Electric unicycles have been improving fast over the last decade, and all that development has been happening in China. The initial invention of the modern style seatless EUC was around 2010, but that inventor is just patent squatting at this point so there's zero US work in the category.

I thought I'd be cheeky and look up a list of shit that's come out since 2015 but was inundated with AI slop telling me about random bullshit so

Yeah it's all shit

China is doing cool things with 5G networks and drone technology. Respectively, remote surgery and pesticide deployment are the two uses I can recall, but there are many other useful implementations as well.

VR. The Oculus Rift was the first modern VR headset and is from around 2015, 2016. I use VR several times a week. Helps me keep social with people who share my niche interests.

Not gonna lie, ai has helped me a fair bit. It's so good for job applications.

Hexbear.

Mountain bikes have gotten so much better in the last 20 years.

Accessible game development tools have seen a lot of improvements, it's really good for indie devs (except for Unity ofc, fuck Unity, Godot ftw)

I really do think that LLMs are the only technological breakthrough that's improved my life in the last decade, and 75% of those gains just fill the void left by Google search's deterioration. And may even be a net negative, since spammers and spreading misinformation benefit 100x more from the technology than I do.

I definitely echo what @[email protected] said, but will also add that the Rust programming language has been a great development.

linux gaming, steam deck, gigabit internet proliferating in my country.

Neural Networks for image recognition, BTRFS, Proton, cheap SSDs are great. However, there are some truly terrible pieces of technology made with good intentions, such as Gradle.

The James Webb telescope, quantum computing breakthroughs, sustained fusion reactions, almost ready to deploy thorium reactors, and AI even if you only see the dumbest applications of it right now.