The second layer was media technology, allowing music and video to play on modern smartphones.
Smith argues that a new technology allowing consumers to compare the personal data, known as Midata, will shake up banking.
Hillcrest, based in Rockville, Md., has motion-detecting technology allowing users to select items on a screen by waving a hand-held device.
The next step – printing surgically usable kidneys, livers and hearts – requires advances in two areas, bioprinting and stem-cell technology, allowing printing to use a person's own cells.
The IEA said the result of new technology allowing the exploitation of new sources of fossil fuels would be a redrawing of the international energy map.
The device, which fits over the wearer's head, features a high definition screen and motion tracking technology, allowing players to inhabit and explore computer generated worlds.
For many of the companies, the biodefense work is just another application of their main technology, allowing them to improve it at government expense.
What's more, with WiFi technology, allowing other users to look at their e-mail through my hub isn't going to slow me down.
Uber also recently acquired a self-driving startup created by several former Google autonomous car researchers called Otto that has developed technology allowing big rigs to drive themselves.
Users will also have access to these services through voice-activated technology, allowing them to speak into the device rather than triple-tap or type in a keyword.
Despite new technology allowing people to play and "scratch" CD's as if they were records, most turntablists prefer to use vinyl records.
