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- pillhead0
How about the new tech in Porn, 3D swinging ball sacks sound scary.
- maximillion_0
Augmented Reality, ComputerVision, Projection Mapping
- twokids0
whoever you are, lazy dude, asking people to think for you, ok, here goes:
in the 50s semiconducters were invented (guys won Nobel prize, look it up). because of this, the development of computers accelerated. they got smaller and faster every year and in the 60s moores law was first stated (look it up). Small and fast trend continued and by late 70s small home computers were built (Apple II first, look it up) creating the modern pc. That idea of a box with a computer and keyboard, mouse and monitor has continued to this day, just faster and faster, but always around 1-2 thousand dollars.
Oh and laptops were developed, small versions of these machines, usually more expensive and less powerful, but mobile. And of course the internet took off in the 90s (Netscape - Tim Berners Lee, look it up)
So this trend continued, smaller, faster, around 1-2 K and connected to the web, but....its all changing now - and that's the story.
Steve Jobs has declared 'the end of the pc era' (look it up) and that means that more people are now using devices like smartphones, netbooks, iPads, etc. to access the internet, and PCs and trending down for the first time. big story.
what does this mean? hard to say...but huge battles are going on in the industry now that will determine who the major players will be in the future of smaller, more diverse devices that people use to get their information (ie death of newspapers, etc...look it up). Apple vs Adobe vs Google (HTC) and so on....look it up
Man if you cant find a story today - you are not looking very hard.
- PIZZA0
Yeah seconding 3D printing too if you can spin it round to fit the brief, it was used to make the costume pieces in the new iron man film.