Mobile phones can fold and bend! American Media Inventory of "Black Technologies" that May Change Life in 2019　

Reference News Network reported on December 31 that for the technology industry, 2018 may be worse than ever. The coming year has renewed optimism that technology is still good for the world. For example, the long-delayed Harry Potter Augmented Reality (AR) game can finally be played. People are also looking forward to: 5G to the city, Apple's iOS system updates, Disney launched its own streaming services. It is expected that many promises will be fulfilled this year.

The Wall Street Journal website published the following annual review on December 29, summarizing the technologies that will affect our lives in the coming year:

Software updates for the iPhone

In 2018, Apple carefully launched a more affordable iPhone and an oversize one, and made some improvements to its iOS system. In 2019, Apple is expected to take a bolder step. Next year, Apple will also begin allowing developers to introduce iOS applications into MacOS systems.

Facebook's privacy issues facing the consequences

In 2018, it became clear that Facebook had been despising our data for 10 years and reveling in power. In 2019, it will suffer from a hangover. In addition to the persistent opposition to Facebook's website - falling stock prices and reduced use of Facebook services, people will see more legal warfare and legislative activities.

Google can't do it alone. Google will face constant scrutiny by legislators for access to users'e-mail content and their privacy errors.

An Unmanned Retail Experience

For the first time in Amazon Go, consumers will feel strange. Consumers scan an application as they pass through the gate, take whatever they want, and then... Let's go. There is no cashier or interpersonal interaction. There is nothing but a receipt sent by e-mail that accurately lists the items in the consumer's bag.

Such super convenience stores will soon be around, either from Amazon or from a competitor backed by technology from companies such as Qiping or Standard Cognition. In the retail industry of the future, cashiers will be reduced - more cameras will be used to track consumers'every move.

Harry Potter AR Game

Think "Gooddream of Elf Baoke" is already great? Wait for the release of the next game, Harry Potter: Wizard Alliance, by Niantick, which is developing this phenomenal AR game. After more than a year of technology development, coupled with a huge and exciting magic world, this game may not be missed.

In 2019, people will see many other AR experiences that will help turn this wonderful technology, which superimposes digital objects and experiences on the real world, into something people use every day. People walk out of the subway, point their cameras at the street, and let the digital arrows on Google Maps tell them which way to go. In business, AR will be used for training and simulation.

Small-scale Start-up of Auto-Driving Vehicles

Although the initial public offerings of Ubuntu and Lift will be exciting in 2019, neither company will oversell its future self-driving taxi service. Consumers are also unlikely to receive the first UAV pizza. But in the wild, consumers may begin to see more autonomous activities in the form of small delivery robots. Imagine a refrigerator on wheels but with its own ideas.

As shown by Starship and Nuro, the advantage of these machines is that they can move as slowly as possible from point A to point B. They hardly pose any threat to people's lives, but people may have to avoid them on the sidewalk.

Transfer of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from Cloud to Core Processor

Every time you ask a question to Siri, Alexa or Google, your voice is recorded and sent to the cloud before you hear a response - a computer owned by a large technology company. The dependence of AI on this connection is problematic in everything from battery life to privacy.

Soon Intel and other mobile chip designers will launch processors specifically designed to do more locally. These chips make so-called "edge computing" possible. More AI and machine learning processes can be carried out on devices (i.e. the "edge" of the network). Ultimately, people will be able to do more without giving up their privacy. People can get health warnings from their watches when they are in flight mode or use Siri on their mobile phones.

The Effect of Fortress Night

It is not only the most popular video game in the world. In 2018, Fortress Night consolidated Twitch's status as a streaming giant, giving its developer, American Epic Game Company, a $15 billion valuation. It even makes the "Fortress Night" coach a real job.

Fortress Night was a success because it allowed players to compete across multiple platforms and communicate, and because the company skipped some app stores and fence gardens and took its own approach. (Yes, it's free.)

In 2019, as developers grapple with the concept of "video games as a social network" -- good or bad -- the game industry and other sectors will feel the "Fortress Night" effect.

Big technology companies aim at health care

Whether or not they wear smart watches or fitness trackers, large technology companies are likely to get people's health and fitness data in 2019. Over the past few months, Amazon has begun selling software that taps patients'medical records and provides information to doctors, ostensibly to help reduce costs. The retail giant also bought an online pharmacy.

Apple is negotiating with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to allow veterans to transfer their health records to software on their iPhones. Apple Watch's latest ECG features make it easy to share heart health information with doctors. In addition, insurance companies such as Hengkang Mutual Life Insurance Company in the United States have begun to encourage policy holders to share their fitness tracking data. More and more workplace health programs, such as Richard Branson's Viking Pulse, offer incentives in exchange for allowing tracking data.

A mobile phone that can bend and fold

1. Mobile phones are too big for ordinary people to master and use. 2. The bigger the cell phone, the better. Yes, these two cliches have been in conflict for many years. In 2019, we may have both fish and bear's paws.

Samsung and other companies have revealed plans to build a foldable mobile phone. When a device the size of a cell phone is turned on, the screen can be as large as a flat panel. There's still a lot of technology to develop, because flexible displays aren't easy to build yet, and the equipment we see is big and clumsy.

Reported that in 2019, these devices may be expensive niche products for people waiting to realize their science fiction dreams, but if foldable mobile phones come on the market, it will be the biggest event in the smartphone industry in many years. In addition, these flexible displays may eventually appear in people's homes or cars. Who doesn't want a foldable big screen TV?