These inventions are worthy not only of our attention, but also of success on the world stage. After all, these technologies can dramatically change our way of life. The good news is that they won't have to wait for years, because they are already here and ready to use!
15. Glowing plants
For a long time, scientists have been looking for cheaper and more effective methods. artificial lighting... Finally, they were successful. They managed to create several types of plants that emit light in the dark. These plants can be used in urban environments to reduce electricity bills. Not to mention the fact that the stone jungle does not hurt a little bit of plants.14. Vertical trusses
To ensure that humanity is always provided with healthy and fresh food, scientists and farmers have come together to create an innovative farming method. It differs from the traditional one in that the plants are grown indoors, while the bias is made to save space. Thanks to this method, people in cities will be able to grow their own food or buy fresh produce from stores at any time of the year.
13. Internet from a balloon
About four billion people in the world still do not have access to the Internet. Major Internet companies regularly come up with new ways to make the Internet accessible to all corners of the earth. This is how the idea appeared to launch balloons into the atmosphere, which will “deliver” the Internet to hard-to-reach areas. Such a project will help people in developing countries become better acquainted with the world around them and find higher-paying jobs.
12. Biotechnology
Biotechnology is a branch of science that seeks to combine technology and living organisms for useful purposes. Healthy foods range from food, including cheese, yogurt, and kefir, to medicines and biological sensors. Biotechnology continues to improve and offer new solutions. On this moment In biotechnology, the popular idea is of crops that are drought tolerant and contain more vitamins.
11. Virtual reality
With the popularity of video games, gaming companies are constantly developing more and more sophisticated ways to give the player an unforgettable experience. Their main goal is to make us feel like we are living in a game and not sitting at home in front of a monitor. To achieve this effect, various companies produce a wide variety of immersion products. virtual reality... One of the most interesting options is the mask, which even allows you to feel the scents of the wilderness while playing.
10. Meat from a test tube
Many people stop eating meat because they don't want to harm the animals. To their delight, scientists have come up with a method that allows you to create meat in a laboratory. Not only does this cut down on the resources and energy that are spent on raising the animal, this meat is healthier and tastes just like the real thing. Not to mention how much space on the planet will be freed up when livestock farms disappear.
9. Exoskeletons
Of course, we are still far from the Iron Man suit, but the first steps have already been taken - exoskeletons are no longer an object of fantasy, but a real reality. They give back people with spinal cord injuries the ability to walk and enjoy life to the fullest. Over time, these primitive exoskeletons will only get better - easier to use, more convenient and cheaper.
8. Devices controlled by the power of thought
If you constantly forget where you put your smartphone, you will like this news. Scientists have developed a method that allows you to control devices with the power of thought. This technology was first tested on people who have lost mobility. It turned out to be so successful that already in 2004 people were playing ping-pong with their minds. This technology will definitely make our lives easier, not to mention the possibilities it opens up for the video games of the future.
7. Bullet transport
The world does not get tired of expanding, and more and more often we feel the need to be in two places at the same time. Therefore, humanity is constantly looking for ways to move faster. One of best examples new technologies in this area - Elon Musk's hyperloop. It promises to be so fast that the six-hour journey from Los Angeles to San Francisco will take thirty minutes. And this is not the only such project under development.
6. Changing the genome
Due to the fact that more and more people are born with genes that complicate their life and increase the risk of death, geneticists have created technologies that allow you to "cut" harmful genes, add new ones and "turn on and off" existing ones. And this is not just a way to make people healthy - this technology can help people who, for example, have always dreamed of being athletes, but lack the necessary genes. Of course, such a procedure does not guarantee the result 100%, and people will still have to work hard to master the desired skills.
5. Modern desalination
Although humans have long learned to extract drinking water through desalination, the old methods are too laborious and not efficient enough. Now humanity has a deeper understanding of physics and chemistry, and scientists have created more effective ways desalination of water. Now this can be done not only faster and cheaper, but also with additional benefits. Among them are free minerals. Yes, water is full of them, and desalinated water can become a cheap source of minerals needed for production. Plus, billions of tons of desalinated water can water the entire planet.
