ICT~ History of Computers Part III
5 pieces of technology that you think will revolutionize technology.
Electric Operated Vehicles.
I think this will revolutionize technology in the future because isnted of using gas to run our cars. This vehicle is propelled by wheel mounted drive motors to which energy is supplied from a battery. During vehicle braking by a mechanical brake, a switching control is operative on the motor windings to produce a regenerative action causing electrical braking. The regenerative energy produced during the braking operation, is utilized to charge the battery. This makes driving on the road much safer and no need to stop by a gas station to fill up your tank!
Touch-Screen Products.
While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations. Such sensing devices are inherently also able to accommodate multiple users simultaneously, which is especially useful for larger interaction scenarios such as interactive walls and tabletops. Since refining the FTIR (frustrated total internal reflection) sensing technique, we’ve been experimenting with a wide variety of application scenarios and interaction modalities that utilize multi-touch input information. These go far beyond the “poking” actions you get with a typical touchscreen, or the gross gesturing found in video-based interactive interfaces. It is a rich area for research, and we are extremely excited by its potential for advances in efficiency, usability, and intuitiveness. It’s also just so much fun! Our technique is force-sensitive, and provides unprecedented resolution and scalability, allowing us to create sophisticated multi-point widgets for applications large enough to accommodate both hands and multiple users.
Wi-Fi
stands for wireless fidelity, in a play on the older term Hi-Fi, is a wireless networking technology used across the globe. Wi-Fi refers to any system that uses the 802.11 standard, which was developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and released in 1997. The term Wi-Fi, which is alternatively spelled WiFi, Wi-fi, Wifi, or wifi, was pushed by the Wi-Fi Alliance, a trade group that pioneered commercialization of the technology.
Smart Phones/PDA (cell phones)
smart phone is about a lot more than just making calls. With a PDA phone, you can connect to the Web and check your email. Also, PDA cell phones enable you to get faxes, voicemail and text messages. Some PDA smart phones even have the potential to let you hook up with a speech-recognition server by phone. This makes it possible to use PDA phones to dictate responses or notes as well as see the text on the PDA phones screens as it comes back from the server. PDA phones combine all the advantages of a PDA with a cell phone. This makes PDA smart phones almost an absolute must for busy business people everywhere. You can do practically anything on PDA phones that you could do in your office. And you can do those things on PDA phones from anyplace you happen to be.
Blu-Ray
Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD), is the name of a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), a group of the world’s leading consumer electronics, personal computer and media manufacturers (including Apple, Dell, Hitachi, HP, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson). The format was developed to enable recording, rewriting and playback of high-definition video (HD), as well as storing large amounts of data. The format offers more than five times the storage capacity of traditional DVDs and can hold up to 25GB on a single-layer disc and 50GB on a dual-layer disc. This extra capacity combined with the use of advanced video and audio codecs will offer consumers an unprecedented HD experience. Recent development by Pioneer has pushed the storage capacity to 500GB on a single disc by using 20 layers.
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