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Discovery Channel Beyond 2000 Wearable Computers 1992
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- Ancient wearable computer technology was supposed to revolutionize computing back in 1992 don't you know.....Somehow the visionaries at NEC never realized the power of cellphone technology and tablet computing making all of this obsolete if not hysterically ridiculous. Oh well, at least we can have a "geek chuckle" from all of this.
Back when discovery channel was worth watching.
Now it's all shark week and World's Most Dangerous Wastes Of TV
wait 'til I make *Beyond 3000*
This is bizarre - this show was made and presented here in Australia - you can hear the accent in this segment. So Discovery licensed the content and book ended it with their own presenters. Interesting.
The lack of CD-ROM shoulder pads is exactly why this century sucks.
😢
I used to love this show. Amazing how times change.
I used to love it. Now it kills my brain cells faster than anything else. 😃😬😵💫🙆🤦
Great comments all, I never thought I would have started such a laugh riot by posting this (really, I didn't). Cheers to everyone that loves the future of the 1990s.
My childhood. I thought this was some of the coolest stuff, but at the same time 'yea that looks wholly impractical to wear and use while still interacting with the actual world.'
"CD ROM shoulder pads are back again this year" 🤣
It amazes me that even in the relatively recent year of 1992, they couldn't predict how far technology would evolve, which would allow for it to be physically small and fit in our pocket. Watching this makes 1992 feel like the stone age.
+Norwegian Chill Ha-ha, what about speech recognition ?
+v ant "Siri, Google: Siri."
+Norwegian Chill We're not any better today at predicting where technology will be in 20 years.
It is the same way now. Things are advancing so face but it is now disguised as a new cellphone or a smart this and that. Before we know it AI will be here and in every part of our life. It is the new "cellphone"
@Josh PaperDragon I feel like a cave man when kids talk tech to me
It’s amazing how everything described in this video now fits inside our pocket.. can you imagine how ridiculously stupid our “smartphones” are to the people of 2050? If you are reading this in the future via a direct feed to the brain, hello from 2020! ...it wasn’t a good year..
2022 calling. You have no idea what is coming in just 2 years. No idea!
@@ChatGPT1111 lol. Seems we’re at the edge of nuking each other off the planet. Welp it was a good run humanity.
@@angelgallegos199 The U.S. is poking sticks at both Putin and Xi at the same time. But are we? It almost seems like we're putting on a show so that Ukraine and Taiwan can be taken over. Nah, can't be!
You aint see nothing yet, just wait till the mushroom wars start.
...and it came from a guy living in the USA.
yeah I'll wear my computer...in my pocket.
Or your wrist, or in your shoes, or in a VR headset on your face.
VR is dead concept. Various entities just tries to capitalize on it every 10-20 years with low to moderate success.
Jc, you should start a beyond 2100 youtube channel. I am sure someone in the future would have a good laugh.
@@originalname9999 oh, just like we are laughing at the skeptics about our skateboards on 1990?
As it fries your gonads.
"well choose our hardware for it's look comfort and style"
weeeeelll she's not totally wrong on that one....
Love it! I use to watch this show as a kid and looking back at it is hysterical!
I think the same thing hilarious compared to what really happened 😂
Same here 😂
They got it mostly spot on, except it turned out to be much, much more compact.
+unknownpawner1994 It's weird how they got so much right, and yet so much wrong.
Like the optical disks and reliance on databases and satellites.
This wearable tech is too priceless.
I miss shows like this.
Another fine example of the fact predicting the future is extremely difficult.
Suddently a designer said: "why don't we create a cell phone like object that was in fact a tiny computer more powerfull than the PCs we have, and instead of a keyboard it would have a touch screen?" That guy was kicked out the company.
Then he went and got fresh new slaves to fulfill his dream
steve jobs
André Fontes
He then got a job at IBM or Nokia who released their first smart phones in 1994 and 1996 respectively.
Then he became a dictator of Silicon Valley when he was digitally reincarnated in the year 2045.
Your timeline is a little off but yeah sounds about right
This was the "good ole days". I remember watching this show when I was in high school. Kinda depressing though. Lol.
I've just ordered the complete package for xmas, boy am I going to look snazzy in 2020
Pre-reality television era Discovery Channel.
'If you've ever found yourself running after a small child, video camera in hand' ...... you're probably going to jail
Keep in mind that the Japanese have a thing for robot suits. It helps explain these ridiculous ideas.
I almost forgot how hot Tracy was , when I was a kid watching the show. 😍
They did have the cutest ladies on this show.
To think - what we take for grant - decades ago, they dreamt of having it.
This video is why I love future predictions. They get somethings so right but take it off at an angle that leads somewhere else. They wear right about a few high level things, portable computing would be a big think and that people would begin choosing electronics for their design in addition to their function. This vid is from 92, 5 year before the iMac would break the beige mould.
In the year two thousand!
In the year two thouSAND!
Your inner nerd will love this one!
This wearable tech is priceless.
