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by ibgames

EARTHDATE: January 12, 2014

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REAL LIFE NEWS: LOOKING AHEAD TO 2014 TECHNOLOGY

by Hazed

We’ve done with the looking back to report on what happened during 2013. That’s so last year! Now it’s time to look forward and predict what we’ll see during 2014.

Journalists love writing these articles because they can just make stuff up, secure in the knowledge that nobody is going to remember what they said or go back and check whether their predictions actually came true.

So you can take this report of ten techy innovations for the forthcoming year with a massive pinch of sodium chloride! Still, there’s some fun stuff that I hope does come true.

I particularly like the idea of 3D telepresence. My boss currently uses a telepresence robot to talk to us when he’s not in the office. It’s really just an iPad on a stick on wheels. How much cooler would it be to get the full “Princess Leia” effect of a genuine hologram.

Another of the ideas that sounds very useful is a “one card to rule them all” credit card. It’s a device that’s the same size as a credit card but it stores details of up to eight cards – credit, debit, loyalty or gift cards – and you switch between them using a button. I really hope this one becomes available soon.

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