future of bluetooth

The dominant WPAN today is Bluetooth technology. It is estimated by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) that there will be nearly a billion Bluetooth-enabled devices deployed by the end of 2007—and the rate of adoption is increasing.The initial use of Bluetooth technology was for audio applications, such as mobile phone headsets, where it excels because of its inherent low power consumption. However, the communications protocol was designed for much broader applications. Although there are significant differences in the layering and structure, the lower layers of the Bluetooth technology and the ISO-oriented example are similar. In this example, the WiMedia UWB technology shows it does not currently extend beyond the lowest layers.The speed of the Bluetooth technology is fairly slow by today’s standards. Wi-Fi and 802.11 are developing standards that will allow that technology to reach in excess of 120Mb/s. Today, a current Bluetooth device will go is fast as 3Mb/s. This is appropriate for audio streaming, but not nearly enough for heavy data-oriented applications like video.
The person of your dreams could be just a heartbeat away, thanks to a dating game that alerts you when a love match comes within a few metres of your mobile phone, New Scientist reports.
Using Bluetooth wireless technology — a short-range system built into many mobile phones — would-be daters subscribe to a service that stores a personal profile, their photograph and a wishlist of what they are looking for in a partner.
When the database spots enough similarities between two people who are in close proximity — say, in a shopping centre, office, bar or cafe — the service tells their mobile phones to communicate with each other, sending over a package of details and a picture.
After the help of technology, comes the human bit: deciding whether and how to talk to a complete stranger.
The idea, called Serendipity, is the brainchild of four scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, according to the report in the British weekly.
Their hope is to take some of the roughness out of blind dating.

With Bluetooth technology, potential love matches will "connect" when they are within 10 metres of each other.
Participants can adjust the settings in line with their mood and willingness to meet strangers.
For instance, they may want their profiles to be sent only to friends of friends, and can alter their availability according to their mood or whether they are in a situation for socialising.
AFP

How the future gadgets look like?

The arrival of crisp, high-resolution screens, mass wireless and broadband access, inexpensive multiple-application handheld devices and solid business plans—all long claimed as key elements in developing a mass market for digital reading is the previling topic now.
The internet has sparked a remarkable outpouring of new creativity and provided conventional content owners with exciting new marketplace opportunities.
The following ideas for gadgets of the future are broken into three sections. First, a section with concepts from 2001-2010. Many of these concepts are already in development and will likely become commercially available within the next decade. The next section, 2010-2050, reaches out to explore concepts that could become a part of our lives within the next 50 years. The last section, 2050-2100, is a daring far-reaching look to challenge your own visions of the future.

2001-2010

• Ear mounted telephones are now available and will become even more lightweight and low-powered. They will connect to the net themselves or through a personal digital assistant.
• The development of flexible LCD screens will replace bulky laptop screens with ultra-portable roll-up displays. Home entertainment centers could also use this technology to replace conventional TV and computer monitor displays.
• Faster computer processors will allow for 3-D holographic images to be processed in real time.
• Speech recognition will become a necessity in mobile electronic devices.
• Special pens that capture writing and digitize your messages are available today. They will become more accurate and will connect to personal digital assistants and computers.
• Future personal digital assistants (PDA) will use "rudimentary artificial intelligence". The digital assistants will be highly customized, connected to the net and will communicate with other computers and earphones.
• Future PDAs will have fingerprint, voice, or retinal identification capabilities. They will start to replace ID numbers, credit card numbers and passwords. PDAs will also perform secure e-cash transactions.
• Eyewear will darken and lighten as voltage is sent thought variable-tint lens coatings. Eyewear will shield users from the hectic outside world and contain earpieces that can cancel noise or play sound.
• Cinema films will feature near-perfect animated replications of actors that are alive or already dead.
• Distanced colleagues, relatives and an increasing popularity of videophone sex will drive sales of videophones and internet videophones.
• Motorola is developing on-board vehicle supercomputers that will increase automobile engine efficiency up to 20%.
• Cyberpets, like Sony's AIBO, will perform useful tasks and grow in popularity starting around 2004.
• Analog TV transmissions will be completely replaced by digital broadcasts by 2010. Personal flying cars are currently being developed. They will cost about the same as a Ferrari by around 2006 and could become popular by 2020. Initial models will require only basic training and will provide adequate safety.
• A second-generation swing-wing Concord jet should arrive by 2010. It will attain speeds up to Mach 2.4.

2010-2050

• Quantum encryption will be used to safeguard data. Eavesdroppers will automatically alter a message just by listening to it, revealing their intrusion.
• A "sober-up pill" could be available by 2015. The pill would stop certain chemical reactions of the brain that cause intoxication.
• Communication systems could regularly use virtual reality interfaces by 2030. TVs will also incorporate holography and virtual reality programming.
• Internal combustion engines could be heavily taxed or become outlawed by 2040. Land transport will rely on environmentally friendly alternatives.

2050-2100

• Telepathy helmets will record your feelings and thoughts and broadcast them to a friend wearing a similar setup. Note: Basic telepathy is currently being used to restore muscular communication to paralysis patients.
• Electronic call-girls and call-boys will offer virtual reality sex that realistically stimulates the five senses.
• Quantum computer enabled video games will "achieve new heights of reality". Virtual reality games will tap directly into the brain's sensory system. Suits and helmets won't be necessary. Note: See the offbeat movie, Existenz, recently released on video.
• Teleporting machines could transport objects and live people atom by atom. Note: Teleportation of individual atoms through short trips was achieved in 1999. Also, you can read Michael Chrichton's book, Timeline.
  (COURTESY-http://pages.prodigy.net/imagiweb/reports/file00/jun1.htm)