Many people are waiting for the year 2012 to experience
something bigger and better. In this New Year technology is
going to change the lives of many people in good ways. There
are countless innovations which are waiting to come in the
market this year but all of them would make their space on
shelve or not is the thing which has to be watched now. In this
article we are going to talk about some high-tech devices which
will deliver great wonder to mankind in 2012.
Senseye: this is a thing which is going to help many people in year 2012. This
innovation is actually a mobile phone with reading technology. The project under which
this reading phone is being introduced is known as Copenhagen project. This new
range of phones will help the user to control the cell phones with the help of their eyes.
The eye movement is detected with the help of front facing camera. It is expected that
many other companies will also follow this technology soon. Some of the functions that
can be controlled with the help of this technology include activating screens, playing
games, scrolling websites, and many others.
The iPhone 5 and its Rumors: in the year 2011 it was expected that iPhone 5 will be
launched in the market but unfortunately iPhone 4S just end all the expectations. Now in
2012 iPhone 5 is surely coming as it is on the cards of Apple now. The news says that in
the mid of 2012 this Smartphone will be available for consumers. After the delay
consumers are expecting a better phone now. They think that delay was made to make
some good modification in phone. The device is expected to feature a larger screen
(probably 5-inch) and a completely new design and a new casing.
The Dell Peju Windows 8 Tablet: another new and exiting technology that is going to
arrive in the year 2012 is Dell Peju Windows 8 Tablet. Microsoft and Dell together are
now showing their capabilities now in the form of this new tablet. This tablet has made
promise that it will prove to be another thumbs up product in the market of tablets.
The Windows 8: Windows is one of the biggest name in the industry of Operating
Systems and after the huge success of Windows 7 new ways for next versions are
opened. Windows 8 is now coming with new user interface, app store and many other
exiting new features.
Samsung Flexible AMOLED Display: this new technology is going to be used in tablets
and Smartphone’s now. This display is fully transparent and flexible, being designated for
various devices. Some Samsung products are already scheduled to come along this
technology. These flexible displays cannot really be bent or rolled but they are truly
flexible, allowing users to twist the screens. Announcement has been made that this
product will be in the market in beginning of 2012.
USB 4.0 Speeding Up Performance: USB connector is among some biggest
achievements of computer era in this decade. More than 2 billion devices are sold yet
worldwide and it is expected that many more will be sold in coming times. The
requirement to build this new device was come so that data transfer speed can be
increased. USB 3.0 was not good enough to perform this function that’s why USB 4.0 is
introduced.
New Capacities for Batteries: batteries were among the biggest limitation for
Smartphone’s in the year 2011. So to solve this problem developers work really hard.
They want to develop some new system which will help the Smartphone to sustain
longer. Currently, numerous innovators are trying to develop a new structure, which is
known as carbon compound.

Guess that overheating issue isn’t such a big deal after all.
Less than two weeks after Consumer Reports engineers found that Apple’s new tablet can get as hot as 116 degrees while running games, the magazine has declared it the best in breed, placing it at the top of its tablet-computer rankings on Monday.
“The high-resolution screen of the new iPad establishes a new benchmark in excellence, providing the best rendering of detail and color accuracy we’ve ever seen on a tablet display,” reviewer Donna L. Tapellini wrote on the Consumer Reports site.
The review called the iPad “superb in virtually every other way as well,” noting a vastly improved camera, a fast, dependable connection (on Verizon’s 4G network), and longer battery life than any other tablet tested by the product-review group.
In an earlier test using a thermal-imaging camera, Consumer Reports engineers recorded temperatures up to 13 degrees higher than the iPad 2 on the new iPad while playing a video game, “Infinity Blade II.”
But Monday’s report downplayed that.
“(W)e didn’t find those temperatures to be cause for concern,” the report says. Some reports have found the tablet won’t recharge while playing power-intensive games, but Consumer Reports’ testing showed that problem also to be limited. “Our high overall judgment of the new iPad was not affected by the results of either battery of tests.”
Since the iPad launched in 2010, its sales have dwarfed those of any other tablet. But Consumer Reports did have some praise Monday for some of the Apple juggernaut’s competitors.
The 10.1-inch Toshiba Excite 10LE was the lightest tablet the group has tested, at a little over one pound, and Pantech’s new 8-inch Element tab was praised for its claim of being waterproof. The Sony Tablet P and Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 2.2 were also among newly reviewed tablets that earned a recommendation.
The iPad wasn’t perfect, according to the review. Consumer Reports noted that, in some applications designed for previous models (notably magazines), its high-definition screen magnifies imperfections.
But that wasn’t enough to knock it out of the top spot.
“On balance, however, the screen quality of the new iPad is a significant plus, especially given the likelihood that content will increasingly rise in resolution to take advantage of it,” according to the review.

