The twin-screen netbook concept splits into a smaller handset when you’re on the move, and it can also act as a computer, GPS and TV-connected media centre. In the video, Nokia also uses it to demonstrate how it sees cloud-based services being used. When you’re in an area with fast wireless broadband, the device could use remote servers to help crunch streaming video and sync data, but it would also be self-sufficient when you’re not.

Cool stuff, but 2015 is just five years away, Nokia. Better get a move on. [SlashGear]

It’d have essentials like wireless broadband connectivity and a battery, but I’m hoping that by 2020 we’ll have cooler stuff than a laser-projected keyboard. Their time has come and gone already, no? Less of that, more interactive holographic display technology, please. More wacky 2020 shenanigans at: [Ericsson via MobileandNotebook]

Interestingly enough, there are several technologies depicted in the series that have actually come to fruition (although they are heavily cloaked in a LSD meets The Jetsons meets Lost in Space kind of style). See if you can pick them out of the gallery posted at Pink Tentacle. [Pink Tentacle]

According to the Yahoo! Movies news report, he was actually just high on pot and LSD, and was arrested after being tasered in front of a group of children.

If only we’d known Terminator’s were weak against tasers, we never would have had to sit through Rise of the Machines…

[Yahoo News]

We were extremely impressed with Microsoft’s Vision of the future, but we’re even more impressed with it after it’s been through Sarcastic Gamer’s lens.

We still want to live here though. [IGN]

BBC has a video tour of Microsoft’s new smart house—a future home that runs on technology to help with daily tasks, including an interactive mirror that gives laundry directions for specific clothing.

A teenager’s bedroom is wallpapered in a smart display that works somewhat like a computer desktop, letting you not only change your decorations, but also bounce things off the walls and create a playful environment. A touch-enabled kitchen counter also gives out reminders and can pull up information from items place on it—including medication directions from medicine bottles and contacts from cell phones. Head over to BBC to see the full video tour. [BBC]

Head to the source for a full gallery. [Oobject]

Fortunately, Blu-ray players themselves are getting cheaper, and we can expect to see models down under the $200 mark by Christmas this year, potentially going as low as $150. But they won’t be your big-named brands like Sony, Samsung or Panasonic – they’ll be random Chinese companies.

How the big-named companies will keep selling their more expensive Blu-ray players is by expanding on what they’re doing already – IP entertainment. LG has a Blu-ray player that plays YouTube clips via a network connection. So does Panasonic with Viera Cast, which also streams Picasa web albums to your TV. In the US we’ve seen Blu-ray players with Netflix connectivity, turning the player into a IP entertainment hub, and although it will take some time, it’s inevitable that we’ll see the same services here in Australia.

Versatility is the key to success for Blu-ray. Because of BD-Live, all Profile 2.0 enabled Blu-ray players have an ethernet port, which opens up the door to IP entertainment on your home TV. And not just IP entertainment – the rumours about a TiVo box with built-in Blu-ray are extremely exciting because they bring together everything into one neat device under your TV. Panasonic’s Blu-ray recorders are close, but don’t offer the same awesome EPG functions or the ability to download movies over the internet.

But IP isn’t the only move forward for the technology. A dual-layered Bluray disc can store up to 50GB worth of data, but we’ve already seen that it’s possible to scale the technology up to 400GB. As this technology develops and the cost of Blu-ray discs and players come down, having the ability to store even more data on discs will make the format even more appealing. Imagine an entire series of your favourite TV show in HD on a single disc.

The problem Blu-ray faces, aside from the added costs from purchasing HD capable equipment to make it work, is the public perception that it will be obsolete before it really takes off. And that’s why we’re already seeing a big push to integrate IP with Blu-ray. Because no matter how easy it is to download stuff online, if you can do it from the same box that you watch Full HD movies on (and let’s be clear, it’s unlikely IP entertainment will ever match Blu-ray’s quality), that’s a more attractive proposition. Hopefully the people makeing the Blu-ray products are working on expanding that idea for the near future.

[Blu-ray on Giz]

Found was my favourite part of Wired because of that. Concepts for gadgets of the future that were in the mind of everyone, right there, in a photo. How would a dream generator look? Space elevators? Contact lenses with built-in HUD? I wanted it all, even the bad stuff.

But then again, I’ve always wanted for the future to arrive as soon as possible. Like, I mean, why the hell is not Saturday yet? Head to Metafilter for the whole collection of Wired’s Found. [Metafilter]