Things to come in 2010

A new year has started, and hopefully a year which will bring a lot of good things with it. Here are a few things to look forward to during 2010:

Project Natal

I only heard about Project Natal yesterday, but the demo video blew me away. It’s Wii on steroids. Not much is revealed about the project (trying to create some Apple rumor hype there, Mircrosoft?) but it seems that Microsoft has aquired some israelian 3d company, and that it is their technology being used in this project. Anyway, it seems like there is a Wii-like camera bar sitting below the tv, and a bunch of cameras up in the roof, all registering your voice, face, and movements. And that’s how you control the game. You want the character to turn right? Turn right. It’s that easy. The first demo was at E3 in June 2009, and the plan is to release it during 2010. Whether that plan will work out or not is yet to be determined, but it’s definitely on eof those things that will rock the tech scene when it comes out.

Apple iTablet / MacTablet / iSlate

A child who is loved has many names. In this case, the child is probably about as anticipated as Jesus was before he was born, and the father is Steve Jobs. When this Tablet will come out, nobody knows. The last hopeful date now is the 27th of January, when there is supposedly an apple event scheduled. The rumors says it’s going to be like a big iPhone, but not just like a big iPhone. Whatever that means… Feels like there’s no point in guessing anymore. I think that one thing can be considered as a fact: Apple will release a tablet version of a computer, it’s going to happen in 2010, it’s going to be amazing. More than that, I think it’s not going to be considered the best computer on the market hardware-wise, but the UI or the design, or something else is going to be so well thought-out that you just gotta have it.

World Cup

The world cup is coming to South Africa. Sweden didn’t even make the the play-offs, but nevertheless, I’m looking forward to this summer. I’m not a sports fanatic in any way, but the world cup is really enjoyable to watch. Spain or Portugal, that’s the big question.

Everything else
Of course there’s so much more happening in 2010 that I don’t even know about, and things that will happen like Melker turning 3 (wow, that was fast) and Cornelis turning 1 (even faster). My wife and me will be 28, me later than her. So, without saying too much, it’s going to be good year…