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They are all coming to exemplify the future that we all fantasise about. From uber-powerful computing, greener and non-exhaustive resources sources of energy, fabric bound electronics to digitally enhanced clothing. The following upcoming technologies will only amplify the goodness technology has to offer to mankind, or may be not.

Digitally Enriched Apparel

Beginning with a technology that will soon enable you to wear cloths, that flashes digital texts and animations. Like any brilliant idea, it has its own quirks. Digitally enhanced T-Shirts can effectively be used to socialize and communicate non-verbally by flashing smart animations. On the evil side, it could effectively be used to advertise. Just think about the ‘get paid to wear’ campaigns!

Read: Flashing Electronic Ink Displays On “Cloths” Coming Soon

Charging Electronic Devices With Apparel

This one of the most talked about ideas of this technological era and is undoubtedly a genius. The idea is to compute body movements with smart apparel to capture the generated energy. Nothing like ‘not’ running out of battery for all the devices we carry on the go. And yes, it’s green too!

Read: Nano Powered Apparels To Charge Our Portable Electronics

Succeeding Transistor Technology In Computers, Possibly With Spintronics

moore's law joke — Moore’s law comic strip

Spintronics is a spin-based electronic technology, contrary to the conventional transistors which uses electrical charges. Spintronics has the potential to help us continue building faster computers.

Read: Spintronics Research Finds A Potential Successor To Transistor Technology

Brilliant Screen Technologies For An Ultra Productive Environment!

tat future touch screen — Image Credit: TAT

Well, the title says it all. You’ve seen it well in sci-fi movies and possibly in real life too. Such technology is rapidly evolving and such full fledged tech will soon hit the markets. How soon? It’s hard to say. Keep tracking the news feeds!Read: 2014, A Year of Futuristic Touch Screen Technology?

Automatic/ Robot Driven Cars

google auto car — Google Car from a live demo

It’s not just Google. There are quite a number of companies constantly testing out and teaching the new breed of smarter cars to drive all by themselves. This technology is a challenge. Training machines to aptly follow the drivings rules, and be in sync with complex human emotions to ensure road safety is not easy. When this is achieved, we’ll definitely mark a milestone to our technological evolution. Things could turn up for the worse if this process goes unnoticeably wrong.

Read: The Test Driven Google Car – It’s a Robot, An Auto Driver

UPCOMING TECHNOLOGY – The trend paths laid down by the Moore’s law is gradually nearing it’s end; this basically suggests we need to find an alternative to the conventionally used transistor technology in order to continue making better computer chips. Spintronics, also known as Magnetoelectronics, is an emerging technology that possibly has the answer to the indigent alternative.

Transistors (being a part of the semiconductor family) are dependent on electrical charges to perform the computational duties. While a research based on Spintronics, led from the University of Cambridge’s Department of Physics, is designed to develop a spin-based electronic technology to replace this charge-based technology of semiconductors. Spintronics technology is being said to succeed the transistors technology for all the good reasons, much need for better computing needs.

Spintronics technology relies on manipulating the electron’s magnetic ‘spins’, when applied to computers could drastically improve their speed with reduced power consumption. This new research talks on making the ‘spins’ more efficient. One of the most intriguing facts about Spintronics is that it does not use electric currents to transfer the spins, the spins can rather transfer information without generating any heat in the electrical devices.

VIA [ScienceDaily]

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