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The New York Times research and development lab was established in 2006 and is currently formed of seven engineers, tasked with monitoring and reacting to audience behaviour towards new technological trends. If Under Armour hoped to maintain its breakneck pace, however, it knew that it couldn't stay away from connected fitness devices for too long. With HTC as its hardware partner, Under Armour unveiled a slew of connected fitness devices in Las Vegas on Tuesday. The star of the show is a trio of devices that make up the Under Armour Healthbox , which is aimed at providing athletes with a more comprehensive experience than they would get from a simple fitness band like a FitBit. The education that people are pursuing and the new grounds that they are entering in their fields of IT, software and sciences, to name a few, will inevitably lead to new ideas and new ways of working. Rifkin does not consider that this new age technology has allowed people to open up their own businesses and to be more financially independent. For instance, the invention of the internet has produced self-made millionaires and has made people come up with innovative ideas using new technologies. The professionals that we have nowadays are currently experiencing shorter workweeks because they are getting their business matters done more quickly due to technology. As a result, people are not spending too much time on menial tasks, because the quality of pictures, the innovations included for writers and research, to name a few industries, are all facilitated by technology and having innovations come through the door on a daily basis. The internet and technology has facilitated this process and it has encouraged people to be more creative and innovative. Some people would like future technology to be in the form of free energy such as solar or electro-magnetic. If you have seen Star Trek, you would have seen the wonderful future technology that they have such as the food replicator. Some of the other future technology that could be just around the corner is flying cars. The stories we tell ourselves about technology - typically, optimistic ones from would-be innovators, pessimistic ones from their critics - are usually too simple. Making them more complex can support a richer discussion about where a technology might be going, and the kind of futures it could open up. That calls for a kind of realism in the depiction of technical possibilities that is inspiring a new cadre of practitioners of design fiction, or critical design. The future facts are imagined, but not fanciful in the context of current research. In 2014, the Near Future Laboratory, a US-European design studio, published the TBD Catalog , an entire compendium of possible future products, from drone dog-walkers to environmentally sound seed-based feedstock for a 3D-printer. These finely textured depictions of the potential accoutrements of the future stimulate discussion in ways that earlier efforts to imagine technology often fail to do. They might even offer a more effective way to create futures we actually want. We don't know how the first hominids who fashioned a hand-axe from a flint shaped their thoughts, but the very action of flint-knapping implies a plan for the future: the result will be better, in some way, than the flints already to hand. The ties between scientific speculation, technological imagination and sci-fi are close, and complex, even if genuinely new ideas most often come up in the tech arena first. Arthur C Clarke is often cited as a techno-visionary for his ideas about geostationary communication satellites, but these were first outlined in 1945 in a technical essay, not in fiction. When promotional efforts like this work well (for technology advocates), sci-fi's baleful warnings can seem less troubling, even when lodged firmly inside the culture. It is up to the person who stumbles across the design to make sense of how it might be part of a storied future. When it works, design fiction brings something new into debates about future technological life, and involves us - the users - in the discussion. The recipes for in vitro meat are a case in point, foregrounding a new approach to a technology that has been depicted before, in more conventional sci-fi narratives. The recipes and ingredients here help bring home the idea that if this barely existing technology (I was going to say embryonic but that risks an unfortunate confusion) develops into real products, there will be complex choices to make about which ones to use. This is design fiction vividly telling us to begin thinking about which new products we might choose to sample now, before they materialise, and about how to take the technology into our own hands. The US design theorist Julian Bleecker of the Near Future Laboratory suggests that the TBD Catalog with its realistic depictions of fictional products models a different way of innovating, in which designers ‘prototype and test a near future by writing its product descriptions, filing bug reports, creating product manuals and quick reference guides to probable improbable things'. Oron Catts, director of the ‘biological arts' lab SymbioticA, and Ionat Zurr, an artist and lecturer, both at the University of Western Australia, describe Synthetic Aesthetics' compilation of future visions as artistic expressions that ‘offer glimpses of the possible and the contestable; works that are neither utopic or dystopic but rather ambiguous and messy'. Design fictions are not a panacea for some ideal future of broad participation in choosing the ensemble of technologies that we will live with. Most future technologies will continue to arrive as a done deal, despite talk among academics of ‘upstream engagement' or - coming into fashion - instituting ‘responsible research and innovation'. The evolution of military technology