4. A real tricorder
If you are a science fiction fanatic, you are probably familiar with this device from Star Trek. It was his characters in the series that were used to measure medical indicators. The real version of this device can measure blood pressure, oxygen saturation, pulse, temperature, respiration, and diagnose 12 diseases, including chickenpox and HIV.
3. Drones in agriculture
More and more farmers are asking for help from modern technology. Drones have become one of these assistants. Although outwardly they resemble those used in the army and film production, their functionality is very different. Their main task is to take infrared images that allow farmers to determine where seeds are germinating successfully and where problems begin. Some companies are creating agricultural drones that can destroy harmful insects, mold and other things that are unpleasant for the harvest.
2. Super materials
With a deeper understanding of chemistry, we learned how to create new, exciting materials. These include graphene, a material that consists of only one layer of carbon atoms. Thanks to this thickness, it is easy to stretch, has a high thermal conductivity, and at the same time it is 200 times stronger than steel. Graphene can be used to create ... anything. Graphene will make armored vehicles, clothing, computers and many other things much better and much more durable.
1.4D printers
You've probably heard of 3D printers. But you hardly know about the existence of 4D printers. Both perform the same task - printing materials or special objects - but 4D creates objects that are capable of changing under external influences. The fact is that living conditions are constantly changing, and what we needed yesterday may no longer be needed in a year. To avoid creating things that only last a short time, researchers have created printers and materials that adapt wonderfully to all types of environmental changes, damage, and other potential hazards.
What are the most important technological advances of the past 350 and future 350 years
Stephen Fry: The future always laughs at those who try to predict it. We are not smart enough to foresee the future, and it always comes unexpectedly. And almost always surprises are presented not by science, but by humanity: our reaction to scientific discoveries is surprising and unpredictable.
Tim Berners-Lee: About 350 years ago, what we call the "scientific approach" began to take shape: people began to put forward theories, and then experimentally test them, that is, everything appeared that is now being explained to us in kindergarten... It's amazing that today, 350 years later, many people have stopped trusting science.
As for the future, I don't want to predict anything, but I would like to see how technology will support democracy and science. In science, we are dealing with very complex systems, and one person is simply not able to cope with this, so we need technologies that will allow us to solve scientific problems together. And democracy is the principle of making collective decisions about what to do. And we need technology to enable people to make these decisions more effectively.
Bill Thompson: I think in the future the interaction between biology and IT will become much closer. We will be able to enter data and control machines with our thoughts, and the visual signals coming from the machines will be processed by our brain and taken as real.
At what point does an unknown new technology suddenly become generally accepted?
Stephen Fry: The most significant technological breakthrough of the last five years, in my opinion, is Twitter. When he appeared, it seemed that this is something completely banal and meaningless. And then one day I got stuck in an elevator. And then I wrote on Twitter: “Damn! I was stuck in an elevator ”and took a picture of myself and those people who were stuck with me. And just a few days later, all the newspapers wrote about this service. The Twitter boom began.
Tim Berners-Lee: The turning points in the history of technology can be different. For example, initially by e-mail used mainly in university departments. Gradually more and more people started to write emails. Of course, businesses needed e-mail, and eventually the restrictions on commercial use of the network, previously imposed by the US National Science Foundation, ceased to apply. And then came a turning point: people who had previously enjoyed using e-mail suddenly began to pick up their phones again - the fact is that they got sick of spam, filling up their mail.
What is the situation with new technologies outside the developed countries?
Stephen Fry: People without Internet access are in danger of being declassified due to digital illiteracy, as 150 or 100 years ago due to common illiteracy. And yet in the UK alone, 10 million people have never used a computer.
