The Hindu Business Line : IBM working on life-changing innovations

Hyderabad May 3 Researchers at IBM have provided insight into five innovations that have the potential to change the way we live within the next five years.

Titled `IBM Next Five in Five', these innovations cover areas such as remote access for better healthcare, mobile phones that have the capability to read minds, real-time speech recognition, 3-D Internet and Nanotechnology that can compress electronic products and gadgets.

The Director of IBM India Research Laboratory, Dr Danial Dias, in a statement said: "Our researchers are focused on the application of technologies in ways that matter to people, business and society. Open collaborative research and real world innovations are going to shape the future."

"In the next five years, our lives will change through these technology innovations," he said.

With 3-D Internet, you would be able to walk the aisles of supermarkets, bookstores and DVD shops. The 3-D Internet would enable new kinds of education, remote medicine and consumer experiences, transforming how one interacted with friends, families, doctors and stores.

Millions of people with chronic health problems would be able to automatically have their conditions monitored. With cell phones getting all-pervasive, new technology would give mobile phones and Personal Digital Assistants the ability to automatically learn about their user's whereabouts, thereby helping locate and identify a user as soon as he connects to the network. Referred to as presence technology, this would help adapt to preferences and needs.

Real-time translation

According to IBM, real-time translation technologies and services would be embedded into mobile phones, handheld devices and cars, thereby eliminating language barrier.

Lastly, nanotechnology, with its ability to manipulate individual atoms and molecules, would help create tiny structures impacting microprocessors. This would, in turn, impact PCs and mobile phones, making them smaller, better and cheaper.

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