The next technology: the five great advances of 2017

The new Apple, the Model 3 of Tesla and Microsoft’s bet by augmented reality are the essential novelties of the coming technology

Tesla Model 3tesla-model

Elon Musk found a way to build his business by taking advantage of the anxiety of its consumers. The Model 3 , which will add to the S and X Models of its automotive catalog, already has 373,000 pre-purchase orders, making it the brand’s most successful car before its official launch. However, until the middle of 2017 will not begin to manufacture.

Unlike the other models, this will cost 33,000 euros, and Musk is betting on an alternative that is more popular, to monopolize the market for electric cars. What will you have again? Its autonomy will be 350 kilometers, will have a 0/100 km / h acceleration of six seconds, and despite its smaller dimensions compared to other Tesla cars, has a very good distribution of the passenger compartment, whose dashboard features a gigantic screen Of controls.

Nintendo SwitchNintendo Switch

Introduced in October, Nintendo hopes that this hybrid console will again catapult it to the forefront of video game platforms. Its previous product, Wii U has sold ‘only’ 13.6 million units, far from the 100 million of the classic Wii scattered by the homes of the world. Switch combines the traditional console with portable games: it can be connected as a home unit to the TV, for which it is inserted into a dock or base. When you want, you can remove it and continue with your game on the high definition screens, which can be added two side controls. The launch of the Nintendo Switch is forecast for March this year.

IPhone 8IPhone 8

Experts prefer not to take the risk and call iPhone X to the next Apple launch, which will coincide with the ten years of the arrival of the iPhone. But if you follow the timeline, the future iPhone 8 would have a glass screen that would occupy 100% of the front face of the case, with a curvature on the sides reminiscent of the Galaxy 7S Edge. With dual camera and an A11 processor, the future iPhone will be faster than 7. Its charge will be wireless, and it is speculated that it will have 3D sensors for the use of augmented reality. The iPhone 8 would come in three models: 4.7, 5 and 5.5 inches, with an aluminum housing or other light metal alloy.

3D Technology for Windows

Windows is committed to the popularization of 3D in everyday environments. This will come hand in hand with Creator’s Update, the Windows 10 update, which will have tools for users to photograph a 3D object with their mobile.

It also has Paint 3D, an interesting twist of that old program to paint and draw, which will allow mixing 3D objects on two-dimensional surfaces. And thanks to the Remix3D bank, you can download multitudes of objects that can be played on three-dimensional printers.

In order to be able to use these applications, in addition to the performance of its Surface tablet, Microsoft launches the Hololens, special glasses to be able to see in 3D and feel, thanks to the augmented reality, how the objects that have been photographed in the mobile or Treated with the computer can be placed in a room and handled virtually.

But it will also allow the use of a computer or mobile applications in any environment: the walls of the house can be ‘decorated’ with screens, applications, weather information or photographs. We will have to wait until the spring of 2017 to see if its users adapt to this visual and computer revolution.

Xbox Scorpio ConsoleXbox Scorpio Console

The war of videogame consoles passes, besides its catalog of titles, by the speed of its graphics and the realism of its images. Xbox is thrown to the competition with its future console, baptized with the name of Project Scorpio, as if it were a secret plan that James Bond should disrupt.

This console would be the most powerful in history, 50% more than the current PS4 Pro, and 350% faster than the current Xbox One. It will be the first platform to play in 4K, the ultra high definition screen, Which implies a very high consumption of the processor.

How is this performance achieved? With an 8-core CPU, a memory bandwidth of 320 gigabytes per second, and six teraflops of power. The anxious ones will have to wait at least one year, to the Christmas of 2017, to verify the speed of its operation.

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