Maybe SIRI is a start?

Wash you mouth out that's an Apple product ....

The current crop of voice command type products rely on using data to do what they need.

ASAIK they aren't truly standalone products.

Mark

I once fixed the auto controller for one (they used a Renault V6 in this one), and part of the deal was to get a ride.

Sadly despite the warning it was a dissapointment, and no where near the expectation I had prior to the ride.

I'm sure that in another time, the concept and execution might have made them a decent car.

Mark

A Mr Fusion so I can use banana skins for more useful stuff than slipping on !

Isn't it basically half of a cheap Renault underneath for the brakes suspension etc?!

The Hydrator is a sweet idea Mind you the microwave/Oven combos like the one I got from Panasonic are nearly there shove the Pizza in then ask it to cook it no problems even I can manage it .. Does chicken  nugget type things too !!

Exactly. The one i drove, decided to suddenly grind it's clutch to pieces just after 10000 km

It had bad electrics, which we completely rebuilt and after seven years, it's still not moving. Money issue.

It had bad electrics

I think that isn't confined to DeLorean ...

There is a saying "Lucas, Prince of darkness" which of course referred to one of the two makers of electrics way back in the day.

I thought the US ones had V8's but it seems not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFEqClpt5ck

Mark

Apart from the obvious (flux capacitor and Mr. Fusion) there are some great ideas squirreled away in BttFII.

For example, a sleep inducing alpha rhythm generator would be damn handy during those long sleepless nights...

... and although we don't get a first hand look at the image, Doc Brown's silver glasses have a built in rear view mirror -- very handy, particularly if there's a Mr. Fusion mounted directly behind the back window!

On a side note, regarding time travel (please discuss):

I don't have a big problem with the notion of time travel. After all, we're all time travellers anyway. When you think about it, all movies are 3D movies as they have a time component. 3D movies should actually be considered 4D movies . And it's taken no small amount of technology to give us easier access to the vertical axis; stripped of technology like ladders, steps, aircraft, lifts and pogo sticks, we have very limited control over the vertical, but we've overcome that. Accessing the fourth dimension -- time -- seems like it's also just a case of figuring out the technology.

But here's my sticking point: Let's say we figure out a way to travel freely through time. If you travel 12 hours back in time, the earth was in a totally different place, so you'd find yourself floating in space. Same if you go forward. In fact, travel a minute forward as Einstein did, and you'd be in just the same predicament, driving a frozen, decompressed DeLorean through the vacuum.

So we either need to figure out some kind of teleportation system that operates in precise conjunction with the time travel tech to move you through space to the exact same place you were previously in (an immensely critical calculation), or we travel out into deep space where we can be relatively sure that there was nothing in the way 12 hours ago (or 30 years ago, or 30 years from now, or 30,000 years ago), and then shlep back to earth from there -- although the earth could be on the other side of the sun at that point.

Time travel's a tricky one, eh?

Spanner Spencer wrote:

 

But here's my sticking point: Let's say we figure out a way to travel freely through time. If you travel 12 hours back in time, the earth was in a totally different place, so you'd find yourself floating in space. Same if you go forward. In fact, travel a minute forward as Einstein did, and you'd be in just the same predicament, driving a frozen, decompressed DeLorean through the vacuum.

"You're not thinking 4th-dimensionally!"  Time and Space are locked in a Time-Space Continuum, so when you travel "in time", you're moving on a path in that continuum.    When you throw a ball, its position is a function of time that's determined by how space bends.  If you change the value of time, the ball moves to the position for that time.

Just my theory.  "Which belongs to me.  It's my theory."  [Anne Elk (Miss)]

Hmm, intriguing, yes. You could be right there.

But does this refer more to altering the speed of time, rather than travelling through time? In that case (speeding up time), your position would indeed be relative, and you'd avoid sliding off the planet.

But if you jump forward, as Doc Brown and Marty did, wouldn't you still be in the same location as far as the other three dimensions are concerned? Kinda like jumping up in the air doesn't necessarily affect your position within the X and Z axes.