If the past recent years is anything to go by, then we can only see more technologies that have been featured in Hollywood blockbusters trickle down to us, the consumers!
Goodyear -one of the giants of tyre makers- has released a concept tyre that looks very similar to Will Smith’s tyres in the movie I-Robot.
Meet the tyre of the future
If anything, it looks futuristic and cool. We hope to see more of it!
We have all wondered – depending on your point of view- how wonderful or disastrous it would be for robots to actually mimic us as emotional and sensitive beings! Whatever your view if it is possible for oil and metal to feel what living creatures feel, there are some advancements in robotics that just draws us a step closer to creating a “sentient” machine.
Korean and American researchers have created a stretchable material covered with electronic sensors so much that it can feed back pressure, temperature, even moisture.
This “skin” can be placed on prosthetic limbs to help the wearer feel and sense! This will take some time yet before it can be applicable in reality, as connecting it to live nerves is still to be fully achieved.
We have all been in that situation when travelling and watching movies, playing games or listening to music on our mobile devices and worried about the battery meter. We always wished we didn’t need batteries at all, so we can keep the kids busy or get rid of that long inevitable boredom of sleeping or gawking at the windows.
Well like everything nowadays, some people have given thought to this problem and found us an ingenious solution to this common problem. No, they haven’t got rid of batteries all together, at least not yet, but they have made something innovative.
Meet these futuristic cabin luggage.
They sure do look like luggage from a sci-fi movie, but they don’t just have the looks. They are also packed with features- pun intended. Yes you guessed right, they are smart, like everything nowadays. They also help charge your devices on the go so you don’t have to worry about saving your battery on your journey!
The IQ even gets you connected with WiFi if you insert a SIM card and has its own inbuilt scale so you don’t have to worry you packed too much.
The G-Ro has a revolutionary wheel system that works on any surface and built in tablet stand.
At the computer potato, we give the minds behind these devices kudos and hope that more innovations like this to make life a little more exciting are birth more often.
Lexus, the giant car maker found a revolutionary way to make a hoverboard. Yes, a working hoverboard and with unlikely components nonetheless. It uses liquid nitrogen and magnets in a revolutionary way to slide.
At the Computer Potato, we take pride in keeping technology news simple, therefore we can’t detail how the technology works exactly. However, this video shows the hoverboard in action. Enjoy!
If you are curious on how the technology works, please watch the video below.
We all like to know what the weather holds in store for us so as to plan how we go about the day. So there is no surprise there are many ways of checking the weather forecast. However, a company has gone beyond the box to bring the rendering of tomorrow’s weather in your living space.
Meet the Tempescope!
The dedicated website claims “The tempescope is an ambient physical display that visualizes various weather conditions like rain, clouds, and lightning. By receiving weather forecasts from the internet, it can reproduce tomorrow’s sky in your living room.”
While many people might not buy into the idea of spending extra money just to get a box that tells you the weather forecast by representing it with some few tricks, we at The Computer Potato think this idea is cute and is true to bring life to any living space!
You might want to start packing the sewing machine back in its box. A group of inventors have invented a way of printing your clothes! No we don’t mean you printing letters on your clothes! We mean actually printing the fabric in the shape and design you choose.
The inventors of Electroloom believe they can make this ready by the end of2015 and already are looking for funding.
See for yourself below!
This is another invention we at theComputerPotato think will shape the future so we give kudos to the inventors working hard to make this a reality!
We at Computer Potato would like to introduce you to the next stage of technological advancement in computing and mobile devices which if put together into one device will change the way we interact with our environment using the electronic devices of the future.
Throughout this article, we will use the word devices to cover anything from mobile devices, to computers (desktop/laptop), to any smart electronic devices found in cars, homes, and anything considered smart today!
Let’s start with the tech giant Intel’s RealSense. Like the name suggests this technology will allow devices to map and represent a real sense of what is actually around them. This means devices can electronically simulate the world around them in real dimensions, leaving your whole body and everything around you interactive with you and with your devices. See the video below.
