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The futuristic watches or wearable gadgets that we usually watch in sci-fi movies lack one important thing, which is simplicity. Who told that future devices always have to be weird and complicated when Dew wearable mobile device is being so simple in design and can do all the required things of our everyday life in style and convenience. Even thought it can’t launch a missile to the enemies, the simplistic design with one ball shaped operating button on the surface can surely make your life easier. With Due’s unique functionality, you will also be able to enjoy 3D hologram of different functions and options of the stylish and lightweight wearable phone.

Designer : Mac Funamizu

Dew Wearable Mobile Device Concept Provides Great Functionalities With Simple And Stylish Appearance 1

Tidal power is considered to be the storehouses of energy, having a great potential to provide electricity for future generation. Keeping this in mind, Irish designer Shane Molloy unveiled a sustainable lighting system. This system makes use of the flow of tidal river, converting it into electricity. This in turn illuminates the quayside of River Suir with renewable energy. The Flowlight features an outer shell of carbon fiber and water turbine blades, protected by Sub-floatation housing unit in order to shield the blades from rock-strewn river bed. Designed to operate clockwise and anti-clockwise direction with the river’s flow, the water turbine blades generates power during high and low tide. This concept severs as an excellent way to illuminate LED strip lighting the moment daylight fades away.

Designer : Shane Molloy

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Osim Curve is an innovative health and fitness product concept that can be an ideal solution for those who want to become fit, but are unwilling to bear the hassle of tough exercises. This product can be introduced to a health-conscious yet reluctant-to-exercise person as a fun toy, as an exciting sea surfing board with the mission to catch as much fishes (the projected numbers) as they can within a preset timing. The mini light projectors have been fitted on the below surface of the board and the rider should touch the projected numbers while maintaining the balance, making exercising a playful event. Even more, it features a multiplayer mode through which the person can go for a deadly tournament with his opponent, considering that the less scorer will have to jump from the board on deep sea which surely will give the exerciser some effective motivation.

Designer : Martin Spurway

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The Multiple-Personality PC

Illustration: Harry CampbellToday, your choice of operating system is a critical one; for tomorrow's computer it won't matter nearly as much.

Rapidly improving virtualization technology allows you to run multiple OSs simultaneously on one computer as "virtual machines," each with its own selection of programs. In five or ten years, your choice of operating systems could become as mix-and-match as your choice of Web browsers is right now.

One key factor driving that trend will be hardware innovations that make existing virtualization run smoother and faster. AMD and Intel are shipping CPUs with hardware support for virtualization. Apple's adoption of Intel CPUs points the way to a multi-OS future as well, and the company's BootCamp software permits dual-booting into Windows. Parallels virtualization software lets Macs simultaneously run Windows (and other OSs), much as VMWare and Xen do under Windows and Linux. One day, virtualization could free us to run any app in any OS, at any time.

In View: Coming Soon to an OS Near You

An in-depth look: Count on 3D interfaces becoming commonplace as PC graphics improve. Early third-party 3D desktops like those listed atNooFace could become a standard, productivity-boosting OS feature, especially if coupled with new file systems.

Trees are for shade: Next-generation file systems could finally shed the decades-old directory tree storage structure and act more like databases, says analyst Tony Iams, who covers operating systems for Ideas International. Windows Vista's WinFS file system died, but its ideas--such as network searches--live on.

The Web hard drive: Online storage is getting cheaper and more plentiful every day. In a few years your OS will be able to interact seamlessly with the troves of online storage you've spread around the Web.

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The day has finally come where Sony introduced its next-generation PlayStation Portable. Codenamed as NGP, this PSP is revolved around 5 key concepts: Innovatory User Interface, Converging real and virtual reality, social interactivity and location-based entertainment. Attuned with the PlayStation Suite, NGP is as well backwards compatible with all downloaded PSP games. Serving as a real retreat for live blogging eyes, this new next generation portable is expected to make its debut by the end of 2011. Some of its ground-breaking features include: a multi-touch 5-inch organic LED for the front display, its ability to play PSP titles, video and comics, minis from the PlayStation Store, multi-touch pad, Wi-Fi as well as 3G network connectivity, dual analog sticks, software titles over small flash memory-based cards, PlayStation Network access and tow cameras on the front and rear. Details such as the date of release, its price and more are yet to be revealed.

