5 Technologies that will change PCs this year

This is the era of slick gadgets, and if you think about PCs they are the dinosaurs of this age. Cluttered wires, big and bulky and don’t forget the occasional blue screen of your nightmares! Technology coming up in this year is meant to make PCs more interactive and fun, well, I hope so…

Wireless Charging – Imagine you could place a laptop on a table and it would automatically start charging? No wires and no power adapters! This could actually become a reality this year because Intel plans to make wireless chargers as easy to find as a WiFi signal, they want to bring the technology to cafes, restaurants, airports and other public places.

Wireless Displays – It may also become possible this year to connect your laptop wirelessly to a display; this could get rid of all those expensive HDMI cables and DisplayPort display cables. A wireless display that starts working as soon as a laptop is within range? Sounds good to me! Intel is planning to make it possible for one laptop to stream to monitors on multiple desks; this would be useful in classrooms and meetings.

Creative Desktops – The desktop started as a boring, plain white box, but it has become so much more - a blank canvas for creativity and imagination. One good example is HP’s Sprout, it looks like a normal PC, but it has the latest imaging and collaboration technology. At the base of Sprout is a giant touch pad called a Touch Mat, there is also a 3D sensing camera which scans objects placed on the Touch Mat. For example – if you put your coffee mug on the canvas, the 3D camera will scan it to depth and size. There is also a projector on top of Sprout which can reflect the scanned image of the coffee mug; this amazing experimental desktop could be very useful!

Biometric Sensors – Pretty soon your body could log you into an email account. By the end of this year, Intel will be providing software so users can log in to websites via biometric authentication. It will serve two purposes:
- It is reliable and secure
- Users won’t have to remember millions of different passwords for different sites.
Apple already uses biometric authentication to authorize credit card payments through its Apple pay service and Intel plans to bring a similar concept to PCs, so expect the fingerprint scanner to become                                                               more useful this year.

Thinner, faster, lighter, better – With so many options available, buying a PC isn't very easy and it won’t be any easier this year with more innovative designs coming out. Computers will get thinner as PC makers introduce laptops that are as thin as 15mm! Computers will also have a longer battery life and better memory for your applications and games.

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Written By: Christine Romans
CopyWriter at The Computer Guyz Cape Town