Tech search is on for app-solute personal information

COMPUTERS and phones will soon be able to anticipate your every desire before you even ask for it, thanks to advances in search technology.

Your gadgets will trawl through your e-mails and calendar and track where you are before making a suggestion that might be useful to you.

They will effectively become an electronic personal assistant that gets to know you over time and can hone their recommendations based on your own quirks.

The technology is being developed on apps by companies such as Google and a string of start-ups. But it also raises deep concerns over privacy and the vast amounts of data that tech firms will hold about you and can sell to advertisers.

Google is at the cutting edge of the developments with Google Glass, its augmented reality spectacles, which are on trial in the US.

It uses an app called Google Now, which tells you when you have a dinner reservation and uses GPS to find where you are and how bad the traffic is.

If you go on holiday, it will tell you the weather a few days before.

According to the New York Times, this is just the beginning and the technology will soon be incorporated into your refrigerator so you can see what you have inside while you are out shopping.

Alarm clocks will become part of the network and bathroom mirrors could become surfaces on which your meetings for the day are displayed. – Daily Mail