Top 10 TRENDS Gadget
#10 Tablet will get bigger
The tablet is now a thing - from the days when nobody considered a laptop without a keyboard to be a good thing to today, where a slate full of more power than some games consoles is nestled in bags across the world.
And with that popularity comes the dreaded notion of choice. Do you eschew Apple's high prices, join the Android brigade and find the best iPad alternative? Or jump on board Cupertino's lovetrain, and use one of the most popular tablets on the planet?
# 9 4000 resolution spread to TV and Phones
The argument for 4K is very clear. It’s higher resolution than “full HD” (1080p) televisions. This is achieved by packing more pixels into a smaller area. Smartphones, tablets, and laptops are all gaining higher-resolution screens. 4K TVs are just TVs with similar high-resolution displays.
A standard full HD TV you’ll buy right now has a resolution of 1080p, or 1920×1080. A 4K TV has a resolution of 3840×2160. It’s named 4K because a it has about four times as many pixels as a 1080p TV, and us nearly 4000 pixels wide.
More pixels just results in a richer, more detailed image. If you’ve seen a recent Apple device with a “Retina” display or another competing smartphone or tablet with a high-resolution display, you’ll understand. But smartphones, tablets, and laptops benefit more from this because your eyes are closer to the screen. At common TV sizes and viewing distances, the improvement isn’t quite as extreme–in fact, depending on the size of your TV and how far away you sit, you may not notice much of a difference at all.
# 8 3D Printing kick starts a new industrial age
Think of it this way: You're at home, you want something, you print it.
Today, that can be a chess set, some shoes, or a playable violin.
Powered by 3D design software, the technology allows complex objects to be created in a single piece, layer by layer, bypassing traditional steps of design and production.
But 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, is moving well beyond making plastic objects, or even rapid industrial prototyping. "Today, 3D printers can not only handle materials ranging from titanium to human cartilage but also produce fully functional components, including complex mechanisms, batteries, transistors, and LEDs," according a 2014 McKinsey Quarterly report.
It's having a transformative effect in medicine. The first houses are now being 3D printed. So are major parts of cars. And while many challenges remain — the costs and variety of materials, constraints around high-volume production — institutions such as governments and multinationals are investing billions of dollars in the technology that many argue could help power a third industrial revolution.
# 7 Internet things get its own new facePowered by 3D design software, the technology allows complex objects to be created in a single piece, layer by layer, bypassing traditional steps of design and production.
But 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, is moving well beyond making plastic objects, or even rapid industrial prototyping. "Today, 3D printers can not only handle materials ranging from titanium to human cartilage but also produce fully functional components, including complex mechanisms, batteries, transistors, and LEDs," according a 2014 McKinsey Quarterly report.
It's having a transformative effect in medicine. The first houses are now being 3D printed. So are major parts of cars. And while many challenges remain — the costs and variety of materials, constraints around high-volume production — institutions such as governments and multinationals are investing billions of dollars in the technology that many argue could help power a third industrial revolution.
No doubt the Internet of Things has created a lot of buzz. Anytime a field of innovation gets its own quirky-looking acronym (IoT), you know it’s something people are paying attention to.
But so far, most of the talk has been about devices smart enough to keep our homes at the right temperature depending on our whereabouts or activities, or systems that will let us know when we are out of milk, or athletic socks that double as a running coach.
The potential, though, for networked objects goes well beyond home comfort and convenience. The conversation about what the IoT means for marketing is quietly building momentum. Among its 2015 predictions for the marketing field, eMarketer offered No. 4 as, “The Internet of Things Will Become a Thing.”
# 6 Video dominates the webBut so far, most of the talk has been about devices smart enough to keep our homes at the right temperature depending on our whereabouts or activities, or systems that will let us know when we are out of milk, or athletic socks that double as a running coach.
