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could revolutionize our world. welcome to tomorrow to day, the d. w. science magazine 5310000000 people use smartphones, meaning that 2 thirds of the world's population rely on their devices in their everyday lives. we use them for shopping into acting in social networks, filming things and playing games. and sometimes even for making calls, like without a smartphone is barely imaginable. but it may soon be a realistic prospect. our love affair with the smartphone could soon be over. so say the bosses of sony, apple, facebook, and others, samsung exact

d j co gives them another 4 years for now. digital expert christiane scheffler is still a smartphone junkie. lang, when he al stated money i, when i get out on slot, the 1st thing i look at is my smartphone, just us and wakes me up. i'm tired, it's the 1st thing i pick up. and the last thing i put down talk, i'll stand gabriel. but he also thinks they're well past their zenith for this any up on in be tips with the citizens. economists tell us that technologies have a product lifecycle and get the smartphone. the smartphone has been somewhat high up in terms of the product life cycle for years. it's cons i last went from few, you might not have bought a new smartphone for 5 years. and then you do, and you realize not much has changed his tagami skin that and those are all signs at the smartphone is reaching the end of the road as a smartphone, quasi invisalign ouse. and typically that is the smartphone to meet the same fate as old style tv's, rotary, dial telephones, wireless radios,

and walk mans. and if so, what's next? digital ethics expert 0 should be come on, says silicon valley has a clear vision of what's to come as, as good notation of flushed. i don't think when idea is of course, quite dominant in the tech world, papa permanently having a voice assistant in your ear who does everything for you to us was 10 miles for i knew the name as con, like we saw this vision as a future in the film her and song, i'm a kind little guy, bob. there are also glasses like a smart glasses. google went to nailed that, let you take an avatar with you. come on this flight, you might have configured in a virtual world and then it, it has beneath you with a voice assistant action. what about if our brain could directly communicate with the digital world without typing swiping more voice commands? recently, a so called brain computer interface was launched that enables users to control programs with their minds

a corporate video from the company. next, mine shows people playing video games, making music and using household devices all with the power of their thoughts. it sounds like science fiction. i. so we got hold of a test device to try it out. christiane doesn't have a chip implanted instead. sensors on the back of his head are supposed to register what he's thinking. i only have one on the in the many digital devices. i have time, i've never controlled any of them with mine out. i'm very curious as to if it works at all back up the super helpful. and yet the brain computer interface or b c. i measures the brain waves in our visual cortex when our eyes focus on a certain point, the sensors pick up this information and send a corresponding digital signal to the computer, montana's caliber, he and, and i get the sonic and calibrated. and then there's

a scale from $1.00 to $5.00 items. this one is the worst and find the best of best and happy 1st. several times. i used it. i only got one out of 5, so nothing at all. i just, i things of garnished and now i'm starting the calibration. he'll doesn't is in there the 3 line i and if i do it well, i come together to form a triangle for being. let's see, lamb guy, egg on his microphone. with chris john, succeed this time in controlling his brain waves so that a triangle is formed. is it really as easy as the corporate video? say it is? well, chris, john tries to connect his brain to the interface. we ask andrea's chima from the tech company, huawei, what he thinks will replace the smartphone. the smartphone built kind of phones

will have a central role in the way that they do now be busy. whole different devices will show different functions and i'll be able to just move things back and forth between them, depending on what situation and i'm, i'm of pushing on here, hold. and they haven't con enough team in button, is it? what if i'm on the sofa and have a big screen in front of me and gotten, i can take a video called there, you call even of them go smoothly, can be a name. and many times when i say, if i've got to go home, for example, to another room, i can just transfer it in there when they finish, even if i want to leave my apartment to me, i can take the video call with me on my smart phone line and my wearable i submit, so to evolve. at the end of the day, it's about the devices adjusting to the user and not the other way around the motor and pass it on the mac. next up, more about what a future without smartphones might look like. but how did it all begin? in 1994, the i b m simon was the 1st device to feed to

a touch screen. it was followed in 1996 by the nokia communicator the sensational development because it gets sent emails and faxes. and now 3 years later, the 1st cell phones with cameras hit the market to see both come is, for example, had a modest resolution of 0 point one mega pixel in 2007. and so the birth of the smartphone, as we know it today, when the 1st i phone was unveiled. but all that could soon be history. tech firms are working on the replacement for the smartphone. google hopes to make touch screens redundant with projects solely. it aims to track our every move using a tiny radar chip. like a bat, it sends out short signals and interprets the echoes that come back. these are then transformed into digital signals. this would make touch screen superfluous. so maybe one day we'll be able to control our kitchen appliances,

cars, computers, and consumer electronics with gestures using augmented reality glasses like microsoft's hollow lens, it's already possible to work with all the grams in a virtual reality world. cell phones barely play a role here any more. discusses one on each under common, consume consumable. i thing isn't consumer ready yet. got it. they're still working on as a foster, hey, he says, the priscilla, all. and of course, you can imagine in say, hey, get psyched, i'll put on the glasses and be able to check the temperature in my field of view in more small city of nick. and when i have to go somewhere, i won't need to look at a matter which i have, instead of a fallen arrow wherever the sentinel sends me, thus have i so clearly uses exist and what's the long hill him of a smart world is getting closer to becoming reality,

