The document outlines the mission of the Future Devices & Technologies Group, which focuses on exploring advancements in wired and wireless devices, as well as essential technologies for the future. It includes a list of upcoming events and discusses various input and output technologies being researched, emphasizing trends such as touch, voice, and potential advancements in wearables. Additionally, it highlights the agenda for a day of presentations on topics such as AI in consumer electronics, telepresence robots, and 3D printed food.

1. Introduction to Future Devices &
Technologies Group (#CWFDT)
27th March 2018
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2. CW FDT SIG Mission Statement
The FDT SIG explores the future of wired & wireless
devices, enabling technologies and components
necessary to realise the future and facilitates
members to envision the future beyond those
available today.
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3. The key top 15 technologies by 2025
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Source: iDate Digiworld
Future Devices
& Technologies
SIG

4. #CWFDT Future Events (Tentative Dates/Topics)
(Tue) – Smart Devices of 2025
(Cambridge)
Mar. 27
(Thu) – Drones (London)
July 12
(Thu) – Robotics (London / Cambridge)
Nov. 22
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5. Inputs
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From my presentation in 2012
Touch is the most
common form of input
Research on-going
on Eye-Tracking
techniques
Voice is becoming the
second most preferred way
Not
Exploited
Very little
Exploited

6. Outputs
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From my presentation in 2012
Voice and vision has
been traditionally
most common form
Research on-going
on giving touch
feeling as output
Not
Exploited
Research on-going
on transmitting
smells

7. Software is eating the world?
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Video: Link

8. Moore’s Law is not dead (yet)
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Source: The 120 years of
Moore’s Law.
Other interesting read:
Zombie Moore's Law shows
hardware is eating software

9. Hardware is expensive!!!
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Source: Bloomberg

10. Dude, Where’s The Wearables?
(Mobile World Congress 2018)
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11. But there is a lot of progress in hardware
MediaTek Sensio
MediaTek Sensio 'The world’s first 6-in-1
smartphone biosensor module for
smartphones’
❖ Heart Rate
❖ Blood Pressure
❖ Peripheral Oxygen Saturation (SpO2)
❖ HR Variability
❖ Electrocardiography (ECG)
❖ Photoplethysmography (PPG)
Source
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12. Intel Retinal Projection
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SourceSource

13. Wearable Brain Scanner
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Source: IEEE Spectrum

14. Agenda for the day
• Scene setting – David Wood
• Operators perspective – Tom Bennett
• Integration of AI in consumer electronics – Julian Harris
• Telepresence Robots – Zahid Ghadialy
• Context-driven Fragrances – Dr Jenny Tillotson
• 3D printed food – Robert Curtis
• Shape memory alloy (SMA) technology – Andrea Cantone
• Challenges for Packaging of Future Device Technologies – Steve Riches & Kevin Cannon
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