See me, feel me
Future tablets and smartphones will monitor you and the world you live in. Rice University computer science professor Lin Zhong says mobile devices a decade from now will have sensing capabilities, including the ability to interact with wireless sensors worn on or implanted in the user's body. They could also work with sensors in the environment, perhaps to collect weather information to transmit wirelessly to cloud-based data centers. Who knows -- your tablet or phone may someday warn you of an impending heart attack before you feel any symptoms.