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The impact of Gartner's top 10 strategic technologies will not center only on the business - their capabilities will also increasingly become integral to future generations of management architecture, according to Gartner, Inc. "We are already seeing the adoption of 'big data' within the IT and operations management [ITOM] industry. In particular, software-as-service [SaaS] management providers now have to collect and synthesize large volumes of data," said Milind Govekar, managing vice president at Gartner. "We also expect more next-generation analytics to come to the forefront to address an increasingly hybrid cloud environment. On the social front, IT service desk social management tools will establish an interactive relationship with end users, enhance end-user productivity, provide a platform to share information and ideas, and market the value of IT to the business." In the fourth quarter of 2011, Gartner identified the 10 technologies and trends that will have the biggest impact for most organizations in 2012. They are: 1. Media tablets and beyond, 2. Mobile-centric applications and interfaces, 3. Contextual and social user experience, 4. The Internet of things, 5. App stores and marketplaces, 6. Next-generation analytics, 7. Big data, 8. In-memory computing, 9. Extreme low-energy servers and 10. Cloud computing.

Berlin-based company Formulor was founded by a team with over ten years of experience in laser-cutting and design. Formulor launched in 2010 and became our first manufacturing partner in the EU. With the release of the Personal Factory API, the Formulor team began working on a whole new site and improved user interface. The new Formulor site is now live and features a great built-in design tool that lets you create your design right on the page. Just pick your material (25 to choose from), select a size and thickness, then start creating your design with the various shape, text, and line tools

Microsoft's new project is able to detect hand positions in 3D and translate them into software commands - perhaps a user could swipe their hand to the side to turn a page in a book, or pinch their fingers to zoom in on a document. The device can also display a human hand on-screen when necessary.

Design trends are influenced by both form and function, but also bow to limitations of existing technology. When we look back at flat-screen TVs compared to LCDs, then further to the bulky cathode ray tube (remember these?), it's obvious we've come a long way. Within a few years, according to industry reps, we'll say the same about store displays, vehicle lighting and kitchen countertops.

They're called "glanceable" devices, and Massachusetts-based Ambient Devices has been developing them for over a decade. The company spun out of a project at MIT's famed Media Lab with the goal of integrating data points into our lives in a natural, organic way. Ambient's path to building a real business has been an unusual one, producing oddities likes the Orb - a glass sphere capable of glowing different colors to indicate a temperature, stock price, or anything else the user can dream up - and the Umbrella, whose handle would glow when rain was in the forecast.

The MIT Media Lab is broken down into 26 different research groups. From "Macro Connections" to "Camera Culture," each team is focused on an innovative end goal. Throughout this past year, one group, "Viral Spaces," has focused on proximal networking, hoping to facilitate discourse between real people in real places. From Junkyard Jumbotron's large digital displays to Peddl's brand-new balanced marketplace, here's a look at 11 of the projects aimed at changing the way we communicate.

t's a pretty cool concept: Sifteo cubes have tiny, 1.5-inch screens that can interact with each other via spatial awareness. They know when they're close to each other, to the left, right, top, or bottom. And you can load them up with games that use that new tech.

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2022 is a long way off, but key digital developments are already in hand. The current explosion of mobile connectivity will surely exert an influence 10 years from now. Desktops and laptops -- even tablets -- may be hardware of the past, as we access the information stream using voice, gesture, and retinal displays. Immersion in this all-enveloping data field will change the way we work and think. The displacement of information from devices will be reflected in the displacement of the worker from the workplace. Accessing the collaborative environment anywhere, anytime, a nomadic workforce will expect IT to manage the streamlining of data through virtual platforms. As for social media, we're not going too far out on that unpredictable limb. Will Facebook (or perhaps a successor) swallow the Internet whole, locking us into a fully socialized online experience? Or will an adverse reaction set in, driving users back into isolated silos? Of course, what 2022 looks like will be governed in large part by the political and technological foundations of connectivity. Big changes are looming, but innovations in the basic architecture of the Internet -- like software-defined networking -- could be overtaken by diplomatic developments. Member states of the ITU, meeting in Dubai this December, are capable of throwing international network traffic, and even the domain name system, into utter confusion.

A new, more intuitive technology could soon make all kinds of surfaces, like human skin and water, responsive to complicated gestures

Imaginons un instant à quoi pourrait ressembler une banque du futur. Pas une banque irréaliste d'un lointain futur lorsque que nous vivrons dans l'espace. Plutôt une suite de services financiers qui existent actuellement et qui regroupés ensemble pourraient fournir une expérience bancaire idéale.

On vous parle souvent de nouvelles interactions entre l'homme et la machine. En voici une autre : l'association d'une caméra 3D et d'un logiciel de vision, qui se révèle être un moyen d'interagir avec la plupart des objets de notre quotidien. En détectant les formes, les couleurs, les objets en volumes et les gestes de l'utilisateur, ce dispositif baptisé Anytouch permet de « tactiliser » n'importe quel objet... et invente une autre manière d'augmenter le monde. 

"ver wish you could have Siri-like voice activation in your home rather than just on your phone? Ubi - short for ubiquitous computer - is an always-on voice-activated Android-powered computer. It's a little four-inch square packing a microphone and speakers, and it's got lots of uses. Just say 'Ubi' and it will do your bidding, be that voice-based web searches, speakerphone, intercom or alarm clock functions. The compact computer can be used as a baby monitor, or as a supplement to networked climate control systems like Nest."