Sunday, September 25, 2011

Week 3- Hardware


When people first see our product, they question whether this technology is even possible. Although we are still in the drawing-board phase for a few of the more intricate features of The Glass of Tomorrow, most of the technology already exists. It is just a matter of syncing the different hardware and software together to work seamlessly. The hardware for this product is key. Although it uses some of the same hardware as your standard PC, the glass is the essential material of this product.
Transparency is the most important thing in this newly visual world, so glass is imperative. Displays require materials that are flexible, durable, stable under the toughest of environmental conditions, and have a cool, touch-friendly aesthetic. This product requires materials that are strong, yet thin and lightweight, that can enable complex electronic circuits and nano functionality, that can scale for very large applications, and that are also environmentally friendly. Besides this advanced hardware, The Glass of Tomorrow also utilizes basic hardware still, such as a CPU and RAM.
Many of the features of The Glass of Tomorrow requires that the device be interoperable, giving it the ability to share data between different computer systems, especially on different machines. Near-field communication will soon make all of this easier to carry out. Such real-time information also depends on communications networks with massive bandwidth capacity. Although a lot of the hardware involved is still in the working, it will definitely be able to be mass-produced in the near future.

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