http://tech.msn.com/products/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1010970

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"From inexpensive 20-megapixel cameras to 50-terabyte DVDs, here's our definitive list of technologies we're looking forward to seeing."

Click link.

Some of the coolest:

200GB Blu-ray Discs
Memory That Doesn't Forget (NRAM)
Data in Three Dimensions
50-Terabyte DVDs
Instant-Charge Batteries
High-Capacity Nanotube Batteries
Fuel-Cell Batteries
Quad-Core Processors
The 8-Hour Laptop Battery
An Entire MP3 Collection on a Flash Player
Flexible Displays
TVs Out of Thin Air
Lossless Digital Music in the Mainstream
High-Res Displays With Unlimited Colors
Truly Visual Web Search
The End of Installed Software
A Camera Phone as Good as a Digital Camera (8 MP)
2015's New Mainstream Camera: 20 Megapixels
Facial Recognition for Photos
A Shift From 2D Photos to 3D Environments
The 3D Internet
The Smart Shirt
Electronic Paper
The Universal Translator
Robots, Part 1: Death to Allowances
Robots, Part 2: Hope It's Not the Terminator
1000 Pages Printed per Minute

[Edited on October 11, 2006 at 9:41 PM. Reason : ]

10/11/2006 9:33:19 PM

Focus seems to be on viable technologies in the next 5-10 years that have potential for success/development. Interesting. Thanks for the article.

10/11/2006 10:05:08 PM

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"A Camera Phone as Good as a Digital Camera (8 MP)"

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"the SCH-B600 officially released on the Korean market only today, and it's a phone with a 10-megapixel camera. And the price--I kid you not--is 900,000 won or $900 dollars. Samsung originally announced the product in March."

http://news.com.com/2061-10801_3-6124370.html

10/11/2006 10:19:24 PM

i started to list my favorites, but then i realized i had about 20

a lot of them sound promising, but pc world's estimates about release dates is probably a little optimistic...i'm still surprised that a number of them aren't already in use

10/11/2006 10:20:06 PM

i can't wait for pervasive speech recognition

10/11/2006 10:22:56 PM

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"200GB Blu-ray Discs"

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"50-Terabyte DVDs"

So, what's the point of Blu-ray? Ok, so they really meant DVD sized, not DVD.

15-Minute Vista Installations: Haha.

Memory That Doesn't Forget: Let's hope there is a forget option - I'd like to forget memory leaks.

More-Efficient Graphics Cards: Some of these are downright obvious. The blurb they had on this was pointless. Did they think GPUs were going to get worse over time? Several items in the list of 100 are to the tune of Product X will be better - without elaboration.

High-Res Displays With Unlimited Colors: "Tiny artificial muscles developed by a team at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich could make for high-resolution displays that can reproduce the entire visible spectrum of light"

Which is finite

The Death of IE6: "Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 is a problem: Its bugs and its incomplete support for Web standards have been thorns in Web designers' sides for years."

Well duh. IE7 will come out. Plus, as a web designer I'd much rather see Netscape die a horrible death.

The End of Adware: Haha.

Fiber Everywhere: Bring it on.

Electronic Paper: "Electronic paper is on the way: Several manufacturers have working prototypes of thin, flexible displays that can show high-contrast text that looks as good as the printed page. These displays retain the image when the power is off, making them suitable for electronic books. One day you'll be able to download PC World into your electronic newspaper and flick through the pages electronically."

Part of me wants to say... but paper costs $0.01 per page. How much does the one sheet of electronic paper cost?

DirectX 10 Games: "The new version of DirectX that will come with Microsoft's Windows Vista will open up many possibilities for game programmers, allowing them to create realistic physics in games and more complex 3D environments. Such advances, however, will have to wait until Vista is finally released and has enough users to justify the games: We don't expect to see anything but a handful of enhanced titles until mid-2007. And these new games won't run on older versions of Windows: DirectX 10 will run on Vista only."

