Only boring will not be this year. 3D printing, electronic payments, iTV, smart TV in every home, social gaming, touch ID. No, we did not get the witch's glass sphere.
When Jack Dorsey, who became 5 the richest (for Forbes) person on the planet after Twitter's IPO, spends his time at a startup that deals with electronic payments, something says. When Mark Cerny preparing PS4 turns to AMD processors, when you have the first speaker with all parts made with 3D printing, you have to wait for developments. And when you can find 40 Smart TV without spending a fortune, you can easily predict what technologies 2014 will fascinate us with.
3D-printing
We have seen several commercial applications of this technology in recent years. But their evolution is rapid and this will be a critical year. An example: Recently announced the construction of a speaker with all plastic and metal parts made by a printer. This means that China is losing the advantage of low production costs as there is now the possibility of cheap construction anywhere in the world without, in fact, transportation costs. A device for the Greek market can be manufactured in Greece.
Bluetooth 4.0
2014 will be a very critical year for bluetooth communications. The low power version gives exciting features from new communication systems on the smartphone to the creation of small local networks where there is no signal or wifi. B.C. in a shopping mall can facilitate payments and advertising of products. One application is Coin, which aspires to replace credit cards and is already on the market.
Electronic payments
With or without Bluetooth 4.0, a new generation of peripherals makes it look tricky. 2014 will surely be his year PayPal Here (counted 4 billion electronic payments two years ago and expects 20 billion dollars this year) and Square. Waiting in line are VeriFone SAIL, Swiff, PhoneSwipe, Groupon Payments, Pay Anywhere, IZettle, Payleven and of course Coin. The facilitation of payments and the creation of networks by empconditions and customers are the next big bet in Silicon Valley.
touch ID
The camera on the iPhone 5S seems to be the beginning. Fingerprint scanning is the best way to lock your phone and secure your personal data, but with it comes the familiar pitfalls. When, for example, along with the name, her number credits, email and friends and a biometric data is registered. In 2014, it will become clear whether this trend will prevail and whether the other manufacturers, who are currently waiting, will move in the same direction.
Social gaming
Gaming has always been as social as the medium allowed. A lot on PC and a little on handheld consoles. This will change with the new Xbox and PS4 will bring social features such as account creation, automatic performance posts, friends, networks, comments while removing the distinction between pc and consoles at least on PS4 which is shifting towards PC architecture and AMD processors. This changes things quite a bit in the living room since PC and console become one while Smart TVs claim a large part of the same functions.
The smart assistant
Technology has gone a long way, and personal helpers are not just a menu of commands with voice recognition. This is the year that Siri and Google Now will have to take the big step in getting to passive search for information, that is information that will come into use automatically. Another development is searching using natural language that is expected to change enough the traditional search with keywords.
Smart TVs
It is very unlikely that a TV purchased in 2014 will not be "smart". On the one hand, you see, 3D TVs have passed and not touched. On the other hand is the trend of everything smart, from the watch to the activity tracker. The prices dropped considerably in 2013, now the cheapest one from a well-known manufacturer is 236 euros (22 inches) while you can find a 40a smart for 400 euros. That is why Smart TVs will become standard in every living room this year.
iTV
It is the announcement that everyone is waiting for in 2014. Apparently iTV is at an advanced stage of development in Apple's laboratories and the announcement will be made within the year. What everyone expects is something radical new to how you switch channels to what you do with your TV, a new ecosystem for television applications, perhaps the famous app-up of computers (once a smart TV is a computer) , perhaps a very sleek content purchase platform.
Source: oneman.gr
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