Just imagine your garage door opens and the lights in your house turn on. The TV queues up the shows you missed while you were working late. Your favourite songs are following you from the living room to the kitchen. Then you stop. The phone blinks and warbles at you. The fridge says you forgot the milk. So it’s the time to unveil all these technologies to you. Let’s have a look on upcoming technologies.
Smart Glasses:
I’ve built a love/hate relationship with Google over the years. I remember the day when “Google” was nothing but a single page with a logo and a text box. Now we’ve got Google mail, a Google social network, Google phones and tablets loaded with the Google operating system. What is the logical next step? Google Goggles of course. The Google Goggles are reported to have built in 4G with GPS technology, a camera, and a Bluetooth connection to Android based phones. This project is not a prop, it’s not a joke, it’s the real deal – and Google is detailing it via Google+, of course.
This project is being touted by Google X employees at a futuristic vision that could very well come to fruition very soon. The actual device is a pair of wrap-around glasses with a clear display that sits in front of your eye (the left, for now). It’s a fully integrated Google apps experience. What’s more than this, the project could potentially not just sit around your head – this tech could get as close to your body as a contact lens. The image you’re looking at above is a contact lens being developed by Google X which Google X employee Babak Parviz notes allows pixels to be sitting right on top of your eye.
Bendy Screen Smartphone:
Yes, the bendy screen smartphone. For those of you who are technologically illiterate, a bendy screen smartphone is a smartphone touting a screen that we can bend! Yep. Who doesn’t want to bend and twist their phone into silly shapes sometimes? It's the best way to let out your anger, other than just throwing the thing against a wall.
Using Samsung’s already demoed OLED display technology, we can be expecting a new phone model that will allow us to bend it, roll it up, and hit it with a hammer. (YES!) We already have the specs for this phone as well. The phone debuted as the “Galaxy Skin” features a high-res 800×480 AMOLED screen, 8mp camera and 1 GB of RAM as well as a 1.2GHz processor.
Xbox 720:
There are rumors everywhere about the new Xbox system: it won’t have an optical drive, all games will be downloaded digitally, it’s called the Xbox Loop, it’s called the Durango...and the list goes on. There are a few reliable rumors, however. The graphics are certainly being done by AMD, who claim that the graphic detail will be on the same level of Avatar.
We can also certainly believe that the system is going to be released at E3 in 2013, as several companies working on the project have claimed. Xbox 720 will come packing 1080p 3D support, Blu-ray player and DVR functionality. It also comes with AMD's 7000 series graphics, which is based on its 28nm Graphics Core Next (GCN) Southern Islands tech. Xbox will arrive in time for Christmas 2013.
The Invisible Tank:
This may not be some neat tool or gadget you can bring home and show off to your friends, but it is definitely something to be excited for. The word invisible may be a bit misleading though, it's more like a chameleon. A chameleon that only works at night. The British Army revealed this tank at the world's largest weapons fare, probably to make everybody else jealous. The chameleon tank works by using the infrared technology on night-vision goggles and surveillance planes against them.
The tank uses a system of thermo-electric tiles and thermal cameras in order to conform with the environment around it. These heat signatures can change so fast that it even works while moving. If that wasn't enough, the system has its own library of environmental patterns. This means you could be a terrorist looking for the enemy with your nifty night-vision specs only to find nothing out in the field but a roaming cow.
4G Technology:
Recently Airtel had launched its 3G service in Bangalore. This service will change your internet surfing habits. Now you have to only click and results will be on your computer screen. The 3rd 4G International Forum will be taking place in Taipei, Taiwan from 10 - 11 July 2012. This annual Forum will see international operators and 4G experts congregate to discuss new opportunities and current challenges faced by the telecom and ICT sectors.
NFC:
NFC is a technology for very short range (less than 10 centimetres) of communication, which will be incorporated in many future mobile handsets. Although it’s often portrayed as a payment technology, it’s more appropriate to think of it as a “touch to act” technology that will enable applications such as smart posters, discount tokens, mobile tickets, authentication and check-in to location-based services.
Bluetooth 4:
The headline feature of the latest Bluetooth 4 release is low energy (LE) operation, which allows a mobile handset to talk to a wide range of low-power peripherals and sensors. It will enable new mobile accessories and business models, many of which will use the mobile device as a channel to communicate with cloud services.
802.11ac:
802.11ac boosts Wi-Fi performance to 1 Gbps levels. This and other new Wi-Fi standards, such as 802.11ad (60 GHz, multi-Gbps in-room Wi-Fi) and 802.11ah (low-frequency Wi-Fi), will continue to expand the capabilities of the Wi-Fi family of technologies. The strong Wi-Fi road map will enable it to address new application areas such as high-definition video streaming telemetry and offloading traffic from cellular networks.
LTE:
LTE is a next-generation cellular wireless technology that pushes peak theoretical speeds to hundreds of megabits per second and reduces latency. LTE will be adopted by code division multiple access (CDMA) and Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network operators.
CONCLUSION:
The
world is changing drastically. The technological changes in the last decade
itself are baffling and the future looks really promising. With these amazing
techs one can only imagine as to what the future holds.
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