The computer potato is all about digging out promising, emerging technologies in anything electronics. We won’t have lived up to our reputation if we didn’t bring you nifty, tiny devices that make us wish for more!
We present to you the WonderCube!
Yup, the device looks like something out of a sci-fi movie, but then again what new device doesn’t nowadays! This tiny device will make you do away with lots of your daily devices and it is just the size of a key ring! This makes WonderCube a device that makes our list quite literally in any category!
You can now preorder WonderCube here. This indicates it will soon be seeing commercial production.
We say kudos to the inventors of this tiny, tiny “cubey” thing that will make life a lot easier and a whole lot less heavier.
Many companies and service providers are trying to give us mobile connectivity without the need for a SIM card. This could mean the beginning of seamless connection everywhere you go around the world, without needing to worry about signal bars or that massive roaming bill when you get back home or carrying around one of these.
In the US, Google has recently launched its own “mobile network” of mobile networks called Project Fi. For one paid plan, you can use the many phone networks that Google has partnered with around the world!
How it works?
You simply get one of the Project Fi enabled phones, sign up for one of the packages with Google, and you are good to go! The plan is you can go around the world with your phone with no roaming charge, and you will be able to seamlessly make calls over wifi or any of Google’s partner networks in the country you are in, all these without losing the call during change of networks! Google boasts this is possible in over 120 countries! Sounds like freedom!
Another startup company – GoTenna – has also made a revolutionary device that connects to your phone via bluetooth to send messages without needing a network signal, either mobile or WiFi, or even a SIM in your phone.
Man With GoTenna In Remote Location
How it works?
The GoTenna comes in pairs, you buy one and get one for a family member or friend. This way, a network of GoTenna is built around the world with each connected GoTenna. If you were to lose signal, say you are in a desert, and another GoTenna is less than 4 miles away (depending on the terrain), you can send messages to the nearest GoTenna and through it. Or you can simply send your location so that you are easily found. Not convinced? Watch video below.
Slowly, it seems we will no longer be needing a SIM to communicate with each other if technologies like these are allowed to pick up! We will have no need for roaming charges! And best of all, all networks will serve everyone no matter their individual chosen mobile provider!
Don’t throw away your phones yet though, before we can enjoy these services in full capacity, there is much work to be done to the current infrastructure, and we are sure, tonnes of contracts signed between the mobile providers!
We recently wrote about how the future is slowly staring us in the face and how soon we will interact with technology in different ways. 2016 is seeing an increase in demand for virtual reality or augmented reality and tech giants are ready to deliver.
Our definition of virtual reality will be when an electronic device represents reality electronically and animates the simulation of the environment. Augmented reality goes a step further by representing the reality virtually, but also adding a layer of a simulated environment on the real environment. So you can control reality, virtually! Confused? You are not alone.
Meet Augmenta!
We are slowly moving from typing, to talking to devices, and in the near future air gestures might control all our devices and life. Thanks to the hard work of techies, augmented reality is becoming a reality and could be the norm of computing sooner than we think.
It doesn’t stop there! Companies like Google, Lenovo and makers of Augmenta glasses are still working bring to us augmented reality without need for glasses! See video below.
The future surely looks like it will be in our hands!
