Tech Trends

Here are our four tech trends!

Smartchitecture

Technologies that handle building operations can now react quicker. Sensors inside the building will monitor motion, temperature, humidity, occupancy and light. This allows these buildings to prepare to make repairs or warn people before something breaks. By developing solutions that are embedded in the system to solve the problems they detect, they made the building smart. We have smart phones and now we have smart buildings.

Separately, these devices have existed for years: air conditioning, heater, and security monitors. Similar to the App that allows the person to sync the central heating system to their iPhone, this smart building does not only control air conditioning or heating, it can control everything.

These “smart buildings” will help firefighters or ambulance workers to detect and respond quickly. This also allows people and companies to observe energy consumption and carbon emission, something that Canada is beginning to be aware of.

HUDs R' US

Evolving in 1975 from flight and military technology, Heads Up Displays (HUD for short) are moving towards becoming the standard in information streams. They were used a way for pilots to see flight information on their screen. They present the user information without the need for them to look away at any given point. HUD’s are now becoming part of cars (speed showing in the sightline of the windshield) and is evolving with augmented reality, like on the iPhone.

Technologies such as Augmented Reality allow users to look through their smart phone camera and see prices of food, nutritional are the evidence that this is already happening on a device level. There are even ski goggles that now display your speed and the conditions in the snow, putting the info right in your line of sight.

In the future, I see HUD's being engrained or possibly implanted into humans (almost as a body modification perhaps) that would allow us to essentially be walking information processors.

WALLPIXEL* is a custom interactive digital wall that allows you to control your decor and environment at the touch of a button; condensing all your lifestyle and media into one simple interface. It is the first generation of digital media wall interface which allows the seamless integration of all your disperate technology component interfaces into one large wall interface, complete with service plan and online updates from a centralized content/ software server. Traditionally, media servers are able to take all your media files, satellite tv signal, digital cable signal, satellite radio etc. and push it out as one output; a pc interface alows for multiple outputs in within a number of windows, but is not designed for handling and modulating data signals. The WallPixel interface makes this all possible.

TREND:

By 2015, the multiple forms of technological devices that we define ourselves with will move on to be integrated into a ‘device’ that has been with humanity since before electricity – the home. Yes, technological devices will be integrated into places that people inhabit. Technology changed when people’s lives became increasingly nomadic in their lives. In 2015, technology will be the anchor that makes the home a place of permanence and stability, a place to return to. Technology will be used to create “smart homes” that not only respond to the environment, but also to its inhabitants’ well-being. The integration of technology as one with the home simplifies the steadily increasing hectic lifestyle that people are adopting.