This is the first and only compelling reason I've heard for buying Vista so far.

1000 Pages Printed per Minute: Meh.

[Edited on October 12, 2006 at 9:19 AM. Reason : -]

10/12/2006 9:17:28 AM

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"Well duh. IE7 will come out. Plus, as a web designer I'd much rather see Netscape die a horrible death."

Agreed.

10/12/2006 9:32:03 AM

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"Electronic Paper: "Electronic paper is on the way: Several manufacturers have working prototypes of thin, flexible displays that can show high-contrast text that looks as good as the printed page. These displays retain the image when the power is off, making them suitable for electronic books. One day you'll be able to download PC World into your electronic newspaper and flick through the pages electronically." Part of me wants to say... but paper costs $0.01 per page. How much does the one sheet of electronic paper cost?"

well, yeah, i suppose...two points, though:

okay, perhaps saving the planet isn't high on your priority list, but IF the electronic paper were cheap enough, we COULD see a significant decrease in deforestation (including replanted forests)

the more practical (and less hippy) aspect: i love to read, and am always toting a novel along with me wherever i go...okay, so i spend $50 on a blank electronic book and then load up e-books into the book whenever i want to swap novels...same could be said for textbooks, notebooks, etc...the ability to carry ONE electronic notebook and keep notes on memory cards is pretty darn revolutionary in my opinion

10/16/2006 9:57:44 AM

^ uhhhh .pdf's and a laptop....

10/16/2006 10:51:18 AM

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"These displays retain the image when the power is off, making them suitable for electronic books."

uhhh...your laptop works without power?

also, i'm assuming that these electronic pages weigh MUCH less than a laptop...

[Edited on October 16, 2006 at 11:12 AM. Reason : .]

10/16/2006 11:12:23 AM

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"High-Res Displays With Unlimited Colors: "Tiny artificial muscles developed by a team at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich could make for high-resolution displays that can reproduce the entire visible spectrum of light" Which is finite "

The range from one end to the other is indeed finite, but infinitessimally divisible between that range...whichi s infinite

10/16/2006 11:12:40 AM

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"^ uhhhh .pdf's and a laptop...."

Laptops arent readable in daylight. And a laptop you get 8 hours of battery life, most e-readers are currently on the 20-40 hours lifespan.

e-Paper is awesome. Not these stupid ass e-readers they are trying to pawn off on people, but when e-Paper finally gets to production ready, it will be very good times

10/16/2006 11:23:08 AM

true....

10/16/2006 11:42:07 AM

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"Well duh. IE7 will come out. Plus, as a web designer I'd much rather see Netscape die a horrible death."

After doing tech support I'd rather see web designers die a slow horrible death. That job would have been so much easier if we'd just have text based bbs style pages with no places for adware to sneak in.

10/16/2006 12:12:35 PM

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"Laptops arent readable in daylight"

There are a few laptops that can cut with outdoors illumination. I agree with your other statements though.

10/16/2006 12:15:05 PM

forgot the millenium falcon. looking forward to that one myself.

10/16/2006 4:53:09 PM

Wow, back in 2002 I was in a group for that engineer's english class (310 maybe?) and we had to pitch a product of the future. Ours was a book that utilized e-ink technologies. Basic idea was that when you got to school you only needed to buy one e-book that you could download all your course material to. All class books, labs, novels, whatever, could be at your disposal when you need it without the worry of carrying around 5 different books. Our product also allowed the user to download reference material from the library, highlight, or drag and drop quotes, and parenthetical references would be done automatically. Thats a few things we talked about off the top of my head, kind of cool to see it coming to reality...sort of.

10/16/2006 11:21:35 PM

yeah, the idea isn't new, but actually making it happen has always been a hang-up

10/17/2006 9:40:27 AM

20MP CAMERA HOLY CRAP1

insert comment about huge number of megapixels and how it doesn't matter you need a good sensor/lens in a digital camera blah blah blah

10/18/2006 1:47:08 PM