The annual World Economic Forum published
a new report, which called the main innovative
technological trends of this year.
Innovative technology has become,
perhaps, the greatest agent of change
in the modern world. Without risk
there is never complete, but positive
technological breakthroughs promise
to provide innovative solutions to the
most pressing global issues of our
time from a lack of resources to
global environmental change. (...),
Highlighting the most important
technological advances, the Council
seeks to raise awareness of their potential and help to close the gaps in
investment, management and public
performances.
- Nubar Afeyan (Noubar Afeyan),
entrepreneur, one of the compilers
of the report
1. Fitted to the body
wearable electronics
This innovative technology is almost invisible.
Among them: in-ear headphones, watching
the heart rate sensors that monitor posture
(they are worn under clothing), temporary
tattoos, which monitor the operation of the vital
organs, and tactile soles, which will show you
the way to GPS by vibration.
The latter, by the way, want to use as a guide
for the blind. A terrific glasses Google Glass
innovative technology are already helping
oncologists to conduct operations.
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- Google Glass an innovative technology 2. Nanostructured graphite composite materials Car exhaust, polluting the atmosphere the scourge of modern ecology. Not surprisingly, the increase in the operating efficiency of transport one of the priority technology areas. Contribute to this will be nanostructuring methods of carbon fiber for advanced composite materials that help reduce vehicle weight by 10% and more. For what? Appliances need less fuel and, therefore, it will be less pollution. 3. Production of metals in concentrate during desalination of seawater Another environmental problem reduction of freshwater supplies and the associated seawater desalination. Desalination can increase the supply of fresh water, but he has and disadvantages. Moreover, serious. For desalination need a lot of energy, and moreover, waste is generated as a result of concentrated saltwater. Last, back into the sea, a very negative impact on the marine flora and fauna. And the most promising solution to this problem may be fundamentally new look at this waste. They can be considered as a raw material source of very valuable substances: lithium, magnesium, uranium, conventional soda, calcium, potassium compounds.  |
4. Storage of electricity
on an industrial scale
Energy issues an inexhaustible source of
problems. But some of them seem to have
become quite solvable, thanks to new
innovative technologies. For example, it is
proposed to use batteries to preserve the flow
of chemical energy in a liquid form and in large
quantities. This is similar to how we store coal
and gas.
Allowing you to store fairly large amounts of
energy and all kinds of solid panels, and, in
cheap and available materials.
Recently, there were also invented graphene
large capacitors, with which you can very
quickly charged and discharged batteries,
making tens of thousands of cycles. Consider
engineers and other capabilities, such as
kinetic energy in the flywheel, and large
compressed air storage underground.
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The molecular structure of graphene 5. Nanowire lithiumion batteries Such innovative batteries will soon conduct a full charge, and produce 3040% more electricity than today's lithiumion batteries. All this will help improve the market of electric vehicles, but also will allow to store the sun's energy directly at home. Experts believe that now and over the next two years with a silicon anode batteries will also be used in smartphones. 6. The display screen without: video holograms and virtual reality This leap forward in this area occurred in the last year. That is why a high probability that in the near future we should expect major breakthroughs on the use of innovative display technology without a screen. What is it about? About headset virtual reality, bionic contact lenses, the development of mobile phones for the elderly and visually impaired people of the video holograms that do not require glasses and moving parts.  Glyph: a futuristic virtual reality helmet |
7.Medications for human intestinal
microflora
Recently, it was found out that the intestinal
microflora affects the development of many
diseases and infections from obesity to
diabetes and inflammation of the digestive
tract.
Everyone knows that antibiotics disrupt the
intestinal microflora, causing complications
such as infection by the bacterium Clostridium
difficile, and sometimes even threatening a
person's life. Today, therefore, clinical trials
conducted worldwide. As a result, it managed
to find a group of microbes in a healthy gut.
These microbes help create a new generation
of drugs, and they, in turn, will help to improve
the treatment of the human intestinal
microflora.
8. Medications based
on RNA
This is also a new generation of drugs. Get
them to enable advances in the study of
ribonucleic acids (RNA). With these
formulations fail dilute excessive amounts
present in the natural protein, and it will be
possible to produce an organism in vivo
dosage optimized proteins.
RNAbased medicines will be produced
already by private firms, but in collaboration
with major pharmaceutical companies and
research centers.
9. Predictive Analytics
Smartphones the innovative technologies,
which provide an incredible amount of
information about the activities of people like
the owners of these smartphones, and they
know (contact lists, call logging, GPS, WiFi,
pictures with location, according to downloads
data, applications used by us etc.) to help
build a detailed predictive models about
people and their behavior.
All this, according to experts, should be a
good purpose for example, urban planning,
the appointment of individual medicines,
medical diagnostics.
10. Interfaces "brain
computer"
Innovative technology to manage the
computer just by thought not a fantasy.
Moreover, it is much closer to reality than we
think. Interfaces "Brain-Computer" (when the computer reads and interprets the signals
directly from the brain), are undergoing clinical
trials. And most importantly already have
good results. They are necessary, however,
not for entertainment, but for people with
disabilities. For example, for those who suffer
quadriplegia (paralysis of arms and legs), a
syndrome of isolation, those who have
suffered a stroke, and wheelchairs. Interface
"Brain-Computer" capable of much. With it,
people will be able to manage, for example, a
robotic arm to drink, eat and do much more.
And yet, the brain implants able to partially
restore vision.
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