5 Years & 5 Emerging Technologies

Resembling most years, 2011 aims to start off with great promise when it comes to emerging IT technologies. While writing this article, I tap on my gigabit-wireless-connected tablet, to pull up a 3D movie on the razor-thin HDTV hanging on the wall. A media server streams the film via a super speedy USB connection to a wireless HD transmitter, which then beams it to the TV.

These technologies have come to life but are constantly emerging, improving, improvising and being adopted by the people like you and me. In our preview of technologies that are well on their way to reality, the top 5 emerging technologies are

1. Near field communications (NFC) and mobile payments

2. 3DTV

3. Social commerce

4. HTML5

5.Video Streaming Over Wi-Fi

1. Near field communications (NFC) and mobile payments

The short-range wireless communications technology also called near-field communications (NFC) allows the  users to pay for things in trade locations by holding a mobile device equipped with a special chip close to a specialized reader at a retail check out. Near field communication chips have been around for some years, but their time looks like it’s finally coming: a phone could soon become your credit card or be used to organize payment and transport, for instance.

Google’s new Nexus S Wallet includes the technology, and rumors are that Apple’s new iPhone will too. It is only when NFC becomes a ubiquitous, standardized technology that it will make a difference – Google has taken a step and other ones are will follow the lead in future

2. 3DTV

When television makers introduced HDTVs, it was inevitable that they would figure out a way to render the technology obsolete not long after everyone bought a set. And they have. The next wave in home viewing is 3DTV–a 2D picture with some stereoscopic depth. As 3D filmmaking and film projection technology have improved, Hollywood has begun building a library of depth-enhanced movies. For movies based on computer animation–such as Toy Story 3D, a newly rendered version of the first two movies in the series–it’s already happening.

Sony and Panasonic have announced  3D display-capable  TVs and Samsung has also started its 3D TV streaming Viewing 3DTV displays requires “active” glasses that use rapidly firing shutters to alternate the view into each eye. Samsung and Panasonic have launched their glasses. Undoubtedly one of the anticipated technologies revealed in 2011 is the viewing of a 3D TV and is constantly rising.

3. Social commerce

Social commerce allows people coming together to benefit from massive bulk-buying schemes, even though they’ve never met. The power of social networking has yet to be fully harnessed by advertisers. Although Facebook is now making decent money, complex issues of privacy have prevented it from thoroughly capitalizing on the fact that users are sharing huge amounts of information. Groupon has garnered all the headlines so far, but many more brands will emerge in this sphere over the coming year.

Groupon is a deal-of-the-day website that features discounted gift certificates usable at local or national companies Groupon serves more than 150 markets in North America and 100 markets in Europe, Asia and South America and has 35 million registered users. Twitter is another social website advancing day by day and adding more third party applications for its users. In 2011, TweetDeck is the new success story of Twitter. Socialize, as it is the new hype.

4. HTML5

Web pages built with HTML5 will display the same on any browser–desktop or mobile. The new flavor of the HTML–the standard program for writing Web pages–is called HTML5 (Hypertext Markup Language version 5) HTML5 requires that the browser have built-in methods for audio, video, and 2D graphics display.

It will allow designers to create websites that work essentially the same on every browser–whether on a desktop, a laptop, or a mobile device–and it will give users a better, faster, richer Web experience. Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Opera, and WebKit are all moving toward HTML5 support. For its part, Microsoft says that Internet Explorer 8 will support only parts of HTML5. Mozilla Firefox, NVIDIA and YouTube have taken HTML5 video to network.

5. Video Streaming Over Wi-Fi

Today, lossless video is common over wired connections after decompression or decoding of a data stream from a satellite, cable, or disc. Wireless groups are constantly trying to find out ways to catch up with Wi-Fi c. By 2012, two new protocols–802.11ac and 802.11ad–will be handling over-the-air data transmission at 1 gbps or faster. The 802.11ac and 802.11ad standards will be well suited for home use. The 802.11ac standard will update 802.11n and wireless networking performance will leap from a theoretical top speed of 600 mbps to a maximum of more than 1 gbps. The net data carried by 802.11ac will be likely being between 300 mbps and 400 mbps.

802.11ac will use many antennas for receiving and sending data wirelessly and will have more than enough capacity to carry multiple compressed video streams over a single channel simultaneously 802.11ad is best suited for moving data across short distances between devices in the same room. Apart from supporting fast video transfers, 802.11ad will allow you to move files or sync data between devices at speeds approaching that of USB 3.0–and 1000 times faster than Bluetooth 2.

Because the 60GHz spectrum has an ocean of frequencies available in most countries–including in the United States–you’ll be able to use multiple distinct channels to carry more than 1 gbps of uncompressed video each. Now, the future users will have multiple high-definition video streams and gaming streams active across a house and within a room. For example, no need for expensive, unsightly cables, an HD video display, plugged in with just a power cord, can stand across the room from a Blu-ray player, satellite receiver, or computer.

Allen Huotari, the technical leader at Cisco Consumer Products says that,” The change in home networks won’t result from any one single technology in the home, but rather a pairing of technologies or a trio of technologies–wired and/or wireless–for the backbone and the wireless on the edges.”Since the last 5 years we are here in technology…let’s see where we leap in the coming 5 years ahead.

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