Technology and media use in the future

Welcome to my new blog about the technology and media use in the future. This time I’m going to discuss the prospects about how technology is going to develop itself in the near future. For those of who think that technology is already far and for those who have difficulty to stay up-to-date with all new devices in the year 2010, the future is going to be hard. For those who are into new devices and who like technological developments, the future is going to be exciting and interesting. Microsoft is trying to develop the newest things and they are coming up with this so called “skinput”.
Within a few years it is possible to play games like Tetris with the aid of your own hands, just by touching the top of your fingers in stead of using a keyboard or a controller. Imagine that you try to call someone just by typing in the phone number on your hand. It sounds weird and unimaginable, but it is going to be the future. See the first video below for more clarity.

Or children, maybe even adults if they want to, can put together “moving puzzles”. In stead of a puzzle with a nice picture, Microsoft is coming up with pieces of videos which are going to be the puzzle pieces. Microsoft is developing kinds of interfaces which are probably going to replace old-fashioned devices. For example an interface for choosing a menu in a restaurant and with the same interface it is even possible to pay the bill. Just by laying down your credit card on the interface. You can decide how much you want to tip the restaurant on a touch screen and by picking up the credit card you just have paid. Or no more annoyance with cables when you want to upload your pictures from your camera to a computer. You can just lay down the camera on the interface and within seconds your photos appear at the interface. With the aid of the same interface it is possible to edit the photos by making them bigger or smaller with your hands. This all probably sounds unimaginable and weird, but you can see what I try to make clear in the second video.
To complete the set, the third video will give a more future perspective about what is going to be possible in the year 2019. I hope you all are slightly into technological developments, because the future is going to be very interesting. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think about these prospects.