The future no doubt has some exciting things in store, technology is moving at such a rapid pace that even the most tech savvy gadget geek finds it hard it to keep up. But what will be THE must have essential gadget of the future, When I say essential gadget I mean something akin to the iPhone that isn’t even considered as a gadget anymore but a vital lifestyle navigation tool. I personally believe that glasses will form the lifestyle navigation trend of the future, enhancing our virtual experience of the real world.
Augmented reality is a big buzzword within the tech sphere at the moment and it is beginning to an increased uptake on mobile phones. It is a new aspect of tech which is just beginning life as a mobile app, it allows users to see what's in front of them but supplemented with an additional layer of information about the surroundings.
This technology ties in neatly with the current social trends in geo tagging, making your location know to your friends and followers. While all this can currently be done on most smart phone handsets the technology could easily be migrated to glasses, using the lenses as screens which also display any information that the wearer requires this could be easy incorporated into sunglasses like the ray ban wayfarer aviator sunglasses.
This kind of technology was elduded to way back in 1991 with the Hollywood blockbuster Terminator 2. In T2, for those of you who haven't seen it, the main character played by Arnie is robot that is able to ascertain information about his surrounding simply by changing is view of the environment. While is almost a dead certainty that most of us won't be relentless mechanised killing machines in the future, we could certainly use augmented reality to our advantage.
With the advances in televisions technology, we will all soon need to wear special 3D glasses anyway to get the bets possible experience, these new glasses could also perform this function.
