[FAO] New tech coming your way in 2010 [28 Attachments]

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New tech coming your way in 2010 1/PS3 Motion Controller Expectation surrounding the PS3's retort to Microsoft's Project Natal - the Motion Controller for the PS3 - has been hotting up since it was demoed in June 2009. Due for release this Spring, it works in a similar fashion to the Wii controller, with a sensor on top of your television detecting the position, distance and movement of two hand-held controllers. Heading up the development is Dr Richard Marks, stated "We expect this to be a great casual gamers' experience". At September's Tokyo Game Show, Sony revealed 13 games for 2010 which support motion control, which include Biohazard 5: Alternative Edition, Pain, EyePet and Flower. They also demoed LittleBigPlanet with the technology. 2/Project Natal Viewed by Microsoft as "the birth of the next-generation of home entertainment", Microsoft's fully immersive gaming system is expected to land in the second half of 2010, and after playing it in LA earlier this year, T3 predicts it will not be a disappointment. Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft Game Studios, told us: "You are the controller. It has facial and voice recognition, so you have an infinite menu, you can just talk... or touch things. Everything has been mapped so creativity will just open up." Cutesy, family Wii-type games have been on show thus far, but creative director Kudo Tsunoda gave us a private play of Burnout Paradise using the technology, and it was mind-bogglingly playable. Your own foot as the pedal, your hands as the steering wheel. If GTA or Call of Duty receives the Natal treatment, we're in for a treat. 3/Microsoft Second Light Technology It was announced in 2009 that a new generation of Microsft's interactive Surface (on sale to the public in 2011) was in development, code-named Second Light. The device is billed to overlay secondary images above those on the screen, an example being satellite imagery over a street map. It was also said to have sensors to interpret gestures without actually touching the screen, much like Natal. However, Microsoft were quick to kill rumours with developer Joe Olsen stating "Second Light is not the next version of Microsoft Surface", but in fact just a research project for Surface. Whoever you believe, it's still worth checking out the technology on YouTube and looking out for the Surface ain businesses throughout 2010. 4/Web TV takes over Causing a splash in 2009, it's 2010 that will really see the explosion of web TV, with web apps coming straight to your plasma. The first of its kind was the Samsung Widget TV which teamed with Yahoo! Connected TV to provide live news and weather feeds. Now Yahoo! has launched a developers kit help to achieve its aim of having 1000 widgets available by the end of 2010. "We're combining the best of TV with the best of the internet." says Yahoo big wig Russ Shafer. Users will be able to tweet about the football game, follow live stats and even go shopping for your team's shirt as it happens. Sony, LG and Philips widget TVs are scheduled for 2010. 1/3D TV for the masses We haven't been given an exact release date yet, but we know that 2010 will see the release of the long-awaited 3D Sky channel, which, according to Sky, is expected to include 'movies, entertainment and sport'. To watch it you'll need a 3D Ready TV, which will go on sale in 2010 (more on this later). Sky has also confirmed the launch of a new 'pull' video-on-demand (VOD) service for 2010. This will complement Sky+ and current Sky Anytime service and use the broadband capability of existing Sky+HD boxes. Brian Sullivan, managing director of Sky's Customer Group, promises: "Well over a million homes have future-proofed themselves with Sky+HD. Next year we'll make our HD boxes work even harder". 2/Sony 360-degree Stereoscopic 3D Display This amazing prototype was shown off in October 2009 at the Digital Content EXPO in Tokyo by Sony President Ryoji Chubachi. It's a 3D display withing a cylinder which is viewable from 360-degrees without the need for glasses. Standing at 27cm tall with a resolution of 96 x 128 with 24-bit colour, Sony has hinted at applying the tech towards 3D advertisements, exhibition events, web shopping, art appreciation, virtual pets and 3D photo frames. It's hard to do it justice here, so we urge you to see it in action on YouTube. 3/Playstation 3 goes 3D in 2010 Sony have officially stated that 3D tech will be heading to the PS3 in 2010 and will be placed in one of the next firmware updates for the system. Users will not require anything more than stereoscopic glasses and a high-def telly. Speaking at the IFA Consumer Electronics Show in 2009, T3 heard Sony chief exec Sir Howard Stringer proclaimed "the 3D train is on the track and we at Sony are ready to drive it home." 4/3D Ready TVs Sony and Panasonic have promised to release the first consumer 3D capable displays in 2010, which when not utilising 3D will work just like any HDTV television. With this backwards compatibility on offer, it's predicted the new sets will not cost much more than a standard HDTV. We predict we're not far from the majority of all HDTVs being 3D ready, with market analyst Futuresource Consulting estimating that one in 10 US and Japanese households will be 3D ready by 2012. 