* Smartphones Will Replace Desktops. Tablets, smartphones and ultrabooks are crushing the traditional desktop computers
* Battery technology announced in September by the National University of Singapore reportedly will hold 20 times the charge of a traditional lithium ion battery and be ten times cheaper This will take many years to commercialize and scale up.
* Augmented reality - mostly found in smartphone apps, as a convenient way to display info for user, but could come to car windshields and windows in homes eventually
* Health Tech - there are eight different health tech companies on the 2011 Wall Street Journal list of the top 50 venture funded companies.
* Flexible OLED Screens. Samsung plans to sell a smartphone with a flexible OLED screen in 2012 and there has been a demo of a 55 inch OLED TV screen
* Living room tech after Xbox, Roku and other devices. Apple TV and other new devices
* Speech Recognition/Interface. Upgrades to Siri and Google's speech recognition systems
* 3D Printing
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