Real-time language translation, medical monitoring via the mobile Web and nanotechnology to purify water are some of the innovations IBM Labs thinks will be on the market within five years.
But sorry, still no jet packs, according to IBM's global business services manager George Pohle.
"These are not just 'Gee,whiz,' innovations, but practical innovations that we are working on today," he said in a presentation he called the "Next Five in Five" at the company's Silicon Valley Lab in San Jose, California.
IBM gathered business partners, industry analysts and reporters to unveil some innovations IBM is working on that it believes are commercially viable and could be on the market by 2012.
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