10 Must Have Gadgets Coming Out In The Next Year

5. Amazon Fire Phone

For all the bluster around the iPhone 6/6 Plus, one thing that everyone is fully aware of is that they aren't really doing anything new, rather, they are refining the iPhone experience in slight increments instead of making huge leaps. To look for attempts at innovation in the crowded smartphone market, you need to look onto the Android side of the world and then look at the newcomers to the market. The most high profile example is Amazon's Fire Phone, poised for release at the end of September. Given their experience with the Kindle and Kindle Fire range of tablets and E-readers, Amazon have crammed their expansive UI into a handset no bigger than those already on the market. The Fire Phone even takes risks by employing concepts seen on the Xbox Kinect. Dynamic Perspective uses four infrared sensors on the face of the handset that track where your head is facing and at what angle you are in relation to the phone. With this information, the phone can then adjust 3D backgrounds to move with your head and show content outside of the frames of the usual image. Imagine peering through a window, if you move your head you can see things on either side you can't see when you're looking through it directly. The Fire Phone also includes a new information searching tool called Firefly. Using the camera of the phone and an element of augmented reality, Firefly allows you to scan an item, like a barcode or a phone number and relevant information immediately pops up on the screen. This can be anything from suggested retailers to buy something from (predictably Amazon would always come first), to alternatives and "if you like this" suggestions.