Every era has its own trends, in fashion, in food, in cars…and of course technology could not help but have the most impressive and pompous changes as the years go by. From tablets, car voice assistants, touch screens, smart phones…to computers that smell, tires with 5G connectivity, data storage on glass, and who knows what else the future has in store for us.
Car tires with 5G connectivity from Pirelli
One of these incredible yet real innovations, Pirelli announced with the high-tech tires that will be connected to 5G, and their name Cyber Tires. A new era of possibilities begins in the field of the Internet of Things, since vehicles will be called upon to communicate with each other and with a series of infrastructures, which we will encounter in the cities of the not-so-distant future.
Inside these unreal tires, there will be a special sensor, a disk that will be responsible for the tire’s communication with other receivers, as well as a microprocessor.Στο εσωτερικό των εξωπραγματικών αυτών ελαστικών, θα υπάρχει ένας ειδικός αισθητήρας, ένας δίσκος που θα είναι υπεύθυνος για την επικοινωνία του ελαστικού με τους άλλους δέκτες, καθώς και ένας μικροεπεξεργαστής.
The variables that will be measured will be tire pressure and road conditions, for better information for the driver in collaboration with the car’s central processing unit.
Intel’s Smell-Sensing Computers
With Intel’s announcement of computers that can recognize smells, we wonder if technology is now becoming so humanized that nothing separates us except cables. Yet among these incredible news stories that you hear and don’t believe is the technology that Intel is developing so that a computer with Artificial Intelligence can recognize smells with special sensors.
A special algorithm, based on biological signals, was developed in the first neuromorphic chip to use the human sense of smell so that someone can take action when food is burning in the oven or when there is smoke from a fire in a room.
It is an integrated circuit that mimics the structure and way the human brain works. Neuromorphic chips are powerful efforts in Computer Science and Computer Architecture to create processes that resemble those performed by an animal or even human brain.Πρόκειται για ένα ολοκληρωμένο κύκλωμα που μιμείται την δομή και τον τρόπο που λειτουργεί ο ανθρώπινος εγκέφαλος. Τα νευρομορφικά chips είναι εν δύναμη προσπάθειες της Πληροφορικής και της Αρχιτεκτονικής Υπολογιστών, να δημιουργήσουν διαδικασίες που μοιάζουν με εκείνες που εκτελεί ένας εγκέφαλος ζώου ή και ανθρώπου.
Crystals as storage by Microsoft
No matter how smart storage and the latest cloud technology are being developed, Microsoft is constantly trying to advance data storage technology and this time it manages to make history. By storing data in Quartz crystals, codenamed Project Silica, Microsoft is revolutionizing and changing what we have taken for granted until now.
These crystals, made of hard glass based on silicon, are extremely resistant to water, high temperatures, microwaves, magnetic radiation, and even engraving. Scientists have managed to encode data in the glass, creating three-dimensional engravings and deformations, at different depths and at different angles. A single crystal will be able to have different layers of data, depending on its thickness, and store more than one piece of information.
Special algorithms “read” and decode the stored data, images and patterns/shapes that are created as a beam of polarized light passes through the glass. With this method, Microsoft promises to solve multiple problems, such as that of increased capacity, as well as long life.
An interesting and positive element is that the crystal measuring 75x75x2 millimeters will fit an entire movie, and not only that. After all, it all started with a movie. Warner Bros. has always been looking for new technologies to safely store its large and historic “library” of movies. So, not coincidentally, it started storing in crystals with the first Superman movie, in which the superhero’s race stored its data in crystals…
OrCam Talking Glasses
OrCam’s OrCam MyEye 2, the so-called “talking glasses,” are here to help those living with vision impairments or reading difficulties like dyslexia. The artificial intelligence device can recognize faces, currency, and read aloud text and information from barcodes. The device is available in 48 countries and has been used in Israeli elections to help the blind and visually impaired vote.
Virtual Surgery by OssoVR
For professionals like drivers, pilots, and surgeons, their training is absolutely essential and very important. Virtual reality can be extremely useful in their training. That is exactly why OssoVR software was created, to offer doctors a virtual operating room experience. The software is currently used in hospitals around the US, and soon surgeons in health centers located in third world countries will be able to be taught by leading scientists from all over the world without having to leave their hospitals.
Christine Schindler Puts an End to Food Poisoning
Food poisoning is a common occurrence that affects us all, and most of us have experienced it at least once in our lives. Biomedical engineer Christine Schindler created PathSpot, which uses a light-based detection algorithm to scan hands for harmful contamination.
For example, restaurant employees hold their hands under the scanner, which assesses whether they need to be re-sterilized to eliminate pathogens, such as E. coli.
Since its initial launch in May 2019, 100 restaurants have installed PathSpot, including Chopt and Pokeworks in the US.
Often, if not always, tech news is based on what the future will bring, devices we didn’t know could exist, capabilities that seem unbelievable for a machine to acquire, and all of this is made possible by us. Thanks to us, technology exists, it is our creation, and humanity gives it the breath to continue to exist and evolve.
I wonder, if technology did not exist, what would our lives be like today?
And if technology surpasses all imagination in the future, how will man find balance in an environment unknown but also of his creation?
Sources:
https://time.com/collection/best-inventions-2019/5734536/zspace-ar-vr-laptop/