Mobile phones that can read our mind!
Mobile phones that can read our mind!
BANGALORE: Technology innovations like eMobile that can read our mind, real-time speech translation, a 3-D internet are few among the list of products that will change human life in the next five years, IBM’s India Research Laboratory Director Daniel Dias said on Monday.
“Open collaborative research and real-world innovations are going to shape the future. In the next five years our lives will change through technology innovations,” he said, unveiling a list of innovations that were expected to change the way people work, love and play.
The list was based on market and societal trends expected to change lives as well as emerging technologies from IBM’s laboratories that could make these innovations possible.
Advanced `presence’ technology will give mobile phones and PDAs the ability to automatically learn about their users’ whereabouts and preferences as they commute, work and travel. Your phone will know when you are in a class or in a meeting and automatically divert to voice mail, he said.
Real-time translation technologies and services will be embedded into mobile phones, handheld devices and cars. These services will pervade every part of business and society.
The popular online destinations such as Second Life and World of Warcraft, will evolve into the 3-D internet. In this immersive online world, you will walk the aisles of bookstores supermarkets, where you will encounter experts you rarely find in your local store. The 3-D internet will enable new kind of education, remote medicine and consumer experiences, he said.
Millions of people suffering from chronic health problems like diabetes, heart, kidney will be able to have their conditions automatically monitored as they go about their daily lives, he added.