Disruptions: Wearing Your Computer on Your Sleeve. Adrian Dennis/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesInstead of going through life staring into a mobile device, people one day may be able to wear a computer. Technology often has a way of fixing the problems it creates. Here’s one that needs solving. The invention of the smartphone has created a world where millions of people stroll through life constantly staring into a mobile device, like Narcissus at the edge of a pond.
I know. People are not going to put these devices down in the near future. Wearable computing is a broad term. Over the last year, Apple and Google have secretly begun working on projects that will become wearable computers. In Google’s secret Google X labs, researchers are working on peripherals that — when attached to your clothing or body — would communicate information back to an Android smartphone. Apple has also experimented with prototype products that could relay information back to the iPhone. Fashion will most likely be one of the first disruptions. Mobile Technology: Future Innovation. Nokia Research Center: HumanForm. Nokia HumanForm. Nokia Kinetic Prototype – World’s First Bendable Phone. The Future of Mobile. Flexphone by Ikev on eYeka. Microsoft Patent Details Module-Based Smartphone | Gadget Lab. It's Coming: A True Replacement for Paper. The notoriously secretive, English language-challenged, and so far entirely vaporware company NoteSlate just rumbled to life on its Twitter account, announcing that the company had finally discovered the technology required to realize its vision.
Unfortunately, the technology would mean exceeding the device’s originally planned price of $99. The fact that this makes the company, which is apparently nothing more than a website set up by 29-year-old Czech product and furniture designer Martin Hasek, no more likely to ever release a working version of its inexpensive note-taking tablet is irrelevant. Hasek has already completed all the market research any competitor would ever need to justify coming out with a working clone of his vision, and they will.
To understand the forces at work here, it helps to understand Bill Buxton’s concept of the “long nose” of innovation. Most e-paper has abysmally low refresh rates, far too slow to trace the movement of a stylus on a tablet. Why the future of mobile is screenless, touchless. "A phone today is a a value-added service, a 'teleputer,' a creature born with genes coming from a cell phone and a personal computer," according to independent researcher Szymon Slupik. Speaking yesterday at the invitation-only Emerging Communications Conference & Awards (eComm), the Krakow-based futurist explained that by 2020, a mobile phone as we know it will disappear, evolving into a device linking our senses directly with senses of other people or with machines.
What device will displace the role of today's smartphone: Internet glasses. Internet eyeglasses concept presented by Szymon Slupik at eComm 2011 "Voice was always organized in sessions with a beginning and an end. So how do we get there and when? Laser based displays - MEMS (microelectromechanical systems)-based laser projectors can display images directly on our retinas while not blocking our sight, enabling mixed reality vision. After his talk, Slupik gave me another example. Creative consumers invent the Smartphone of the future.
What will smartphones look like in the near future? What role will they have in people’s daily lives? eYeka decided to ask its community of highly creative consumers to share their vision for the next generation of smartphones and to imagine what the top smartphone brands should design next. These creative end-users imagined the look, features and even technical specifications of the future smartphone. Check these new smartphone trends revealed by consumers themselves! Minimalistic look According to consumers, the future smartphone should be small and simple to use. Future smartphone – thin as a credit card All-in-one In the future, a smartphone will be the central device in people’s daily lives, consumers suggest. The central device of our lives Second you A lot of consumers perceive the future smartphone as a fully customizable tool. The future smartphone is perfectly ergonomic The future smartphone is perceived as a friend.
The future generation of smartphone – fully customizable device.