gHacks technology news » future technologies http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 A preview of the future http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/13/a-preview-of-the-future/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/13/a-preview-of-the-future/#comments Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:02:42 +0000 Tobey http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/13/a-preview-of-the-future/ Knowing the position of every single particle in the whole infinite universe at the moment, you would be able to predict the future precisely some people say. Well, since our far advanced 2.0 technology is (and will remain for a while) still too lame to do such experiment at present, there’s no way to make predictions like that. But hey, who says we can’t attempt to guess what happens in the near future?

Of course the more people participate in suggesting what comes next the more accurate the suggestions can become. In order for this system to work, you need one place where anyone could express their idea about the future. There is such place and it’s called FutureScanner, a website (kinda Digg clone but with original idea) for collaborative future forecasting. Individual submissions are separated by category and a year when they’re expected to come true.

On the main page you can display the most popular or new items and also use advanced filters to only display some particular ones. Each of these can be voted up or down thus filtering the waste out and keeping the most interesting forecasts at the top of the list. IMHO Memebox still needs to work on the design a little bit, especially to make it work properly in Opera (!) but it appears to be quite promising project now. Commenting and RSS feeds are already implemented.

Interestingly enough, this is a third case of an event that happens quite often to me. This time, about half a year after having an idea of making a website that would allow people to work on guessing the future, I hit on a brand new startup that does exactly that. Though, I must admit they did quite a fine job. Weird how different people come to the same ideas, sometimes I feel a little like being plugged into some kind of network. Oh wait a sec, I am.. :D

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/13/a-preview-of-the-future/feed/ 1 New Future 3D Technology from Japan http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/28/new-future-3d-technology-from-japan/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/28/new-future-3d-technology-from-japan/#comments Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:41:21 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/28/new-future-3d-technology-from-japan/ I like to take a glimpse at future technologies so that I can see which technology changes we can expect in the next few years. This one is amazing. It has been taken right out of a Japanese news show showing how a characters appearance is changed in real time. Character is probably not the right word because what I really mean is that the real time image of a human is taken and altered in a way that offers several new interesting prospects.

The reporters hair was changed in real time for instance which would make this a wonderful application for any barber but also for others who change the appearance of people. This includes makeup, clothing and even plastic surgery I suppose.

The interactive element could also create interesting prospects for games and video systems like creating an avatar that looks exactly like you do. Take a look at the video, this is really incredible.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/28/new-future-3d-technology-from-japan/feed/ 2 Future Technology Seadragon and Photosynth http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/08/future-technology-seadragon-and-photosynth/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/08/future-technology-seadragon-and-photosynth/#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:19:03 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/08/future-technology-seadragon-and-photosynth/ Seadragon and Photosynth are two new technologies that have been presented at the TED 2007 conference by it’s architect Blaise Aguera y Arcas. Seadragon is basically a way to navigate seamlessly through a very large amount of image data. He was giving three examples at the presentation.

First he introduced a 300 Megapixel image, then that he was able to zoom into a complete book and lastly that it was possible to create new types of ads that would allow to zoom in and reveal details that would not be possible otherwise.

Photosynth on the other hand can be seen as a technology that takes lots of images of an object and combine them to form 3D models of that image. His example this time was Notre Dame. Images were taken from Flickr and you could see how they were combined to create the 3D image. Take a look at the video, it is really incredible.

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