AMAZING!!! with the Apple watch just announced, the timing for watching this couldn't be better!!
They weren't too far off on the idea. They just didn't realize we'd put those computers in our pockets.
it's call a smartwatch too or a fitbit which you can wear on your hand.
Now we have Bose smart glasses which may start the smart glasses consumer market in the 2020s
I remember watching this episode as a kid and thinking how stupid it was. I knew it would all fit in your pocket eventually. If only I had been smart enough to make some key investments.
A chillingly accurate look into the future, but where's the car boat?
I think we get real hoverbords first then boatcars
It's funny how Star Trek TNG was more accurate about some stuff. The Data Padds for example are now available in the form of eBook readers.
That reminds when my dad met a guy at school on a party wearing cables before recording videos in 1992 VHS
He told him
Man , You're like ROBOCOP !! or just a Robot ?? cuz he was wired for 2 small cameras in the body and a bigger one carrying on.
So the golden times were awesome.
For me was advanced in late as a teenager 2000's around 2009-2014 yes there were still wires but not enough compared to what it was literally in the 90's .
Hovercraft
Wait, a camera records the image from the display so you can fax it? That's the equivalent of taking a screenshot but photographing the monitor.
1992: People delicately handle wearable computers
2021: I drop my handheld computer in the toilet (again) because I laughed too hard at a meme.
Imagine Samsung faulty devices explode while you wearing them.
The future is now - we no longer need to imagine 😂
I like how in the past we thought we'd be so tech obsessed that we'd be wearing it. In reality, tech has evolved into our lifestyle but has become a PART of our lifestyle. Not sure why this was missed so often in our past.
But we do wear tech. From headphones, bluetooth headsets, Google Glass, watches, cell phones, etc. We have always adopted new tech that changes how we live. The only differences from the the video and reality is the form factor is different. Instead of big, bulky devices we have smart phones and tablets.
Andrew H Yep so so true.
Google glass was no more than just a warm up to consumers. The real smart glasses will start with Bose, North, Amazon, Nreal and Mad Gaze brands.
Sweet when are these coming out?
Around 1995.
Fuck, I missed them.
***** -- I can't Wait! :D
In 2092.
0:18
Behold my many buttons! Beep boop baap boop beep!
0:46
I have buttons, also! Boop boop beep baap! Hallo, computer!
3:35
I have more buttons than either of you! Look on my work and despair! Baap beep boop!
The predictions are kind of fascinating, because they do accurately predict *what* would be important, they just didn't know how we were going to accomplish it. If only they'd knew what apps would do for smartphones.
I'm from the future and yeah.. It's exactly like this.. This is what we all wear
No one was thinking wireless connection? Bluetooth really made a difference!
That shoulder mounted CD-ROM drive looks like a good way to scratch up your disks if you don't stand perfectly still.
At first I really thought this was a comedy skit... But then I realized it wasn't, which made it ten times funnier.
4:07 - Shit, she just described Gimbals and Gyroscopes for Camera stabilization. These people ARE from the future...
And then the smartphone was invented and it destroyed the dream.
"Postmodern ambulance officer and paramedic,"
I'm so postmodern that I ware my favorite laptop and fax my mother images of the recently sedated.
I once did a telephone survey with her! She's famous for getting Pauline Hanson to ask "please explain?".
My favourite TV show back then.
wearable laptop!?
"typing of the dead"
How on earth could that wearable camera contraption make life easier?? Like wearing a traction machine, with a third boobie attached to it....bahaha!
Really?.... Im sure viewers would have more sense, than they gave em credit for!?
Great video...time capsule:)
The HumanWare line was discontinued after Hiroshi wore his information system to school•
Damn , that stuff is like having a prótesis.
wow, functional AND practical!
I was 12 when this episode came on. At the time I thought it was so futuristic. Now, twenty years later, I see how completely impractical it all was. The tablets and cellphones do everything these would have, and more. Can you imagine how irritating it would be to wear all that? Having to take it all off to get in a car, and then putting it all back on. Same thing to use the bathroom. And the forearm keyboard would always be in the way.
True, but at the same time the people working on these things may have come up with some of the technologies that made cell phones possible. Science be like that
Ummm 2023 they are expecting wearable AR glasses…
i remember watching this , and i was imagining so many things so awesome
Haha, I remember watching Escape from New York many years ago, wondering if portable tablets would become a reality.
What's a fax machine? Can I eat it?
It's still worshipped as cutting edge technology in Central Africa.
@panda44r i thought you were doing s sick rap there but after relaxes you just let me down
I'm surprised to learn fax machines are still going relatively strong
This stuff isn't obsolete. It makes promises in terms of flexibility and usability that smartphones are yet to actually deliver on. Most people don't "need" the stuff that a desktop or laptop does better than a smartphone most of the time, but somebody who is actually familiar with them and has any imagination at all knows that making stuff more convenient to do can drastically change what is "necessary." Affordable and powerful personal area networks and augmented reality should've been possible twenty years ago, but device manufacturers actively don't want things to be easily interoperable unless they're the ones making the standard everyone licenses, so we're stuck plodding along with failing gee-whiz projects like Google Glass.
