Digital technology has come a long way through all leaps and bounds over the past five years. Cloud computing, smartphones, and multi-touch tablets are the innovations which revolutionized our personal and work life. Well, it's just a beginning. Technology will get even better. In the near future, we could lead a life just like in sci-fi movies.
So, get ready to slice Ninja fruits through your gestures and control the desktop with eyes, print your own physical product, and enter into the virtual world and experience virtual reality. Here's is the rundown of top 10 real-life, upcoming gadgets and technologies which will change the world.
Google Glass
Augmented Reality is already here in the forms of simulated education and experiment app. But Google has taken multiple steps ahead by launching Google Glass. Theoretically, you can view your texts, social feeds, Google Maps and navigate through GPS. You can also get updates on the ground. Currently, it is offered only to some developers at $1500. But other tech companies are working and trying to build an affordable variant for commercial sales.
Form 1
3D printing could forge any digital design into a real-life product. It is nothing new for the mechanical industry but a 3D printer is surely a revolutionary idea. Everyone can create their own product with their unique design and you don't need any approval from any company. Even Aston Martin in a James Bond movie was a 3D printed product which was crashed for a scene.
Form 1 is a personal 3D printer you could buy at $2799. It seems a very hefty price but you can produce your own prototypes with it. Imagine a day when any professional can mass produce their own physical products without any limits.
Oculus Rift
Oculus Rift is a 3D headset which would bring virtual reality to life. It allows you feel that you are actually in a video game mentally. In its virtual world, you could view the world in HD display with very low latency by just turning the head around. Several premium products can do the same but Rift gives that experience at just $300. It is the beginning of next-gen gaming revolution.
The world is bombarded with VR gadgets. So, the timing is right to be immersed in the whole virtual world. Oculus Rift is the first step to reach such level of realism.
Leap Motion
The concept of a multi-touch desktop is miserably failed because hands could get too tired for long use. But Leap Motion could come with a more innovative idea. You can control your desktop with fingers, without having to touch the screen.
Unlike a usual motion sensor, Leap Motion enables the user to zoom in the photos and map, scroll a web page, sign documents and also play FPS game with just finger and hand movements. A smooth reaction is a very important part of it. This future tech could be yours at just $70. You could buy a PS3 premium game title for this price. If it could work with Oculus Rift, it could definitely give a great makeover to your real-time gaming.
Smart Things
In most devices, the existing problem is that they work standalone and it needs effort for tech leaders to partner with one another and build products that can connect to one another. With Smart Things, you can make every digital to connect together, whether digital or not. You can easily get your humidity, vibration and pressure sensors, and smoke alarms to detect things and alert you by using your smartphone.
You can also track who has been in your house, turn the lights on when entering the room, and shut the doors and windows while leaving the house, all with a gadget which could cost around $500.
Eye Tribe
Eye tracking has been discussed actively by tech lovers already but it is not that simple to implement. But it is not so for Eye Tribe. They created a technology successfully that can let you control the tablet, play flight simulator and even play Fruit Ninja with just eye movements.
Basically, it's just an eye-tracking technology which can be combined with a front camera and some serious computerized algorithm. In LeWeb, a live demo was done this year and we may see it in action in future. The company is still looking for partnership to bring this tech to the market.
Firefox OS
As we all know, there is no competition for Android and iOS. But both of them have their own policies and rules which inhibit the developers and their creative efforts. Since then, Mozilla decided to develop a new mobile OS from the very beginning, which will focus on freedom, true openness, and user's choice.
It's Firefox OS which is built on Gecko, Gonk, and Gaia software layers. It means it is completely open source and carries HTML5 and CSS3 technologies.
Developers can debut apps without blockade of needs set by stores. Hence, users could also personalize the OS as per their needs. Currently, it is available for Android-compatible devices. It can be used to do basic tasks that you do on Android or iOS devices, such as browsing the web, calling friends, playing games, etc.
Project Fiona
Razer's Project Fiona is supposed to be the first generation of gaming tablet. It is seriously built for hardcore gaming. Tech companies might also develop their tablets that are dedicated to gaming. It features Intel Core i7 CPU to play all the PC games you love at the palm of your hands. Razer has developed user experience just on the tablet, along with magnetometer, 3-axis gyro, accelerometer and multi-touch UI.
Parallella
It will clearly redefine the way computers are made. It is simply a supercomputer for all. It is a power-saving computer built to process complex program efficiently and simultaneously. It will make holographic heads-up display, real-time object tracking, and speech recognition even smarter and stronger.
Driverless Car by Google
We all have imagined driverless car to be real someday. Finally, Google has made it happen. It works on artificial intelligence which gets input from video cameras in it, a sensor on the top, and some position sensors and radar in various positions of the car. A lot of research and development has been done to imitate the human intelligence.
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Paul B
