10 Upcoming Technology That May Change The World

We have seen great leaps in digital technology in past the past five years. Smartphones, cloud computing, multi-touch tablets, these are all innovations that revolutionized the way we live and work. However, believe it or not, we are just getting started. Technology will get even better. In the future, we could live like how people in science fiction movies did.

Today’s post is about 10 upcoming, real-life products that is set to revolutionize the world as we know it. Get ready to control the desktop and slice Ninja fruits with your eyes. Get ready to print your own creative physical product. Get ready to dive into the virtual world, and interact with them. Come unfold the future world

LG G PAD 8.3 REVIEW

With this price tag which is $350, the LG G Pad 8.3 is the second most expensive tablet in its class, trailing only the $400 iPad Mini with Retina display. The Samsung Galaxy 3 8.0, which is smaller than the LG but also runs Android, costs $300. And Amazon's Kindle Fire HDX has comparable screen size with greater pixel density at roughly a third of the cost of the G Pad. 

Performance 

The G Pad runs on the Android 4.2.2 OS, and therefore comes with all the perks that the ecosystem affords. One of the coolest proprietary features of LG's newest tablet is the QPair, which allows Android smartphone users to connect with the G Pad 8.3 for phone calls, texting, and recently opened apps. I was able to receive and send texts directly from the G Pad, but when phone-call notifications popped up, I could answer them only from my Galaxy S III. 

The iPad Air is official: Wafer thin and turbo charged!

There’s a new iPad, but it’s not any old update. Meet the iPad Air, what Apple’s marketing boss calls “the lightest full size tablet in the world.” Read on for all the details!

Apple’s keen to make clear its new iPad isn’t just the fifth-gen. It’s a whole new breed of slate out of Cupertino – it keeps the same 9.7-inch Retina display but fits it into a shell 43 percent thinner than the last model, while stuffing in multiple antennas for faster, smoother Wi-Fi performance, the blazing 64 bit A7 chip from the iPhone 5s and a five megapixel iSight camera that’s capable of shooting 1080p video – all for up to 10 hours on a charge.

Nvidia Shield 2 Under Development Powered By Next-Gen Tegra CPU

In an interview with Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang this week the CEO unveiled that even though the current Nvidia Shield Tegra powered handheld games console was only recently launched in to the hand held games console market.

Nvidia are wasting no time developing a next generation of handheld games consoles ready for launch in the form of the Nvidia Shield 2 which is expected to be powered by a next generation Tegra processor.

Researchers Lay the Groundwork for Touch-Sensitive Prosthetic Limbs

Researchers are working to create a modular, artificial upper limb that will restore natural motor control and sensation in amputees.

New research at the University of Chicago is laying the groundwork for touch-sensitive prosthetic limbs that one day could convey real-time sensory information to amputees via a direct interface with the brain.

The research, published early online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, marks an important step toward new technology that, if implemented successfully, would increase the dexterity and clinical viability of robotic prosthetic limbs.

“To restore sensory motor function of an arm, you not only have to replace the motor signals that the brain sends to the arm to move it around, but you also have to replace the sensory signals that the arm sends back to the brain,” said the study’s senior author, Sliman Bensmaia, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago. “We think the key is to invoke what we know about how the brain of the intact organism processes sensory information, and then try to reproduce these patterns of neural activity through stimulation of the brain.”

Tesco Hudl - The Budget Tablet With Great Aspirations

Many people are settling into the idea that a 7 inch screen is the ideal size for a tablet. The extra screen space provided by a 10 inch model sounds great in theory, but it does result in a device that is slightly more cumbersome to take from place to place. Looked at in terms of portability, 7 inches is perfect -- large enough to make most tasks easy, but small enough to easily slip into a bag, if not necessarily a pocket.

Print a working paper computer on an $80 inkjet

Ink laced with silver nanoparticles could make it a reality, to the joy of hobbyists

"IMAGINE printing out a paper computer and tearing off a corner so someone else can use part of it." So says Steve Hodges of Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. The idea sounds fantastical, but it could become an everyday event thanks in part to a technique he helped develop.

Hodges, along with Yoshihiro Kawahara and his team at the University of Tokyo, Japan, have found a way to print the fine, silvery lines of electronic circuit boards onto paper. What's more, they can do it using ordinary inkjet printers, loaded with ink containing silver nanoparticles. Last month Kawahara demonstrated a paper-based moisture sensor at the Ubicomp conference in Zurich, Switzerland.

Touchscreens get curves thanks to 3D printed optics

The future's curvy. Until now, if you wanted to build a gadget or toy with a screen then you had to design it so that a flat one could be attached afterwards. Now curved displays can be made while the device is being 3D printed – thanks to a way of printing optical fibres developed by Disney Research in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Called Papillon, the technique lets designers create surfaces that can display wraparound interactive imagery. It has already been used to create colourful, 3D-printed plastic characters with bulbous, animated eyeballs that can display messages and patterns.

Revealed at this week's User Interface Software and Technology conference in St Andrews, UK, Papillon was developed by Ivan Poupyrev and Eric Brockmeyer at Disney Research and Scott Hudson of Carnegie Mellon University, also in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Nokia Kinetic: Device With Flexible And Interface

Nokia has showcased the world’s first ever “Kinetic Device” having a flexible and twisted interface, which can be used to interact with the device and perform tasks such as scrolling through your playlist or photo albums by just twisting  the screen.

