use the screens to make dinner reservations, but I think it turned into a video call with a human.
Aah, RUclips tryna be a museum for ancient videos again
How marvelous the future must be if they even make this thing work properly. Then we can have small devices that are like computers but smaller and we can control them by touching the screen and we can do all kinds of useful things with these small computers. I bet they will be called SHHDWTC - Small Hand Held devices With Touch Screen
bah, kids these days, thinking of useless things like that, who would ever use one of those?
I am from the future and have an SHHDWTC 6 Plus 7. However, it only uses this thing called iTunes so I threw it in the garbage.
What about a SHHDWTC&P Small Hand Held Devices With Touch Screen & Phone !!!!! (mind blown)
Imagine the wires!
*****
Yeah, it can be quite tiring to write long comments shifting all that weight around.
the fact that this can quite easily be recreated nowadays in a simple electronics lab is incredible
Adorable that this was a thing when we see how we achieve a more refined result today... How things change...
Remember when we thought the control panels on the Starship Enterprise D were exciting?
Now we all have a little mini Hitch hikers guide in our pocket 🤩
I was an IT student and seeing this programmed on DOS really amazed me.
It was Unix, the hardware was from a company called SMS iirc.
1:57 and skynet was born
"It is not a toy"
4 yo kids with Ipad:
-It is
This looks cool. I hope we get to see this implemented soon enough.
How would it work on MS-DOS? Would it have a virtual keyboard???
Man, this technology looks cool...
When is it coming??
Back in the days when magazines printed machine code in hex that you had to type in, one mag had a program to make the BBC micro do this on a regular TV screen.
My initial skepticism was not assuaged by the fact that it was published between March and May.
woo hoo new tech, instantly turns it into a weapon.
+DevilsBathtub It's the other way around a lot of the time.
wow, that was 40 years ago and we’re still doing touch screens. next commercial step is using your gaze or a wave of the hand in the air to control the things we surround ourselves with.
1982: omg touchscreen monitor, yeah but the price
2020: omg touchscreen laptop with 1tb ssd and 32gb ram, but the price
"This machine is not a toy, its for other purposes"
**Giggles** he will never know that the most popular game in the future will be used in that "machine"
So... Which game do you mean?
@my opinion is irrelevant minecraft can also be played on computer and console
@@muddywaffles8276 ok......? theres also PUBG mobile, COD mobile, candy crush, etc. you name it. they got millions of downloads too.
@@umamifan I wasnt responding to the origin comment i was responding to @my opinion is irrelevant
Muddy Waffles they just said it could be played on the computer tho
hehe, old technologies always cool. also did he just advertise a remote controlled gun?
Oh yes he did... Impressive how we don't have those yet tho :/
Jelmer Borst Wich you (US) sponsor :| ...
Murica
@@JelmerBorst yikes
GITide Military Drones work in similar manners with/out the touchscreen
A phrase that is still uttered to this day. "It is nice when it works".
that is a weird looking smartphone
Second idea for Touch screen: War.
*"QPR, best team in the land"*
God.. How old is this..
That's what I was thinking lmao
and to think that they got *relegated* that season...
1982
Its amazing to see how far we have come, i remember when i was 7 and i saw the touch screen in my grandmas lexus for the first time, i was absolutely amazed by the technology and endlessy played with the mapping feature in that car.
It's amazing how intuitive this technology was! It's safe to bet it's his first time using this sort of touch screen technology, yet he's managed to just demonstrate this technology with little effort, granted he must have done dry run before the shot, but this touch technology definitely glued humans with computers together.
I think it is a testament to the engineering ingenuity of these devices. It is easier and easier to operate electronics
I mean, tell someone to tap a button and they'll do it. It's not much different with touchscreens.
I used to love that show back in the 80's
RUclips when this was invented:
didnt exist
RUclips in 2020:
Ima recommend this to everyone!
Fact
How are they supposed to recommend this thing on 1982 while youtube is created on 2005? Big brain time
that's why it's written *didn't exist*
@@AlexandreBugado Yes Thanks!
@Ithinkofnogoodnames Thanks!
Imagine how surprised they were to see this
Now its something we use everyday
"This machine is not a toy"
proceeds to use it to fire a toy gun
It's an air gun, which can still be fatal so no not a toy
I wonder if that technology will ever take off 🤔
I also hope we get TV/Monitors like that some day soon too. They look so futuristic!
