Name a technology that died too soon to fulfill it’s potential:
I’ll start:
The Apple Newton MessagePad - the Newton 2100 (last iteration) was truly a great device - before Steve Jobs killed it.
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I remember these when they first came out. The handwriting recognition never worked. The Palm Pilot, which I did have, was a big improvement over it, even though it was still a mobile device that couldn’t connect to the internet except when it was docked to a computer. Wild times we lived through!
The HWR in Newton OS 1.1/1.3 was terrible but Graffiti was available as a package which made the handwriting fine. Newton OS 2.0/2.1 had excellent HWR, but by then, poor press had all but killed the platform.
Also, the Palm most certainly could connect to the internet, as could the Newton. I was hugely into handheld computing back then and had every device imaginable.
I miss using Palm PDA's through the years. I started with the greyscale Palm Zire and moved up all the way to the Palm T|X. The Palm Tungsten T3 was my favorite, as it was Palm's fastest handheld that still used real battery-backed RAM instead of flash for storage.
If I could use the original Palm Graffiti (Jot) handwriting system on a phone today, I would break out a stylus in a heartbeat.
Graffiti died an undignified death. 
I got good at Graffiti, and then Palm switched to the similar but not quite identical Graffiti 2, all because of a patent lawsuit.
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When I last tried that app on Android there were too many incompatibilities with newer OS versions, unfortunately.
Stanley Myer's engine that used water as fuel. Not only the technology died off too soon but so did poor Stanley himself, as he refused to sell his idea to the auto industry and tried to bring his invention to the public to better humanity and they had him assassinated
Water as fuel?
yeah, he had some tech to split the hydrogen molecules from the oxygen and use the gases as fuel. he used like a sonic or magnetic frequency to split the molecules in the water if i remember correctly.
The patents are public, the tech was (and still is immature). He needed more money and time to fully develop the concept, it wasn't as simple as his videos made the process look. I wouldn't be shocked if someone did kill him though as the # of ppl who could actually dev this tech is so low and there's so much money to be lost from free energy.
So why hasn’t anyone developed a water engine then? It seems like you could make a ton of money.
Disagree tbh. There are efficiency issues that would need to be overcome. If you look at the car it's pretty light and the amount of water required to run it at a short distance at moderate speed is significant (this isn't what he says in the video but he's exaggerating because he's trying to get investors - he essentially called it a perpetual motion machine lol). He is converting water to hydrogen. In a way the hydrogen cars solve two issues: 1) space saving so you can store more fuel. 2) Allows big companies to get their beaks wet selling us fuel (that the govt can tax).
You can’t burn water for energy tho, that’s not how it works.
Did you miss the part where I said he was converting it to hydrogen?
I’m not a chemist but doesn’t distilling the individual elements produce energy?
Whacky stuff happens when you start playing with smol stuff like that.
nostr:npub1tsgw6pncspg4d5u778hk63s3pls70evs4czfsmx0fzap9xwt203qtkhtk4 is it possible to create energy by separating water into hydrogen and oxygen? How could this idea be integrated into an engine?
No.
