- My Motorola Droid is an essential item in my life. It gives me mobile communication in mail, text, or voice, but so much more: It is my calendar, my alarm clock, my dictionary, my newspaper, my stock portfolio, my camera, my radio, unit converter, photo gallery, music, calculator, flash light, note pad, could there possible be more?????? What could possible come next?
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- Would you believe haptic, infrared, and pressure sensitive technologies that simulates touch? Can you feel me now?
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- Utilizing the vibration capabilities of the phone the vibration pattern will actually simulate the physical sensation of actually touching what you are seeing. Shopping for a dress, feel the fabric. Buying a wool sweater, feel the warmth. Where will this technology appear first, the gaming industry of course.
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- Next smart phones will be able to recognize the contents of an image. It will recognize faces. But, where this capability really pays off is in medical diagnostics. This industry is expected to grow to $26,600,000,000 in the next few years. It will analyze MRI’s, CT scans, X-rays and Ultrasounds. Human error will be replaced with expert diagnosis evolved from thousands of cases.
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- The world takes 500,000,000,000 photos every year. There are 72 hours of video added to YouTube every minute.
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- The phone will not just transmit what you say. Remember when a word leaves your mouth it is no longer yours. Phones will listen not just to you but to all the sounds around you. It will measure movements and warn of danger that lies ahead. It will hear the stress of a tree limb. It will interpret baby talk and alert parents to what is going on. Conservations in different languages will be interpreted and seamlessly translated.
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- Phones will be able to taste and smell. They will breakdown a taste to the molecular level. This capability will help you eat healthier. It will help cooks create new recipes. It will regulate sugar intake for diabetics. It will help you loose weight.
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- Now to smell. Phones will warn you that you are coming down with a cold or some other illness. They will even diagnose liver and kidney disorders, asthma, diabetes, and epilepsy by detecting and analyzing orders. Obviously, your phone will tell you if you had too much to drink. Coupled with GPS it will tell you areas to avoid to avoid the flu.
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- In hospitals phones will be used to smell surfaces and say if they are disinfected. A farmer will be able to smell the soil and judge the conditions of crops, the need for fertilizer, or the dangers of pollution.
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- Can you hear me now will become can you smell, feel, or taste me now. Can you imagine what the world will do with this capability in the hands of everyone. An announcement will be made shortly, stay tuned.
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- This capability all comes with a price. It brings near flawless surveillance on our lives. Where we are, who our friends are, who is in the family. Even today 50% of the population has phones that stream location data. A central date base could plot the locations of millions of people continuously. Google, Apple, and Skyhook in Boston are currently doing this.
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- An experiment in Haiti allowed relief agencies to send texts to all phones alerting them to avoid locations that would expose them to cholera.
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- Obviously all this data mining is going to be a boon to marketers. Smart phones will be come society’s nervous system. It could enhance public health, improve transportation, improve the electric grid, but, at a loss of privacy. The phone will know more about you than you do.
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