And to this day, nobody I know has a touch screen television. xD
Wow... Got this from RUclips on literally 5 YEARS AFTER
First and possibly only time I've shared a video before watching it on the strength of the thumbnail alone. :) After watching it I'm pleased to say I'd have shared it anyway. You Rs!
Hard work for the presenters. They make it look easy.
Americans: Oh look at this new technology, how can we make it deadly
@crazy knight teleported from medieval times while the comment is stupid, your reply sounds like a two year old wrote it
crazy knight teleported from medieval times ......glasshouse......
No not quite right. It's more like "how can we profit off the Europeans killing each other?"
@crazy knight teleported from medieval times triggered?
Beem B War begets new technology.
Imagine going back and showing this guy the latest smart phone.
Clever though...it all had to start somewhere, and the earliest tech probably required much more human brain power to work it all out, once you have high tech it's easier to create more high tech.
That's why technology is now moving at such an incredible rate
He'd be unimpressed cos it doesn't do anything useful... like firing that gun. ;^)
Light emitting diodes...And meanwhile, Casio was already selling a wristwatch with an actual conductive glass touch screen. Inbuilt calculator that let you write out numbers, the TC-500 if I'm not mistaken.
1 week later…
Apple sues the makers of this screen for stealing their touch screen idea from the iPad
Apple was nothing back then
To be honest, they are.
Well, Apple was debuting the Macintosh (a Computer less powerful than the Apple 2 computer but expensive than the Apple 2) That's probably when Apple started charging a premium for their devices!
The worst part is that Apple still has to sue xerox for stealing their idea of mouse and GUI. They did sue microsoft about it though, so that's a relieve.
TheAmaz1ngPizza apple is richer than microsoft so, i mean...
*This technology is way ahead on today's time*
I just preordered it, I am so hyped
I used a version of this in the late 80`s at the Natural history museum in London. It was an upright kiosk that used an Amiga running Scala multimedia (remember that?) to show geology facts. You could click on various bits of rock strata to get more info on it. You could also browse fossil photos if i remember correctly. It was the first time i had used a touchscreen and i recall it was a bit iffy with the touch response, which could be due to dirt on the photodiodes or maybe the resolution of the sensor grid wasnt that great (all onscreen `picture buttons` were quite large). I have photos of the unit somewhere, i must dig em out and post them online as its a great bit of tech history.
"It is nice when it works..!"
Hmmm...
I guess they had a few accidents with the prototype... ;^)
Nobody:
RUclips: Wanna see early touch screen technology
1:57
I felt how happy he was using that "touch-screen" thing. Lol.
Video made in 1982, uploaded in 2015, recommendation in 2020!!! Nice!!!!
Are those... mecano parts on the airgun? LOL.
Yes, I had a £150 Meccano budget.
Seems like a promising technology. Can't wait to put my fingers on this tech.
This same technology seen being used in a practical application in Die Hard the original movie from 1988 or 1989, depending which part of the world you live in.
Has the ability to write anything on the first touchscreen
Writes “QPR”
*Face palm*
Apple: we invented every piece of techogly and there are no other innovators out there but us.
Me,an intellectual:
When the TV needed to be thicc to be able to use touchscreen back in the days
Now it's just companies fighting with phone size
I don't even need to ask who got this recommended...
Things like this should bring us together!
This is some really cool stuff to see
They should make a handphone with this technology on it 😯
Why, there are better technologies we use in phones daily, then infrared tracking;)
@@tgstudio85 r/woooosh
Iphones of today will look dated as this does in 30 years
Toon Nufc I phones already look dated
@@computethis7128 And they don't fire guns, which makes them useless on top. ;^)
This is like 45 years old my guess
And technology has slowed down a bit. So maybe in 60 years
@@solomale2156 Given it's possible that we may even superseded smartphones as we know them within 30 years and phones are becoming more screen and also more AR/VR-focused, I think current-day phones will easily look dated in well-under 60 years.
This is the great great great grandparents of today’s technology. Thank you
I owned a 1987 Buick Reatta that had touch screen controls....radio, heat, AC....everything. It was ahead of its time.
wow that's so cool
"Even in the future nothing works." - Dark Helmet / Spaceballs
Ominous, the instigation of drone technologies.