Fax... did not forsee the internet. Or bluetooth headsets. Their idea is big and bulky.
Wearable Camera is so huge.
Well they did predict one thing. I'm always taking photos of letters on my to fax to my secretary
the wearcam was the grandaddy of Go Pro's
And, nice looking Tracey Curro, who was my favourite presenter of Beyond 2000.
She was certainly do-able
When I get a wearable computer that can run games with no problems, I'll be a happy man. Until then, 1992 Discovery Channel, you lied to me! LIED!!!
I feel these would attract a lot of bullies.
It's not that people back then couldn't imagine a device like a modern phone (lots of sci fi writers imagined devices like that), but rather they were trying to come up with designs for tech that they thought would be possible for them to manufacture within a few years based on where technology was at the time.
you know whats funny, if this happened. this would of turned into a real life video game where you would have to decide which armour to wear, the one with more power or the one that looks good
In the 21st century, the pocket sized cell phone became much smaller than anything they thought of here, LOL. The modern cell phone is basically a computer, a mobile communication device, navigational device, & play games(limited). All of that can fit in your pocket, isn't that really amazing??? LOL
And now Apple Watch ⌚️
Hahahaha, CD ROM.
You may think this is Funny/Silly/Quirky, and yet you probably literally have a computer in your pocket right now. In fact you may even be reading this comment on it.
+Dishonorable Dickwraith Yes, but that doesn't mean I'm wearing 10 pounds of plastic and tubing and a fannypack keyboard.
I'm watching this on my iPad haha
20+ years from now, people will laugh at the iPad too.
Tim Kelly Google a company called Magic Leap. They are the ones making the AR glasses that everyone will have before 2030. Warpin Media makes the apps for the glasses. People will laugh at smartphones the same way in less than 10 yrs. Anyone would be wise to keep an eye on both companies and jump in when the release their IPO.
It is now 6:39 pm on 5/23/24 32 years later from this original video. Lets just say they would be amazed with what exists now.
6:00; a Warehouse inventory computer ... recorded to CDROM? Wasn't networking a thing in 1992? They should have anticipated wireless networking. Cordless phone technology already existed and so did fax machines so this wasn't such a large leap.
Japan: One of the most technologically innovative countries of its time, but still couldn't solve its massive traffic jam problems.
Great old Australian show, if only they knew what was coming.
I have placed my preorder.
These designers must have been from out of this world.
I know... You would have thought they would have thought about Cell phones becoming portable computing devices on this level.
3:58 girl: hey, my eyes are up here
me: but your cam is down there
I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed how ... that was positioned... so so wrong
I guess green screen technology, or keyed background was too much for this futuristic tech show.
I loved this show when I was a kid its funny now watching them 20+ years later and maybe 2 things on the entire show actually showed up in the market place the rest.... just bs lol
Pfft 2013, that was the Stone Age
@@Fornax70ffft 2020 what shit year…
I faxed over this comment.
I still have a fax machine on my desk.
Call me crazy but I have been trying to find a way to watch this series again as I watched it religiously as a kid. It was this and then Next Step at 7:30 PM. I would LOVE to watch these shows again.
This was at a time when Amiga 1200 was released. Commodore started to heal itself. Amiga's show its Virtual Reality capabilities.. But 1994 came and Commodore had to close down. Since then,.. until now. The computer age lost over 15 years with innovations. Windows 95 came in late 1995. OSX came later! The world have now rebooted. But is the innovations now better? Different yes, but still in 1998 if Commodore would have survived!
I would so pay to watch a show of a character being accidentally sent through a space/time rift for an alternative time line where they survived and things like this actually happened... i think it would be a funny mini series.
1:09 who still searching those episodes in 2024?
3:58 a go pro and stabilizer does same today. ;)
Watching this on my handheld tricorder 😊
*CD-ROM Shoulder pads!*
They never anticipated the cell phone or iPad.
Can't believe I was born the same year this was made.
*puts on space glasses*
IN THE FUTURE!
Man we where so dumb back then...
1:04
Cant hear you over my Surface 4 and cellphone....maybe I'll give them the VR thing...
NEC and ahead of the curve in the same sentence.
Most of these models won't be available till early next century!...
Listen to that synthwave.
Well Cell Phones saves us from wearing ridiculous stuff like that lol
Which will prove just as socially impractical and continue to be the butt of jokes 20 years from now.
Secretary? You mean Admin!
Lamo it's sitting in the palm of my hands. Although back then computers were huge and bulky.
My phone is hiding in a wallet case. If you don't look at it too closely, it looks like a large wallet. Hiding a phone... which is a tiny PC.
Sometimes, the futurists miss the simplest things, lol.
Like MicroSD Cards.
They had no idea.
This is silly even for 1993. Concepts for datapads and e-notebooks etc already existed.
Its similar to the google glass is the future crap.