There’s a massive telescope on the drawing board that hasn’t even started construction yet, but when it’s finished in 2024, it’ll generate more data in a single day than the entire Internet.
For scientists to ensure they’ll be able to handle all that raw information, they need to start working on new computing technologies now. Fortunately, IBM is on it.
The computing giant is collaborating with ASTRON (the Netherlands Institute of Radio Astronomy) to develop the next-generation computer tech needed to handle the colossal amount of data captured by the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), a new radio telescope that will spread sensing equipment over a span 3,000 kilometers wide, or about the width of the continental U.S.A.
“One of the goals is to search what happened at the time of the Big Bang, 13 billion years ago,” IBM researcher Ronanld Luijten told Mashable. “We need to figure out what technology needs to be chosen in order to build this large antenna.”
The project is called DOME, and it’s challenged to find a way to capture and process approximately one exabyte every day, which works out to about twice the amount of data that’s generated every day by the World Wide Web, IBM says.
To do that in a way that doesn’t consume a massive amount of energy, IBM will need to develop some entirely new processing architectures before construction on the telescope begins in 2017.
“We need to be very creative,” says Luijten. “If we were to use standard servers of today, we’d need millions of them. They would use so much space and use so much energy that we couldn’t afford to build the machines let alone operate them.”
While the project has only just been announced, IBM already has some ideas in the hopper. Specifically, it’ll be looking at novel ways of stacking chips (today’s chips are flat, though stacking or “3D” tech is around the corner) and using optical technology for interconnects, something the company has already had some success with.
The promising new conductive material graphene, however, probably won’t play a part.
“Graphene will not be available in time to build something we start in 2017,” says Luijten. “But it might be available for a later generation. The expectation is that we will go with the traditional CMOS process.”
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Even though the new computing tech hasn’t even been invented yet, it’ll ironically still rely on one of the oldest storage technologies in existence: magnetic tape. Luijten says tape simply can’t be matched by newer storage mediums since it’s so cost-, space- and power-efficient.
The project won’t exclusively use tape for storage, though, also relying on phase-change media and solid-state drives.
“We’re looking at new memory technologies,” says Luijten, “but at the end of the day most of the data likely will remain on tape because it’s still the most cost-effective storage medium. Tape will be around for a long time.”
The SKA isn’t planned to be completed until 2024, but the technologies that IBM creates to service it will have the potential to change entire industries in the meantime, dealing with big-data problems that the world is just now encountering.
It’s possible the social networks and search engines of the future will be powered by IBM’s coming tech or something like it, enabling them to process an entire Internet’s worth of data for anyone and everyone.

A new era in computing that will see machines perform at least 1,000 times faster than today’s most powerful supercomputers is almost upon us.
By the end of the decade, exaFLOP computers are predicted to go online heralding a new chapter in scientific discovery.
The United States, China, Japan, the European Union and Russia are all investing millions of dollars in supercomputer research. In February, the EU announced it was doubling investment in research to €1.2 billion ($1.6 billion).
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What is an exaFLOP?
Computer scientists measure a supercomputer’s performance in FLOPS, an acronym for FLoating Point Operations per Second, while “exa” is a metric prefix which stands for quintillion (or a billion billion). An exascale computer could perform approximately as many operations per second as 50 million laptops.
“It is the next frontier for high-performance computing,” says Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, professor at the School of Electronics at the UK’s Queen’s University of Belfast.
Exascale by numbers
How fast are today’s supercomputers?
Today, the fastest supercomputers operate at the petaFLOP level says Nikolopoulos, performing in excess of one quadrillion (or a million billion) operations per second.
The first computer to break through the petaFLOP barrier was IBM’s Roadrunner in 2008. But its reign as the fastest computer in the world didn’t last long, with the Cray Jaguar installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States becoming the quickest with a performance of 1.75 petaFLOPS in 2009.
Today, the crown is held by is Japan’s K computer developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu, according to TOP500 — a project that tracks trends in high-performance computing.
The machine, installed at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science, in Kobe, Japan, currently operates at over 10 petaFLOPS. It is more than four times faster than its nearest rival, China’s NUDT YH MPP computer (2.57 petaflops).
How big are they?
“The kind of space that you need is similar to that of a football field. You’re talking about many, many lanes of computer racks and thousands of processors,” says Nikolopoulos.
The K computer contains a mind-boggling 88,128 computer processors and is made up of 864 refrigerator-sized cabinets.
Physically, exascale computing won’t get any bigger, says Nikolopoulos, and might even get a little smaller. But the amount of processors will rise substantially to anywhere between one million and 100 million.
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What are the challenges of reaching exascale?
The current projections suggest that power consumption of exascale computers will be 100 megawatts. It’s impossible to build a suitable facility and have enough power
Dimitrios Nikolopoulos
Nikolopoulos says “severe technology barriers” remain, the most important being power. “Power consumption of supercomputers in general is not sustainable,” he says.
“The current projections suggest that power consumption of exascale computers will be 100 megawatts. It’s impossible to build a suitable facility and have enough power.”
Historically, a computer’s processor has used the most power (around 40-50% of the total) Nikolopoulos says, but memory is rapidly catching it up.
“Changing materials and also the architecture of processors and memories is critical to exascale’s success,” he says.
“We are beginning to understand the challenges of exascale in terms of hardware, software and applications. We are at the stage where we can make mental projections and set up directions for research.”
What benefits could exascale computing bring?
It will enable discovery in many areas of science, says Nikolopoulos. “Aerospace engineering, astrophysics, biology, climate modeling and national security all have applications with extreme computing requirements,” Nikolopoulos said.
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Bill Cabbage, public information officer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, says exascale will attempt to tackle very serious challenges in energy supply and sustainability.
“These are very difficult problems and will require the development of new forward-thinking technologies to deal with them,” Cabbage said.
“We are bringing all our resources to bear on these problems,” he added.
Social sciences could also profit, says Nikolopoulos.
“More and more people are interested in understanding the behaviors of societies as a whole. These require simulations — how people interact, communicate, how they move. That will require exascale computing,” he said.