Tim Berners-Lee: For about 20 years, I and my fellow hackers have been writing new protocols and creating various amazing things for people who love technology. But when 20-25 percent of the world's population began to use the Internet, we realized that the rest should also use it. Why don't they do it? It turns out, not only because they do not have access to the network. Maybe they don't have a phone with an internet browser or software in their language? Or everything is there, but they do not know what to do with it. The question arises: how to help them? After all, you can't deal with the Internet instead of healthcare, vaccinations or water supply. I wonder how all these things are intertwined - and one cannot be separated from the other.
Bill Thompson: Of course, spread information technologies extremely important. But now we are beginning to understand that when the remaining 70-80 percent of the world's population goes online, their impact on the Internet will be enormous. And it is unlikely that we are all ready for such changes: we rebuilt the Internet for our own needs - this is embedded in many protocols and systems that we use. Moving forward, we continue to cut people off from new resources: they cannot access them due to the low speed of the Internet. While we should, on the contrary, try to include them in our circle. After all, the Internet is simply all computers connected to each other; any computer connected to the network is as important as a server at Michigan Institute of Technology or a government server.
How much will new technologies change us and our lives?
Stephen Fry A: In the end, it will be determined by people, not abstract ideas. We cannot even imagine what consequences - both positive and negative - this will lead to. Changes are inherent in humanity in general. Now many people complain that because of the Internet, people have stopped communicating as they used to. But the familiar way of interaction between people appeared when we began to live in cities, and this happened only after the industrial revolution. In general, almost everything that seems natural to us has actually come into our lives recently. For example, our great-grandfathers believed that hitting children was okay.
Jim Haselof: Analogies to what you are talking about can be found in biology. As a result of constant selection, we have obtained cultures and animals that are very different from those with which our ancestors dealt. Now we have learned to directly and much more meaningfully change the properties of cultures, but we have already managed to become attached to existing cultures, and they seem natural to us. Meanwhile, they are completely unnatural. They were taken away by a man.
How will new technologies affect culture?
Stephen Fry: Since invented printing press, people were afraid that the rapid spread of ideas would badly affect the culture and the human mind: people would stop studying the seven liberal arts as they should and start reading these stupid books. When novels became widespread, many were horrified: they seemed vulgar and obscene. Then came tabloid novels and detective stories, then movies, then television, then video games. And all this was supposed to destroy the human brain.
What new technology are you dreaming of?
Dame Wendy Hall: I dream of teleportation. It will be great if we can learn how to move atoms around the Internet. True, here you need Internet protocols to transfer atoms, and then it is better not to bring up to a 404 error.
Bill Thompson: I would like all technologies to disappear from sight. I just want to see other people instead of technology.
Stephen Fry: On Star Trek: The Next Generation, I've always loved the Holodeck holographic room. There, on the walls, you could run a program to simulate anything - for example, stories from the past. That is, to create other worlds with the help of imagination. But we know how to do this from the moment we learned to speak and write: people tell stories, write poetry and penetrate into the thoughts of other people. So really the only one important technology Is a language: the ability to seduce, delight, intrigue, puzzle and deceive other people with words.
People in contemporary world can hardly imagine their lives without machines. Every day either a new gadget is invented or an old one is improved. Different people appreciate new inventions differently. Some suppose that sophisticated gadgets are really useful and necessary, while others find them absolutely awful as they influence people badly. As for me, I am pretty sure that gadgets make people`s lives easier.
Firstly, they do all kinds of dirty and hard work, as cleaning. Secondly, devices can save a lot of time as well as storage space. For instance, a computer disk can contain the same amount of information as several thick books. So, machines help people in different spheres.
However, opponents of this point of view are definitely sure that gadgets affect people negatively. People are reluctant to work due to the influence of machines. People become lazy and disorganized. They just expect their latest gadgets to do everything instead of them. Moreover, according to scientists, a great number of widespread devices produce radiation that can cause serious health problems. Furthermore, more and more people are becoming addicted to their modern gadgets, for instance computers, TVs or mobile phones. So, they neglect their home obligations, work or school and spend all their spare time in front of a laptop screen or a TV-set.
