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
To 2014 θα είναι πολύ κρίσιμη χρονιά για τις επικοινωνίες bluetooth . Η low power εκδοχή δίνει συναρπαστικές δυνατότητες από νέα συστήματα επικοινωνίας στο smartphone μέχρι τη δημιουργία μικρών τοπικών δικτύων εκεί που δεν υπάρχει signal ή wifi. Π.χ. σε ένα εμπορικό κέντρο μπορεί να διευκολύνει τις πληρωμές και την διαφήμιση των προιόντων. Μία εφαρμογή είναι το Coin που φιλοδοξεί να αντικαταστήσει τις πιστωτικές κάρτες και είναι ήδη στην αγορά.
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 (count 4 of two-year electronic payments two years ago and 20 is expected two billion dollars this year) and Square. The queue is waiting for VeriFone SAIL, Swiff, PhoneSwipe, Groupon Payments, Pay Anywhere, IZettle, Payleven and of course Coin. Facilitating payments and creating networks from merchants and customers is the next big bet in Silicon Valley.
touch ID
The camera at iPhone 5S φαίνεται ότι είναι η αρχή. Η σάρωση των δακτυλικών αποτυπωμάτων είναι ο καλύτερος τρόπος για το κλείδωμα του τηλεφώνου και την ασφάλεια των προσωπικών δεδομένων αλλά μαζί έρχονται οι γνωστοί προβληματισμοί. Όταν, για παράδειγμα, μαζί με το όνομα, τον αριθμό της πιστωτικής, το email και τους φίλους καταχωρείται και ένα βιομετρικό δεδομένο. Μέσα στο 2014 θα ξεκαθαρίσει αν η τάση αυτή θα επικρατήσει και αν οι υπόλοιποι κατασκευαστές, που προς το παρόν τηρούν στάση αναμονής, θα κινηθούν προς την ίδια κατεύθυνση.
Social gaming
Gaming was always as social as the medium allowed. Very on the PC and little on portable consoles. This will change with the new Xbox and PS4 will bring social capabilities such as creating accounts, automatically rendering performance, friends, networks, comments while eliminating the distinction between PC and console at least in PS4 that turns to PC architecture and processors AMD. This changes things a lot in the living room since PC and console become one while Smart TV is claiming a great deal of the same functions.
The smart assistant
Η τεχνολογία έχει προχωρήσει αρκετά και οι προσωπικοί βοηθοί δεν είναι απλά ένα μενού εντολών με φωνητική αναγνώριση. Αυτή είναι η χρονιά όμως που ο Siri και το Google Now θα πρέπει να κάνουν το μεγάλο βήμα για να φτάσουμε στην παθητική αναζήτηση πληροφοριών, δηλαδή πληροφορίες που θα έρχονται στο χρήση αυτόματα. Μια άλλη εξέλιξη είναι η αναζήτηση με τη χρήση physicsς γλώσσας που αναμένεται να αλλάξει αρκετά την παραδοσιακή αναζήτηση με τις λέξεις κλειδιά.
The 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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