We’ve heard the phrase “one in a million” but how about “one in a quintillion”? Now there’s a term that will make you feel microbial.

Technology is always changing, expanding, and innovating. It even gets hard to keep track of it. There are so many different avenues and markets that technology reaches today. This list is to help you stay up to date with the new technology, present and near future. Included in the list are Household items, consumer electronics, and fitness tech. Studies have shown that people who adapt to new technology live happier lives, and hopefully this list can help make things easier.

Up until about 2 months ago, most people probably thought that fingerprint technology was a lost cause. What was once supposed to be the future of security, seems to have faded off as there hadn’t been many new or groundbreaking developments in the past few years. Other than banks and forensics, can you really name any other places that come to mind immediately that use fingerprint technology? I can’t, and neither can the Google search engine. But that could all come to change in the next 2-3 years. Apple is reportedly planning on countering Samsung’s NFC investment with Fingerprint Technology.

NFC Technology: Near-Field-Communications is a set of short-range wireless technologies, typically requiring a distance of 4cm or less. NFC operates at 13.56 MHz and at rates ranging from 106 kbit/s to 848 kbit/s.