In conclusion, I firmly believe that in spite of all drawbacks, gadgets have, their benefits are much more considerable, as they save people`s time and let them enjoy life.
Translation:
Modern man can hardly imagine his life without machines. Every day, either new devices appear, or existing ones are improved. People have different attitudes towards new inventions. Some people believe that sophisticated gadgets are actually useful and necessary, while others find them terrible because of their negative impact on people. As for me, I am absolutely confident that new devices make our life easier.
First, they do all the dirty and hard work like cleaning. Second, the devices save both time and space. For example, a computer disk can hold as much information as several thick books. So, machines help people in various fields of activity.
However, opponents of this point of view are absolutely sure that new inventions negatively affect people. People don't want to work because of the influence of devices. They become lazy and disorganized. They are waiting for their latest inventions to do everything for them. Moreover, according to scientists, many widespread gadgets have radiation that can cause serious health problems. In addition, more and more people are becoming addicted to computers, televisions or mobile phone... They ignore their household chores, school or work and spend all of their time in front of a laptop or TV screen.
In conclusion, I believe that, despite all the disadvantages, the advantages of gadgets are much more impressive, as they save time and allow people to enjoy life!
Kamenskaya Tatiana
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Self-driving cars have to solve several problems at once: reduce accidents, give humanity back the time it takes to drive, and allow motorists to drink on Fridays. The development of such machines is currently being carried out at Google - it has even been tested in real street traffic conditions. Technological obstacles stand in the way of progress (on the freeway, Google test cars feel great, but city streets are more difficult for them), and the law: the authorities are not yet eager to let such cars on public roads.
Sergey Maltsev
CEO of RoboCV
“Now there are two areas of development that could potentially lead to unmanned vehicles on our roads. The first is the driver's assistant, who automates some of the operations like driving in a traffic jam and parking. Over time, this technology can evolve to full control of the machine. The second direction is technologies for movement in closed areas like industrial facilities. There people are instructed, the processes are clearly set up and the movement is much easier to organize. These technologies, too, can later emerge from closed spaces onto public roads. We are now dealing with the second direction, because there is already a market for it and it is possible to sell a product. "The Internet will work even in the wild jungle
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Kinect and Leap Motion technologies already know how to recognize gestures using cameras. And the yet unreleased MYO bracelet offers to read the electrical activity of the muscles of the hands. Smartphones, meanwhile, are acquiring special processors that monitor their own location in space (Moto X, iPhone 5S). Technology, which once replaced the real world with a virtual one, is now exploring the physical properties of bodies around it with might and main.
Konstantin Zhukov
Oriense IT Director
“I believe that gesture control will not become ubiquitous and will continue to be used mainly for games. But the technology behind gesture control is promising and has many uses in other areas. The Kinect revolutionized computer vision. Kinect has become actively used in robotics, augmented reality, and to help people with disabilities. For example, we use a similar sensor in a device for helping the blind, and colleagues from IS2you - in an intelligent trolley that accompanies a person in a wheelchair. "Sex will be done from a distance
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Devices that allow remote enjoyment are on sale now: Realtouch and Fundawear transmit hand touches. And this is just the beginning - it is likely that in the future these same technologies will allow the transmission of tactile sensations (and then, for example, smells) throughout the body. And it will be really interesting if virtual reality is connected to this business: thanks to the ongoing development of the Oculus Rift helmet, it ceases to be “that useless thing from the 90s”.
