1.  Organic Hard disks

Memory-based devices made out of biological materials have long since been considered to have the power to process information more quickly and allow more data to be stored than the present-day options available to us. If these experimentation see the light of day then it could mean an end to synthetic memory devices. Several experimentations have been done but in pas they haven’t been successful.

The memory development increasingly faces the challenge of increasing the memory size of a device within small size. This may be possible if organic memory devices are successfully developed. Work on this is being pioneered by Japanese researchers.Koji Nakayama, Tetsuro Majima and Takashi Tachikawa have succeeded in etching or ‘recording’ specific data on a glass slide, using a fluorescent protein. The combined use of light and chemicals effectively stored information that was later ‘read’ and then erased. Thus, recording, playback and deletion — the basic functions of memory storage instruments — were proved possible using biological materials.

But the just the research process would take a long time to access the feasibility of the project and development of such devices. Let us see if the scientists are able to pull off this one.

2. Table Screens

What if you would have had a GUI interface to scribble on the desk at schools and colleges instead of scribbling on wooden desks. Researchers at Durham University are trying to develop that with their ‘Smart Desk’ initiative.

The computer department at Durham University , UK is trying to develop a multi touch desk screen to replace the traditional desk. These would be like touch screen mobile phones and keyboards which multiple students can use at same time. The software to network  all these surfaces.

If this innovation is successfully developed then we could have instant visual displays of topics being discussed, on-screen interactive mathematics, group efforts in problem-solving and more involvement of students in the task at hand. Team tasks would be become so easy with multiple students working on a single screen from their respective desks. The possibilities to use this technology are infinite once it fully develops.

3. Ultra compressed music files – Micro Mp3

Today we see music players continuously increasing their storage space, and still we find these storage spaces inadequate to store our music. How we wish we could reduce the size of our song files to be able to squeeze in as many songs as possible in our players.

Researchers at the University of Rochester have succeeded in digitally reproducing a piece of music in a file that is almost 1,000 times smaller than a regular MP3 file. Althought he technique is not perfected as yet but the team compressed a 20 sec music file to less than a kb. Though this was done for a clarinet solo but it is to be seen if this could be extended to different mp3 files of various songs.

4. Anti Virus Clusters

The number of virus, trojans etc on the net are increasing and number of attacks are also increasing. Thus the need for a good anti virus has increased enormously over past few years.
How about a anti virus on the web which could remotely monitor your PC. Researchers at the University of Michigan developed a new cloud-based approach to antivirus which they call ‘CloudAV’ and which, they claim, can outdo any anti-virus package on the market. After comparing numerous antivirus softwares in market with various malware samples. They took long time to adapt to new viruses on the net. Another disadvantage is that one software can not run with other anitvirus system. CloudAV is a single solution to all of these problems for the following reasons:

* It analyses potential threats to your system using several different antivirus programs at the same time, thereby significantly increasing the degree of protection for your system.
* Operates by installing a simple, lightweight software agent in your computer, mobile phone or laptop, which automatically detects a new document or program being opened and sends it to the anti-virus cloud (somewhere on the web) to be analysed.
* With CloudAV it’s pouring antivirus agents. CloudAV uses 12 different detectors that run parallel to one another, but independently, to tell your computer whether it’s okay to open a particular file.
* Caches the results so that detection becomes smoother in future.

it would be a boon for pc as well as mobile users as they won’t have to worry about new Internet virus to damage their systems

5. Telescopic Pixels

With the advent of LCD technology , most of us have shifted to LCD sv=creens in our computers or TVs. But then glitches and disadvantages of LCD are also coming to the fore now. Scientists have started work on developing new technology better than LCD.

Whether it’s LCD, Plasma or CRT screens, we’re stuck with pixels. Pixels — short for ‘Picture Elements’ — are the tiny dots that make up the images on a screen.Quality of image is determined by resolution of the screen ,so more the number of pixels better the quality of the image. But there are number of problems with display of pixels in LCD screen.

Researchers at Microsoft have come up with a new design for pixels in which each pixel is made up of two opposing kind of microscopic mirrors with one changing shape with application of current and light is reflected through the combination of mirrors to finally reach the screen. If this technology is developed successfully it will bring down costs, while increasing the longevity of the battery on your cell phone or laptop. The telescopic pixels allow about 36 per cent of the light through, increasing brightness by three to six times as compared with the present-day LCD technology.This definitely seems to be the successor of LCD technolo.gy