The Berkeley National Laboratory invented a new polymer so they could create a battery that holds 30% more charge than the lithium-ion batteries of today. Other lab coats at the University of Illinois developed a technique that might allow high-capacity batteries to charge and discharge within seconds.

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From 2011
Top 8 Wonderful Emerging Technologies How fast? Quick enough to spew out 800 megabits
From 2011 per second (Mbps) — an impressive spec by home-
networking standards. Only a few components are
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2011 , laptop batteries uk , Samsung nc10 batteries king illuminator (a term sure to be trademarked
, Dell latitude d630 laptop battery any second), which can reach an area of 10 square
meters. One drawback: anyone walking between
1. Networking via LED the light and your device will kill the connection.
In another category breakthrough this year, Gii-
Nii also introduced a light bulb that doubles as a
speaker.
2. Terminator Contact Lens
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Wi-Fi jammed? It won’t be a problem if you’re What if there were a way to get visual alerts without
networking through your room lights. You heard even having to look at a device? That’s the promise
right — scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for of a high-tech contact lens that’s also a heads-up
Telecommunications in Germany worked out a way display. Researchers at the University of Washington
to transmit data via normal LED light bulbs. Best of developed a lens that includes all the electronics for
all, you can still use them for lighting, since the lights displaying visual information to the wearer and still
blink on and off too fast for the naked eye to see. remain completely safe to eye tissue. There’s literally
just one limitation: it can only display a single pixel.
The proof-of-concept could lead to more advanced
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systems, though, and someday soon you may be 4. The PlayStation Holodeck
able to order your own pair of augmented-reality
contacts, ready to display information from Google
or Wikipedia on whatever you look at, or immerse
you live-action gameplay.
3. Building Better Batteries
Star Trek‘s holodeck looks like a complete fantasy,
but Sony created a convincing video that would
make you think twice. Allegedly using no editing
or post-production whatsoever, Sony Europe got
a couple of London-based production companies
Several groups of researchers were working to to shoot a series of amazing videos that appear to
help create a future where we don’t have to plug create a holodeck-like experience. Is this the future
our gadgets in every night, and when we do, they of augmented reality?
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won’t take long to charge. The Berkeley National
Laboratory invented a new polymer so they could
create a battery that holds 30% more charge than
the lithium-ion batteries of today. Other lab coats at
the University of Illinois developed a technique that
might allow high-capacity batteries to charge and
discharge within seconds. A grad student at Stan-
ford is working on building batteries that could be
recharged for decades without losing capacity. Other
research at Stanford opens the door to transparent
batteries that could be used in see-through gadgets.
Put it all together and you have the high-capacity,
instant-charging, long-life, transparent superbattery
of the future. Maybe.
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5. Gadgets You Can Bend 6. Full Duplexing: A Path to 5G
More spectrum, more spectrum, more spectrum —
that’s the incessant cry of the wireless industry, and
its solution to many problems it faces. The plea for
more airwaves is valid, though the carriers could
do a lot more with what they have now if they can
make something of what Rice University resear-
chers have built. The team managed to achieve
One problem with today’s touchscreen-heavy tech is full duplexing — effectively doubling the amount
that it’s fairly fragile (just ask anyone with a cracked of data transmitted over a network — and they did
iPhone). That would change if the screen wasn’t just it using current equipment. Although new wireless
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a rigid piece of glass, but a bendable display. Nokia standards need to be developed to use the tech, it
and Samsung have hinted at bendable phones, and could be deployed quickly, with existing cell towers.
one inventor at in Canada has shown it can be done.
7. Smudge-Proof Screens
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Could touch screens of the future be immune to Related Articles:
fingerprints? That’s the promise of a new kind of
screen coating that repels oil-based substances. The
German scientists behind the discovery were trying
to make a new kind of eyeglass, but it could also
lead to iPads that stay spotless — assuming they
can make the antismudge coating scratch-proof, too.
8. Social Cloud Computing
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Cloud computing — using several computers over
an open network to combine their power to attack
difficult computing tasks, like the SETI@Home pro-
ject — has a lot of potential, but one big problem
is if someone on the network is malicious, it can
screw up the whole operation. It’s difficult to know
who’s a bad guy, though, so information that’s even
a little bit sensitive will never work on the model.
Or will it? Social networks like Facebook can provide
a large group of like-minded parties, all of whom
have a certain level of trust. After all, you’re already
sharing the intimate moments of your life with
these people — why not some processing power,
too? That’s the essence of social cloud computing,
an idea from researchers at the University of Mon-
tana. And you thought you were just hanging out.
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