In one blink of an eye, 2017 has already passed one-sixth of the time. If you feel the time flies, it is not much. Science and technology are changing with each passing day, but in an instant it is not an alarmist word.
The following content is translated from the article “11 Tech Products That'll Be Obsolete by 2025†published on January 15, 2017 by the most popular investment banking website in the United States.
If we say that something always remains the same in the field of science and technology, it is changing rapidly. Technological products are almost without exception, but it is precisely this kind of change that our living standards have been continuously improved and our lifestyle has become rich and colorful.
Which technology products will be eliminated by 2025? Then let us find out.
LCD TV
More than a decade ago, LCD (Liquid crystal display) LCD TVs impressed consumers with both thinness and energy-saving performance and began to sweep across the globe. The development of LCD TVs has also been continuously improved since then, becoming lighter, thinner, and cheaper. Manufacturers in order to further enhance the performance of television products, such as LG, has introduced a more excellent alternative product - OLED (organic light emitting diode) TV.
Because OLEDs have the advantage of self-luminescence, they do not need a backlight, which is not only more environmentally friendly and energy-saving, but also the image display quality is much better than LCD. Not only that, OLED TVs can be as thin as paper, transparent as glass, curved surfaces, and even curled or folded. At the CES 2017 show, LG launched a new W-series television (W is the initial letter of the English wallpaper "wallpaper"). The thickness is only about 2.5mm, and it can be directly adsorbed on the wall. It is expected to be sold to the market in the second half of this year.
2. LED lights
Although LED lamps are now on the market in parallel with relatively affordable energy-saving lamps, the lighting industry will be further affected by the increasing popularity of OLED lighting. After all, LED is a direct, point light source, while OLED can emit even more beautiful uniform light, and more efficient, while the touch experience is also cool. In addition, similar to OLED TVs, OLED lamps can also achieve a variety of thin, flexible bending effects.
In fact, as early as the second half of 2014, the potential of OLED lighting subverted the author's attention. At that time, it was considered that it would take several years for manufacturers, such as Philips and Germany's OSRAM, to spend a few years to improve the pricing of OLED lighting and improve luminous efficiency in order to match existing LED lamps. Nowadays, the growth momentum of OLED lighting is becoming increasingly obvious. Although it is still in the early stage of industrial development, the continuous improvement of performance in the next few years will be accepted and adopted by more and more manufacturers.
3. Physical storage devices
Next, disk storage devices such as CDs and DVDs will soon be gone. Many users today tend to store large amounts of their files on U-disks or removable hard disks. There is no doubt that these physical storage media are likely to slowly disappear with the popularity of convenient cloud storage services.
why? Whether it is connecting to Wi-Fi Internet access or using LTE to access the Internet through smart phones, the speed of the Internet will only accelerate with the increase of file storage. Moreover, these companies, such as BOX, Amazon, and Google, have begun to provide users with reliable and affordable prices. The (or free) cloud storage service makes it extremely easy for users to upload, access, or update files over the Internet.
4. Game console
It is hard to imagine what a world without a dedicated gaming machine (like XBox one, PlayStation 4) will be like. But if companies that have a lot to do with the game can provide free consoles or cloud-based games, such companies, such as NVIDIA, will grow more and more in the coming years.
Imagine, such as the Nvidia graphics card series, can allow players online instantaneous traffic over 100AAA, the game quality can reach 60 frames per second, resolution up to 1080P, and can be ultra-low latency, do not need to update or download. That is, the game comes from Nvidia's remote server and uses Kepler's GPU and Tegra's processor. Once this new game technology is implemented, players no longer need to go out or buy new hardware.
5. Car rearview mirror
Most people think that the rearview mirror is not a high-tech product, but one exception is the automatic dimming mirror. For example, in recent quarters, the panorama display modulator produced by Gentex Germany has been adopted by more and more manufacturers. Currently, five OEM manufacturers have selected the company as a new product supplier.
Last year, the US Department of Transportation issued a new regulation. By May 2018, all new cars will require rear-facing cameras. Coupled with the increasing popularity of self-driving vehicles, low-tech rearview mirrors will soon decline.
6. Wired charger
The user only needs to place the mobile phone on the designated table, and it can be charged without a plug or socket. Currently, Samsung has incorporated wireless charging technology into the latest smartphone designs, and there are rumors that Apple will also launch the first iPhone in the company's history to add wireless charging capabilities. In the next few years, consumers will gradually become accustomed to relatively convenient wireless charging methods, and it is believed that other mobile phone manufacturers will follow suit and add them.
Further, the research team found that a small amount of power can be transmitted through the Wi-Fi signal, enabling remote charging of different devices.
7. Remote control
For a long time, dedicated remote controls have been the main component of living room entertainment. With the emergence of voice-activated voice-activated devices that can achieve the same functions, the days of remote control are almost over.
It is no exaggeration to say that I can let the Xbox one automatically connect the Kinect sensor, adjust the volume of the TV, adjust the channel, switch the game, and so on. Language control can be freed from both hands and realize a full range of intelligent services such as pizza ordering, music playing, Uber app, smart home control, etc. It is no surprise that the voice interaction Bluetooth speaker Echo became the best-selling product of Amazon in 2016.
8. Entity Bank Card
According to Bloomberg, more than 80% of consumers in the United States use non-cash payments. The increasing number of non-cash transactions is mainly due to the convenience of payment service software such as Paypal and ApplePay.
In addition, due to the rapid development of smart phones and the popularity of digital payment services as mentioned above, countries like India have also begun to adapt to such non-cash payment methods. It can be imagined that plastic bank cards or credit cards are unnecessary wallet thickening products in the next eight years.
9. Password
To be precise, passwords are not exactly called technological products. But to say that many smart phones and laptops are now using biometric sensors, gradually replacing the original alphanumeric character passwords. For example, with proper fingerprint recognition on a mobile phone, the device can be unlocked, and an application store can be used to pay for the product.
In the long run, more accurate face recognition also has great potential for development. For example, the function of “tagging friends†in albums provided by Facebook can identify individuals more clearly and grant corresponding rights.
10. Streaming media devices
Like practical, popular multimedia playback devices like Chromecast, Roku, Fire TV, and Apple TV, more and more new features are being built into "smart" TV sets. According to IHS data, more than half of global TV shipments in 2016 were smart TVs, and shipments continued to grow, so shipments of independent dedicated streaming media devices will gradually decline.
11. Upright vacuum cleaner
Compared to a smaller robotic vacuum cleaner, traditional vacuum cleaners will continue to lose market share. To be sure, in 2014 iRobot CEO Colin Angle pointed out that the robot vacuum cleaner market has already accounted for 15% of the total global vacuum cleaner sales. It looks nothing, but the impact of this market share is roughly similar to that of microwave ovens and dishwashers. The destructiveness of home appliances in the same phase of the product life cycle.
It is believed that with the rich variety of robot vacuum cleaners, we can see that it will be used like other home appliances, and the usage rate will be higher and higher.
In the future, it may be not only these 11 technology products that are eliminated, but some changes may far exceed everyone’s imagination. No matter what kind of things happen in the future or how great changes will occur, we should all be optimistic and treat them as an opportunity to believe that the development of science and technology will make our lives better and better.
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