Designer : Sony

Techlog: The Future of Technology--A Look Back 0

Journalism may be, as the Washington Post's Phil Graham famously put it, the first rough draft of history. For a technology publication like PC World,though, it's more often a first rough draft of the future--and never more so than in this special issue, the first we've ever devoted to tomorrow's tech products and services. Spearheaded by Senior Editor Eric Dahl, our ambitious package examines an array of incremental advances and major breakthroughs coming your way.

It's an exciting, wide-ranging preview, but like I said, it's a rough draft. We've covered the future beat since 1983--when phrases like "flat-screen monitor" had a ring of sci-fi about them--so we know that even today's best guesses may not map to tomorrow's realities. But whether we were uncannily accurate, bizarrely off-base, or somewhere in between, it's fun to look back at our past stories on the technological road ahead...

1983: We devote a meaty seven-page feature story to an exotic, pricey peripheral that we fearlessly predict "will someday fade into familiarity." The mouse proceeds to do exactly that.

1984: We enthuse about Microsoft's upcoming DOS enhancement, Windows 1.0, which we say is scheduled for release in April 1984. It's MIA until November.

1984: IBM's PCjr graces our cover; we predict that the computer "will revolutionize the way we live and learn." Instead, it becomes a legendary flopperoo--number 13 on our 2006 list of the worst products ever.

1987: A display exec tells us that within 15 years, LCD monitors will be common, and may reach 1000 lines of resolution. Good call. He also says they'll be monochrome. Oops.

1994: In a cover story on the next version of Windows, we keep calling it Windows 4.0 and say that it should be out by early 1995. When it makes its debut in late August of that year, it's known as Windows 95.

1997: We say that Windows 97, expected in mid-1997, should be "a significant release." It is. But when it slips to mid-1998, it's inevitably called Windows 98.

1998: We hazard a guess that executive types of the future may dump traditional laptops for PDA-like Windows CE-based mininotebooks. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

1999: Device Bay, a standard that would allow you to hot-swap PC components by simply popping them in and out, like "a removable car radio," gets our attention. Nifty idea; never amounts to anything.

2002: We rate 802.11 wireless networking--which we don't yet call Wi-Fi--as one of the most significant upcoming technologies, and explain how access points--not yet known as hotspots--are beginning to be installed in hotels, airports, and cafés. Hard to believe that a technology so indispensable today felt so futuristic so recently.

2002: Once again, we look at the next upgrade to Windows (code-named Longhorn, later dubbed Vista). Once again, we say when it's due to ship (late 2004 or 2005). And once again, it slips, slips, and slips. (Latest word: Early 2007. Maybe.)

Will the products, trends, and technologies we discuss in this issue show up on schedule, in the form we expect? That remains to be seen. But here's one prediction I can make with utter confidence: The future of technology will be full of surprises--and helping you make sense of them will remain one of the most important things we do here at PC World.

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While designing a submarine, a lot of factors need to be taken into consideration. Designed with completely dry sealed cabin, Neptune MM2 is a two-seater sport micro submersible. Neptune MM2 can reach a dive depth of 750ft, with full life support. It includes a highly secured and monitored environment, with powerful oxygen refill system and CO2 scrubbing. To support maximum maneuverability, this vessel uses a nose probe guided dive and rise action. Powered by 2 large multi-axis thruster power, Neptune MM2 can achieve speed of 12 knots under the water. Balance is controlled by a state of the art comprehensive onboard, multi point exterior pressure analysis and adjustment application, which constantly re-adjusts to aquatic motion conditions using the thrusters and the large dual section steering/braking tailfin

Designer : Vil Tsimenzin

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Nanotechnology: Why It Matters

Interest in nanotech is strong because standard silicon techniques have nearly reached their limit--CPUs and similar products can't get much smaller with current technology because makers can't keep stuffing more and more transistors in the same space. With nanotech, they can.

Materials shrunk to a few billionths of a meter go crazy. Magnets demagnetize, and conventional techniques of semiconductor information processing--used for everything from storing data to moving bits and bytes around your PC--don't work. But though the rules change, they can be exploited in ways that offer more, not less, functionality and speed. And it will all eventually cost less, too.

This is the world of nanotechnology, and you're already starting to live in it. "The whole trillion-dollar information technology industry is based on the continuing drive of miniaturization," says Thomas Theis, director of physical sciences at IBM's Watson Research Center. Imagine, he says, how big that economy can be when you can get a million times the complexity of today's information systems for the same dollars.