1/Apple Tablet Such is the secrecy of Apple, we can only apologise if the much hyped Apple Tablet has been released as you read this - stranger things have happened. But we'll stake a claim that we'll see it in February 2010. According to the Taiwan Economic News, which reports 'industry sources', the new device will pack a 9.6-inch mutlitouch screen, built-in HSDPA connectivity, a long-lasting battery pack and a P.A. Semi processor - a company Apple bought into back in 2008. Price? Well, that's said to be between $799 and $999 (�481 and �601). If it releases an app store for global newspapers, print could finally be kicking the bucket. 2/Flexible paper We've seen demos of bendable electronic paper from the like of LG and E-Ink, but AUO is the first company to promise mass production of the product for 2010, with Dr. C.T. Liu, Senior VP & GM of Consumer Product Display Business Group of AUO stating: "The mass production of the flexible e-paper will drive the next wave of the reading revolution". AUO has demoed a 6-inch flexible display offering 16 shades of gray and contrast ratio of 9:1 (beating the Kindle's 7:1). 3/Kindle takes over? It seems with the slew of eBooks coming at us Amazon has stepped up its bid for domination by confirming that a Kindle application for the PC is coming soon and a company spokesman has also stated that a Mac version is being worked on. With Amazon currently selling 48 eBooks for every 100 physical books and deals to deliver newsapaper subscriptions from 85 papers worldwide, it seems that the Kindle is on the verge of doing for literature what the iPod did for music. Amazon has also reported a recent net profit of $199m, up 62% on the same period a year earlier, and attribute it to sales of the Kindle - its best-selling product. 4/Android eBook challenges Kindle Trying to get one over on the Kindle with its Android OS is the 2GB Nook from US internet book behemoths Barnes & Noble. The Nook has two screens - one for browsing, one for reading, its built for web browsing and running Android apps and a book-lending facility which gives lenders two weeks to finish a novel. Available only in the US at the minute ($157), we expect a version to hit the UK by Q2 of 2010. 5/Google Editions Store 2010 will see the launch of the new Google Editions store, which will offer somewhere between 400,000 and 600,000 books (more than that offered by Sony and Kindle combined), with prices set by publishers and Google collecting 55% of profits. Available to any device with a web browser, the books will also be available offline after they've been accessed for the first time. 4/Integration Rivalling social networking sites Facebook and Twitter won't ever join hands, so third party programs are needed to bridge the gap and integrate them on one platform. TweetDeck is a major player in the merging game and provides a platform for organising friends and live updates from Twitter, Facebook and Myspace. According to founder Ian Dodsworth, the software is "the number one Twitter service outside of Twitter.com." 2010 will see this as an emerging trend - especially in mobiles - where there'll be less emphasis on a myriad new networking sites and more on applications to let you merge the most popular ones seamlessly. Motorola's newly unveiled Motoblur software and 3's INQ phones currently lead the way with mobile integration, but when we hit 2010 there will be similar platforms from every mobile manufacturer. 1/Download-only Now that every major handheld platform (PSP Go, DSi and iPhone/iTouch) is a fully-fledged web machine, Nintendo's handheld is the last to still use physical media for games. Whilst Apple's uber-device has always fed solely from its App store, Sony only recently dropped UMDs, eschewing the slot in the new PSP Go for downloadable games stored in the consoles memory. A recent survey by TNS revealed that downloaded games will outsell traditional retail sales within three years. 4/Living room sync In the case of Nintendo and Sony, the idea of having devices in your pocket sync with the ones in your living room is mighty appealing, and is something that's continuingly being strived for. 2010 should see Sony further capitalise on its Remote Play link between PSP and PS3, which allows content streaming from console to handheld over a secure connection. Tantalisingly, Sony's John Koller says that the tech to stream a Blu-ray from PS3 to PSP "actually exists today." Likewise, the DSi links up with The Nintendo Wii to eek more content and life from games in its biggest franchises, such as Pokemon. 5/iPhone gaming gets big Apple's not too strict with approving games and developers get 70 per cent of the profits - from a price they set themselves. The iPhone's no slouch in the graphics department, either, often pushing out DSi-challenging visuals. EA's first FIFA iPhone game landed in October 09, and suggests that the big developers are beginning to see the machine as a genuine contender in its own right. Look out for bigger and more complex games over the coming year. 3/Improved memory for multiple apps Palm's WebOS showed us that it is possible to run multiple apps at once. Want to listen to music, write on twitter, check emails and find out where the hell you are all at the same time without closing anything down? In 2010 that'll be the norm. Improved processors are the meat of the multitasking sandwich and smartphones sporting more RAM for running Apps will "drive a massive change in the role of the smartphone and have a more profound impact on how we live our lives day-to-day than any consumer electronics device in history," according to Motorola.
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