Grading Future Technologies
By Julie Jacobson
Have long-hyped technologies of the future finally arrived?

I've been doing this for 15 years. And for all of those years uninspired marketers have touted their products as "the future … today."

When it comes to consumer electronics, when are we in the future?

By some parameters, I'd say we're there. By others, not so much.

Here we rate the technologies and their "future factor," including 3D TV, digital content, voice control, gesture control and more.



The maximum rating is 5, while the lowest rating is 0.

Content Any Time, Any Where
The concept of anytime, anywhere digital content has been a pipe dream for about a dozen years, but today we are oh so close. From radio to television to Internet … from home to car to cell phone … the availability of digital content and the ability to aggregate and manage your music, videos and photos is definitely a reality today.

3D
2010 will be the first year that we see 3D television entering the living room, by enabling some 500,000 “3D-ready” televisions already in the marketplace, and inviting full-blown 3D displays into the home. With 3D content streaming out of Hollywood this year, 2010 should be remembered as the year of 3D.

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