Fancy...

If this isn't futuristic then i don't know what is, i think it's insane that technology is getting this advanced when this is what i'd think would be happening in the future, but advancements are happening faster and faster. This is visable with mobile phones, every few weeks a new model upgraded from the last is available. I just wander if anything which will be new technology by 2012 will even have any ties to items around at the mo.....

Watch Phone??

This is a new watch phone i think this is very cool and futuristic, i mean it plays music, video, phone text and all other functions you'd expect a phone to have...very cool piece of tech.

Hand Held

This is the Sony UX ultra-portable PC. Here are the facts known so far. It has a 7-inch touchscreen, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Core Solo processor, Wi-Fi, biometric sensor, two cameras, Windows XP Pro, 3G and Bluetooth. Whew, that was a lot. These details and specs are from Mobility Today, so be warned the info may not be accurate. This is what hand held computers are like at the minute and i intend essentially designing an advert for a a futuristic version of this product.

Virtual Laser Keyboard

The revolutionary Virtual Keyboard (VKB) uses the latest infrared & laser technology to project a full-size keyboard onto any flat surface. For the first time Users can then type as normal on this virtual keyboard (VKB), enabling them to work quickly and effectively, taking the pain and frustration out of minuscule keyboards and handwriting recognition software. You can also make your typing accompanied by simulated key click sounds!

Imagine how much easier it would be if you had a proper mobile phone keyboard that fits in your pocket ... The VKB works either with laptops, PCs or compatible Smartphone and PDA.

If this is the technology available now the way i see technology changing is it becoming smarter and smaller, so i think this technologyis valid just i think that in the future it will be much more compact and probabley more aesthetically impressive.

Research Into E-Paper

Electronic paper, also called e-paper, is a display technology designed to mimic the appearance of ordinary ink on paper. Unlike a conventional flat panel display, which uses a backlight to illuminate its pixels, electronic paper reflects light like ordinary paper and is capable of holding text and images indefinitely without drawing electricity, while allowing the image to be changed later. Unlike traditional displays, e-paper can be crumpled or bent like traditional paper. One important feature needed is that the pixels be image stable, or bistable, so that the state of each pixel can be maintained without a constant supply of power.
Electronic paper was developed in order to overcome some of the limitations of computer monitors. For example, the backlighting of monitors is hard on the human eye, whereas electronic paper reflects light just like normal paper. It is easier to read at an angle than flat screen monitors. It is lightweight, durable, and highly flexible compared to other display technologies, though it is not as flexible as paper.
Predicted future applications include e-paper books capable of storing digital versions of many books, with only one book displayed on the pages at any one time. Likewise with e-paper magazines. Electronic posters and similar advertisements in shops and stores have already been demonstrate

Technology

Electronic paper was first developed in the 1970s by Nick Sheridon at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. The first electronic paper, called Gyricon, consisted of polyethylene spheres between 20 and 100 micrometres across. Each sphere is composed of negatively charged black plastic on one side and positively charged white plastic on the other (each bead is thus a dipole). The spheres are embedded in a transparent silicone sheet, with each sphere suspended in a bubble of oil so that they can rotate freely. The polarity of the voltage applied to each pair of electrodes then determines whether the white or black side is face-up, thus giving the pixel a white or black appearance.
In the 1990s another type of electronic paper was invented by Joseph Jacobson, who later co-founded the corporation E Ink which formed a partnership with Philips Components two years later to develop and market the technology. In 2005, Philips sold the electronic paper business as well as its related patents to Prime View International. This used tiny microcapsules filled with electrically charged white particles suspended in a colored oil. In early versions, the underlying circuitry controls whether the white particles were at the top of the capsule (so it looked white to the viewer) or at the bottom of the capsule (so the viewer saw the color of the oil). This was essentially a reintroduction of the well-known electrophoretic display technology, but the use of microcapsules allowed the display to be used on flexible plastic sheets instead of glass.
One early version of electronic paper consists of a sheet of very small transparent capsules, each about 40 micrometres across. Each capsule contains an oily solution containing black dye (the electronic ink), with numerous white titanium dioxide particles suspended within. The particles are slightly negatively charged, and each one is naturally white.
The microcapsules are held in a layer of liquid polymer, sandwiched between two arrays of electrodes, the upper of which is made from indium tin oxide, a transparent conducting material. The two arrays are aligned so that the sheet is divided into pixels, which each pixel corresponding to a pair of electrodes situated either side of the sheet. The sheet is laminated with transparent plastic for protection, resulting in an overall thickness of 80 micrometres, or twice that of ordinary paper.



The network of electrodes is connected to display circuitry, which turns the electronic ink 'on' and 'off' at specific pixels by applying a voltage to specific pairs of electrodes. Applying a negative charge to the surface electrode repels the particles to the bottom of local capsules, forcing the black dye to the surface and giving the pixel a black appearance. Reversing the voltage has the opposite effect - the particles are forced from the surface, giving the pixel a white appearance. A more recent incarnation of this concept requires only one layer of electrodes beneath the microcapsules.
Other research efforts into e-paper have involved using organic transistors embedded into flexible substrates, including attempts to build them into conventional paper.

Microsoft Table

Microsoft unveiled a brand new product for POS interfaces - Microsoft Surface. It’s multi-touch, as seen in the computer demo videos, and it is very similar to the interface of Apple’s iPhone.
This new technology from Microsoft, which is essentially a computer table, if popular, will bring about a fundamental change in the way we interact with computers. T-Mobile stores, Harrah's and others have snapped them up at a mere $10000.

This is a product Microsoft are planning on having available by 2010 and it is some very impressive technology, it is a dining table that is completely interactive allowing the user to use their digits to control. This technology could be applied anywhere though with the use of a 2-d screen, therefore i think the product i am going to advertise will be a this tech just on a piece of interactive paper allowing it to be rolled up and used anywhere.

Next Step

If this is what is becoming more and more like standard technology then the item i'm thinking about may have to be more futuristic than i first imagined....

Sci-Fi to reality....

Minority Report featured gloves with which you could control a display......science fiction?? Not any more with combining new transcreen technology and 3-d tracking it could be created. There are new methods where when you walk around the screen you actually view different angles of the image it is restricted to computer generated content but it's still bloody impressive..


There are however people who have taken this a step futher and applied it to a 3-d active context........

3-d TV

musion eyeliner 3d hologram

Musion Eyeliner is a new and unique high definition video projector system allowing spectacular freeform 3-Dimensional holographic, moving images that appear within a live stage setting using Peppers Ghost technology.

Musion Eyeliner produces images of high resolution and quality that make them unmistakably real, which is what happened when Gorillaz & Madonna performed the opening number at the recent Grammy Awards.

Musion Eyeliner is an open system that uses a specially developed foil in reflecting images from high definition video projectors, making it possible to show virtual images of variable sizes and distinct clarity created using a proprietary software. The entire system consists of a truss box and a stage, where the virtual picture appears.

Eh?

As far as i was aware this sort of thing only exhisted in the jetsons or a sci fi film, but this is the moller skycar. A fully functioning hover car which will apparentley be able to fly at 300mph at a cool 20,000ft up in the air. Maybe the future isn't as far away as i thought???