Smart phones
Smartphone sales
in India are expected to reach 80.57 mn by this year end. Most consumers have
migrated from ‘feature phones’ to smartphones for using new features,
especially Internet. As Internet usage on mobile has increased tremendously, as
India lacks broadband connectivity. This boost in sales of smart phones has
also been the offer of EMI options from smartphone makers, even for below '$200
segment', as it plays key role in driving growth of the smartphone market
Wearable technology
Wearable technologies
are accessories and devices which have wearable technology with computing
capabilities and share vision of interweaving technology into the everyday
life. Thus, making technology interaction friction less between humans and
digital world.
Types of Wearable
Devices & Technology
- E-textiles
- Wearable computer
- Activity tracker
- Smart watch
- Smart glasses
- GPS watch
- Virtual reality
- Computer-mediated reality
- Clothing technology
- Smart Shirt
- Healthcare
- Augmented Reality
- Watches
Smart watches
Smart Watches are
wearable - technology devices that maintain a relatively persistent wireless
connection to between mobile device—usually a smart phone and watch—and can
receive notifications of incoming calls, texts, instant messages,
social-network updates, and more, from that device.
Bracelet
From activity
trackers to wristbands that track and notify about all kinds of things – nobody
is safe from this new wave of wristbands. In which brands, big and small, want
to get their piece of the cake. Both, Bluetooth Smart as well as optical
sensors is state of the art for most of these bands.
Smart Glasses
Smart Glasses has
been pioneered by GOOGLE, this Glass displays information in a smartphone-like
hands-free format. Wearers communicate with the Internet via natural language
voice commands.
Apparels
Evolution of
technology has enabled textiles to merge with technology to create fashionable,
functional and comfortable solutions to meet every day needs; whether in sports
& fitness or outdoor & leisure or home care & health care.
Smart paper
Electronic paper
& e- paper are part of display technologies that mimic appearance of
ordinary ink on paper. But unlike back lit flat panel which emits light,
electronic paper reflects light like paper. This makes them comfortable to
read, and provide a wider viewing angle than most light-emitting displays.
Ideally this e-paper display can be read in direct sunlight without the image
appearing to fade.
Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality
(VR) is referred to as hypothetical future technology, it is a computer -
simulated environment which creates perception of being physically present in a
non-physical world or imagined world. Virtual reality can recreate experiences
which include virtual taste, sight, smell, sound, touch, etc.
Augmented Reality
Augmented reality
(AR) is a live, direct or indirect, view of a physical, real-world environment
whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound,
video, graphics or GPS data. This is a part of virtual reality, which doesn’t
require hardware.
What lies in future for us?
Semantic Search Engine
Semantic search
uses artificial intelligence in order to understand the searcher’s intent and
the meaning of the query rather than searching for keywords, it understands the
complete meaning of search phrase. Google is focusing to build natural language
processing – the process by which machines can effectively interpret human
speech and phrase. This will become a driving force in the advancement of
semantic search, leading to accomplishment of search / query with different
tools of GOOGLE.
Social Media + AI
Facebook,
Twitter, LinkedIn and others are beginning to use artificial intelligence
techniques to build - deep learning capacities. They have started to process
all activities occurring over their networks from conversations, to photo facial
recognition, to gaming activity, etc. Deep learning is a sub-field within AI
that focuses on training computers to make logic behind undefined and irregular
types of data that humans generate, such as when we speak, write, photograph or
film. These Learning systems try to recognizes the trends in all raw data for
predications.
Big Data Analytics
Data processing
platforms let data scientists analyze, collect and shift through various types
of data. In 2012 Summer Olympic Games at London used 1,800 closed-circuit video
cameras monitoring Olympic Park and athletes' village. Analysts used
applications to process data pertaining to those who were filmed and flag any
individuals behaving suspiciously. The big data servers automatically detected
the suspicious behaviors. Data visualization has given a new dimension to
visual communication especially for statistics. This helps to simplify complete
data into infographic or other formats which can be easily transcript by lay
people. It is both art and science, since the amount of data generated is huge
which makes it difficult to translate or communication. Through infographic or
visual art data visualization has becomes easier. Big data and data
visualization helps in identifying new Business Opportunities. In 2012 US
presidential election demonstrated this how BIG DATA helps to identify voters
and donors and plan accordingly to reach them. Campaign managers in both
Democratic & Republican parties invested resources for seeking interest led
information of voters and taking this information, addressed different election
rallies. This information also helped to target advertising and fund raising
programs.
Data is
everything from text, voice, video, statistics, etc. using right tools of BIG
DATA ANALYTICS this valuable information can be processed to offer vital
information for mining. This data has huge capabilities, especially predication's for business and healthcare.
The
relationship you have with your technology is no longer command and control. It
is evolving to become human relationship, and slowly your technology will know
you and it will understand you.
