The 4K TVs
The tendency of replacing classical television with digital television has been going on for a while, but the 4K TVs will probably be the final hit for this old industry. The 4K terminals can display movies with resolutions four times bigger than HDTV, so it is understood why they’re so appreciated.
For the moment, the price is prohibitive, and the current capabilities of televisions would not be able to ensure a solid number of programs that can be enjoyed on this device—but all the same, it is a huge step forward in terms of clarity and fidelity. How long before a 4K TV becomes a realistic purchase? Some might tell you that it’s a matter of weeks. You can already buy 4K televisions with Soni’s 55 and 65 inch models coming in at $5,000 and its 84 inch going for the tidy sum of 24 thousand. And it is already supported on Youtube. Here is a beautiful 4K video of ink drops (note: switch quality to “original” for the 4k version).
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Smart Watch
“Pebble” officially launched in 2013, is the first smart watch. Besides the common functions of a classic watch, it can be connected to the Smartphone or tablet, with a simple Android or iOS application. This way, the watch will give you access to lots of information besides the time of day, such as missed calls, messages, and emails. The device is connected with an app store also, so the developers could create other applications that would make Pebble even more interesting and useful.
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Billboard That Produces Clean Water
It seems like advertising, nowadays, is as necessary as clean water for society to function. So it’s refreshing to see one company working hard to combine the two. Located in Lima, Peru, and developed by The University of Engineering and Technology of Peru and ad agency Mayo DraftFCB, the billboard is able to produce around twenty-six gallons of water per day. It uses five filtration devices, and is helped along by Lima’s extremely humid air.
The billboard is designed not only to provide water to Peru’s largest city—a city where 1.2 million residents don’t have running water—but also to encourage kids to apply to UTEC and study engineering. This could be one of the biggest technological revolutions ever, which will solve one of humanity’s biggest problems—or it could merely be an ambitious plan that won’t evolve to the next level. Only time will tell.
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Google Glass
People have tried to make smart glasses before, with very little luck. Google’s “Glass” seems like the first pair that might actually work properly. Not only that—people who have used them said that (despite the uncanny feeling that everyone’s staring at you), the experience was actually pretty good. Being able to get real-time information about everything you’re looking at may seem to some like information overload, but it’s likely that most people will become used to the idea the future.
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Myo
Dubbed the next generation of gesture control, the Myo is an armband full of sensors that are able to pick up on the electrical activity in your muscles, in order to wirelessly control your electronics via Bluetooth. According to the creators, the device will work with both Windows and Mac OS, with iOS and Android support soon to follow. The Myo can already be preordered for $149.
Its success may well depend on the number of applications it will work with. It’s a safe bet that your average gamer is the most eager to see the gaming abilities showcased with this device. One way or another, the Myo gesture control armband, if successful, will consign camera-based gesture-recognition to the history books.
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Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System
Developed by Second Sight, the Argus II is a device that works to restore vision to those suffering from complete or partial blindness. It does this by capturing images via a mini video camera in the glasses, which are then transformed into instructions that are picked up by an implant placed on the wearer’s eye.
Once the implant has received the instructions, it sends them to an electrode array which then forwards the visual information to the brain via the optic nerve. This is a true revolution of technology, which offers the chance of restored sight to millions of disabled people around the world
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