May 22, 2013

New Touch Screen Technology To Increase Productivity

Touchscreen technology

Interactive designer, Obscura Digital and office furniture manufacturer, Haworth are collaborating to develop a new touch screen, called Bluescape, which will cover an entire conference-room wall, displaying images on 15 linked 55-inch flat-screen monitors and reading hand movements using its 32 specialized sensors. The new design will allow users to add digital sticky notes by [...]

Future In Mobile Device Technology: Mind-Control

Controling Mobile Devices

Samsung formed a partnership with the University of Texas to discover a wide range of applications for the brain-computer interface technology, which will offer several new ways to communicate with our mobile devices using our brain. With the help of electroencephalography, mobile devices will have the ability to monitor brainwaves and once the signal processing [...]

Medical Lasers And Their Surgical And Therapeutic Applications

Laser Technology

Lasers are now widely used in surgical and therapeutic clinical specialties. Although lasers were invented in the 1960s and gained some level of acceptance among ophthalmologists in the 1970s, they did not gain widespread acceptance in a broader range of clinical specialties until the late 1990s. Today, lasers are widely used in ophthalmology, dermatology, dentistry, [...]

How Far The Wireless Technology Can Go

silicon valley

Silicon Valley technology company, AOptix will soon be implementing its wireless fiber technology, which is capable of beaming multiple gigabits of voice and data capacity over mobile carriers’ existing networks and long distances through radio transmitters. The wireless design will be able to keep mobile phone networks running during a catastrophe such as the recent [...]

Seeking Experts For Lighting Projects

lighting

LED Lighting  We are looking for someone with a background in LED lighting and DLC certification to help get our supplier factory in China DLC certified……more European Street Lighting Technology I am looking for European regional consulting companies in the field of Smart Street lighting (outside UK)to to help us in establishment of the distribution [...]

Scientists Considering Caffeine As An Alternative Chemotherapy Treatment

Caffeine

Following a previous study, which showed that caffeine inhibits the pathways in cancer cells that control DNA repair, scientists at the University of Alberta are searching for new ways to apply caffeine’s deadly effects on cancer cells. Zintro experts discuss the possibility of using caffeine as an effective targeted chemotherapy treatment for cancers with specific [...]

How Mind-Control Will Change Mobile Device Technology

Mobile Technology

Samsung and the University of Texas have formed a partnership to elaborate on the wide range of applications for the brain-computer interface technology, which will offer several new ways to communicate with our mobile devices with mind-control. With the help of electroencephalography and improved signal processing quality, mobile devices will be capable of monitoring brainwaves [...]

Will Bitcoin Facilitate Our Transactions?

Bitcoin

Bitcoin, the digital currency, whose creation is based on open source encryption, was designed to prevent counterfeiting and have an electronic payment platform, which isn’t regulated by any central government. Unlike real-world paper currencies, the supply of bitcoins increases relatively slowly depending on the rate generated by computers, which leads to a tremendous rise in [...]

How Fast Will We Adopt Wearable Computing Technologies?

Google Glass

While Google is on the verge of introducing Google Glass to the market, there has recently been increased competition over augmented reality products including Microsoft, Apple with iWatch as well as Samsung, developing its own smart watch design and Sony, working on its eyeglass-mounted computer system.  We asked our Zintro experts which high-tech company they [...]

President Obama’s Investment In Neuroscience Research

Neuroscience

President Obama will be investing $100 million in 2014 to the new neuroscience research initiative named Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies also called “Brain”. Supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation, this brain-mapping project will focus on finding new technologies, which will give [...]

Will Automated Grading Systems Replace Professors?

Automatic Grading

EdX, the not-for-profit Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology founded in order to provide free and interactive online learning experience, will introduce its automated essay scoring software, which applies artificial intelligence technology to grade essays. As opposed to the traditional classroom experience, the instant-grading software will give students the chance to rewrite their [...]

Will We See More Self-driving Cars In The Near Future?

Google self driving car

As Google is working on making its self-driving cars fully-automated, they haven’t fully adapted to the current infrastructure and traffic laws yet. Moreover, Google cars tend to be distracting for other drivers, who take their eyes off the road to see how the technology works, which causes clogging up the road. Zintro experts discuss the [...]

Countless Solutions Biofuel Production Could Create For The Future

Biofuels

Earlier in March, the top award in the annual “Intel Science Talent Search” was given to Sara Volz, a high-school senior from Colorado, who used a technique to significantly increase oil yields from algae, which would provide a viable source of biofuel. Zintro experts describe the wide range of applications algae fuel production can lead [...]

What Should We Expect From Biofuel Production In the Short-Term?

Biofuel

Sara Volz, a high-school senior from Colorado, won first place in the annual “Intel Science Talent Search” for using a technique to significantly increase oil yields from algae, which is an important step to produce biofuels in an economically viable way. Zintro experts discuss what type of advances they expect in the algae fuel production [...]

Can We Predict How Long We Are Going To Live?

Life expectancy

Following a previous research, which revealed that longer telomeres on the ends of chromosomes could lead to a longer life, the new study helped researchers predict the life expectancy among patients with heart disease based on the length of these strands of DNA. Zintro experts discuss whether the new findings will lead to better heart [...]

3 Ways Technology Can Improve Customer Service

Customer Service

It’s no secret that over the past few years there has been massive technological advances throughout all areas of society and organizations have been capitalizing on these advances to improve their business.  Throughout this technology boom, one area of business has become increasingly important; customer service.  Good customer service leads to increased consumer loyalty and [...]

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