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Armonk, NY, United States (AHN) – IBM on Wednesday announced five innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play. The technology giant is dubbing them the “Next Five in Five

In the next five years IBM’s labs and emerging technology divisions are slated to change people’s lives in the following ways:

3-D interfaces – like those in the movies – will let you interact with 3-D holograms of your friends in real time. 3-D and holographic cameras are also predicted get more sophisticated and miniaturized to fit into cell phones so consumers can interact with photos, browse the Web and chat with your friends in entirely new ways. Also video chat will also have “3-D telepresence” qualities.

Scientists at IBM Research are working on new ways to visualize 3-D data, working on technology that would allow engineers to step inside designs of everything from buildings to software programs, running simulations of how diseases spread across an interactive 3-D globe, and visualizing trends happening around the world on Twitter – all in real time and with little to no distortion.

In the next five years, scientific advances in transistors and battery technology will allow your devices to last about 10 times longer than they do today. And in some cases, batteries may disappear altogether in smaller devices.

Instead of the heavy lithium-ion batteries used today, scientists are working on batteries that use the air we breathe to react with energy-dense metal, eliminating a key inhibitor to longer lasting batteries. If successful, the result will be a lightweight, powerful and rechargeable battery capable of powering everything from electric cars to consumer devices.

In five years, sensors in everyday items such as your phone, your car, your wallet and even your tweets will collect data that will give scientists a real-time picture of the environment. The information will be used in a myriad of ways to protect the environment and save endangered species or track invasive plants or animals that threaten ecosystems around the world.

IBM researchers are also developing adaptive traffic systems that will predict the outcomes of varying transportation routes to provide information that goes well beyond traditional traffic reports, after-the fact devices that only indicate where you are already located in a traffic jam, and web-based applications that give estimated travel time in traffic.

Innovations in computers and data centers are enabling the excessive heat and energy that they give off to do things like heat buildings in the winter and power air conditioning in the summer.

A pilot project in Switzerland involving a computer system fitted with the technology is expected to save up to 30 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year, the equivalent of an 85 percent carbon footprint reduction.

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