A Card that will Replace Your Wallet

This cards, named Stratos, will replace your wallet. It can be connected to your smartphone. Additionally, it can combine all of your cards, bank accounts and giftcards onto the one card so there is no need to carry around many cards at once. It can essentially replace your entire wallet.

Wearable Drones

Sometime in the near future, drones may become wearable. The drone are anticipated to do everything from be a tour guide through a new city or help you determine the best route while rock climbing. Nixie, the wearable drone, is a camera that launches from the wrist. The function of the drones ranges from helping the owner determine every aspect about the current weather or guding you to the nearest coffee shop. These drones are just a concept in the present but are anticipated to be released in 2030.

New Invention to Help the Blind "Read"

       

                                 

            MIT researchers created a prototype that could help blind people "read" books and other written text without Braille.The prototype is a finger-mounted device that uses a camera to scan text, which is then converted to speech in real time. Researchers came up with two options: a device that used vibrating motors on top and beneath the finger to indicate if it needed to move up or down, and another that issued musical tones as clues. They determined that the motorless option was favorable.The device uses an algorithm to process what the camera perceives. For now, it relies on an attached laptop, but the plan for the next version is to use a phone instead.