According to Beijing Time News. When was the last time you were rocked by consumer technology? For six of years, smartphones have been a black-and-white rectangle. Sony's biggest upgrade to the PlayStation 4 game is in the area of social sharing and streaming media. Ultra-HD 4K TVs are only suitable for oversized displays, and such large screens are not suitable for your living room. Laptop and tablet blending products and 3D printers are still in the making ... But it's too early to say that the golden age of equipment is over. Computer scientists, network technicians and software engineers are developing a new set of technologies to help speed up the innovation engine. Here are five new technologies that may be implemented in the future.
Flexible display: Put your phone on your arm
Smart watch is the newest "new Thing". Let your watch connect to your smartphone, and when you receive emails, text messages, or a change in the score that you are interested in, it will immediately inform you that the idea sounds really good. But wouldn't it be better if you just put your smartphone on your wrist?
Flexible display prototypes have been around for years, and large smartphone companies such as Nokia and Samsung and the glass maker Corning (Corning) have deliberately turned them into reality. Apple has applied for a patent for a flex phone that you can wear as a sleeve on your arm.
Because the technology is too expensive now, it is impractical for consumer devices. But at this year's International Consumer Electronics Show (Consumer Electronics), Corning expects the technology to appear on its ultra-thin, curved willow glass glass over the next few years.
Smart Cloud: Your phone understands you
Most of the computing work on your smartphone or tablet is done not in the device itself, but in a giant "cloud" server in a remote data center. Despite the impressive capabilities of cloud computing (the new Samsung Galaxy S4 can translate text into any language in real time), they haven't become smart enough.
Future handsets will be "conscious" handsets, something that data-intensive companies like Google and IBM want to achieve. Your smartphone follows you all the while and contains a lot of personal information. So you can imagine this scenario: when you are about to go to the airport, your phone will promptly inform you that your flight has been canceled. Then, it helps you book the next flight to take off in one hours, and Bakrie a cup of coffee at the airport's star, and finally sends you an email informing other people at the meeting that you will arrive later.
Of course, this involves a lot of privacy issues. Also, the wireless infrastructure must be upgraded to handle all this data. But in the next few years, because of the cloud, our "smart" devices today may look stiff.
Better battery: Don't charge every night!
About Two-thirds of your smartphone's space is occupied by lithium-ion batteries. This means that its processor, camera, touch screen and all other components need to be squeezed into a small space.
One way people deal with bad battery life is to produce larger smartphones that can accommodate larger batteries. But some researchers are testing new batteries that use different chemicals, such as amino-lithium or silicon, that last longer than today's lithium-ion batteries.
But the problem is that lithium-ion batteries are the most viable solution for saving electricity and preventing explosions. Although lithium-ion batteries are about to become a reality, they can only increase battery life by 10%. In other words, don't expect a revolutionary change in battery life in the short term.
Faster networks: no need for buffering
Google's new fibre-optic network in the United States is capable of providing up to 1G downloads per second-about 200 times times the speed of the average American network connection (Kansas City). Most wireless carriers are upgrading their networks to 4g-lte networks, and some operators have even started developing faster lte-advanced networks.
Faster Internet connectivity will allow Internet technology to enter a new era, even when we don't think about it-like people who use 56k modems can't imagine that one day you'll be watching YouTube videos on your phone.
The problem with these technologies is that their costs are too high to be replicated. But the laying of fibre-optic pipelines often requires the user's lawn to be ripped off. Verizon, the wireless carrier, does not intend to expand its FiOS fibre network, and At&t recently promised to lay the fiber into neighboring network nodes rather than laying it home. Similarly, the cost of infrastructure upgrades for wireless carriers is as high as $ tens of billions of a year. As consumers occupy more broadband, mobile companies will need to buy more wireless spectrum to provide all of this data.
Quantum computing: Super fast Speed
Today's calculation is so slow that it's a bit of a headache. This is because the computer relies on a long string of 0 and 1, which represent "yes" and "no" respectively. It's as endless as twenty questions game.
Future computing may be very dependent on probabilities-particles may present multiple states at the same time, and computers can come up with answers based on the possible states of the particles-rather than the clear "yes" and "no" answers. In theory, the computing speed of the future computer is about several times the speed of today's calculation.
This is a promising solution, but it has been discussed for decades and has yet to be implemented. Many companies are developing quantum computing technologies, including HP, IBM, Microsoft and defense contractors Lockheed Martin. Meanwhile, the BlackBerry maker Rim co-founder Mike Lazaridis (Mike Lazaridis) and Doug Flegkin (Doug Fregin) have just started a 100 million dollar venture capital fund to "incubate and commercialize quantum science and technology".
Yet no one has yet proven that the technology can actually go beyond traditional computers.