Imagine downloading a music video or movie onto your phone and displaying it on a wall. That's not far from reality. Expected to debut in 2008 on game consoles and PCs, it will revolutionize the way we view videos. Right now, the big thing is watching TV and movie online but by the looks of it, that will all be transferred over to the mobile phone.
The first mobile phone will be projector equiped by 2009 with due help from Motorola to develop PICO projectors that were first invented by Microvision. The projectors use light scanning technology to display a colourful image all from a beam of light. If you open your cell phone and project the image from 12 feet away, the picture on the wall will be up to 120 inches which is incredible. Soon the picture will be HD and you'll have a mobile TV in your pocket. A PicoP engine will control the whole thing, the size of a mint, to control the intensity of te thousands of colours generated by the scanner. All on one phone charge, you'll be able to play "I Know Pronounce You Chuck and Larry." The estimated cost of intergrating all this onto your phone will be $150 and accessory projectors will be a higher price of $200.
This product has been a long time coming. I personally heard about Microsoft Surface a year 6 months ago and boy have I been excited. I wouldn't buy it though until I had a family and had some sort of purpose for it. Currently there isn't a point to owning a product such as this when you can't use it to its fill potential. The Microsoft Surface has been getting the most attention thus far but it's not the only company working on a surface computer. Mitsubishi is developing a similar tabletop computer called the DiamondTouch. Both operate differently. The Microsoft Surface is capable of delivering images via a rear-projection delivered to the surface of the table from inside while at the same time, tracking your finger movements with a series of infrared cameras. DiamondTouch projects the image from atop and uses a similar technology that is used
on laptop touchpads, to track your finger movements. The drawback to the DiamondTouch's design is that it creates shadows when you touch the screen. Don't expect these PC's in your living room by the next holiday season though, but look out for the Surface in cellular stores, hotel, casino, or any other retail store that would benefit from them, all by this year. By 2010, Microsoft expects them to be in conference rooms around the globe, and by 2012 you can expect them as a stocking gift. Mitsubihi's version though is still a research product and I do believe it will be scrapped or greatly modified due to its late unveiling and outdated technology.
Computers are ever evolving pieces of machinary with new products that go inside it everyday. For example, DDR3 RAM just came out and new LED technology is helping make laptops more efficient. Well now 3 more standards are going to enter out computers. Larger hard drives, faster internet, and larger system bus.
its not big enough, you get a bottleneck, much like when the 404 turns into the DVP. Currently the standard is PCI 2.3 which offers a data transfer rate of 5.2 gigabits per second which is a lot at first glance but the next generation is called PCI 3.0. This hardware will have a data transfer rate of 8 gigabits per second. Not only will PCI 3.0 allow for higher GPU performance (A special processor dedicated to calculating the graphics in a game. A GPU allows for better looking console games and takes the load off of the CPU during gameplay), but it also allows the system bus to power graphic cards directly instead of going through a seperate power line. The downfall is, you'll need a 3.3V card to use it instead of a 5V or 3.3V. Don't worry though, as these graphic cards (PCI 3.0) will be out in 2010 with the specs debuting in 2009.
When George S. was working for Much Music, back about 6 or 7 years ago, he had to specially order a 1TB hard drive to hold all his music. Back then, that was rarity, but now companies are going to be offering 5TB hard drives.To get something this big without sacrificing space a technique called Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) and a similar technology called Thermally Assited Magnetic Recording (TAMR) uses lasers to heat the surface of the hard drive which makes it possible to pack a Terabyte into a square inch of the drives surface. This doubles the standard as a 2 inch square space could only fit 1 Terabyte. Once the laser starts heating the surface up, the driver can manipulate the surface on an extremely fine scale of about tens of nanometres. A huge benefit of these drives is the way the information is organized on it. The data will be organized into self-arranging magnetic arrays that allow the creation of a single bit of data on every grain of the drives surface. Don't expect this drive to be installed onto your computer for the next holiday season though. Its still a research project but Seagate expects to sell a 5TB HAMR hard drive by 2011
Since the introduction of wireless internet, many have wondered what other wireless technologies there would be. Wireless printers, speakers, cell phones, and many more. Now you can add 3 more to that list.
The power cord has long been the enemy of many people around the world. You always had to place things according to where the plugs were or you'd have some cord running all across the room. Nobody really notices and thinks about the power cord ones its being used and its found its place, but if it could be thrown away, what a world of a difference it would make. Now there is a solution to get rid of some of those plugs, wireless charging. To get things straight, this piece of technology won't replace all of your plugs but its a huge step in the right direction to making the power cord obsolete. Currently there are two ways to wirelessly charge a device and they are being offered by two different companies. WildCharge will start selling a conductive charging pad and eCoupled will offer a inductive laptop specific pad with a compatible notebook all by the end of 2008. Both companies will offer adapters at a range of $30. If you have taken science and didn't fall asleep then you can guess what the difference and how each of these technologies work. Conductive charging passes electricity when two objects come in contact. Inductive charging happens when there is a physical gap between two objects.
Print from anywhere with this new piece of technology offered by Zink (Zero Ink) Instead of going online and going through the tedious process of uploading photos (Costco gets double thumbs down) you can print those photos wirelessly or connect it via a USB cable to the ZINK mobile printers. The name explains some but doesn't answer all. First there is no ink used, instead the printer will heat up the adhesive paper, and thus release the crystals used to make the photo. The downfall is, the images will be small, and not your regular size 4by6, the paper will instead be 2by3 and will be semi-gloss. The printers are unique because 
they are a product in itself. They offer two printers, a mobile one and a mobile camera version. The mobile will be able to wirelessly print pictures from a laptop, computer or wifi enabled product. The camera version is a camera and there is no word on how good it is but the website describes it as a "full featured digital camera...take digital photos like any other digital camera." The projected costs of these tools is $100 but there is no word on where they will be sold, so look out for them at your local Best Buy store.
trying to put a stop while making a quick buck. They are going to be released to the consumers in 2008, but just this August they let electronic makers have a crack at the technology. The system allows you to wirelessly transmit an uncompressed 1080p picture via a 5GHz radio transmitter from a DVD player, cable box, or game console to a WHDI-equipped TV (adapters can be purchased for $300-$400 a pair as at least two are needed). Comparatively, a WHDI-equipped TV will have a premium of $200. WHDI is just a replacement to the HDMI cable so no worries that your picture quality will be worse, but no celebrating that you'll be getting a better one. In a couple of years though the adapters will cost $60 and the premium on a TV will drop to $10. With the benefit of much less cables, you'll be able to rearrange your TV room the way you dreamed.