Very personal tech

Wearable Technologies is the pioneer in worldwide leading innovation and market development platform for technologies, which is conquering the hearts of the early adaptors. It can be embedded into our bodies, like implanted Radio-frequency identification being used to unlock doors to bionic ears and eyes. "In 20 years it'll be hard to tell where the person ends and the computer begins," says Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the  Enderle Group.

We'll see smarter prosthetics and military applications well before then, he adds, but it'll take a couple decades for embedded devices to become mainstream. "Health, religious and privacy concerns will slow its adoption.

No more clicking or typing

Desktop operating systems - With touch on the rise, and the growth of cloud computing, the browser is the place where most of us will do our computing in the future. Adding to the non-traditional operating systems, such as iOS, Android and Windows RT, and the old style Windows; Mouse, Pointer will become nothing more than a niche, and keyboard will likely be used only by techies.

Devices that talk -- to each other

Traditional buttons and switches are already disappearing from our gadgets and appliances, with everything from clock radios to multiroom music systems controlled by smartphone apps. Wearables no matter how they are a worn, generally fall into the category of connected devices that are part of a movement referred to as ‘The Internet of Things’ or Machine to Machine communications, they wirelessly connect to a smartphone or use Wi-Fi.