Nanotech research by government and private industry promises to create breakthroughs across information technology--creating dramatically faster, smaller, and cheaper devices that will permit ubiquitous computing, some forms of which we haven't conceived of yet--along with enhancing just about everything else humans make.

"We and others are using nanotechnology to create smaller and smaller chips that have more and more power and communicate with everything around them," comments Nantero CEO Greg Schmergel. "Everything in your home and office and car will have intelligence and the information you need."

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What's Next: Speed Is Just the Beginning

Today's mobile phones can already send e-mail, browse the Web, and keep you in touch with friends and colleagues via voice or text message. Tomorrow's handsets will add even more to the menu, morphing (as needed) into always-connected portable game consoles, full-featured TVs, and credit cards. Here's a quick look at what's coming:

Networks: In the next few years, cell phone networks will move data at several megabits per second, and will coexist with WiMax, Wi-Fi, and, for TV, DVB-H or MediaFLO. IMS will let them work together.

Handsets: Look for sleek designs (such as Frog Design's Ubik), better battery life, e-payment support, and graphics muscle for true TV and console-style video gaming.

Cameras: Expect not just high resolutions (8 megapixels and beyond), but also the same image-processing capabilities found in current digital still and video cameras.

Network Hopping: Enabling Seamless Internet Access

GSM, CDMA, Wi-Fi, WiMax: Can't we all just get along? With IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), we just might. Now in trials, IMS network technology will allow any type of packet data--voice calls, video, music, HTML, you name it--to move seamlessly between IMS-enabled networks. With IMS, you'll be able to start a call on your cell phone and end it on a VoIP landline, watch pay TV on either a handset or a big screen (smart-card technology identifies you), and access your contacts from any connected PC or handset. But the benefits will kick in only once IMS is widely deployed, which will take several years.

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Timeline: The Rise of Robots

Need something done? Soon you may be turning to various "service and personal" robots. These machines perform domestic chores or tasks such as milking cows or handling toxic waste, or serving in fields like emergency medical support.

The timeline below summarizes experts' opinions on how soon every home will have a little mechanical helper.

2006 Roomba sales top 2 million. [This already happened in May 2006.]

2007 Sales of pool-cleaning and window-washing robots rise significantly. A new, bipedal Honda Asimo unit that can run 
(at 4 miles per hour) debuts in United States.

2009 In just three years, 4.5 million domestic robots have been sold.

2010 Service and personal robotics sales exceed $17 billion.

2025 Sales of service and personal robots near $52 billion.

2040 Most households now own a robot or are considering buying one.

Single-Duty Robots: All Work, No Play

Photograph: Ames F. Tiedeman, Systems Trading CorporationCurrent robots tend to look like regular machines, and most--such as the vacuuming iRobot Roomba--perform only one task. For example, Friendly Robotics' RL1000 Robomower (pictured at left, with docking station) will cut your lawn while you watch TV. The autonomous mower costs $1800.

Ever performed a software patch on a lawnmower? Wireless diagnosis could someday permit automatic patching of software problems, but currently if your Robomower starts doing nonstop doughnuts, you'll need to turn off its motor and plug it into a phone line to download a software patch

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Motorized bicycles aren’t always pioneering, but there is no better adjective that best describes the new Grace e-motorbike than exciting. With a combination of sporty features and tough skin, Grace e-motorbike is one of the most sexiest two-wheeled pedal pushers. We have featuredGrace One in our previous post, now we want to share with you Grace Pro E-Motorbike. The new bike, with an aluminum frame can go above 45 km/h for just one battery load. Handmade in Germany with euro- fighter plane parts as well as formula one part, the bike is expected to come out this month. All controls such as lights, alarm system together with battery management are integrated in the handlebars with indestructible frames. Even after the battery has debilitated, there is no compromise to the pedal power. The Grace Pro E-motorbike thus offers greater flexibility one might need.

Designer : Grace

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If this yacht was real, it would have drawn the attention of many. It is a hydrogen-powered transportation, called Ekrano Yacht. This futuristic concept, created by designer Jaron Dickson is just a glance of a flying yacht headed for 2025. As we always think of novel ways to travel and develop our dynamic lives, Dickson’s forward thinking made him design the blue-sky concept that has liveability of a ship and convenience of an aeroplane. This project focuses on an efficient sea travel to protect the environment. With a capability to tackle waves of nearly 3.5 m, it can be used as a regular yacht as well when required.

Designer : Jaron Dickson