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15 Hot New Technologies That Will Change Everything

pcworld.com — Memristor circuits lead to ultrasmall PCs. Intel and AMD unleash massively multicore CPUs. Samsung TVs respond to your every gesture. These and other developing technologies will fundamentally change the way you think about--and use--technology.

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  • doiveo, on 10/29/2008, -0/+83"32-Core CPUs From Intel and AMD"
    Cores are the new Megahertz of chip marketing.
  • covertbadger, on 10/29/2008, -0/+35Real men count from 0.
  • apena89, on 10/29/2008, -12/+43slap 7 pages of gay porn and I bet you'd be clicking without a fuss.
  • emptyhead, on 10/29/2008, -0/+26well it WILL change everything! your wallpaper, your mousecursor theme, everything!
  • chocula78, on 10/29/2008, -0/+26They forgot #16: Robot wives.
  • tiamat1990, on 10/29/2008, -10/+367 pages? Ah no.
  • IceSabre, on 10/29/2008, -0/+24"TVs respond to your every gesture"

    Great now I get to watch the porn zoom in zoom out zoom in zoom out
  • angusm, on 10/29/2008, -0/+21#16 Intel introduces genetically modified humans with little tiny fingers so that they can type more comfortably on the keyboard of little tiny laptops.
  • RMoore08, on 10/29/2008, -5/+22Gigahertz*
  • Davidins, on 10/29/2008, -3/+19Windows 7? Really?
  • OsiVert, on 10/29/2008, -0/+143.2 billion cores?
  • PabloIV, on 10/29/2008, -1/+14FTA: "Nikola Tesla imagined a world studded with enormous Tesla coils"

    That would be the AWESOMEST world ever!
  • inactive, on 10/29/2008, -0/+12Windows 7...the empire strikes back.
  • 4NDr01D, on 10/29/2008, -0/+12no... it's more of the same, I'm excited about it too, but,

    what will change our fundamental view of the world are two things

    quantum computers

    and

    artificial general intelligence
  • inactive, on 10/29/2008, -3/+14That is not how I watch gay porn.
  • doiveo, on 10/29/2008, -0/+11Not back in my day (sorry to say). I remember when 233 MHz sounded fast.

    http://shopping.msn.com/prices/intel-pentium-233-m ...
  • insllvn, on 10/29/2008, -0/+11@StephenCIreland, that extra 0.2 Gigacores gives him and extra 200000000 cores to work with. Suffice it to say, it runs Crysis.
  • jazzyinco, on 10/29/2008, -0/+11Where's my flying car at?
  • iDoraemon, on 10/29/2008, -2/+13"Use Any Phone on Any Wireless Network "

    How is that a hot new technology? That already happens in East Asia now...oh, in the US.

    Never mind.
  • inactive, on 10/29/2008, -0/+10and my computer is officially a dinosaur.
  • tripledjr, on 10/29/2008, -1/+9So then my 3.2 Gigacore 3.2 GHZ CPU is good?
  • CrazedLeper, on 10/29/2008, -0/+8As long as more=better I'll take more, thank you.
  • ClarkWells, on 10/29/2008, -0/+8Intel's New Processor the "i7" that will feature 8 cores????? couldnt they name it "i8"?
  • Rockkybox, on 10/29/2008, -1/+8insllvn, I think you've managed to make the only 'run cyrsis' comment ive ever dugg.....congratulations
  • DiggasWAttitude, on 10/29/2008, -0/+7Except for the fact that he himself thought enormous coils would destroy the world so he carved the plans into pieces and distributed it to various nations across the planet. A mad scientist without the mad.
  • ClarkWells, on 10/29/2008, -0/+6hahahha... touche'
  • UselessTrivia, on 10/29/2008, -0/+6Wireless power is horrendously inefficient.

    Windows 7 is to windows Vista as Windows XP was to Windows 2000. Same OS core, better user interface, maintains existing driver support.

    Disappearance of GPUs was inevitable as multi-core CPUs started to come along.

    DRM isn't going anywhere. As long as people make things, they will want to protect them.

    GoogleOS will probably be a linux distro.
  • pathouston22, on 10/29/2008, -1/+7Nuclear Fusion Power Plants
  • bysubmitted, on 10/29/2008, -0/+5Gesture based TVs... Really, Seth? Really?
  • Michas, on 10/29/2008, -1/+6Erm.. Windows 7?
  • apena89, on 10/29/2008, -0/+5I've been wanting to invest in wireless electricity for so long now since I know that there is no way that that technology won't become a big component of powering small devices, even big devices like computers and TVs in the future.
  • Relentl3ss, on 10/29/2008, -0/+5I was well happy when I got my 486 dx2 running at 66mhz...
  • Rudegar, on 10/29/2008, -0/+5is that an asteroid that you begin with before getting into the hard serious asteroids
    the ones with cracks?
  • theOster, on 10/29/2008, -0/+4i recall a certain dell ad years ago "how fast does my computer need to be? faster than my friend bob's"
  • mathewb, on 10/29/2008, -0/+4How about these new solid state 'drives', very tricky PCIe things:

    http://www.fusionio.com/Products.aspx

    although at $30 per MB it will be a while before they are affordable!
    (oh and here is a review http://www.dvnation.com/Fusion-IO-IODrive-SSD-Soli ...
  • gllopc, on 10/29/2008, -0/+4I predict you will be disappointed. Windows 7 and USB 3.0 will change *everything*?
  • Rockkybox, on 10/29/2008, -0/+4I can't see the gesture thing taking off, i don't want to fast forward every time I stand up and/or fap at maximum thrust
  • inactive, on 10/29/2008, -0/+4You've got metal fever, boy!"
  • StephenCIreland, on 10/29/2008, -2/+6i for one welcome our new giga-core overlords
  • armourer, on 10/29/2008, -2/+6Wait. USB 3.0 is going to change everything? Everything? really?
  • drgmdp, on 10/29/2008, -0/+3you couldn't afford it
  • inactive, on 10/29/2008, -0/+3Give your Colecovision to me then! I'll give it a good home.
  • PabloIV, on 10/30/2008, -0/+3Killjoy
  • scooterbaga, on 10/29/2008, -0/+3I want a Laetitia Casta bot...
  • theOster, on 10/29/2008, -0/+3"Do you have someone with a sort of Lucy Liu feel?"

    "No, nothing like that, although we do have Lucy Liu."
  • insllvn, on 10/29/2008, -0/+3Not sure why you are being dugg down, that WOULD change everything.

    As an aside, anyone else wish digg allowed some small bit of formating? I miss italics when I am here.
  • truthproduct, on 10/29/2008, -0/+3These people have not read "The Singularity is Near"

    Artificial Intelligence and Nano tech will change.

    Brain wave interfaces are pretty sweet too.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnWSah4RD2E (not a rick roll.. a monkey controlling computer arm with brain power)

    Claytronics
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcaqzOUv2Ao


  • bipolarruledout, on 10/30/2008, -0/+3Flash will be big... but only in laptops.... it's going to be a few years for desktops. People still like their BIG hard drives.
  • chaseacej, on 10/29/2008, -1/+464bit OS? I'm pretty sure that's been around for a while now.
  • goober1473, on 10/29/2008, -0/+2I vote for USB 4.0 and 2 Minute Abs.
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