Dive computers of the future?

[dmaziuk]

Air integration? Invented before I started diving. Oceanic Datamaster 1985ish...

Fair enough, figuring out how to make radio work underwater, even to a one-meter radius, and WAI took another decade. None of it was a "disruptive innovation" AFAICT, but claiming that none of it changed things is I think a bit much.

The wheel didn't change things either: you could move stuff from one place to another before it, and still can.

 

[KeithG]

Fair enough, figuring out how to make radio work underwater, even to a one-meter radius, and WAI took another decade. None of it was a "disruptive innovation" AFAICT, but claiming that none of it changed things is I think a bit much.

The wheel didn't change things either: you could move stuff from one place to another before it, and still can.

Underwater RF communication was already well known science at the time dive computers were created. Most likely due to the military wanting to communicate with their submarines.

Wireless AI was simply a packaging exercise.
http://users.tpg.com.au/users/ldbutler/Underwater_Communication.pdf

 

[Derelict]

People talking about cost - it's about manufacturing supply and demand. More advanced computers will always cost more because less units are produced.

 

[dmaziuk]

Yeah, my lynx is indistinguishable from orca edge.

 

[scubadada]

Yeah, my lynx is indistinguishable from orca edge.

I thought you were a Cressi guy, did you switch? A more liberal decompression algorithm?

 

[the_ocean]

Here's an idea: Basically, it's the Internet of Things in your body, where the Things are tissues. Swallow a pill with nano-sensors that hang around your bloodstream for a few days (and then pass harmlessly). The nanoparticles will "somehow" amplify the "rice crispy crackle" of bubbling in the various tissues and convert it to ultrasound or low RF frequencies suitable for detection by an NFC, RFID or simular receiver. The frequency varies depending on the tissue type. Perhaps the concentration of particles in the tissues is affected by the degree of vascularization, which shifts the resonant frequency of the lump of particles. The particles are passively powered by the interrogating signal from a smartphone computer, allowing remote sensing of bubbles in the various tissues.

Or, you know, how about two cans and a tube to let divers talk underwater. Oh wait, that's actually a thing at DEMA this year (...sigh...)

 

[scubadada]

Perdix AI, the near future. $1150-1200?

 

[RainPilot]

Perdix AI, the near future. $1150-1200 CAD?

 

[Johanan]

Yes, realtime data for N2 / monitoring of bubbles would be something. I would appreciate some more simple features, though.

- multigas analyser (Dive Soft Freedom already has an accessory for O2);
- PLB;
- SAC rate indication during the dive,
- fully featured dive planner and the deco plan on the screen (OSTC4 has something like this.)

Already now I would like to have a learning (demo) mode. Perhaps other computers have this, but with my Mares Icon HD, only the manual explains, what to do when entering into deco mode, but I cannot try this out or practise on surface. How is it with Perdix or OSTC?

 

[jboneng]

One thing I would like on my shearwater. The abillity to upload a precalculated deco plan (generated from eks. MultiDeco, OSTC Planner or manualy created) to my DC and the abillity to access that plan on my DC during a dive.