Fujitsu biedt inzicht in haar visie op de toekomst

Fujitsu showed their futuristic technologies last week at the Fujitsu North American Technology Forum 2007, an open house for Fujitsu Labs. Here are some of the interesting technologies they showcased. Fujitsu's color e-paper gets closer to market. At the event researchers released a hand-built prototype like an e-book reader. The Fujitsu version shows images withoutr the need for power. Powes is only necessary to change the image on the film. But the requirement is very low. One of the coolest and best applications of color e-paper is as an enhancement to small mobile devices.

Fujitsu also demonstrated the new RFID tag. It is a flexible, waterproof tag that can carry also more information about the item they are attached to. This because the tags use FRAM (ferroelectric random access memory).  A type of memory that can be made on the same chip as the RFID chip, which saves space and money.

While each tag now costs between $2 and $3, by 2010 Fujitsu hopes to bring the cost down to less than $1 each.

Fujitsu also developed a technique of hiding numerical information within images called steganography. This technique can give you access to information from the digital world. For instance you see an ad in magazine. You make a picture with it with your mobile and a video or additional advertisement pops up on your phone. This all from the virtual world. Fujitsu partnered with NTT DoCoMowhich has this technology in Japan where it is used for sightseeing information within tourism maps.

To protect private information Fujitsu showed a technique to use the pattern of your veins in your hand as a way to access secure information. The PalmSecure tool not only reads vein pattern, but also the deoxidized hemoglobin inside the veins.

The system can tell if the blood inside those veins is warm and the person attached to the hand is alive, so people trying to get access to secure information, like government data or patient records, can't game the system.