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how will you use technology 10 years from now well the research at Intel event in san francisco on tuesday offered a glimpse if there's a trend at this event it's that the technologies that we use in the future will collect more information about us at home at work and in our cars anyone who's driven in a thunderstorm knows it can be miserable smart headlights would create greater visibility by shining light between raindrops a high-speed camera and processor work together to predict the raindrops path the light is switched off in those locations we've got rain falling down and you've got lights going through it but really what it's doing it's allowing you to look through the reflection of rain for the snap happy among us interactive surfaces combined projectors and a Microsoft Kinect to turn any surface into a touchscreen your living room is now a life-size photo album two big beam your favorites to the fan fold a modern-day photo frame and finally that jumble of keys you lug around may soon be obsolete facial voice and gesture recognition along with biometric scans could verify your identity and unlock your front door or car of course that may make some people nervous we need to keep that secure we need to have control over our information data by itself is meaningless data only means something when it comes back to us and it makes our lives better future gazing is usually a fun exercise the harder part is waiting to see if the technology actually materializes in San Francisco I'm Sumi das cnet.com for CBS News