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CNET Top 5 - Technologies that seem to never die

2015-11-09
these are the top five technologies that never seem to die at number five gesture controllers we've been controlling computers with keyboards and pointing devices for a very long time but every now and then we look to use something else like gestures we saw the power glove you force the wii and the kinect in the video game world these days things like the leap motion exists to control your pc with a wave of your hand but no gesture control system anywhere has truly taken over the world yet at number four smartwatches for some reason a watch just can't be a watch remember the Casio databank what about the Timex data link spot watches and today's generation of watches including the Samsung gear s2 and the Apple watch for some reason we can't let go of the concept of a SmartWatch at number three the stylist bill gates touted pen computing in 2002 over a decade ago Steve Jobs declared the stylist to be unnecessary with the introduction of the iphone so what happened the stylus is still not dead check out the galaxy note the surface pro and the iPad pro with pencil accessory at number 2 virtual reality being somewhere you're not is a dream of many of us socially awkward people many movies have shown off the glory of VR but so far nothing in reality has ever matched the fiction we've seen on screen but PR refuses to die even after the Nintendo Virtual Boy gave it a go and at number one the technology that refuses to die 3d in the 1950s 3d movies were introduced it was a big gimmick to get people into theaters wearing red and blue glasses didn't become the future of the medium for a while 3d lay dormant except for the few movies and wanted to get more moviegoers in seats however in the early 2000s 3d movies using polarized lenses change things and that's how we see a lot of 3d content now one day we might truly enjoy 3d without glasses and that's why 3d won't die after over 60 years I'm at is for more top 5s like this visit top 5 cm you
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