They had this in 1982? Holy shit
Duh most advanched decade of last century
This guy might make it big someday!
This technology will never take off.
Sent from my iPhone
is this even science anymore? or have we gone to far into the sorcery realm?
alien technology
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When I scrolled down to the comments, I really felt it
*Windows finally came up with a full proper dark mode* 👏🏻
50% of the people used a touch screen smartphone to watch this video
@@marcom2097 yeah maybe
Why is this amazing me so much when I'm watching it on the roided up version of it?
Because its highlighting just amazing it is.Nowadays we forget and take it for granted.
I have an idea for typing on a touchscreen:
Draw a clock (just the hands) anywhere on the screen to type a letter, play a music note, or press a game button.
144 (12*12) different clocks give you 144 different possibilities ON EVERY FINGER!
1980 : touch screen
2020 : smart phone
Has science gone too far??
You were right, Philby. We did go too far.
We do what we must because we can.
Not for Aperture Science
No its not gone far enough
In 2050 we would be saying the same things when the screens are touchable holograms
wow, this technology looks sick.
me: *looks where i am waching him from. oh
Him: Explains the most innovative invention of that time
Also him: forgets the alphabets and writes *QPR* 😜
The first LED CRT touchscreen monitor was the Personal Digital Assistant computer from 1982 from Magnadoodle to Tic Tac Toe to the AR Dart Gun Balloon, how convenient.
You Brits call it "naughts and crosses" instead of "tic-tac-toe?!" 😂🤣
He shouldn't have chosen to play tic-tac-toe, that choice could have ended up starting world war III 😨
tic tac toe stopped ww3
R/iamveryrandom
War games, same graphics too. The only way to win is not to play at all
Man this a good idea they should make it for public
R/rooooooooooooosh
Imagine showing this guy an iPad the day after filming this, he would shit himself with excitement
"QPR - best team in the land"
Haha no
***** they are better then the horrible words of today
he said "in London" yeaah before arsenal and chelsea got their money probably QPR was the best.
Taufik Akbar I'm fairly certain that he says "in the land", not "in London".
Taufik Akbar Arsenal never "got" money and they were successful way before the premier league kid, you don't know shiiiit son
The best team in England is Liverpool. ;)
BBBBUTTTT APPLE INVENTED THE TOUCH SCREEN XDDDDD
No kid :) Every "futuristic" thing is marketed again later,when it doesn't look so futuristic.Guess What 3D cameras and viewing weren't invented in the 2000's ... They exist form 1880s.
sarcasm
Chowder7116 yea, i know
Apple marketed the first capacitive touch screens that worked flawlessly. 99% of the market used resistive screens at the time the first iPhone was released. Apple do that all the time, they are usually the first to make technology that has been around for a while usable. Like fingerprint readers.
I remember those inaccurate resistive screens. they were a pain in the ass to use. Gotta give due credit to Apple for mainstreaming not only capacitive screens, but higher quality displays.
My favorite part of the video is when the balloon pops and he looks surprised and ecstatic that it actually worked.
Man we don't know how blessed we are.
That´s not a touchscreen though. Still nice to see dinosaur technology :)
Yeah... Same idea though... Today's screens are much simpler in construction, but need much more processing to work correctly...
Eww, a dispute over semantics. It can be named after a description of how an average person would use it. Like Side Walk. As most of the time it is over side and being walked on. Really it should just be a side floor. Or side horizontal solid.
TheUntamedNetwork There´s no dispute. Just pointing out technical inaccuracy.
Róbert Németh Okies :)
Doughnut hole.
And we use this tech to access porn.
So disgusting of us.
Couldn't agree more..
There are governments who want to use this kind of technology and even AI in the military and you're complaining about that?
We use this technology for a lot more than just porn.
@@user-og9bp6cb5w You are only talking about your self.
If you only use it to view porn thats not everyones problem
Albeit i do have a shit ton of porn in my phone, but thats not the only thing i use it for
And now we have the likes of touchscreens with holographic displays , folding glass displays, 3d displays etc.
Uploaded 5 years ago.
Wow, we’ve come a long way in such a short amount of time.