Technologies That Will Transform Small

Business

Presented by: Suhag Mistry

Objective

• To share information on some of the technologies which is helping and going to help in future to small scale businesses.

Cashless Shopping:

• Money to Card (Credit card charges)• Card to online transfer• Mobile transactions. • Google wallet• Spending more money which is not their in pocket and

customers get credit card rewards.

Personal selling

• Online is a trend that’s why soon:• Personalized treatment will be more valuable. • 3D-Body scanning • Magic mirror

Virtual Organization and Workspaces

• Projections Anywhere:• Presentations from anywhere:• Omnitouch (Presentation through smartphone)• Resident Evil• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDnJ81pffUc

Human-Sensitive Computer Technology

• Leap Motion has developed a computer motion sensor that allows you to• Scroll, zoom and write without touching a thing.

• MITs Perifoveal Display will eventually allow us to use • Four or five screens at once by tracking and reacting to the

motion of our eyes.

Prototypes and Manufacturing

• 3D Printers:• For businesses that produce physical goods or create three-

dimensional designs, personal 3D printers such as the Makerbot Replicator 2 

• Smaller businesses and engineers can not only print and test their own models, but can perhaps eventually print actual goods to be sold. • Small Taj Mahal, hathi, ghoda….

Bionic Contact Lenses

• Researchers at the University of Washington have already successfully tested pixel-sized bionic contact displays on rabbits.

• This technology could eventually allow you to open and read messages without moving a single muscle except your eyes.

• In meeting data will be searched and displayed on lenses• Looking up a person’s name during a networking event-

You know it.

Office Devices

• Telepresence Robots:• Be at work without physically being present:• Work from home and remote locations. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnxAXXHaAM8

Memory-Enhanced Whiteboard Erasers

• Uses white board to brainstorm:• But what if you want to access those notes again later? • A team of Japanese designers developed an Erascan, • Which allows you to scan the whiteboard while you erase it• Identify handwriting, emails, drawings, URLs and more, • Immediately store and email the content.

• Luckily, no technology has been developed to wipe minds… yet.

Office Drones

• Interactive drones• Drones to drones• Drones to human

• Will understand your instructions and work accordingly.

Artificial Intelligence at Your Desktop

• Say goodbye to e-mail overload. • Someone writes you with a question? • Other artificial intelligence software in the works will

automatically gauge a cost-benefit analysis of an incoming phone call during a meeting. • If it passes the parameters, it goes through. Otherwise, it

goes right to voice mail.

Wireless Charging

• Such charging will be a big help as employees increasingly rely on mobile devices.

• Desks and office furniture will come equipped with built-in chargers. • Companies such as LG, Texas Instruments and HTC are

releasing devices with built-in wireless charging capability. • Intel’s notebooks and chips will support wireless charging.

• You’ll never need to find a plug or ask for a cord again.

Sources:

• Forbes.com• MIT it projects• Google Innovations• Businessinsider.com• Discovery Science

Thank you