Intel's peek into the future...

Yes, thats right. Intel is eagerly looking into the future.. The CTO of intel - Justin Ratter, whose job is not about the current products but about the shape of technology (of-course Intel's) 10-20 years from now, disclosed plans for some real eye-candy tech in the recent technology conference Intel Developer Forum (IDF). There were some very cool niche technologies on display (or rather early prototypes).

1. Programmable Matter - Imagine a small crystal ball in your pocket, you step out of the house and put it on the ground, and presto! it turns into a Lamborghini! Reach your office and it turns back into the humble crystal ball. Put it on your desk and it turns into your Power Packed desktop...
Intel wants you to take this flight of fantasy and its working its way to the future with Programmable Matter - > small pellets of matter having a small processing core, independent memory and an electrostatically determined orientation with other pellets. They can shift shape (rather orientation wrt each other) and turn into a solid object as per "program". Imagine a solid model of a car in-design which reflects each change in design instantly for the designers to see if it looks good.

I will post the other 2 tech sneak peaks in the next posts. Have to go to a party tonight.. :)