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Top 4 Upcoming Products from Google

So Google Glass is coming. So what? It’s just another one of those many revolutionary products from Google right? Over the years, Google has indulged in almost every product category and given us products making our lives infinitely easier. It’s nothing new. We’ve come to expect such stuff from a ‘search engine’ company. Google has given us Android, it has given us Glass, and it’s going to be giving us a lot more. There’s always something cooking at Google’s secretive “X Lab” – the place (whose location is unknown) where path-breaking inventions – like Glass – are designed.

What else is Google going to offer us over the years? Here are some of the best upcoming gifts from Google, most of them from the X Lab:

Google's driverless toyota prius with sergey brin
Google’s driverless Toyota Prius with Sergey Brin and Larry Page

Driverless Car

As the name suggests, this of course, will be cars that drive themselves. A rotating sensor on the car’s roof scans about 200 feet in every direction to generate a 3D map of your surroundings, radars check for nearby objects, while GPS sensors do what they’re supposed to do. The result? The cars can be driving you in almost any traffic and weather conditions, without any help from you. And this is not some concept technology years away from commercial deployment – this could be happening very soon.

You can count on one hand the number of years it will take before ordinary people can experience this.

-Google co-founder, Sergey Brin

4 US States have already passed laws that will allow for driverless cars on the road – Nevada, Florida, California and Texas. Google is lobbying with the other states too. As of August last year, the experimental cars had driven 300,000 miles during testing without any accident.

Android@Home

Top 4 upcoming google products

Imagine coming home from work and turning on your thermostats and lights simply by tapping a few buttons on your smartphone. Home automation will soon be a reality. Google is going to bring to you the convenience of turning off your lights and your washing machine right from your Android phone. The project, unveiled in 2011, is called Android@Home. It’s an open wireless protocol that will allow the OS to connect to any electrical device.

Google has already demonstrated its potential  – it showcased an alarm clock app that slowly raises the lights in a room while simultaneously increasing the volume of the stereo.

Useful. Very useful.

Robots

Remember I, Robot? NS-5 robots could actually be a reality. Only difference – they wont be from USR, but from Google Inc.

Google is rumored to be working on building automated robots that could perform all sorts of simple tasks, such as making coffee, or even complex ones – like going to work while their owner stays at home. All with the purpose of letting humans focus on more high-end activities. Although I wonder – if your robot is going to go to work for you, what high end activity are you going to be performing?

Sergey Brin even tried out the concept recently. At an event at Singularity University in 2010, Sergey Brin was present via a robot he was controlling sitting miles away in his office. The robot’s head displayed Brin’s live face, and moved around as he wished.

Space Elevator

Top 4 google products - space elevator

The most ambitious project from Google – that will revolutionize the way we travel to space. No more rockets !

A Space elevator would allow us to leave the Earth’s atmosphere without the help of any rocket propulsion. The idea is to use carbon nanotubes – extremely light and strong substances as ‘cables’ to carry loads from Earth to outer space. Google already holds a patent for this technology.

Many believe that the space elevator is not far off. The Irish Times has predicted that “the space elevator may well replace rockets in 50 years.” That may seem a little too optimistic – we can’t expect this to be available for at least another 40-50 years. Google is going to need carbon nanotubes hundreds, maybe thousands of miles long, suspended from space to earth. In reality, the longest nanotube produced so far, in the world, is just about 11 inches.

There’s the cost factor too. A Space Elevator is going to cost billions of billions of dollars. But when it does arrive, it’s going to change space travel as we know it.