The Most Notable Technology Trends in 2012

2011 is a crucial year for science and technology: the best selling of tablet computer, Group buy, return of the IPO boom, these suggest all the things. 2012 is coming, where the development of science and technology, indeed, let people look forward to.

Touch computing

IPad , such these tablets have become another selection of desktops and notebooks. Touch, this new way of entering will become dominate in the market in 2012. In the future, it is probably that touch input will replace the traditional way, as we rarely use a command line input, and use a graphical interface input. In future, the mouse may no longer be needed, replaced by touch screen.

Social action

In the field of social media, social movements (Socialgestures) have become an important trend in 2012. Facebook launched "easy sharing" feature in September, users and even do not need to press the share button, as long as they agree to use the app, it could have ever heard, read and watch content automatically into the profiles, and share. This trend will have little effect on the social network.

Mobile payments

The development of the mobile payments market were gaining more attention than ever in 2011, a various of reports were emerging on mobile payments, in particular Cup, carrier's high profile entry has made the mobile payment market to become the focus of the concerns of the community. Judging from the current application of mobile payment industry, transit card and large park has become more mobile payment pilot in two areas, such as the 2010 Shanghai World Expo enables mobile phone tickets, bus passes and mobile phone applications such as small shop.

The latest Tablet computer

If touch represents the future, iPad is undoubtedly one of the King, until the end of the, there was a genuine threat to Apple ipad, Kindle Fire. It was expected that in 2012, the Kindle Fire will sell better than iPad, Kindle Fire sold for 199 $, which has highly competitive advantage. However, the cheaper price is not only advantage for Amazon, the company also has a complete digital content stores, covering movies, books, TV shows and other media. To tablet computer, the hardware is relatively important, the content make a decisive impact. However, one thing worth mentioning is that all the Tablet computers can not support many common videos, for example, it only can support H.264,mov file and mp4, even we can not rip dvd to ipad for mac directly, for these movie-lovers, this is indeed a quite regrettable thing. Though Kindle Fire can support Flash, if you want to play some common videos on Kindle Fire, it still needs a mac dvd to ipad converter like the ipad.

TV is everywhere

Young people today don't like to watch cable TV, prefer to watch free Internet TV on a computer or portable device. United States cable television companies have come up with a compromise solution. As long as they continue to pay an annual fee, users on the external device (such as the iPad) watch online TV shows and movies. At present, China is also actively to follow this.

Sound control

The launch of IPhone4S has made the popular star of Siri, so that users can be controlled by means of voice, sending text messages, find the data, this trend is beginning. Siri opens a new situation, makes our living language command can make the machine understanding. This is the first attempt, is expected to be followed up by another device. For example, Apple's own such technology may be used on the remote control TV functions.

Somatosensory gestures

Somatosensation becomes the new input, as Microsoft's Xbox360 Kinect, which used the perception of the use of space as an interface, you can do all the operations by gestures. As a result, the reality is like the minority report as rendered by, people only have to wave my hand in the air, you can control various devices. Maybe in 2012, we expect to see more devices using this technology.