Olga Miloradova
psychotherapist
“Already in modern society, teenagers, and many adults, find it increasingly difficult to establish contacts in the real world, and more and more often acquaintances and romantic relationships are established on social networks, on dating sites - in general, on the Internet. If we are talking about healthy people, then most often these acquaintances are nevertheless transferred into real life. Because a person still needs real tactile contact, smells, tastes of another person and, undoubtedly, sex. Imagine that only nascent gadgets that simulate sex will reach much greater heights. Combined with the increasing autism of children and the fact that people are finding it increasingly difficult to easily touch each other or make eye contact, this all leads to the fact that living relationships will suffer the same fate that will soon await paper books. People tend to avoid difficulties, so it's much easier: perfect sex without leaving your home. Already now, many have much more stormy relationships in online correspondence, it remains only to solve the problem of conception. However, is this a problem? A courier robot delivering sperm to your home? "Lunch will be 3D printed
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With the sensational Soylent nutritional formula, supposedly replacing all the food a person needs, everything is unclear: no serious studies have yet appeared to confirm or deny its effectiveness. However, experiments with food are not limited to this: for example, they are trying to make food using 3D printers - Choc Edge printers that print chocolate can already be bought on the Internet. If you imagine that a universal nutritional mixture does exist, then it can just be refueled in such printers - in combination with the necessary flavors and dyes, you can end up with at least strawberries with a salmon flavor. And recently, the first hamburger was eaten from artificial, grown from stem cells, meat (although it still costs so much more than an apartment in Moscow).
Nikolay Kukushkin
biologist
“I am confident that Soylent or other 'meal replacements' will become much more widespread and popular - but only as an alternative to sandwiches and chocolate bars. We are still very far from the possibility of a complete replacement of the diet without harming our health. “Right food” is too complicated a concept. It may seem that we know almost everything about her, but this impression is deceptive - humanity has already fallen for this bait, and more than once. The scientific community has high hopes for artificial meat - first of all, as an alternative to modern industrialized animal husbandry, which creates a huge number of real and potential problems for the environment. It is possible that this technology will develop very strongly in the next ten years - but in order to contribute to the food market, there is little worthy taste and low prices... A serious change in the consumer's mentality is needed, and this may take more than one decade. "You no longer need to charge gadgets from an outlet
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Formally, wireless charging still exists: you put your phone on the charging surface. But on trips you need to take this entire surface with you. But there are other solutions - for example, a woman's purse has already been invented, in which the phone is always automatically charged with the help of a recently invented tissue battery powered by solar energy. Over time, the radius of action wireless charging will increase, they will begin to be installed in cafes and public spaces, and the battery life itself will become longer - and you can forget about the problem of a battery that always goes down.
Dmitry Lopatin
co-founder of Wira Energy
“The convenience of wireless charging isn't just about eliminating wires. It is also important that it is easy to make it vandal-proof and install in public places (sockets are covered with chewing gum, and it is not always safe to place them outdoors). However, the wireless charging of the leading Qi standard has a range of 2 cm - the phone must lie on the mat, while when charging with a wire, we can use the phone. Therefore, although Qi will be distributed in the next 2-3 years, more long-range systems may enter the market in the future. Our company has focused on two areas: in one, the range is up to 2 meters, and the transmission is carried out with a low-power directional beam at Wi-Fi frequencies, in the other, the range is up to 30 cm and NFC frequencies are used. In addition to gadgets, there are two other areas where this technology is relevant: electric vehicles and medicine. Implants are becoming more common and require secure wireless charging to power them. "It will be possible to go to the concert of Nirvana or the group "Kino"
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In 2005, Gorillaz made a splash with their holographic performance at the MTV Europe Music Awards, in 2010, the Japanese virtual singer Hatsune Miku appeared on the stage in the form of a hologram (another concert embodiment for her, in general, is impossible). But the real sensation was the performance at the Coachella festival in 2012 by the rapper Tupac, who was killed in 1996. The technology is already there, all that remains is to deal with the rights and you can collect the 1969 Woodstock.
