New & Emerging Technology

What is new and Emerging Technology

New and emerging technology is technology that is being currently being experimented on what the technology is and what it will be used for. If the technology gets the go ahead it is then going to be developed or will be developed in the next 5 or 10 years, this will help the economy and society we live in. The new technology is technology that has been developed and is being released and sold worldwide in the next couple of years. The new and emerging technologies that are going to be released will have an effect on the world we live in with advances in smart cars allowing the driver to get phone calls through the car so they don’t get distracted and this will benefit the economy in the long run. With enhancements in digital cameras having WI-Fi enabled and GPS built in allowing the user to go use their camera as if it was a smart phone. With the changes Some examples of new technologies that have been released in the past year or near future are the Wii U with its touch screen controller, Google glass, Project Fiona the world’s first tablet designed for gaming and 4G these are just some of the new technologies that have emerged in the past year or so. 

TVs

The first working TV was created in 1928 with a 3-4 inch screen and were sold for £50/£60. The graphics in the first TV was basic it had no colour and the sound quality wasn't the best. In the 1930’s the first commercial television became widely available. They were large pieces of equipment with a 12 inch screen. In the 1957 the first colour TV was released with better quality graphics and with better sound, the first remote control was released also but very few households had them. It took almost 18 years to get rid of black/white TVs out of the households. By the end of the 1960’s there was 200 million TVs around the world. In the late 90’s plasma screen TV’s and LCD TV’s were in the experimental stages with better picture graphics and sound. The new advances in LCD and Plasma TVs meant that manufactures could produce a better picture quality, enhanced sound, with larger screen sizes and a smaller shell for the TV. In 2012 all televisions went digital which means that the networks will be producing a digital signal. Less than 10 years since the DVD player was introduced a new generation of video players were released having better quality, HD DVD and Blu-ray they enter as a competitor for high definition. Now with the introduction of high speed internet video streaming and digital recording enter the scene allowing people to watch their favourite programs online with the likes of BBC I player and ITV player Netflix etc. With the release of the first TV been over 75 years ago now you can get smart TV’s that are 3D, with built in WI-Fi, picture and sound quality at an all-time best as if you were sitting in the cinema watching a film. With touch screen enabled allowing you to change channel with the wave of your hand. The effect this has had on graphics is that now that you can have picture perfect quality and be able to go online and watch videos at the highest of quality. With the changes in how we watch t.v means that with the enhancements the graphics have to be upgraded to suit them.  

Mobile Phones

The first mobile phone was released 1983 but was in the experimental stages years before that. The first mobile phone was near enough a kilogram in weight, it only provided you with one hour battery life and allowed you to store 30 contacts on the phone. They had big antennas that were used to get signal, had a tiny screen and very basic graphics. In 1996 mobile phones became smaller with slightly better graphics, nicer looking and smaller antennas. Mobile phones were only used for ringing people you could do very little on them and had basic ringtones. In 1997 most mobile phones had gotten rid of the antennas, having built in internal antennas which took up less space and giving phones a better look. In 1998 Nokia released the Nokia 5110 which was available in a variety of different colours with very small antennas. Then in 1999 Nokia released another mobile phone with an internal antenna, better graphics, smaller and different colours than the classic colour of black. In 2000 the first touch screen mobile phone was released by Motorola with very basic touch screen technology and a black and white screen. In 2001 came the end of the road for basic mobile phone screens now you could change the background colour to what you wanted. The first mobile phone with a camera and screen graphic enhancements was released in 2002 with the mobile phone allowing you to take pictures on the move, it also had colour enhancement and sliding feature. In 2003 came the function of multi screens allowing mobile phones to have more than one screen. The smaller screen on the front notified you about new messages and missed calls, then the bigger screen on the inside letting you to perform other functions within the phone. In 2005 Sony released the first Walkman phone which was built for listening to music with buttons created for playback; it also supported a memory card so you could store more music/pictures on the phone, you could enjoy listening to music on the go and still serving the purpose of a phone. In 2006 mobile phones were becoming more stylish and personal to the owner. 2007 was the year mobile phones would be changed for ever with the release of the first Apple iPhone. It was the world’s first advanced touch screen smartphone. It was also the first phone to have an operating system (ios) which enabled you to have apps on your phone. The graphics and the sound wasn't the best. From 2008-2010 mobile phones had been transformed so that you could use them for work, having them as a slider phone with a full QWERTY keypad and a large screen with higher resolution they ran on Android OS. In 2011 marked the return of touch screen phones with its advanced hardware and sleek style. With cameras having improved allowing you to have 8mp camera, built in GPS, allow you to surf the web and still make phone calls. With better screen resolution with bigger screens meaning they was picture perfect and sound quality being at an all-time best. 2012 came the release of the Nokia Lumina 800 which was had a Windows 7 OS, this allows you to connect to your Xbox, social media, GPS and was still able to fit in your pocket. The effect this has had on graphics is that with mobile phones being able to do most things a laptop can do now means it has to have the right graphics for the apps to be used. Also being able to connect to your Xbox and play certain games on your mobile. 