It was not a fake dummy of some futuristic model, rather it was a usable model (not complete though) through which you could do the simplest of tasks quite easily. The prototype showed at the Nokia World convention consisted of an OLED flexible display which could be used for various purposes through various twists. For example, bowing it in and out will zoom in and out of the picture whereas a twist to the top corner open up the photos.

The developers of the device decided not to comment on the technology used in the phone, but they did mention there doubts over widespread use of this technology when compared to touch screen phones.

5 Wi-Fi security myths you must abandon now

Wi-Fi has evolved over the years, and so have the techniques for securing your wireless network. An Internet search could unearth information that’s outdated and no longer secure or relevant, or that’s simply a myth.

Galaxy Note 3 review: Even more features packed into a (slightly) bigger body

Another day, another device—that’s what Samsung makes us feel like with the exhausting lineup of phones and tablets it has debuted in the last year. Its latest release, however, the Galaxy Note 3, is at least worth paying attention to. It’s the third iteration of the company’s not-quite-a-phone, not-quite-a-tablet Note line, and its internal specifications make it one of the most powerful handsets out on the market right now. It also features 4K video recording and a new suite of applications for the S-Pen aimed at making it easier to jot down notes, leave yourself reminders, and multitask. This is one of the better phones Samsung currently offers, but it’s just as bloated as the rest Galaxy Note family of devices.

Bigger—but not by much

MICHAEL HOMNICK

Forget the NSA: Your Tech Gadgets Are Spying on You

Recent headlines about PRISM — the U.S. government program that allows security officials to spy on people’s Internet activity — confirm what conspiracy theorists have long been foretelling: Big Brother is watching.

But is the government the only one keeping tabs on what you search for, watch and discuss with friends? The truth is, there are others out there — businesses, advertisers, scammers — hoping to line their pockets by collecting your personal data.

And they have a variety of tools at their disposal to gather the information they need — tools you might even have with you right now. That's right — everything from the smartphone in your pocket to the television in your bedroom can potentially be used to spy on you.

ALMA Observatory Receives Final Antenna

The ALMA Observatory has received the final antenna for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array project.

The final antenna for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) project has just been handed over to the ALMA Observatory. The 12-metre-diameter dish was manufactured by the European AEM Consortium and also marks the successful delivery of a total of 25 European antennas — the largest ESO contract so far.

Neuromorphic Chips: Microchips that Imitate the Brain

A newly published study demonstrates how complex cognitive abilities can be incorporated into electronic systems made with neuromorphic chips.

Novel microchips imitate the brain’s information processing in real time. Neuroinformatics researchers from the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich together with colleagues from the EU and US demonstrate how complex cognitive abilities can be incorporated into electronic systems made with so-called neuromorphic chips: They show how to assemble and configure these electronic systems to function in a way similar to an actual brain.

Lenovo AIO Lineup Includes 29-Inch Monster

Lenovo this week revealed four new additions to its all-in-one (AIO) desktop lineup.

Led by the super-widescreen B750 — the world's first 29-inch 21:0 display — the new devices aim to bring more range to the AIO market.

Astronomers Create First Cloud Map of a Planet Beyond Our Solar System

Astronomers used data from NASA’s Spitzer and Kepler space telescopes to produce a very low-resolution ‘map’ of the exoplanet Kepler-7b.

Pasadena, California — Scientists using data from NASA’s Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a planet beyond our solar system, a sizzling, Jupiter-like world known as Kepler-7b.

ArTeMiS Improves APEX Image Quality

A new instrument called ArTeMiS has been successfully installed on APEX — the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment. APEX is a 12-metre diameter telescope located high in the Atacama Desert, which operates at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths — between infrared light and radio waves in the electromagnetic spectrum — providing a valuable tool for astronomers to peer further into the Universe. The new camera has already delivered a spectacularly detailed view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula.

Scientists Are Developing a Mini-Microscope to Detect Cancer Cells

scientists are developing a mini-microscope to noninvasively detect circulating tumor cells, allowing for earlier interventions.

One of the cruelest truths about cancer is that even after you beat the disease, it can still come back to kill you. A tumor growing in the prostate gland, breast, or any other organ can shed cancerous cells into the blood. These cancerous seeds travel the body and can take root nearly anywhere, growing into a new cancer threat even after the initial cancer is treated.

UK Invests in World’s First Air-Breathing Rocket Engine

The UK government will invest £60 million towards the development of the world’s first air-breathing rocket engine, the SABRE.

Through the UK Space Agency, the Government is set to invest £60 million in the development of the SABRE – a British-designed rocket engine which could revolutionize the fields of propulsion and launcher technology, and significantly reduce the costs of accessing space.

Engineers Build a Carbon Nanotube Computer

A team of Stanford engineers has built a basic computer using carbon nanotubes, a semiconductor material that has the potential to launch a new generation of electronic devices that run faster, while using less energy, than those made from silicon chips.

This unprecedented feat culminates years of efforts by scientists around the world to harness this promising but quirky material.

NASA’s Curiosity Finds Water Molecules on Mars

Analysis of the Martian soil samples taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover has reveal that water molecules are bound to fine-grained soil particles, accounting for about 2 percent of the particles’ weight at Gale Crater where Curiosity landed.

Pasadena, California — NASA’s Curiosity rover is revealing a great deal about Mars, from long-ago processes in its interior to the current interaction between the Martian surface and atmosphere.