Future Devices

via emergic.org: Always-On Network has comments made by SRI CEO Curt Carlson: -- "So in the IT space, one thing that we're excited about is what's happening in portable devices. We now have memory, storage, communications, and bandwidth; and we have wireless intersecting with that. We have the possibility of the devices being ad hoc; there can be a node on the network that makes that happen. The battery technologies are also being revolutionized, so you can think about a whole new generation of products in that space. Underneath that there are two enabling technologies that after 20 years of research are finally coming home. One is speech recognition and the other is natural language. You can now begin to imagine a fully connected, always-on device that will do away with the keyboard (because obviously that's not a friendly way to interact with a device) and would be so valuable and so functional that it would be like your watch—a device that you would never leave home without."