Technology is getting ready to make us all go wow this year.
Here are a few of the best bits to look forwards to.
Formula E
Just as sexy as F1 but battery powered, these cars are due to get racing around the cities of the world in September 2014. They are expected to be a little slower at around 155 mph but add them to some spectacular street circuits and the excitement will be electric, sorry. Oh and the batteries only last 20 minutes so instead of changing tires the drivers will be changing cars in the pit stops. Should be interesting.
I bet our boys in highrmotorsport.com would love to get their design mitts on these cars.
Virgin Galactic
The day we have all been waiting for, for 3 years, is finally going to arrive.
I am sure you have all forgotten about Sir Richard’s outer space dreams but please take a look at the video, the tech is simply, out of this world, sorry again.
Holograms, Star wars style I think, hmm
3D holograms are going to be coming to a screen of some sort really soon.
Musion is a company that specialises in 3D effects, in particular in holographic projection. They have already created some truly staggering shows which you can view here.
Taking a step closer to a Yoda-chat scenario is leiadisplay.com
LDS are the devices that allows to display images in mid air. This unique technology makes possible to walk through the image, touch it or interact with it. Streams of barely visible fog becomes an image carrier and their laminar structure allows to display hi resolution contents.
View this amazing tech in action here
The advertising and entertainment possibilities are endless as well as the chance to do clever stuff like they do on TV like explode virtual diagrams for design and research.
An IBM survey of 3,000 researchers recently named holographic video calls as one technology they expected to see in place in the next year or so. Cool.
