IBM Reveals Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives Soon
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Today IBM formally unveiled the fifth annual “Next Five in Five” a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years:
- You’ll beam up your friends in 3-D
- Batteries will breathe air to power our devices
- You wont need to be a scientist to save the planet
- Your commute will be personalized
- Computers will help energize your city
In the next five years, 3-D interfaces like those in the movies will let you interact with 3-D holograms of your friends in real time. Movies and TVs are already moving to 3-D, and as 3-D and holographic cameras get more sophisticated and miniaturized to fit into cell phones, you will be able to interact with photos, browse the Web and chat with your friends in entirely new ways. Scientists are working to improve video chat to become holography chat – or “3-D telepresence.” The technique uses light beams scattered from objects and reconstructs them a pic
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