but what happens to the huge amounts of data which these things collect about us? that's more and more personal medical data movement files, buying behavior and emotional states. isn't there a huge potential for miss use? the internet of things. let's tech firms read each one of us like a book right down to the chinese details. are we marching towards dystopian blade runner type society? does it so confidence? yes, i miss future that has been felt as by so cut bally visionaries like eli mosque and co will lead a straight to a dark place act and i don't good camera does the starks, this is dark science fiction. jackson and it's dark sy fy. they've grown up with this is kind of ale longer, a world in which i have friends or pets, or a yard where people, me jam, munsey, swift. i know every one sits in, in a close to purchase space for 2 and the home with them. now that's darl class

journalist and digital expert christiane schiffer doesn't have such a negative view of the digital world. here he's trying to connect his laptop to his brain sorta, sorta best. this is the best result today. dish or garbage clicking, but i, i think i'll get a 3 that's why shot a too. too bad. yeah, i did better at home and you could see that most of the time it wasn't a triangle. but 2 out of 5. not the heads. 5. good enough to play games, colonel eyes, right. and so we could try, brick breaker for exam breaker, awful young positivism saw. can he control the paddle using the power of thought alone? ah,

i mean any time does ita by if i try talking at the same time i forget it. can you really have to concentrate to the at the health constance . yeah. next up, around of jump and run a club. plaza says he's a phase of the clinton, it's, you know, half constant. and now i have to concentrate again and try to move it out of the way. my, my, my n. austin picks up the we can use the touchpad to control the green box. ok had to ask a shockey. i had done it. and i also need to shut my dog under it. like a shoe. ah. infant ta ta fast in. yeah. and he had nick ada, that's totally fascinating in gusto. i'd never have thought i could control

anything with my mind us. i was a guy who's a super, that's quite an epiphany as this exploded him really strenuous, extremely slow food. and you always have the feeling that it just might not work on the same kind of funny foster. and so i can imagine this will play a role. it's 5 years on the or in the coming years at all. no hide of fear by multiple or snags here. improved by factors. but tech billionaire long musk is certain that it will work one day. he's experimenting with brain computer interface or b c. i implants, which he believes will be how people will communicate with the digital world in future. so it might one day be possible to upload your thoughts to the cloud or connect yourself to the internet. like smart devices already do. people could be directly connected with robots, enabling them to master tough tasks, or explore faraway places together. but that's all in the distant future back to

the present. so what exactly will life be like in the post smartphone error? the museum her doesn't, i'm quite sure we'll be talking a lot via headphone i cynthia and they'll be a lot of competition that just like there was with smartphones to start discover forced out today. we're walking around with many computers in our pockets. many could, i can imagine in future, we'll have the content sound of many computers in our ears. smart earbuds, a our glasses, smart homes, and maybe even mind controlled devices quicken because i'm sure that in 10 years, at the latest, most new buildings would be a i supported when the a, i knows which actions to carry out. why do you need a smartphone or to call your slots or the tech giant? envision that in the near future will be fully integrated into a virtual parallel world in which we work, travel and play. so we need to lay down legal and ethical rules for this brave new

world. now, because even if smartphones are on their way out, our growing dependence on technology will continue the matter. this is an integrated network of 3 d virtual worlds augmented mixed and virtual reality. but experts say that building it is expected to take another 20 years because it requires so much more computational capacity than what's currently available. and how exactly will it work? the measure, this is a virtual space populated by people's avatars. the next generation internet, basically where you can enjoy immersive into active environments and experiences, entertainment, games, crypto currencies and everything else you can currently find on the internet. and

not just fantasy worlds, but duplicated real life environments to forget shopping on websites. this virtual world enables you to actually visit this, or it's designed to be fun, but useful to you can meet up with friends and colleagues who are far away in the real world. that's the promise of the mit averse. it all sounds very exciting, but can you really imagine living in a parallel, digital world like the metabolic that's what we have here is on d w. social media channels. maxima, roblis thinks it's pure fantasy. he writes, reality is always superior. the virtual world will not supersede the real one, but it's something louis sample can imagine. humans, he says, are known for their ability to adapt, so it won't be any different when it comes to constantly evolving digital world. for may more the metaphors doesn't make any sense in terms of the prospective experience. although it might be interesting from

a shopping fashion and beauty perspective, victor day is fenmont compares the to taking drugs to escape reality. but at some point, you have to return to your real life to re, i can't imagine any benefit from living in a virtual world and prefers the real one dr. lima reckons it's going to cause problems across society for those who are exposed to these technologies and grow up with them. it will affect an entire generation social and communication skills. thank you for your comments. ah. the societal problems caused by the most of us that joe lima mentioned in his post already evident in smartphone use. for many teenagers, their smartphones are given in germany 96 percent of all 16 to 18 year olds used one among 10 to 12 year olds. the figures, 86 percent,

