Only boring will not be this year. 3D printing, electronics payments, iTV, smart TV in every home, social gaming, touch ID. No we didn't get the witch's crystal ball.
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
Commercial applications of this technologyWe have seen quite a few in recent years. But their development is rapid and this will be a crucial year. An example: A speaker was recently announced with all plastic and metal parts made by a printer. This means that China loses the advantage of low cost in production since it is now possible to manufacture cheaply 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 (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
Η 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 name, credit number, email and friends, a biometric data is entered. 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 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
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
Very difficult one TV που θα αγοραστεί μέσα στο 2014 δεν θα είναι “έξυπνη”. Από τη μία, βλέπεις, οι 3D τηλεοράσεις πέρασαν και δεν ακούμπησαν. Από την άλλη είναι η τάση του όλα smart, από το ρολόι μέχρι το activity tracker. Οι τιμές έπεσαν αρκετά μέσα στο 2013, πλέον η φτηνότερη από γνωστό κατασκευαστή είναι στα 236 ευρώ (22 ίντσες) ενώ μπορείς να βρεις 40άρα smart στα 400 ευρώ. Γι' αυτό φέτος είναι που οι Smart Tv θα γίνουν standard σε κάθε σαλόνι.
iTV
It's the announcement everyone has been waiting for in 2014. Apparently the iTV is in an advanced stage of development at Apple's labs and the announcement will be made within the year. What everyone is waiting for is something radically new from how you change channels to what exactly you do with your TV, a new ecosystem for TV apps, maybe the famous computer app-up (since a smart TV is a computers), perhaps a very sleek content buying platform.
Source: oneman.gr
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