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5 New Technologies That Will Change Everything - PC World
- USB 3.0
- USB 3.0 can shoot full-speed data in both directions at the same time,
- USB 3.0 is fast enough to allow uncompressed 1080p video
- turn computers into real charging stations
- Video Streaming Over Wi-Fi
- By 2012, two new protocols--802.11ac and 802.11ad--should be handling over-the-air data transmission at 1 gbps or faster.
- newly available 60GHz spectrum
- Unfortunately, the millimeter-long waves that make up 60GHz signals penetrate walls and furniture poorly,
- 3D TV
- more immersive, more true-to-life experience, and substantively different from almost anything you've watched before.
- "Augmented Reality" in Mobile Devices
- Neal Stephenson's book Snow Crash, "gargoyles" are freelance intelligence gatherers who have wired themselves to see (through goggles that annotate all of their experiences) a permanent overlay of data on top of the physical world.
- an application called Nearest Places, the names and locations of subway stops, parks, museums, restaurants, and other places of interest are shown on top of an iPhone's video feed.
- Other prototype applications display
- HTML5
- HTML5 may do away with the need for audio, video, and interactive plug-ins.
- Website designers and Web app developers won't have to deal with multiple incompatible formats and workarounds
- operating systems and browsers appear to be falling into line behind HTML5. Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Opera, and WebKit
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