How the future will be?

We can’t know how the future it’s going to be, but we can try to predict how it will be. In the video that you can see below this is what guys from Corning Incoporated try to do, the try to predict how the future will be.

In the video they imagine the possibilities of glass partnered with innovative technologies that can help us in our everyday lives. The video name is “A Day Made of Glass 2: Same Day. Expanded Corning Vision” and its an improved version of “A Day Made of Glass” the first attempt of Corning Vision of showing us a part of the future.

Real time communications through flexible touchable screens will be soon available, a lot of companies are developing incredible technology to make possible for us to have new flexible devices that we can take with us everywhere. The society of the future is an hyper-connected society where we can start anywhere at anytime a real time communication or do our job wherever we are.

What do you think about the innovative technology that Corning Vision shows us in this video?

Do you think that this technology will be available soon?

CES 2012

The 2012 International CES has started in Las Vegas, Nevada. Since January 10 to January 13 2012 International CES will be offering the most exciting technological news. This year’s edition has more than 3.100 companies, and we will see more than 20.000 new products being launch in the 2012 International CES, the world’s largest hub for consumer technology innovation.

Innovative products as ultrabooks, voice and gesture-based technologies, smartphones and OLED TVs are going to be launched during the event. The 2012 CES show floor covers 1.851 million net square feet of exhibit space, a huge space bigger than 37 footaball fields, this big space is filled with consumer technology innovation.

What can we see at CES?

Microsoft President and CEO Steve Ballmer delivered a pre-CES keynote address. During the address, Ballmer announced that Microsoft Kinect will be available on Windows on February 1, 2012. Other innovations from Microsoft such as Windows phone can be enjoyed at CES.

Other big companies like LG Electronics, Panasonic, Nokia, Samsung, Pioneer, Sharp, Sony, Intel and more are going to launch interesting and innovative products at CES too.

Here are a few conferences you can see at CES the next days

Conferences January 12:

• At LVCC, Nort Hall: “Simplifying the Architecture for Connectivity”, “Kids Go Mobile”, “The Future of Tablets: Segmentation”, “Show Me the Money: Mobile Payments and the Consumer”
• At The Venetian: “Being Creative in Producing a Live-Streaming Show”, “HD Video Everywhere”

Conferences at CES are amazing and there is a wide variety of them to choose the best for you.

The Consumer Electronics Association announced that the 2012 International CES will be the association’s second largest show in history. Every major technology company across the globe is participating in force at this year’s CES. Companies like Apple, Facebook, Twitter, HP and Dell are sending significant delegations to CES to show and talk about their new products.

The opening day CES started with a record number of exhibitors, we have 2 more days to see what CES can show to us.

IBM Next 5 in 5

IBM Next 5 in 5 is the title of a fantastic video that IBM guys have developed to show us what technologies will have more success in the next five years. The future of innovation can not be predicted but it’s possible to analyze the most interesting technologies in an effort to know what will be the way of the technology in the next years.

The innovations that IBM analyze are those that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play. This technologies are:

• Energy
• Security
• Mind Reading
• Mobile
• Analytics

Energy: IBM believes that in the future everybody will be able to create their own energy. How? Well, anything that moves can generate energy, if advances in renewable technology and energy go on this way, it’s possible that we can empower our houses with our self-created energy.

Security: Passwords won’t be needed, or at least, not as we know them nowadays. IBM believes that the passwords of the future will be composed by different data of our biological composition. Different information such as retinal data, can be used to build a unique password that you don’t need to remember.

Mind Reading: IBM believes that in the next 5 years we are going to see how mind reading is used in PC games and helping to cure diseases. Just think.

Mobile: In 5 years 80% of current global population will have a mobile device, this can help to break the gap between the information haves and have-nots. Mobile technology is cheaper so a lot of people with economic problems around the world will be able to access information like other people with better economic status.

Analytics: SPAM will not exist in the future thanks to technological innovations. This innovations will be able to filter and find the data that is important and relevant to you, bringing you information without you having to ask for it.

What do you think about these predictions from IBM? Will they change our lives?

Don’t stop innovating

Nowadays is really important for every size companies to keep constant innovation, it’s important to know the latest technologies and research on their business area to be competitive and to stay alive. The economic situation it’s not as good as we want it to be, and we have to stay alert if we want to continue with our business.

¿How to innovate?

Ok, so you want to innovate on your company but you don’t know how to start. Let’s analyze how other companies are innovating on their business areas. For example let’s see what is Google doing:

Launch new products, test the market:

Google is constantly launching new products, they are not afraid, they make good products and they test it on the market, after launching the product Google evaluates the reaction of the market and if it’s not good the product is closed, you can check on The Official Google Blog and see how many products they closed last spring.

Improve your successful products:

You can think that your successful products are already finished but for sure that you can think on new improvements to make this successful products even better than they are. For example Google has announced these days a new feature on Google Maps for Android, now it’s possible for you to figure out where you are and see where you might want to go when you’re indoors.

Make your best product even better

Google is constantly improving it’s search engine, if Google is the most used search engine in the world it’s because they are always adding new and interesting features. Google is always updated with a fresh and stylish design. They’re going to launch the next stage of their redesign, a new Google bar that will enable us to navigate quickly between their services.

It’s really difficult to be as innovative as Google, they have a really big structure. But you can begin to innovate with little improvements that will make your company more competitive.

Nice animated infographic

The guys from CNET UK have prepared a nice beautiful animated infographic where we can watch the iPhone’s history. What innovations have been developed to create the iPhone? A lot of people and a lot of technology developement was necessary to create the iPhone and this video is a trip to discover the elements that contributed to the iPhone becoming what it is today.

Really nice tribute to Steve Jobs