Game Consoles

In 1967 the first game console was created the brown box with two controller’s attached which you were able to hook up to any ordinary TV and could play six simple games mainly ping pong, tennis, chase games etc. In 1972 came the release of the first official home game console the Magnavox Odyssey, with these two consoles they did not produce any sound they were silent. 1975-1977 the arcade game pong was so popular they decided to make it in to a game console, at the same time the Odyssey decided to improve its game console with two improved consoles the Magnavox Odyssey 100 and 200. With each console one was slightly better than the last one they had all the same games but better graphics and modifications to the controllers etc. 1978-1980 Nintendo became major contenders in the gaming industry. 1981-1985 was the golden age of the games consoles with the advances in gaming technology were they began experimenting with non-pong games like fighting, platform, adventure and RPG games. This is when the release of the classic Pac-man, Mario Bros, The legend of Zelda etc. This was when the cartridge based game consoles replaced built in games. 1994-1997 Sony made its first entrance with the PlayStation which used disc to play games; it had slightly better graphics than both Sega and Nintendo. It then had to go up against house hold names likes of the new Sega and Nintendo 64. PlayStation released its new console the PlayStation 2 in 2001 with some improvements in the graphics, sound and the way the console looked. The first Xbox was released in 2001 with very little features but with good quality and sound. Since 2005-Today the Xbox 360 and PlayStation are the major competitors today along with the Wii allowing you to play online with your friends and not having to play on the same console to play with each other. With full 1080p HD graphics for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation, the Wii remote for sensing 3D movements. The release of Kinect in 2010 and Move for the PlayStation has changed the game consoles industry allowing the player to interact with the game using physical movement. The new Xbox One and PlayStation 4 should change the gaming industry for good with the better graphics voice commands allowing gamers to tell the Xbox what to find. The affect this has had on graphics means that every time an enhancement was made it had to make the console/game look a lot clear in graphics and the characters in the game life like. The would enhance the gamers experience when playing the game. 

Laptops

The first laptop was released in the 1981; it was created as a portable computer so you could take it from place to pace. The first laptop was named the Osborne 1. The Osborne 1 was equipped with a modem port which was slower than a normal system. Even with that people still liked the fact of the portability with the laptop, then the completion started with other companies releasing other laptops such as the KayComp and Epson HX-20. The Osborne 1 was released with basic features such as the Zilog Z80 @ 4.0 MHz CPU, RAM 64k, OS CPM and 91k storage drive.  The Epson HX-20 was introduced as the battery power and became widely available in 1982. The Epson HX-20 was more sophisticated system with the CPU 2x Hitachi (master slave) at 0.647, RAM 16k also allowing you to expand, better monitor with text and disk operating system which would read off the ROM. The battery life on this laptop ranged from a backup of 50hrs almost 10 times more than what the average laptop has today. The TRS-80 Model 100 was the first notebook released by Microsoft and other developers. The notebook had an LCD display but wasn’t as fast as the other laptops. The first laptop with VGA graphics was introduced in 1988 and did not become available until 1990. This then took the laptop market by storm with even a detachable keyboard.  This laptop did not support colour, it had 20MB hard disk drive. Apple then came into the picture releasing Macintosh Portable in 1989. This laptop gave you the option of a backlit keyboard the next year. This laptop was also the first laptop that was able to charge through an AC power and still be used. They used Motorola CPU; 1MB with the option to expand and the OS was 6.0.4 but were different if you wanted the Backlit which required an upgrade to 7.5.5. With the release of the first laptop in 1981 laptops have changed in the design, size, software and capability of laptops now. Laptops now usually have 500gb hard drive, you can choose from a number of different brands whichever one you favour but prices are higher with better known brands, better graphics in the screen, built in DVD player which you can watch/listen to on your laptop, most laptops now are light weight and have an average battery life of up to 6 hours for light use and 4 hours for heavy use. The affect this has on graphics is that the more technology that is being advanced means the more that companies can input to the computers. Laptops now you can play online gaming with the graphics of a game console which means if you want to play online you need the system requirements to play online.