IBM researchers are exploring new inventions and trends that will change every aspect of your life—everything from your health to your commute.
They just released their annual "Five in Five" year-end predictions, in which they name five crazy-sounding technologies that will be ordinary in five years.
The predictions they made in 2007 for 2012 were spot on—for example, voice-controlled cars and mobile payments. So we looked back at IBM's past predictions to see what they anticipate coming to fruition between 2013 and 2017.
When will your PC or smartphone be able to smell things?
By 2017, smartphones will have a sense of smell
Tiny sensors that can "smell" can be built into smartphones and other mobile devices.
Those traces of chemical compounds can be fed to a powerful cloud app, detecting everything from carbon monoxide to the flu virus.
As a result, if you sneeze, the phone can tell you if you are getting sick.
When will data centers heat our cities?
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