50s Predictions & CES Gadgets

Dangerous Dave talks about predictions from the 1950s that never came true. Plus, coolest and craziest gadgets so far from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This stuber in the den with dangerous deed. Well at
twenty twenty six, and maybe we don't have flying cars,
but we do have some incredible innovations that nobody envisioned
seventy five years ago, like La booboos. A collection of
the list of the most hilarious wrong predictions from nineteen
fifty include so in nineteen fifty, they had predictions of

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what we would be doing in twenty twenty six. They
include jet packs that were supposed to be everywhere. Some
designers thought jet packs would be as ordinary as bicycles
and not sci fi gimmicks. A hose would replace house cleaning.
One science writer said the future where cleaning involved hoses
and hot air instead of brooms, houses would be waterproof, synthetic,

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and entirely washable. I tried this. Took a while for
my carpet to drive. The Moon would have subdivisions. Some
nineteen fifties thinkers assumed that the moon would have developments
and residential neighborhoods. Women would tower over Mannicolmus wrote that
women were expected to reach an average of six feet tall.
Fusion would replace every other energy source. Scientists and policy

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writers thought fusion would power cities. By the year of
two thousand, gasoline engines would disappear, transitions would be happening.
Gas powered cars would have maintained their grip, but mostly
thanks to costs convenience in decades of investment in combustion technology.
Robot housekeepers were inevitable. Humanoid machines will cook dinner, change diapers,

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and service. Butler's cable would end commercials not at all.
Companies realize they could charge subscribers and show ads, and
most of them thought they never thought they'd see streaming services.
But guess what, the US would finally adopt the metric system. Huh.
I remember they started teaching that to me in elementary

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and guess what. After about two years they're like, nop,
We're not going to do that, and machines would give
us all three day weekends. Later said that with computers,
internet and AI, it may happen someday in the future.
That dream might still be alive. But I've guess there's
a nightmare of never ending weekends in unemployment in the well.

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The Big Consumer Electronics Show kicked off in Vegas yesterday.
Some of the coolest and weirdest new tech making waves
online so far this year. Color changing fingernails. A company
called ie Polish behind them. They are are press on nails.
They change colors with specific devices. You have to buy
shoes from three hundred different shades, and the starter kit
starts at ninety five bucks. Talking AI picture frames company

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called Vindabat came up with digital picture frames that can
talk and have conversations with you. They're inspired by the
talking paintings and Harry Potter, costing you about three hundred
bucks apiece. Vibrating kitchen knives. They're like your grandma's old
school carving knife you can still use on Thanksgiving, but
they vibrate thirty thousand times per second and to help
you cut through stuff more easily. Four hundred bucks. By

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the way. AI powered hair clippers that ch is a
hairstyle on the app like a crew cutter or a
side part, and that played automatically adjust while you use it.
Gaming headphones that read your mind scan your brain waves,
track focus, reaction speed, and cognitive load, which is a
little scary. AI gaming work companions. A razor showed off

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at Desktop Hologram that watches you game and gives you tips.
Lego smart pricks They light up and make different sounds
depending upon what you build, like if they're part of
a car, they make engine sounds. A toilet that can
call for help. A company called Vovo using a new
smart toilet for seniors that if you don't use it
for six or eight hours, it alerts your family in
case you fell and need help. Other things at the

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Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas. AI mirrors help you do
your makeup, also can monitor your face for health. Portable
food allergy detector that you can bring to restaurants tell
you if your meal is safe to eat. A robot
vacuum the climb stairs that looks like a normal robot
vacuum with the bass has legs. A clip on device
that remembers your conversations, small enough to clip on your shirt,

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summarizes work calls or settle arguments with your spouse claiming
that's not what I said. My wife will always tell
me what I said and what she said. And finally,
a lollipop that plays music. The brand is called Lollipop Star.
Each flavor plays a different song with bone conduction technology,
the music plays inside your head. You can only hear

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it when you bite down. They're going to cost you
about nine dollars each, nine dollars for a lollipop. I'm
thinking suckers too. They can for another episode of Deeper
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