has allowed the US military to move many of its troops out of harms way by implementing precision weaponry coupled with unmanned technologies. In the near future our battlefields could look like something from the movie Terminator with robots fighting each other and actually operating on artificial intelligence. The most interesting American green technology product is New Hydrogen Generators. Future products made from green technology would comprise of super computers, smart appliances, taller buildings, safer living and travelling standards. Furthermore, the focus of green technology is also on water preservation to make the world a green and safe place to live in. There is a probability, partly because of the price of fuel, that delivery services will consolidate to some extent in the future so that you will receive one or two regular deliveries per day of all goods you have purchased - including groceries - along with mail and newspaper, etc. Each person may also have a receiving station service in the future whereby the shopper picks up everything from one large, secured lockbox. This is already being done, but with advances in registration and licensing as well as online financing and insurance - you may spend 25 minutes on a website and be legally driving your new car in the time it takes to meet the delivery-person curbside. All of these security innovations will make biometric technology more accurate and make its usage more widespread. But in the future, this biometric technology will be strengthened so that the subject will not have to be a just few feet away from the video surveillance cameras. As the need increases for government bodies and large firms to deploy hi-tech security systems to solve crimes or protect employees, biometric technology will improve, as investor confidence increases. Once the consumer confidence is evident, biometric research will provide further innovations, which will in turn strengthen future performance, and this cycle will continue to build in a positive direction. But for the biometric technology field to grow, industry standards must exist so that there is the greatest compatibility between applications and hardware. The ISO/IEC JTC1 is the governing body of international biometric standards, but this standardization is still in progress. With such a young technology, biometric and identification technology has everything to gain with improved standards and accuracy. In probably a short time, biometric developers will surpass the quality of their current product so that the future of the biometric field will be assured in the hi-tech marketplace. Global trends in greening practices and increasing energy efficiency, as well as economic challenges, compel governments to cut back on waste. From the local level to national, and from households to factories, build projects to alternative fuels, a grant exists to cover your transition to energy-saving technology. Several of the features-most notably multitasking-require more advanced hardware and are therefore only available on the iPhone 3GS and third-generation iPod touch, as well as future devices such as the iPhone 4. Often the owner of the airframe at the parting-out stage may require that the engines, undercarriage, in-flight entertainment systems and some of the avionics are returned for future use. The point at which sub-systems and materials cease to be valuable to the parting-out agency is dependent on the cost of removing them, the overheads associated with securing appropriate paperwork, and particularly the infrastructure and technology available to extract value. Science and technology plays a major role in determining the end of life value of an aircraft. Even though the manufacturer had sold that engine to the user and had no direct involvement in its use, the incident and public news reports will always identify the manufacturer. A research has shown that the human mind starts losing its abilities after 22 years, if we little concentrate on this result then the fact is clear that whatever an individual learns before 22 years, utilizes this in the future life. Better results in the future can be seen only if the skills are well-developed in past. The most useful and effective technology that we talk is Information technology. Information technology has changed the world and has opened new dimensions to see the world, with different aspects. Information technology impact has changed, the living style, working style and career. This has produced the need to introduce the modern technology from the very basic level of education. The need is to educate, the newcomers with pros and cons, to help understand, how to take benefit from modern technology. Just as the term suggests, 3D printing is the technology that could forge your digital design into a solid real-life product. Imagine a future where every individual professional has the capability to mass produce their own creative physical products without limitation. More importantly, you can own this future with just $70, a price of a premium PS3 game title! Eye tracking has been actively discussed by technology enthusiasts throughout these years, but it's really challenging to implement. They successfully created the technology to allow you to control your tablet, play flight simulator, and even slice fruits in Fruit Ninja only with your eye movements. It's basically taking the common eye-tracking technology and combining it with a front-facing camera plus some serious computer-vision algorithm, and voila, fruit slicing done with the eyes! A live demo was done in LeWeb this year and we may actually be able to see it in in action in mobile devices in 2013. The current problem that most devices have is that they function as a standalone being, and it require effort for tech competitors to actually partner with each other and build products that can truly connect with each other.