Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Dope Tech: Best of 2015!”.
Hey, what is up guys mkbhd here and 2015, was a great year plenty of dope tech came out during the year 2015., so instead of saying 2015 was the year of the blank insert cliche here, let’s not put it into a box like that too much awesome. Stuff came out so we’re gon na round up all of that stuff. This video will serve as a hub for everything you need to know about the year. That just happened in tech, so number one smartphones, they’re kind of everywhere. Plenty of people have them now, and we got a bunch of awesome smartphones released in 2015.. Their performance got better, their features got better, their cameras got better, they got better in a lot of ways and it would be hard to go wrong with any of the top few choices. Of course, i made an entire separate video.
The smartphone awards 2015. boom. The card is right there that video details all the stuff you need to know regarding all the phones released this year, then there were also tablets, and i also made an entire video about those tablets because they had a bit of a weird year in 2015.
I guess, as far as progress goes, that’s not to say they were bad. We still got some really good ones. Ipad air 2, ipad pro pixel c from google surface pro 4, but they definitely had a confused trend going on as far as the functionality goes.
So you should watch that video too, and then there were wearables the technology that you actually wear on yourself and 2015 was the year of the second wave of smart watches, including the first apple smartwatch called the apple watch. And of course we have that alongside others. Like the moto 360 version, 2, the moto 360 sport and similar smart watches from others pretty much.
Everyone got into the game in the last two years everywhere from huawei to actual watchmakers like tag huer. These pretty much all do way more than your average fitness band. Since they talk to your phone and they show your notifications and stuff, but that’s the thing is they’re – definitely all still smartphone accessories, not standalone devices by themselves of the point.
It was also kind of cool to see. Android wear show up on the iphone this year. Now virtual reality takes a few steps forward every year, and this was no exception. We got new stuff from samsung in the gear vr and google cardboard, these being the headsets that actually use the display in your smartphone to deliver that immersive experience, but the standalone headsets also advanced. So we got new oculus rift. A new sony, playstation vr, previously known as project morpheus and htc vive, which i got hands on time with this stuff, is definitely still niche, though so the hardware required to make a good quality vr experience.
Aside from i guess, google cardboard is pretty expensive for the limited functionality. Nevertheless, early adopters of virtual reality stuff are more than willing to drop a few hundred bucks to give this emerging tech a shot. Some other things you should know about force touch, force, touch and 3d touch became sort of out of the blue, a really big deal for apple and their whole ecosystem. This year, so 3d touch is software reacting to different levels of pressure from your finger? So the new iphone 6s and 6s plus have 3d touch displays and apps are being built to take advantage of it.
Force touch is just two levels of pressure: it’s a hard force press or a lighter one, but it’s the same idea. More pressure equals a different function, so we saw that in stuff, like the apple watch, the new macbook trackpad, the macbook pros that came out and the new magic trackpad 2.. These are all small surfaces, but i would expect to see pressure sensitivity in larger surfaces like an ipad next year and i wouldn’t be surprised to see 3d touch used to make a big design change in the iphone 7 in 2016. Just saying so, yeah keep an eye on pressure sensitivity.
I think that’s honestly apple’s big innovation of this year, usb type-c. If you don’t know now, you know it’s new. It’S awesome. It’S here to stay.
It’S the newest generation, usb port, so reversible, carries more power, carries faster data, and already this year we see it in a couple: smartphones, tablets and laptops and their accessories. We already saw it this year in a couple: smartphones, nexus, 6p nexus, 5x, one plus two. We start to see it in tablets, the google pixel c. We saw some from asus and from dell and then most notably, the new macbook.
Now, when you look at the new macbook with just one port, that solo lonely, usb c port and then an 80 adapter needed to do anything other than charge it, it does seem kind of weird and behind. But i can pretty much guarantee that the next generation macbook will have more than one of these ports, hopefully a few and expect a bunch more smartphones to have this port in 2016.. The later adopters might be guys, like apple with their lightning, for a while and samsung sticking with micro usb but down the road usb-c it’ll happen it’ll happen. Now i’ve got to give props to windows 10, which was a pretty great improvement from microsoft this year, specifically the hardware lineup they have out for now.
It’S never really had like a nexus name, but you could say the surface lineup out. Now is the nexus of windows 10 hardware. So you have your surface book the laptop plenty of pros and cons to that guy. But it’s high end in its own right.
Then the surface pro 4 as your tablet and then, of course you have a lumia, 950 xl as your highest end windows, 10, smartphone and continuum which has a nice way of them all talking to each other. Also, thanks for your comments, my 950 xl is in the mail for here, so that’ll be one of the first smartphones i check out for 2016. should be fun. Cars man just seems like the 100 year old car industry is always a little bit behind when it comes to the tech stuff, but 2015 was solid and 2016 is promising.
I’M a big fan personally of two things in cars: one electric cars and two self-driving or autonomous cars, which is probably why i’m such a big fan of the tesla model s. So here’s a fun fact about the tesla model, s alright. So it’s a really high-end electric car and it’s a really high-tech car. So it’s got its own internet connection. It can download software updates on the fly to improve its feature set and the way it drives and each individual model s with the adaptive cruise control and self steering which combined to be called autopilot mode. It kind of learns the roads you drive. So let’s say you’re in a model s and you take a new curve with autopilot on and it’s a really tight curve, so it has to slow down a little bit. It takes a little too fast, it’ll beep at you.
A little bit tell you to take the steering wheel. It didn’t really quite get it right that time. That’S something! It’Ll learn for the next time. You come around that on the map and you do it again.
The second time it’ll slow down a little earlier it’ll. Take the curve a little slower, probably won’t beep at you – probably won’t. Take it too fast and we’ll start to understand the curve, a little better, so the third time, the fourth time, the fifth time that you take that curve. Maybe it’s in your daily commute. The car is learning it and eventually we’ll do it just perfectly it’ll slow down hug it perfectly and exit the curve like a normal driver and that’s awesome, but tesla model s kind of treats itself like part of a fleet of every single tesla model. So it sends that data up to the network and then on your next software update when you download that software update everyone else’s tesla model, s will get those improvements to that part of the road.
So if i drive by there a week later and i’ve never seen that part of the road before on autopilot, my car already knows to slow down a little early and take that curve. Nice and tight because the person before me did it and their car learned it. That’S pretty dope, alright, so one more thing, tech on youtube did really well again this year, plenty of new channels, plenty of new communities, new people to talk to you about tech – and i always kind of have numbers to support this so of the 86 videos that I uploaded to youtube all about tech in the last year, over a thousand years of human life were spent watching them even more than the 2014 numbers, which were already pretty ridiculous. So it’s kind of cool to see tech on youtube, still growing and tech video flourishing on the internet, so in summary, 2015 was pretty. Dope. 2016 has a tough fact to follow, but i think we’re up for it. Thanks for watching i’ll talk to you guys next year, peace .