Is this the new trend?
For a couple of years now the Buzz word within the enterprises has been Cloud. So much that old technology has been renamed to cloud services just to enable continues sale. For a long time Cloud was so confusing that it was almost impossible to talk about it without starting an argument. Cloud has now more or less landed into a more mainstrean collection portfolio of services that customers can pick and choose from. The new Buzz word, if you ask me for the following few years that isn't even a word is BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). The trend of employees starting to take control over technology strategies instead of IT. New devices and technologies made available for the public create a demand for flexibility within the company Infrastructure. But more on BYOD later.
For personal use I think the new trend will be Wireless. We see more and more Wireless technology implemented into devices which never before has been interactive like TV's. Things like DLNA, Microsofts Smartglass, NFC and offcourse the endless ways of socially use your smartphones positioning system.
Nokia
Nokia started this year by announcing that their new Lumia series would support wireless charging which is a really fantastic feature. Only Fantasy can put an end to what kind of devices you would be able to include this charging method into. They have already together with JBL created a range of speakers with wireless charging capability. Not only do I really hope that Nokia will do a comeback but I really feel that it is essential to have more innovative players on that market.
Netgear
There is also a new Wireless network standard approved to replace it's predecessor 802.11n. It's called 802.11ac and have the difference to send and receive on the dual-band which allows it so have 2 open channels of streams at the same time. That together with the 5Ghz band you can get speeds up to 1.3 Gbit/s which is actually the first time that wireless can provide higher speeds then threadbound LAN technology. Netgear was first out with a series of products and with a Router called R6300 which is both nice looking and seem to be able to provide quite a throughput.
Intel
I read and saw a demonstration of WiGig which is a New standard undergoing IEEE investigation for final approval which will be the successor of 802.11ac and will support tri-band and also add the 60Ghz band which is currently unavailable for public usage. The most interesting thing about this standard is actually the 60Ghz band usage which actually allows transfers of really high amount of data over short distances and will enable to eliminate the need for cables between peripherals such as Monitor, Keyboard, mouse, printer & Computer.
Summary
What i find interesting with this is the possibilities for new product ranges and innovation. I can see products like office desks with integrated wireless charging and/or integrated mouse-plates into office desks with charging. This also would eliminate the need for docking stations for Laptops as you would just set your latop on the desk and bam it is charging and automatically connected to the mouse, keyboard and monitor.
Innovation?
Please let me know what kind of innovations and products you see in the near future just by looking at these new technologies??
