2013 was a great year for tech as some jaw-dropping innovations – such as Google Glass and 3D Printing – landed, while apps like Vine and Instagram exploded onto the social media scene.<\/p>\n
So, what does 2014 have in store for us? Here are our predictions for this year’s tech trends…<\/p>\n
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The idea of wearable gadgetry seems to have been around forever – James Bond has been sporting highly improbable wrist-wear since the 60’s – but now it’s finally becoming a reality.<\/p>\n
Last year saw the arrival of the much-anticpated\u00a0Google Glass<\/a>\u00a0and it’s finally expected to hit the streets in 2014, while Apple are set to launch the iWatch in a bid to rival Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n And keep an eye or two out for the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset that looks like an over-sized pair of ski goggles but will actually change the way we play, work and learn.<\/p>\n Everyone knows that we are headed towards some sort of post-apocolyptic, dystopian future in which robots will be running the show – and 2014 will be seen as the year it all began.<\/p>\n A competition to design a robot that can take the place of a rescue worker in dangerous emergency response situations will reveal its winner at the end of the year, and we should also expect to see more from Boston Dynamics’ array of terrifying robots, such as the Wildcat, below – seriously, why do we need things like this?<\/p>\nThe rise of the robots<\/h2>\n