Technology News

 Friday, May 25, 2012

The Future Of Human-Electronic Skin Technology 

Merging biology and electronics gives access to a new and upcoming technology. This has led to the development of a super thin and highly flexible material like a tattoo, embedded with a wireless electronic chip to be stuck on human skin. It’s applications are many, from monitoring health to even sending commands to human-machine interfaces like video games. The newly developed material/device is easily removable, as easily it’s stuck on the skin surface.


The device is designed to easily blend in with the mechanics of the human skin, where it can resist the natural vigor of twists, turns and stretches of the human skin, yet maintaining the functionality of the wireless circuitry. The research is being led by John A. Rogers, the Lee J. Flory-Founder professor of engineering at the University of Illinois.

 

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Sunday, May 27, 2012

A Day Made Of Glass(Future World)

Materials manufacturer Corning put together a futurist video last month called "A Day Made Of Glass," which has spiraled into stratospheric popularity on You-tube. Today’s smart phones do a pretty good job keeping people organized and socially connected, but there may be a better and more intuitive way to accomplish these tasks. Imagine a world where technology and your everyday life work together to create a new reality. What if you could simply look up at the sky and receive weather information, or respond to a text message and check your to-do list without ever pulling out a phone or other electronic device? It may sound too futuristic to even be plausible.                                                It is possible, in near FUTURE
The choice boils down to open versus closed, or seen in a different way, quality versus mediocrity, but before I describe that choice, I want to provide some context on this week’s object – an augmented reality protocol.

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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Future micro-processors

Future micro-processors will be built around a paradigm that will allow them to have plug-in, add-on abilities which extend their baseline abilities greatly. With AMD's HTX initiative and–more importantly–its implementation, that dream is finally becoming an integrated.

The performance of microprocessors that power modern computers has continued to increase exponentially over the years for two main reasons. First, the transistors that are the heart of the circuits in all processors and memory chips have simply become faster over time on a course described by Moore’s law,1 and this directly affects the performance of processors built with those transistors. Moreover, actual processor performance has increased faster than Moore’s law would predict,2 because processor designers have been able to harness the increasing numbers of transistors available on modern chips to extract more parallelism from software. This is depicted in figure 1 for Intel’s processors.