IBM Research predicts: The 5 ways science will change our lives in the next 5 years.

New instruments are going to help us see the unseen from the infinitely massive down to the nanoscale. Whether it’s detecting global warming gases or helping self-driving cars see through fog, IBM researchers and engineers are predicting a revealing future.

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8 years ago

Watson & Meeka help you tie the knot. 

A new Watson-enabled app, MEEKA, can help you have that dream wedding. The cognitive app learns from tons of data to keep an eye on the budget, find venues, sift through the guest list, pick out flowers and even suggest cake flavors for you. So do you, take this Watson to be your wedding planner?

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8 years ago

Take us home, Olli. 

The next generation of self-driving cars is one you can talk to. Local Motors, creators of the world’s first 3D-printed cars, just launched Olli, the first talking shuttle bus to use cloud-based IBM Watson IoT for Automotive as a brain.

A combination of four Watson APIs (Speech-to-Text, Natural Language Classifier, Entity Extraction and Text-to-Speech) gives Olli the ability to recognize and react to things like “let’s go downtown” or “what’s good to eat around here?” as you and up to 11 other people go from point A to B.

If you’re looking to catch a ride with Olli, you can find it making the rounds in Washington, D.C. Next stops: Miami and Las Vegas.

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8 years ago

Explore 360° of making microchips.

Ever wonder how devices keep getting more powerful, smaller, and even flexible? Part of it is because of innovations in microchips. Come catch a rare glimpse of how it’s done inside our Microelectronics Lab in Yorktown Heights, New York. Here we make and test new designs and materials for next generation chips for everything from servers to smartphones, down to the atomic level. It’s good to sweat the small stuff!

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8 years ago

Fantastical Nonfiction
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Out of the way gas-guzzlers. It’s estimated you’ll be sharing the road with 3 million electric vehicles by 2017. IBMer energy specialists are already preparing for the world adoption of EVs with a cloud-based electric vehicle charging system innovation. By putting electric cars in direct communication with the power grid, each plug-in seamlessly accesses vehicle I.Ds., battery storage info, energy transaction plans and payment details. Amazing to think that soon we’ll be watching the price-per-Kwh instead of the price-per-gallon. Explore more stories →

10 years ago

“The connected car will give a lot more intelligence and visibility to drivers. The usage of a car will be much more different, based on the cloud. The car will do what you want. You can play, sleep, drive, be productive in the car, and this will be a totally different place to commute and to be mobile.”

INSIDE THE INVENTIVE MIND
Gerhard Baum
IBM Auto Industry & Cloud Expert
Making EV-friendly roads

10 years ago

Way, way back in the 1990s, stores knew you and what you liked. Then online shopping came along and many mom-and-pops closed up shop. In 5 years, the little guys will have fought back to give online retail a taste of its own medicine.  See your life in 5 years…

11 years ago

In the classroom of the future, the classroom will learn, teachers will learn and yes, students will learn. School lunches may or may not be more nutritious. See your life in 5 years…

11 years ago

Every year IBM Researchers reveal five innovations that stand to change the way we live within the next five years. This year’s set of predictions, narrated by Mo Rocca, is all about personalization. 

See your life in 5 years…

11 years ago

Let’s smell a smarter planet,
with IBMer Hendrick Hamann

11 years ago