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Already today, Advanced Arm Dynamics is installing functional bionic arms for patients instead of conventional prostheses, which, for example, can be used for typing on a keyboard. There are similar developments in the area of the eyes: theoretically, even after a complete loss of vision, it will be possible to see a digital picture. Bionic arms and legs still lack two-way communication - not only to receive commands from the brain, but also to send tactile, painful, temperature and muscle responses to it. However, this barrier has almost been overcome by scientists at the University of Chicago. If artificial bodies become more organic, it will make healthy people think about upgrading.
Nikolay Kukushkin
biologist
“Sending commands to muscles is, in principle, quite simple: we are talking about a small amount of muscles and a few bits of information per second. Much more difficult with feedback, without which it is extremely difficult to control the bionic limb. It is much more difficult to understand exactly how sensory signals are distributed in the brain and how we can artificially cause them. But neuroscience today is developing explosively, both from a fundamental and from a practical point of view. It is quite possible that in ten years we will be able to decipher, if not all, then the main connections between neurons - for something like this this year the European Community has allocated as much as two billion euros. If we succeed in doing this, then the fundamental barriers to the transformation of people into cyborgs will be removed. "When we talk about mobile technologies, we usually mean all kinds of gadgets, applications, processors, batteries, displays. This is all interesting and exciting, but let's think about this. important aspect, as the type and degree of influence of mobile technologies on our daily life.
Several decades ago, at the beginning of its formation, mobile technologies were not very mobile yet. Proud and very wealthy owners required good physical shape in order to be comfortable enough to handle heavy and bulky gadgets. In addition, it was necessary to have access to an electrical outlet to use the first mobile devices, since batteries were not yet built into them.
Since then, technology has progressed incredibly far, with a particularly strong growth in quality over the past ten years. Mobile devices are smaller, more powerful, and much more useful. They have penetrated into all areas of our life, and their role continues to grow. Availability of all kinds of smartphones, tablets, e-readers, now more smart watch and, in the near future, smart glasses, contributes to their rapid distribution around the world. And, of course, all these billions of mobile devices have a serious impact on the quality of our lives.
But let's digress from how thinner, lighter and more adaptable hardware gadgets can be. After all, what is more important is not "faster-higher-stronger", but what do we, as users, get from using all this diversity?
Communication and society
Yes, all kinds of gadgets can make our life easier and more fun. And by no means the least role in this is played by the simplification of the establishment and maintenance of social ties. Today, you can get in touch with the right person equally easily and quickly, whether he is in a neighboring house or outdoors, thousands of kilometers away. You can send large amounts of information anywhere in the world within a few seconds, which is especially important for various important business tasks. You can work on one project together with people on the other side of the planet. You can get confirmation or approval for urgent, vital issues. In other words, mobile technology has dramatically expanded our ability to do business.
Near-instant communication means we feel much closer to family and friends. We can talk to them at any time, exchange news, ask for advice or help. And communicate visually, using video chat. We can keep in touch with our children even if we cannot be with them. This is much more important than meets the eye.
Thanks to the development of mobile technologies, such a rapid growth has become possible. social networks seen today. Without mobile internet, smartphones and tablets, we would be completely dependent on stationary computers as well as from landline telephones... In the modern world, this is even difficult to imagine ...
Information and consumer opportunities
With the help of mobile technology, we can now pay for parking directly from our phone. Built-in maps allow you not to get lost in any area of an unfamiliar city. We have access to the transport schedule by pressing one button. After all, now we can just get to know and explore interesting places in the vicinity of which we find ourselves.
We now have more information about the world in our pockets and bags than ever before in history. In fact, it has become completely natural and habitual for hundreds of millions of people to immediately search smartphones and tablets for information about any activity. Our gadgets can already foresee what information we might be interested in, and serve it to us in a convenient form.
Similar, at first glance, superficial and frivolous everyday use mobile technology has changed the human community. It has made our connections with other people much wider and closer. On the Internet, we make real friends whom we have never met live in our life. We can learn and discuss any current issues and events taking place around the world. This stimulates the emergence of communities and the exchange of views that were simply not possible before.
