Technology- 5 Predictions for the future from IBM

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Here are the next five upcoming technology advances that will change your world according to IBM. The 5  trends are based on market and societal trends as well as emerging technologies from IBM’s R&D labs around the world that can make these transformations possible.

  • Touch: You will be able to touch through your phone: IBM scientists are bringing the sensation of touch to mobile shopping by developing applications for retail that use tactile and infrared technologies. Shoppers will be able to “feel” the texture and weave of a fabric or product by brushing their finger over the item’s image on a device’s screen.  
  • Sight: A pixel will be worth a thousands words: Systems will be able to look at and recognize visual data such as online photos, medical diagnostic images and traffic camera video and turn the pixels into meaning, beginning to make sense out of them much like the way a human views and interprets images.
  • Hearing: Computers will hear what matters: Sound pressure, vibration and sounds waves of all different frequencies will be recognized, and used for predicting when a tree might fall or a mudslide is imminent. Machines will translate “baby talk” so parents understand if a baby’s fussing indicates hunger, tiredness or pain.
  • Taste: Digital taste buds will help you to eat smarter: Delicious and healthy can go together using a new kind of computing system that is designed for creativity. A machine that experiences flavor will determine the precise chemical structure of food and why people like it. Not only will it make healthy foods more palatable — it will also surprise us with unusual pairings of foods that are designed to maximize our experience of taste and flavor.
  • Smell: Computers will have a sense of smell: Your phone will detect if you’re coming down with a cold or illness before you do by detecting and analyzing the millions of molecules in your breath. Computers will “smell” for chemicals in urban environments to monitor pollution or analyze the soil condition of crops in agriculture. Simple sensing systems will measure right down to a single molecule.
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