How many times have you ended up buying a product, only to be confronted with a much cheaper and better version a few months down the line? With the constant pursuit of improvement in the technological industry, here are the current trends and what we are waiting for you to look forward to at your discretion:
Holistic Gadgets: With the release of the Apple iPad, the trend of holistic gadgets that combine mobile, entertainment, practical and social needs is becoming more than a trend – it’s an absolute necessity. While 3G phones offer a good amount of space for music and internet accessibility, they do not have the proper equipment for continuous visual use such as laptop However, laptops lack cellphone capabilities that allow instant communication without waiting for programs to open or devices to power up. So the products started to come together with the leading items that are the iPad, which necessarily led to more products. For example: Qualcomm Snapdragon boasts: 3G mobile broadband, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, intuitive user interface and mobile operating system . Sound familiar? NVIDIA, Intel, Meego, and Google’s OSAndroid and soon-to-be ChromeOS are also similar, portable 21st century gadgets. These gadgets all try to take the best and most popular developments of the past ten years and put them into one, fantastic, pocket-friendly device. So let the games begin – the iPad 2.0 will soon appear to outshine its competitors.
3D Technology: Sharp has been in the news recently for a press release claiming that 3D touchscreen will soon be available in their products. With the advances made in CG-Silion which offers a cheap production of quality images due to the use of less material to achieve the same effect, and the optimization of parallax barriers, it can perform sharp to the light touch screen that allows. user to view 3D images without the use of special glasses. Along with these developments, there was discussion about the new patent pending use in the upcoming Nintendo 3DS game console. The LG 3D LCD TV is 47 inches of 3D quality, the Sony BDP S770 Blu-ray player can accompany 3D televisions, and Panasonic helps you in your 3D film career by providing camcorders to film the next Avatar or Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: The Best of Both Worlds Concert (which is useful in 3D). The future is certainly not two-dimensional.
Augmented Reality: In the trend of 3D technology, augmented reality products help to increase life, technology bus visible and concrete aspects of life. For example, this iPhone app became very popular in the summer of last year due to the fact that there was a real-time subway map displayed in the app, directing the user to the nearest and most convenient subway in New York City. Other augmented reality gadgets include the SixthSense project being developed at MIT. This gadget has a screen that can be placed on any flat surface projector – your hand to help with with such functions: finding the friendliest toilet in the store, comparing prices, finding reviews of books, and immediate images of any area that strikes your judgment simply by making an action camera with your hands.
The website describes the gadget in this way: “The Sixth Sense prototype is comprised of a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera. The hardware devices are attached to the device as a mobile device. The projector and camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the pocket of the user.
Translation: Awesome.
The creators of Skinput seem to have a similar idea when they turn a person’s arm into a screen using a projection system, signaling the future reduction of materials needed to create gadgets. Probably all future gadgets require a screen that can be reduced to small projector systems.
Open Source!: With an increasing number of applications and add-ons available for your Firefox browser, the trends show only more open source customization in the future. A new development that promises to take virtual life in a new direction is the Prefab application developed at the University of Washington. This app basically allows clapping applications or applications and allows a person to use it, not by modifying the code but by displaying it. This leads to an almost endless array of hijack-able products, since there is no real custody to the deposited image — yet, of course. Such continuous discoveries that allow the custom in the effects of the users show no signs of slowing down and the clear production continues to accept the everyday technology.
Neural Decoding: Neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley were able to play images of mental activity through many experiments. The technique they use is fMRI scanning, but the technique involves brain patterns in response to certain images shown to the patient in order to predict future responses . A computer that is fed this data then processes and combines the information to help researchers understand what the different answers mean. In addition, electrocorticography (EcoG) experiments have revealed that researchers can detect what patients are thinking about vocally or verbally. For both speaking and thinking the word was discovered in much the same way. Most researchers in this field are amazed at the level of scientific development that is rapid and impressive. These technologies promise to change the judicial system, security industry, accessibility to products for people with disabilities and maybe even the concept of privacy. Technology continues to mature but there is no reason to fear the Big Brother state yet.
Multi-Purpose Environmental Inventions: A new PeePoo invention to join the ranks of multi-purpose Green Tech. PeePoo is the bag into which a person wastes and excrement comes out – something that helps with Kenya’s poor sanitation problems as water systems are corrupted due to lack of proper sewage disposal. There are also such products as solar toy compactors and Eco-friendly houses made from recycled plastic as well as other smart, multi- and making energy. The reason for this trend comes from the desire to optimize the use of materials that comes with green culture. There is always a desire to make something happen, it is not a good thing, but the need is a pain in itself.
Wireless World: This technology has the power to change the way people think about mobile gadgets. Powermat has already taken part in this business. However, projections using technology in the neighborhood to use wireless power is called WiTricity. This could mean the end of all threads together. If you can’t imagine how much it weighs: look at the next string extension. Look at the items that are connected to it. A toaster, a salad, a computer, a cellphone or a lamp. Now imagine them without any wires at all. Also, you could put anything anywhere in the room, without thinking about the bases. No more fiddling with your laptop cord. Even better, people with pacemakers and other powerful medical devices and surgically implanted electronics could benefit from the technology!
In addition, the growth of free WiFi is increasing so that the concept is more and more popular.
It seems like the future is here, and tomorrow’s gadget is a solar-powered, 3D touchscreen, augmented reality, wireless, open source projector that has apps that can tell you when you’re hungry or when you want to watch Anna. Montana and Miley Cyrus’ The best of both worlds without you saying anything. Or is that a misinterpretation of the trend?
Sources:
Rob Enderle “There are products that hope to beat the iPad” TGDaily
Richard Adhikari “Sharp Next-Gen Mobile Touchscreens: 3-D for the Naked Eye” TechNewsWorld
Pranav Mistry “About SixthSense” SixthSense
Katherine Noyes “Prefab Can Give Any Software Open Sourciness” TechNewsWorld
SurfDaddy Orca “Mind Reading (Neural Decoding) Goes Crazy” Hplus Magazine
Brian Dolan “WiTricity: Wireless Data in the Pacemakers” Mobihealth News
Impact Lab “Biodegradable Bag to Lab Impact Cleaning Kenya’s Slum “Flying Toilet Lab” Impact Lab
