We all know that Apple’s computers have a given sector in the luxury-class PC.
They are not the greatest in sales volumes but in terms of design and quality they are among the foremost.
A similar development, we have seen in the case of smartphones. Their iPhone is 1-2 years ahead of all competitors in terms of [...]
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The paper-less society is near! Picture by Sarah G…
The next generation of eReaders have a great potential for saving paper and the next step some years later is digital paper or ePaper that eventually will replace eReaders. One thing that is so interesting with ePaper is that it’s flexible and bendable. The dream [...]
Once upon a time we traded goods and services without any money at all. After a while we started to use gold and jewelry to pay goods and services. Later on we started to make coins with the same value as the metal it was made from. When banks where introduced and we [...] The future is already here – it is just unevenly distributed The best example of a cyborg is, in my opinion, people with a pacemaker. Helping such a vital organ as the heart with a machine is really an example of human and machine in symbiosis. Pacemakers have been around for more than [...] We have something about robots in the western world. Robots are dangerous. We can accept that they will do the boring and maybe difficult jobs that humans can’t do or avoid to do. Robots are a threat and they will eventually take over. The Terminator! This is not at all the case in the developed Asian countries.The perception of the robots is much more playful and there is even a strong belief in the future of robots. This playful interest in robots is likely to give Asia’s robot development an even greater [...] Still many people print papers on mass. e-Readers will eventually offer a good alternative to printing. Imagine a really thin light-weight display with A4-format. The look and feel is similar as reading from paper. The text is not shattering and you read comfortable. We are close to that now and the question is: Why print if you have [...] It has never been so easy and so cheap to monitor what people are doing. Will government agencies and other organisations deny themselves this opportunity? Absolutely [...] Humanoids and other moving robots are beginning to be useful in our daily life. They are slowly starting to leave the laboratories to help us clean, remember things, heavy lifts or just for entertaining. Nanotechnology is an area that really fascinates! As usual when talking about really powerful technique, the possibilities are enormous but so are also the threats. Will we get Nano garbage, leaking nanotoxicity into our [...] |
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