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With the sixth generation iPhone rumoured to be unveiled in a couple of days (12th Sept), it’s high time to set our expectations even higher! Should we be aiming for the incredible-futuristic “oh-my-god-I-can’t-believe-it-level”? So, let’s take a closer look at what the future looks like for smartphones, shall we? 
You guys all have in mind the hologram scene from Minority Report, where Tom Cruise performs a ballet of sorts with an interactive panel. It’s the typical image that we have about the future of human-computer interaction. But what if reality was even more exotic and incredible than fiction?
Take the newest Google smartphone glasses. The evolution of GSM may have seemed a bit dull (boring?) since the first iPhone, with no ground-breaking innovations whatsoever. Google has obviously decided to shake things up a little bit with its latest venture. It’s called Glass Project, and it is set to blow your mind. It will include a completely revolutionary interface, voice recognition and a science fiction-like display of information two inches from your face. You will be able to send texts, browse the internet and play movies in the blink of an eye! You can already check out a few of those features in motion on the Google+ company page. Now, even though a few worries may come to mind, it still looks awesome. Those babies will be coming to stores near you by the end of 2012 (No. Seriously.).
You think it cannot get any crazier? Think again. Analysts predict that phones in the coming decades will be nothing like they are today. Not even in the slightest bit. So forget everything that you know about smartphones. Stop thinking iPhone. Start thinking Star Wars! 
Some analysts have drafted what the next generation of mobile phones will look like: paper thin and completely flexible, you will be able to fold them at your will (I’ve always wanted to make origamis with my Nokia). Others predict features that are even more exotic. Future phones will be able to interact with your environment and recognize objects from your daily life. Want to know what’s missing from your fridge? Just stick your phone to the door, and it will automatically tell you. But wait! There is more. Screens have grown bigger with tactile technology. In the future, it may simply… disappear! Wait, that’s not entirely true. Instead of disappearing, the screen will project itself all around your environment via holograms. Just like in Minority Report, yeah. But they didn’t have yuilop in Minority Report (poor folks) – that was beyond their thinking at the time
All this sounds pretty awesome, but keep in mind that we probably can’t even imagine yet most of the innovations that will take place! Who would have imagined phones would enable us to go on the Internet at top speed twenty years ago? So keep a close eye on the wind of change!
The best part? You will soon be able to send holograms to your friends around the world for free (when technology make it available)… via yuilop!
