Archive for the 'future' Category

No need of cash in 5 years !!

March 12, 2007

Cashless Society by 2012, Says Visa Chief
By Tim Webb

 
Paying for goods with notes and coins could be consigned to history within five years, according to the chief executive of Visa Europe.
Peter Ayliffe said that, by 2012, using credit and debit cards should be cheaper and more convenient than cash.
Some retailers could soon start surcharging [...]

How Do You Intercept a Text Message?

March 9, 2007

Turn your cell phone into a spy gadget.
By Christopher Beam
Retail giant Wal-Mart fired an employee Monday for eavesdropping on phone calls and intercepting text messages between the company’s media-relations staff and a New York Times reporter. How do you intercept a text message?
Turn your own cell phone into a surveillance gadget. There are a few [...]

Multi touch Computer screen – Exactly like in Minority Report

March 6, 2007

Perceptive Pixel is a startup founded by Jeff Han. Working all but alone from his hardware-strewn office, Jeff Han is about to change the face of computing. Not even the big boys are likely to catch him. Jeff Han and Phil Davidson shows how a multi-touch computer screen will change the way we work [...]

30 things you will not have to do-30 years from now !!!

February 27, 2007

Here are 30 things – according to me – that you will not have to do in 30 years. 30 years is a long time and anything can happen, many things listed here could start happening even 5-10 years from now- and some of them have already started…
I am really excited thinking about the future [...]