What Next!!

From 64MB RAM to 4-8GBs of DDR RAM,381MHz to 3GHz QuadCore and more,Serial Port to USB 2.0,CRT to WXVGA to HDTV.28.8Kbps to 100Gbps of Internet.Wireless mouse to WIMAX.What next??
Do you think it is saturated??
Still more to come!!
Picture a day,Tap on your gigabit-wireless-connected tablet, to pull up a 3D movie on the razor-thin HDTV hanging on the wall. A media server streams the film via a superspeedy USB connection to a wireless HD transmitter, which then beams it to the TV.

Highlights:

1.USB 3.0 : The new USB 3.0 standard preserves backward compatibility by allowing older cables to plug into newer jacks; but newer cables like this one have extra pins that boost the data rate to 4.8 gbps.
It will be like before you leave your Workplace, you need to back up your computer. You push a button, and 5 minutes later, while you're still packing up, your system has dumped 150GB of data onto an encrypted 512GB superfast solid-state drive($2200 Introductory Price).
Imagine USB speed increasing 10 folds.All your USB devices will start sizzling.Printing,scanning,data transfer all the job will be done ten times faster.USB 3.0 could eliminate all the external ports except ethernet.
2.Rise of Wi-Fi : By 2012, two new protocols--802.11ac and 802.11ad--should be handling over-the-air data transmission at 1 gbps or faster.Today's Wi-Fi will be left in the dust by 802.11ac and 802.11ad, both of which will be capable of carrying multiple video streams and of operating at far higher data rates.
3.3D TV:Panasonic and other high-definition TV makers are looking to faux 3D technology to provide stereoscopic depth--and a reason for consumers to buy a newer set.
4.HTML5:Web pages built with HTML5 will display the same on any browser--desktop or mobile.Website designers and Web app developers won't have to deal with multiple incompatible formats and workarounds in their efforts to create the same user experience in every browser.HTML5 is now completing its last march toward a final draft and official support by the World Wide Web Consortium.
5.HDD with 3TB/inch: Jimmy Jian-Gang Zhu is developing a prototype of his microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) technique he believes will pack 3TB/square inch of a spinning disk.Seagate Technology has been championing an approach called heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) that uses a tiny laser light on each drive head to heat a portion of the disk just before a write operation. Rival Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is working on a way to pattern tracks and even bit locations on media.All sides say they are actively exploring both technologies. Ultimately both technologies will be needed to deliver disks that pack 10 terabits or more per square inch.

What next??Post your reviews and ideas?

Source: eetimes.com and pcworld.com

Rank#1 CODECRACKER 3.0

GNU/LUG NIT Durgapur launched its CODECRACKER 3.0(http://lug.nitdgp.ac.in/codecracker) on 14th October'09 for the programmers in the college.
CODECRACKER is A semi-automated online judge for organising programming contests, developed by GNU/Linux Users' Group, NIT Durgapur.
Source is available at http://code.google.com/p/ccnitdgp/ .

The Contest started at 10 PM with 3 level of questions.EASY(2) ,MEDIUM(2) and HARD(1).Time span was 2hr which was further extended by 15 minutes.Previous 1.0 and 2.0 versions supported C/C++ only but this version supported codes in JAVA and PYTHON too.I was able to solve 3 questions (2-Easy and 1-Hard).
I stood RANK#1 ,results are available at ( http://lug.nitdgp.ac.in/codecracker/score.php?t=1255583166 (if link exists :-) ) Coding was fun and Entertaining as it is always :).