The potential, though, for networked objects goes well beyond home comfort and convenience. The conversation about what the IoT means for marketing is quietly building momentum. Among its 2015 predictions for the marketing field, eMarketer offered No. 4 as, “The Internet of Things Will Become a Thing.”
The delivery of video on the Internet is undergoing a gradual transformation as old standards are slowly replaced with modern technologies.
Video may be the perfect example of a concept that a lot of people in technology do not always seem to understand: innovation and adoption of new technologies can often be a slow process. The world rarely changes overnight. Call it progressive enhancement or iterative development, but it takes years to build the foundations for next era of innovation.
Part of building the new frontier is clearing out the vestiges of the old. In the case of video, the progression is very clear.
# 5 Smartphones toughen ups
Apple already use Gorilla glass to provide scratch resistance to their smartphone displays but the glass will still shatter upon impact. There are also numerous rumors that Apple are considering using sapphire coated glass in their next generation iPhone to provide the ultimate in scratch resistance as sapphire is almost as hard as diamond. Not only could the iPhone 6 feature a sapphire-coated glass display according to recent speculation but that it will also come with solar cells embedded into the display.
# 4 IBM watsons vs Apple SIRI
Watson is apparently being developed for mobile phones: in much the same manner as Siri works in fact. Most of the intensive computation is done elsewhere, at the server farm. So in basic structure they’re rather similar.
They’re also quite different in their current incarnations and development paths. The aim seems to be for Watson to become an/the expert in a particular field. While Siri remains very much a generalist. Watson gets taught the intricacies of specific subjects, Siri, apart from a little programming of answers, tends to simply interrogate other search engines and databases.
We could also call this a top down (IBM) versus bottom up (Apple) fight. As Watson becomes expert in more fields it will approach being a super-Siri. But as the various databases that Siri interrogates become more populated then Siri will also continue to grow.
# 3 Wearables start swapping data
We're destined to see dozens of wearable devices throughout 2014. The upcoming HAPIfork will slow-down those who eat too fast, the Narrative Clip pendant-camera will take constant snapshots, and Sony's recently patented SmartWig concept could monitor vital statistics, navigate, and even control other gadgets with a blink of an eye.
# 2 Mobile ApplicationMobile application development is a term used to denote the act or process by which application software is developed for handheld devices, such as personal digital assistants, enterprise digital assistants or mobile phones. These applications can be pre-installed on phones during manufacturing platforms, or delivered as web applications using server-side or client-side processing (e.g. JavaScript) to provide an "application-like" experience within a Web browser. Application software developers also have to consider a lengthy array of screen sizes, hardware specifications and configurations because of intense competition in mobile software and changes within each of the platforms.[1] Mobile app development has been steadily growing, both in terms of revenues and jobs created. A 2013 analyst report estimates there are 529,000 direct App Economy jobs within the EU 28 members, 60% of which are mobile app developers.[2]
# 1 Smartphone will retain their crown
Apple remains a close second.
Smartphone sales may be slowing from their meteoric growth as developed countries become saturated. But demand remains high.
Manufacturers shipped over 355 million smartphones in the third quarter, or 6.8% more than the same period last year, market researcher IDC said on Wednesday. Still, that number was lower than previous forecasts, largely due to slightly lower than expected iPhone shipments and the fact that many new Android devices released during the period were pricey phones that sell in low volumes.
Samsung nabbed the biggest piece of the pie by shipping over 84 million smartphones in the three months ending September, good for 23.8% market share. Apple remained number two, shipping 48 million iPhones during the same period while collecting the biggest profits of any other smartphone vendor.
Samsung and Apple have been the two best sellers for years. That shows no sign of changing.
But the third largest smartphone maker, Huawei, may be less familiar to North American consumers. Best known for selling telecommunications equipment, it shipped 26.5 million smartphones in the quarter to beat its fellow Chinese smartphone manufacturers Lenovo (including the Motorola brand) and Xiaomi for the second consecutive quarter.
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