IBM: After 5 years, smartphones will be endowed with hearing, sight, taste, smell and touch

IBM has published a forecast The Five in Five for 2012. The company identified five trends that, in its view, would prevail in computer technology over the next five years. In this list, the list of trend coincides with the list of feelings that people can experience. IBM predicts that computing devices will be granted the hearing, sight, taste, smell and touch.

1. Touch

"Touch" will allow your computer or smart phone to transfer the texture object that is currently in another location, using, for example, vibration screen. The technology can be used in Internet commerce: the buyer can "feel" the fabric shirt before ordering.

2. Hearing

"Rumors" will allow computing devices to decipher the sounds of the world - well, utilities for the trees creak in the wind will be able to determine if there is a risk of collapse. Smartphones, endowed with "human ears", can be sound stage where there is a person. For example, if the device determines that the owner is in a conference or in a movie theater, it will go into silent mode.

3. Vision

"Vision" will give the mobile device the ability to recognize objects in photos and videos. Doctors will be able to use this skill to learn computer radiographs and tomograms, advertisers - to determine the user's interests on the placed them on the web photos, emergency services - for the analysis of materials from the scene.

4. Taste

"Taste" of a researcher from IBM is the ability of computers to analyze the chemical composition of the food and give recipes that are optimal for the individual in terms of nutritional value.

5. Smell

"The sense of smell" mobile devices are endowed with sensors, which, for example, a person will analyze exhaled air to do on it concluded that there is in the body of disease.

Forecast The Five in Five IBM released annually since 2007. Composing it, the company is based on market research and their own development.

Came the first update for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City for iOS

We had not played enough in GTA 3 on their iPhones as Rockstar, like not asking whether you have time to go over this time the game or not, proudly introduced a mobile version of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the project. Again gamers survivors passage Vice City in the early 2000s, it is proposed to repeat the experience, but on their smartphones and tablets, plunged into the criminal world of the 80's. Today released the first update for the game is aimed at fixing bugs encountered by users during the passage of the mobile version of Vice City.

As you know, a fast ride on Vice City can be different on different models of tablets and smartphones. For example, the iPhone 4S and iPad third generation game graphics is not much different from the older version, with no lag is observed. However, the original game restarted often, and not continue from the same place after use multitasking. Though in Rockstar and expressed support for all models up to the iPhone 3GS and iPad 1, stable operation is not guaranteed. For example, the iPod touch 4G owners complained of "departures", and the iPhone 4 were observed frequent freezes.

With the release of an update for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City all the errors allegedly were past. In version 1.1, the game has become much more stable on the iPod touch, as well as the bugs disappeared with a keyboard that can appear during gameplay. Have been solved, and other problems, including the rotation of the helicopter in flight, and improved application performance. Of the new features - the possibility to change the song in the playlist, just shake the device.

Ticket to Vice City is only five dollars, but they can use only a few owners of smartphones and tablets. GTA is compatible with phones iPhone, starting c model iPhone 4, and the iPad and iPod touch players, fourth and fifth generation. In the case of Android-devices Vice City will work on many high-end gadgets, released in the last two years, the full list can be found at Rockstar.