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IBM formally unveiled the fifth annual list of the next five innovations in the next five years ("Next Five in Five") : A list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play in the next five years:
• You can teleport with his friends in 3D
• breathe air batteries to power our devices
• No need to be a scientist to save the planet
• Your trip will be customized
• Computers help energize cities
's forecast the next five innovations in the next five years is based on market trends and society are expected to transform our lives as well as emerging technologies from IBM laboratories worldwide, which can make these innovations possible.
the next five years, technological innovations will change the lives of people in the following ways:
can teleport with his friends in 3D
the next five years, 3D interfaces such as the movies you allow 3D holograms interact with their friends in real time. Movies and television programs and are moving to 3D. As 3D and holographic cameras are becoming more sophisticated and miniaturized to enter cell phones, we interact with photos, surf the web and chat with friends in entirely new ways.
Scientists are working to improve the video-chat with the aim of transforming it into chat holographic or three-dimensional tele-presence. " The technique uses beams of light reflecting objects and reconstructs an image of the object, a technique similar to that used by the human eye to visualize the environment.
can see their friends in 3D too. In the same way that a flat map of the earth has a distortion at the poles, which makes flight patterns seem indirect, there is also distortion of the data, which is becoming greater as digital information becomes more "smart" as an album digital photos. Photos are now geo-tagged, the web is capable of synchronizing information between devices and computer interfaces are becoming more natural.
IBM Research scientists are working on new ways to visualize 3D data, with technology enabling engineers to get into the designs of all things, from buildings to software, simulations of how to disseminate the diseases in three-dimensional globe and see the trends taking place in the world Twitter, all in real time with little or no distortion.
Breathe air batteries to power our devices
Ever wished that your cell phone battery last for days without recharging? Or have a cell phone that is recharged by being carried in your pocket?
the next five years, scientific advances in battery technology and will allow transistor devices last about ten times more than what we currently endure. Indeed, in some cases, the batteries may eventually disappear completely from the smallest devices.
Instead of the heavy ion batteries battery that is used today, scientists are working on batteries that take advantage of the air we breathe to react with metal energy dense, eliminating a key inhibitor of the longest lasting batteries. If successful, the result is a lightweight battery, powerful battery, capable of powering everything from electric cars to consumer devices.
But what if we could remove the battery completely?
Rethinking the building blocks of electronic devices, transistor, IBM aims to reduce the amount of energy per transistor within 0.5 volts. With demand so low energy, we could eliminate the battery pack on some devices, like cell phones or e-readers .
The result would be out of power electronic devices that can be charged using a technique called "energy recovery". Some watches use this technique today: no need to wind them up and loaded by the arm movement. The same concept could be used to charge mobile phones, for example, would only be necessary to shake the phone and would be ready to dial.
need not be a scientist to save the planet
Although you are not a physicist, is a walking sensor. In five years, the sensors on your phone, your car, your wallet and even his tweets collect data that will give scientists real-time images of its surroundings. You can contribute this data to combat global warming, saving endangered species or to track invasive plants and animals threaten ecosystems worldwide. In the next five years, will come a whole class of "citizen scientists" who use simple sensors that already exist to create massive data sets for research.
simple observations such as the time when that occurs the first thaw in a certain city, when they first appear mosquitoes, if there is no running water where there should be a stream ... this is valuable information that scientists today do not are available in large proportions. Even your laptop can be used as a sensor to detect seismic activity. If used correctly and connects to a network of other computers, your laptop can help you make decisions quickly after an earthquake, to accelerate the work of the rescuers and potentially save lives.
Recently, IBM patented a technique that allows a system to perform accurately and requires a post-event analysis of seismic events such as earthquakes and tsunami early warnings, which can occur after earthquakes. The invention also allows to quickly measure and analyze the damage zone of an earthquake to help prioritize the necessary emergency response after the incident.
The company is also providing "apps" mobile phone that allows ordinary citizens to contribute invaluable data to various causes, such as improving drinking water quality or denounce noise pollution. Currently, an application called "Creek Watch" allows citizens to take a picture of a stream, answer three simple questions about it and make that data is automatically made available to local water authorities.
Your itinerary is transferred from one place to another / to work, will be personalized
Imagine a journey without congested highways, not overcrowded subways, streets without delays in construction and no concerns about being late for work . In the next five years, transit systems will learn in an intuitive adaptive patterns and behavior of passengers to give personalized recommendations that enable them to reach their destination in the shortest time possible. Transit systems intuitively learn adaptive behavior patterns and to give passengers more dynamic information on safety and travel routes currently available.
IBM researchers are developing new models to predict the results of various transport routes to provide information that goes beyond traditional traffic reports, that is, devices that report where one is still located in a congested traffic, and applications Web-based provide the estimated travel time based on traffic flow.
Using new mathematical models and predictive analysis technology from IBM, the researchers will analyze and combine multiple scenarios that may affect passengers to provide the best travel routes, taking into account many factors such as traffic accidents, passenger's location, current or planned construction of roads, the days of the week rush, the expected timing of commencement of business hours, local events can have an impact on transit, alternative options transportation such as train or ferry, parking availability and weather conditions.
For example, combining predictive analytics with real time information about current traffic congestion from sensors and other data, the system could recommend better ways to reach your destination, for example, how to get to a central public transport nearby, as well as information on whether the train will arrive on time and whether there will be parking available at the train station. The new systems can learn regular travel patterns in general one makes and then integrate all available data and predictive models to identify the best way.
The computers will help fuel the city
innovations in computers and data centers allow the excess heat and energy generated may have other applications, such as providing heat to buildings in winter and feed air conditioning in the summer. What if the energy flow data centers in the world could in turn be recycled for use of a city?
Up to 50% of the energy consumed by a modern data center is used for cooling the air. Most heat is wasted because just then enters the atmosphere. New technologies, such as innovative water cooling on the chip, developed by IBM, in an efficient way to recycle the thermal energy of a cluster (arrangement) of computer processors, to provide hot water for an office or housing .
is estimated that a pilot project in Switzerland that includes a computer system equipped with the technology will save up to 30 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year, equivalent to a 85% reduction in carbon footprint. A new network of microfluidic capillaries within a heat sink is connected to the surface of each chip in the cluster (arrangement) of computers, allowing water to be driven to a near-micron semiconductor material. In doing so the water flow around each chip, it is possible to remove heat more efficiently. The water is heated to 60 ° C then is circulated through a heat exchanger to produce heat, which can then be used in other applications.
information: www.ibm.com/press/5in52010
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