IBM reveals five new innovations

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IBM revealed five new innovations that will change lives over the next five years.

Unveiled to shape the future, the "IBM Next Five in Five" may sound a distance future yet they are real-life innovations - a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years. The list is based on market and societal trends expected to transform our lives, as well as emerging technologies from IBM's Labs around the world that could make these innovations possible.

"Our researchers are focused on the application of technologies in ways that matter to people, business and society," said Director of IBM's India Research Laboratory, Dr. Daniel Dias. "Open collaborative research and real-world innovations are going to shape the future." he said. In the next five years, our lives will change through technology innovations in the following ways, says Dr. Dias.

We will be able to access healthcare remotely. Millions of people with chronic health problems such as diabetes, heart, kidney or circulatory problems

will be able to have their conditions automatically monitored as they go about their daily lives. Device makers and health care professionals will take a proactive approach to ongoing, remote monitoring of patients, delivered through sensors in the home, worn on the person or in devices and packaging. These advances will also allow patients to better monitor their own health and help clinicians provide the on-going preventive care regardless of a person's location. Hardware and software advances in the field of remote-control healthcare will be a major source of consumer and enterprise innovation by 2012.

Mobile phones will start to read our minds. Advanced "presence" technology will give mobile phones and PDAs the ability to automatically learn about their users' whereabouts and preferences as they commute, work and travel. "Presence" technology - used in instant messaging - already makes it possible to locate and identify a user as soon as the user connects to the network.