On the other hand, the opportunity for one and all to express their opinion, led to the flourishing of such a phenomenon as network trolling. Unfortunately, many begin to get too carried away by participating in Internet squabbles, subconsciously splashing out the accumulated irritation and displeasure. Also, many users practice trolling as a way to have fun. In addition to the quite obvious destructive influence on conversations and discussions, trolling leads to the appearance of many useless comments and quarrels, provokes the interlocutors to "get personal."
Medicine
In addition to changes in our social activity and the expansion of available information, mobile technologies may soon begin to actively influence our health. Technologies are being actively developed and tested, which, in theory, will make it possible to receive medical advice using smartphones and tablets, including on the basis of statistics on our daily physical activity and well-being. Add to this the "teledoctor" gaining access to the test results of remote patients and the ability to measure certain physiological parameters using sensors built into mobile devices... Thus, it will be possible in the near future to establish primary diagnoses and provide medical advice in urgent cases. And some of these scenarios are already being implemented in a number of countries around the world, in hard-to-reach and underdeveloped regions.Another of the many medical applications of mobile technology is to help people with disabilities with low or no mobility, as well as those with autism. By using mobile gadgets millions of such people gain the opportunity to contact the world. For example, patients after strokes and traumatic brain injuries are now very successfully using tablets to restore their previous abilities. Deaf people can now correspond with other people thanks to SMS. Diabetics now have the ability to monitor their glucose levels and send data wirelessly to compact insulin pumps. Thanks to smartphones, the blind have become less dependent on sighted people, since now there is software that helps them navigate in cities, choose the right clothes for the current weather, scan the change given out and report the amount.
Conclusion
These are just a few of the ways mobile technology has transformed, improved and simplified the lives of billions of people. And this process goes along with the development of the technologies themselves. We are, without exaggeration, lucky to live in a mobile era. These technologies have become indispensable assistants in some 15 years. How many of you have not periodically felt like no hands without a phone? The role of gadgets has become very important in many of our large and large affairs, daily routine and unique events.But new opportunities brought with them new difficulties. Each technology has its own advantages and disadvantages, which you have to either put up with or look for ways to solve them.
Several years ago, a boom of smartphones began, which began to rapidly replace keyboard mobile phones. An evolutionary change of species has taken place. Unusual devices looked absolutely incredible, the lack of buttons was so unusual. But large screens (compared to regular phones), which took over almost all the device management functions, turned out to be very "gluttonous". The increase in the display area of information has led to the rapid development of all kinds of software which, in turn, spurred the use of more powerful processors and graphics chipsets. As a result of the growth in energy consumption, the operating time of modern gadgets rarely reaches two days, provided there is enough active use... Of course, rechargeable compact energy sources have also come a long way in recent years. But batteries have not yet been able to keep up with the increased appetites of modern gadgets. So in YotaPhone another unique innovation was embodied, the second display on electronic ink.
At one time, the advent of smartphones radically changed the idea of people about what capabilities a mobile phone can have, for what tasks it can be used. The very approach to using a "mobile phone" has undergone radical changes due to the introduction of technology completely touch screen that supports multiple simultaneous touches. With the introduction of a second screen, built using a completely different technology, our understanding of the scenarios for using a mobile phone (now a smartphone) has changed again.
In addition to the obvious benefits, such as increased battery life and the ability to comfortably read texts in bright light, the rear screen has finally transferred the smartphone to the category of "always on" devices. Of course, technically all smartphones work all the time, but to use them, you need to do a few steps: pick it up, press the power button, unlock the screen, press the desired icon or notification. Only after all this do we get the information we need or access to some of the device's capabilities. But the electronic ink of the YotaPhone's second screen consumes almost no energy, and therefore it is best suited for permanent displaying all kinds of frequently requested information: notifications, messages, current time, etc. Moreover, the user himself chooses what information he wants to see immediately on the second screen. Often you don't even need to pick up your smartphone, just look at it.
