New year, new gear: Technologies that will catch your
fancy
From hanging out
in VR to stepping into smart cities and getting a clerk bot to assist at work,
it is going to be an interesting year in tech
Drone with artificial
intelligence
AI flying machines are creating a buzz — Intel has
teamed up with Ferrari for AI drones to analyse races and conservation group
Air Shepherd’s AI drone system detects humans and animals through infrared
thermal imaging at night to fight against poachers. Like the ORCA drone, AI
flying machines are poised to understand and execute your voice commands.
Take VR into the mainstream
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced a
virtual reality headset (VR) called ‘Oculus Go’. In a bid to expand its grasp
in the world of VR, the social media giant’s first standalone product lets you
watch movies or concerts, play games, and lets you hang out with your friends
in virtual reality. As standalone virtual reality headset tends to turn
affordable and portable, VR is poised to go mainstream this year.
Smart gadget for home
The craze for smart home gadgets is only going to
surge in our connected homes. The numerous smart devices will be replaced by
multi-function devices like the Toshiba Symbio Smart Home Solution. It is a
wireless security camera, smart speaker, voice control with Amazon Alexa, an
intercom, smart sound detector and an expandable smart home hub — all in a
single device. One can use the Symbio as a smart home hub by controlling all of
the devices from a single app.
Green and smart cities
Architects and governments around the world are
taking interest in building smart cities with zero carbon footprint. The world
will see more concepts like Liuzhou Forest City in China, Europa City in
France, not to mention the USMexico border wall prototypes. These cities will
have connected technologies that will influence urban environments — from
crowd-sourced figures about parking availability, to street lamps that can
detect the depth of snow on roads, energy selfsufficiency, emphasis on public
transport and more.
Smart jewellery
Moving on from smart jewellery like Ringly Aries,
Michael Kors Access Thompson, Motiv and Oura smart rings that track your vitals
and activities, the new ones are going to help us carry around less stuff by
replacing cash, payment cards, loyalty cards, passes, ID, tickets and keys. We
are also going to put our personal security into the hands of smart rings like
Nimb.
Bots for productivity
Artificial intelligence plays a key role when it
comes to turning machines capable of working alongside humans. Remember Billy
Bot — the AI-driven clerk chatbot that assists humans in administrative
processes within legal practices? Built by a UK-based advocacy and mediation
service provider, the bot can check barrister availability, conflict check,
create the case and acknowledge the booking to the client by email
rajarshi.b@timesgroup.com
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