You can see more and read more about it here. Realsense has already started trickling out commercially in some devices.
Another tech giant Google recently announced many projects they are working on. Some have caught our eye and had to be added to this article
Project Soli essentially does some of the things the Intel RealSense does by allowing you to interact with devices using your body and gestures but even down to minute movements and motions. See below
Project Jacquard on the other hand does let you interact with devices in a “fabricated” way (pun intended). This technology is weaved into the fabric of your clothes, and in essence gives you the power to control your devices by gestures on your clothes. Yeah you read that right!
Lenovo also announced their concept phone with a projector built in. Yes not only is this innovative enough, they made the projected image smart enough to read your input. With this you can get a projected keyboard that you can actually type on. This might mean physical keyboards or touchscreens might actually become extinct. See below
So we have talked about inputting, interaction and controlling devices. How would we then feel or see our controls or how will the devices themselves interact with us?
Not to worry, with many many virtual reality goggles coming out already, we don’t have to crack our brains. Virtual reality as the name implies, is when an electronic device represents reality electronically and animates the simulation of the environment.
One of these goggles is made by another technology giant, Microsoft. The Hololens is a virtual reality goggle like no other announced yet! See below
Now putting all these newer technologies together into the already smart and helpful devices we have today and what do you get? A more immersive experience and interaction with devices on every level much like you see in a scene from Iron Man in the video below.
The best of this is, these technologies are past the research stage and have started appearing on some devices. We at the Computer Potato give kudos to all these companies and their researchers working hard to advance the future, take our money, and make our lives a bit more fun!
If you thought this was an X rated post, you are out of luck! Nikola Labs have created a case for the iPhone 6 that can charge your phone by converting your phone’s emitted radio waves to electrical current.
Radio waves are everywhere nowadays, from your home WiFi signal, to your mobile phone network, and of course your old FM radios all use the same technology. This means the potential for this device is vast, as there is no end to how much radio waves are around us at every point in seconds and all of it can be harvested and converted into electrical power.
We at The Computer Potato wish the new start up company all the funding needed and more brain juice to be able to make this technology an everyday use for everyone, all phones and mobile devices.
Not many decades ago, computers that were as powerful as the device you are using to read this article was so big it filled a medium sized room. As the world begins to get smaller politically and monetarily, we are seeing a massive shrink in digital devices too.
Everything electronics have been becoming more powerful and with so much more features in smaller casings. Now fully capable computers are starting to treacle out in the form no bigger than a USB stick. Yes a USB stick! We at Computer Potato call them compusticks.
Many companies and tech giants are working together and researching into more powerful computers that come in small packages.
We at The Computer Potato think this innovation is inevitable and will be very useful when they finally pick up. Imagine you are going for a business or friendly meeting and you don’t have to carry that big laptop bag anymore. All you need carry is your USB sized PC and a monitor and keyboard when you get to your meeting.
We think computers will only get smaller and maybe one day a supercomputer today could fit into a USB stick. We sure can’t wait!
We have all seen the scenes in movies where everything in our daily lives are automated by voice control robots or light emitting computers. We spoke about the Internet of Things a few weeks ago and even recently we have seen companies already setting up the platforms to make this a reality.
Commercial companies are already taking advantage of our love for the future of technology, the ease it promises, and are using this to attract us into buying more. The Amazon Dash and Dash Button are certainly going to ease even more shopping online.
You simply tell the Dash what you want to buy or scan the pack of the product you want, then go to your Amazon account, review the list you created, schedule delivery, place order and viola!
With the Dash button, it goes a step easier. According to Amazon’s website, you “use the Amazon app on your smartphone to easily connect to your home Wi-Fi network and select the product you want to reorder with Dash Button. Once connected, a single press automatically places your order. Amazon sends an order alert to your phone, so it’s easy to cancel if you change your mind. Unless you elect otherwise, Dash Button responds only to your first press until your order is delivered. ”
We at the computerpotato think the Amazon Dash and Dash button or technology like this will be the future of shopping and many more companies and ideas will spring from this dew!
