Category Archives: Future Technologies

Visa gives the humble credit card a touch of the 21st Century

Shopping online for various items, whether it be the weekly shop, buying books, holidays or just ordering up Sky TV in time for Christmas is becoming a fairly regular day-to-day practice. At the heart of this is the payments using … Continue reading

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Get your solar panels from … IKEA!?

IKEA is planning on going beyond the usual flat-pack furniture market and (hopefully) within the next five years could be adding “green” goods to its product line, including solar panels.

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Cycling jacket changes colour – AKA the Reactiv Cycle Jacket

Whilst watching BBC Breakfast a few weeks back, I found myself fascinated by a jacket. Not exactly the fashion kind, but a life saving, wouldn’t look at all bad on most people, would help to reduce road rage kind!

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Interesting Touch Screen / Multi-touch Technology on the Horizon

I always though that Touch Screens needed a little work done on them. Over the years,

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Touch Windows by Philips

Well, another future technology is on the horizon. This time it is Philips who are taking their Ambi-light technology and placing it on windows. No, not the computer Windows, but real windows, the thing you look out of!

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The Future of Air Travel – Airbus A380 Test Drive

No, I am not test driving the A380 myself and I’m by no means into aviation, but whilst coming back from Athens on Olympic Scare-Ways I could not help but wonder what the aircraft of the future (not that far … Continue reading

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No moving parts, but I am electric and I can be touched and stroked – what am I?

It’s is difficult to get me exited about new technologies these days, but still plenty of it around. Then ever so often, something comes along that makes me think “hummm, that has real potential”. This month has seen the arrival … Continue reading

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