I.T. TRENDS

TRENDS IN HARDWARE, SOFTWARE AND WEARABLE I.T.

Ang, ChristianBuenaventura, Juichi

Cailing, MargarethSiton,Renz

Virtusio, MiguelBSIT-03

HARDWARE

NANOFORM DATA

THE NANOFORM: preserve your data in style

a tiny laser-engraved disk of sapphire, which will keep your data forever, through time and elements.

Invented by Alain Rey and Farid Benzakour in Grenoble France

They have special laboratory that creates this disk.

HOW DID THEY MAKE THE NANOFORM DATA?

The disk is made up of Transparent Sapphire WaferLayer of Titanium Nitride to color it

Resin on top

Etching of microscopic information on the disk can last for 8 hours.The information is reduced to less than 1/10 of an inch

After etching the information on the disk, It is literally encapsulated in stone between two layers of sapphire

What is the difference between Nanoform data and other storage media?

4 AWESOME CHARACTERISTICS OF NANOFORM

•UNALTERABLE•ETERNAL•GIGANTIC STORAGE IN A VERY SMALL DEVICE•ARTISTIC

UNALTERABLE

ETERNAL

GIGANTIC STORAGE FOR SUCH SMALL DISK-every character has a height of 10 microns-every disk has a storage up to 4 gb

ARTISTIC

SOFTWARE

DIRECTX12

Features:

•Only Direct3D 12 has been discussed - 3d Rendering opposed to Direct2D•API is a console-like structure (Execution layers are Thinner) (More low-level Access)•Multi-platform; Includes Windows Phones and XBONEEfficiency features introduced are low enough to affect non-DX12 applications•Most current hardware are speculated to run•New Drivers are necessary•Console Efficiency on PC•Optimized Multi-threading (50% better CPU utilization)

DirectX11

•has pipeline state manipulation

•input assembler state, pixel shader state, rasterizer state, and output merger state are all independently modifiable.

•GPUs combine pixel shader and output merger state into a single hardware representation, but because the Direct3D 11 API allows these to be set separately, the driver cannot resolve things until it knows the state is finalized, which isn’t until draw time.

COMPARISON

•tl;dr

•All of these processes are to be waited for before the display is drawn due to al of them being set separately

•In Direct3D 11, all work submission is done via the immediate context, which represents a single stream of commands that go to the GPU.

•Direct3D 11, games create “view” objects of resources, then bind those views to several “slots” at various shader stages in the pipeline.

DirectX12

•Direct3D 12 addresses this issue by unifying much of the pipeline state into immutable pipeline state objects (PSOs), which are finalized on creation.

•Direct3D 12 introduces a new model for work submission based on command lists that contain the entirety of information needed to execute a particular workload on the GPU. Each new command list contains information such as which PSO to use, what texture and buffer resources are needed, and the arguments to all draw calls.

•tl;dr drivers can pre-compute all the data needed

•Direct3D 12 changes the binding model to match modern hardware and significantly improve performance. Instead of requiring standalone resource views and explicit mapping to slots, Direct3D 12 provides a descriptor heap into which games create their various resource views.

•tl;dr gpu writes descriptions up front

WEARABLE I.T.

PHREE SMART PEN

Description:

>smart mobile input pen that allows you to dial and answer calls, send text messages and doodle on any virtual surface>Motto: Make the World your Paper

Inventor:-Gilad Lederer and 2 more from the Israeli team at OTM Technologies

Uses:

>Phree works via Bluetooth and aims for inclusivity.

>Software compatability You can transfer your notes to: -Office -OneNote -EverNote -Acrobat -Google Handwriting Keyboard -Viber -other apps

Components:

>Optical Translation Measurement (OTM) that is able to precisely track hand movements' using a 3D laser interferometer sensor

>Optical Sensor - electronic detectors that converts light, or a change in light, into an electronic signal

>Laser interferometer system -provide accurate production measurements of optical components and assemblies, things that affect our daily lives

-Laser interferometers from ZYGO were first introduced commercially over 35 years ago

- ZYGO continues to maintain the leadership role in surface form metrology

using laser interferometry

Unique features of the Phree pen compared to other pens (the Livescribe, Smartpen 3)

•Phree doesn't need a wireless receiver

•Retouch photos and paint or sketch digitally with a high degree of precision.

•its laser-based approach