and 21 percent of 6 to 9 year olds already have a smartphone. 3 years ago researchers at london university doctor to study covering young children and teenagers. 23 percent exhibited problematic signs of excess of use which can lead to depression and stress. did you know that using a smartphone has an impact on your brain on our phones help us navigate. remember birthdays, look up the info and capture special moments. but did you know that relying on them heavily could be harming your memory? studies show, let, taking lots of photos can make us remember things less seeing the world grow. our

phones distract us from many details around us. how something feels, smells, sounds. our brain links this info to create stronger long term memories. but smartphones shift our focus. research even suggests that when we capture a moment with the intention of sharing it, we are more likely to remember it as it was captured, not as we experienced it. we look at our lives from the outside. there is one upside. our visual memories could be getting stronger in a steady museum visitors who took photos noticed more visual details and looked at more objects than those who didn't. but what about those fun facts? the museum guide shared many had forgotten them. another problem is

cognitive offloading. we don't feel the need to remember something when our devices are already doing the job. we use them as our brains external hard drive. but like a muscle, the memory storage of our brain. the hippocampus literally grows. when we train it, do you know any numbers by heart? can you find your way without your phone? why not try it for a day? oh. if i was let is read why i gave you a, do you have a science related question then send it in. if we feature it in our show, we'll send you a little surprise as the thank you. come on just on you

can see our postal address at the end of the show, but you can also find us online at d, w dot com slash science or on twitter. this garage is said to be the birthplace of what eventually became the apple cooperation . many of today's tech jones had humble beginnings. now they influence the everyday lives of millions of uses. how will the digital world of the future luck? one of today's young inventors wants to help the visually impaired to navigate their way through every day. situations on the street with rush can ahead clar volota by draws rudolph people mayor is almost completely blind, but he can still identify objects around him. thanks to an invention that gives him

a heads up to marsh nash wants to help people with visual impairments and came up with a device where around your neck of, of google as anna camacho for bought a device has a camera link to a computer. come on and the camera records images that are analyzed using artificial intelligence, the father to identify potential danger, like a car and sensors measure how far away the obstacles are. federal to jimenez mist rudolph is testing the invention on his daily walks through. regensburg here from the doug, i'd like obstacles to be flagged well in advance for a pedestrian crossing that's not adapted for the video really impaired. it should tell me if the lights green or red, if i can walk or now to glue orders, working through the navigation aides for people with visual impairments is an expanding market tomasz who just finished high school, wanted his device to respond to the challenges posed by road traffic, he built

a small computer that uses sensors and a camera to analyze the surroundings in real time. yeah, the camera is the camera, the green ship here. it records 30 image is a 2nd of the road traffic and sends it to the a i system, gets flight up. the system can recognize objects and people and identify whether they're potential obstacles. thomas train the a i system using a database of 60000 images. teaching it to differentiate between 10 different types of objects is every on some by a bit of foreseeing, loaded pedestrians. not yet because as you can see here would are also. so i suppose the motorbike or chairs benches, trash cans. when pedestrian crossing lansing. yeah, annex tends to have shown that my a i system is about 75 percent accurate headphone. that's right in the middle of the performance range for object recognition networks. it's voss heights or object

there between about 70 to 80 percent accurate, which in superficial axis port saint thomas also wrote his own software program for the device. the result is a new kind of navigational aid that can identify obstacles in the surrounding area and inform the user through headphones. after warning pedestrian ahead, let's take a look at how that works in practice. will hear the information that rude office hearing and see what the camera shows. the color boxes show what the a i system is identifying. but not every object should trigger a warning to mash program the software to identify which objects are obstacles. act a warning i bicycle ahead and which ones aren't. the invention is still a prototype and intended only as an assistive technology. so rudolph also uses his

came the 1st test, will the device identify and approaching pedestrian act warnings gadarian ahead. the message came relatively late. will the technology react more quickly to an approaching car off warning car ahead. when we were standing in the road earlier, i had the feeling that it reacted a bit late. judging by the sound, the corridor already passed his form tornado as alternate level by wall. not sir, sorry, sir. test i use the hang of talent and recordings, so i can look at it afterwards. form study what happened and make adjustments to the system bottle on this read at austin naco steel. the next test is an important one in germany. not every pedestrian crossing has an acoustic signal for visually

impaired people. after warning to on the cross walk, light is ranch the stop. the on the light is green. see cuz you may proceed. although law firm will open crosswalk, it was really great at protesting crossings. it's especially important because many lights don't have acoustic signals or additional tactile information. so that's a very important situation where this device can really help good to host. so how happy is rudolf with the invention overall, legacy is good to you. there are definitely a few things that need to be improved, but it's really on the right path to keep it up to. so it's very me the story orse . so unless i'll use what we've learned here today to make improvements, i'm quite happy with the way that it recognized the crossbow lights. and that's why it's very important to me. lou camacho would also like to make his device much smaller. and he already has

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