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Game Changers: 5 New ‘Next Big Things’
Imagine if you could pay for parking with a few taps of your phone, and that you’d never have to pay for more time than you used. Imagine if, after you’re done eating a bag of chips or drinking a carton of juice, you could scarf down the perfectly edible packaging, too. Engineers and designers have been imagining these things, and …
When Your Gadgets Get to Know You: The Future of ‘Personalized’ Computing
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
I’ve often told people who ask me about the future of technology that as we get smarter devices, smarter software, and smarter cloud services we …
This Paper-Thin Phone Will Soon Look Primitive
A team of researchers at The Queens University Human Media Lab put together this flexible, ultra-thin phone out of electronic paper. They’re calling it — what else? — the PaperPhone, which does most of the things phones do nowadays: it places calls, lets you scroll through contacts, plays songs and even paginates text.
What’s …
Behold, the Video Game Graphics of the Future! [Updated with Video]
UPDATE:
Epic’s finally released video of the Samaritan demo in all of its 1080p glory. And would-be programmers, take note: the fancy-pants features seen in the demo here have just gone live in the current Unreal Development Kit update. So, if you’ve got a burly enough gaming rig, you can start trying to craft the games of the future …
Obama’s Tech Tour to Cover San Francisco, Intel’s Oregon Digs
You may recall that President Obama’s recent State of the Union address contained a fair amount of tech talk, calling for increases in research and development investments, clean energy initiatives, and innovation across the telecommunications sector.
ABC News is reporting that Obama is scheduled to meet with various business leaders …
Obama Outlines Tech Goals in State of the Union Address
Did you catch the State of the Union address last night? The full transcript can be found here or you can watch the video here.
I’m by no means qualified to comment on the political aspects of the President’s speech, but the address outlined several goals for the future as far as technology is concerned.
Here they are in order, …
Mozilla Seabird Concept Phone: Dual Projectors, 3D Mouse
Mobile processors are quickly approaching speeds that allow phones to act more and more like truly pocketable computers, but one of the areas that still needs to be addressed is how to facilitate text input and visual output that rivals traditional notebooks.
Mozilla’s concept "Seabird" phone presents a few interesting ideas. For
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Sony Develops Flexible Display
Sony is showing off an 80-micrometer thin flexible OLED display. It measures 4.1 inches, does full color, and has a resolution of 423×240 pixels. Sony demonstrated the display by playing video files on it while wrapping it around a 4-millimeter cylinder several times. Who knows, maybe your next phone will be little more than a …
An Interview With Ray Kurzweil
In an interview with Techland, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts the existence of machines with human-level intelligence by 2029, offers advice to inventors, and discusses how you can prepare yourself for the very real possibility of human immortality in the not-too-distant future.
Dr. Kurzweil will be delivering a keynote …
The Daily Dose
Friday, Feb. 26, 2010
Today in Techland: Want to see the year 2010 as told by 1972? Yeah, us neither. But, Geoffrey Hoyle’s 2010: Living in the Future offered an amusing look at a future (our present) full of jumpsuits, “virtual phones” and food tubes. We couldn’t pass it up. Meanwhile on The Techland Show, the boys counted down the …
2010: Living In The Future (According to 1972)
Predicting the future is murky business.
Few ever get it right and those who try, easily fall on their futuristic little faces. Still, the absurd outcomes of playing Nostradamus can wiggle their way into the hearts and belly laughs of even the biggest nay-flying car-sayers.
Written in 1972, Geoffrey Hoyle’s 2010: Living in the …