What's your top 5 new technological products

I have a few technological products of companies I'm waiting to see released/created, because it will give the world a lot of new posibilities or a lot nicer to live in.
Many of these new developments can be used in space, use technology that can help the development of space or is an activity in space

My personal top 5:

1) Microsoft Windows Longhorn and DirectX 10 (with the next generation 1 gig memory top 3D Cards) and the release version of Visual Studio 2005
(Cause I'm an addicted programmer , and those products combined will be litterly a very good and large change for personal computers)

2) Boeing 7E7 and Airbus A350 & A380
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4085631.stm
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/7e7/flash.html
http://www.airbus.com/product/a380_introduction.asp
http://www.airbus.com/product/a330_a340_comfort.asp

3) The Galileo satellite navigation system
http://www.galileo-industries.net/galil ... Document&e
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4085651.stm

4) Robotic environmental cars (I don't expect them to be revolutionairy that much, but still very nice to have one for private fun ) and also more robot developments in general (as example: http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/QRIO/top.html )
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4082301.stm
(also see: http://www-1.expo2005.or.jp/en/ , if you haven't seen this site, it's really worth to read it in detail).
http://expo.toyota-g.com/index_en.html

5) Bigelow Aerospace Space Stations
http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/
http://www.space.com/news/businessmonday_040524.html
http://www.space.com/news/bigelow_update_041124.html

I'm intrested to see other people their top 5 products in development by companies that they are waiting for to see, have, use, or go to...

Five? I little bit difficult but I have some if I include universities, institutes, agencies or professors instead of companies.

1. Zeilinger's quantum communications
2. Ball's ballutes
3. NASA's nuclear spacecraft drive.
4. Bigelow's Nautilus
5. Nanocarbontube-cables as recently produced experimentally by scientists

Does That fit your criteria or should I list some others? I would have to think about it a while.



Dipl.-Volkswirt (bdvb) Augustin (Political Economist)

hmm, bigelow!
if all that stuff on spacedaily about private space flight the other day doesnt put too much of a negative spin!

oh yeah, addicted programmer, you any good at SQL cause my Oracle assignment is killing me! lol
Rob

I made several websites using sql... also made a security application that saved information into a central database using SQL,
I think I can use it without any problem.
Feel free to spam me with questions at xprize@gmail.com

sql in google, gives me http://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp maybe this able to help you.


@Ekkehard Augustin

For you ? it's good anough ,.. You're free to list what you want as long as it's "technological", I don't think I should play mister dictator over here
But it would be nice to have "url's" with number 1 and 2 for more information.

It was the fact that at least two items in my list don't be under development by companies because they are not yet fit to leave the laboratories of scientists - may be one step or more behind the development of technologies by private enterprises.



Dipl.-Volkswirt (bdvb) Augustin (Political Economist)

1. Falcon I & V
2. Bigelow Aerospace Modules
3. Nanotubes!
4. Nano-ITX with some decent power
5. Base on the Moon?

Hello, Stefan,

what is Nano-ITX? And do you know something specail about the new technology used by the Falcons? I tried to find out but didn't get what searched for.



Dipl.-Volkswirt (bdvb) Augustin (Political Economist)

Mmm, lol. I don't mean new technology, but new ways that technology is being used. okay, it probably shouldnt be in te list as requested, but technology doesnt have to be new to have better applications

nano-ITX > www.nano-itx.com > a motherboard with processor of just 12 x 12 cm!

Stumbled on this today
http://www.crusoe.com/developers/devkits_tmta.html
Been a fan of Transmeta and Linus Thorvalds for a while, never tried their products
though.
New Citroën C5 of course,
this robot seem cool, http://www.rotundus.se/