Top 5 Technology Predictions

1 - Tracking and Alerting
Our Iphones and Smartphones all have GPS enabled nowadays and these devices will now be used to track where you have been, how fast you walked and plot a chart of your activity as part of your fitness regime. Alternatively it may be used to track buses, taxi's. Advertising will soon be aimed at you depending on where you are, i.e. Your'e in Stokesley, did you know that you can get 2 pizzas for £10 tonight.

2 - Wireless Power
I'm pretty sure this will start to emerge in 2010. Imagine an office with a laptop, a printer with no cables connecting to the wall or to each other. Charging your laptop in an airport simply by logging onto a wifi zone? Give new meaning to "Hotspot"

3 - 3D Computing
Sony will go big on 3D TV this year and this will soon follow into the Computer Market. Photo's and applications will be brough to life via 3D and no doubt Oakley will pioneer cool 3D specs rather than the Ray Charles style glasses you get in the cinema now.

4 - Wi fi Direct
This technology will turn your gadgets into mini wireless access points extenting and strengthening the range of your wireless network. You images from your camera will be downloaded to your computer by the time you open the front door and your DVD player will be boosting your Wi fi Signal around the house.

5 - Fat to Thin
No, I am not suggesting there will be a global cure for obesity. The cloud will start to take off in 2010 and users will no longer need high spec PCs. Instead they will start to opt for netbooks or thin clients as all of their apps and data will be stored in the cloud. Microsoft hosted services will change the way IT Departments work and mean that more people can enjoy corporate applications that they previously couldn't afford.