There are thousands of ways that technology has been changing in today’s era over the past decade. Many of those ways have been subtle, like with DVD players turning into Blu-ray players, but some other pieces of technology seem to be changing all at once. However, the fact can’t be disputed that there are many positive ways that technology is changing things for the better. Here are some major changes that the world is seeing our everyday devices turned into supercomputers with great possibilities:
1. Mobile Augmented Reality
If you have ever been stranded in a strange city with no where to go and no idea of any place to go then you will definitely apprecitate the Mobile Augmented Reality Applications that Nokia has introduced to the market with its concept mobile phone. In fact, Nokia has produced a small type of computer technology inside their mobile phone that would allow the phone’s digital camera to be pointed at something in order to obtain information about it. For example, let’s say that you were in a city that you’re not familiar with, so you have no idea where anything is or any of the good places to visit are. Nokia’s Mobile Augmented Reality Application would allow you to point the camera at a building or object and the phone would automatically download and give to you the name of that building, the exact location, as well as information about what’s inside. This is an awesome piece of techonology for travellers that will certainly be improved an added to the cell phone industry in coming years.
2. Compressive Sensing
Have you ever taken a picture with a digital camera that you just weren’t satisfied with? This is the premise that Richard Baraniuk and Kevin Kelly are creating their technology off of. They contend that today’s digital cameras are taking digital photographs the same way that film cameras take pictures: through a system of image sensors that create a picture from the surrounding light in order to compress it into a digital picture. Fortunately, they have also brought to light the comprehensive sensing technology in a digital camera that allows the camera to take high-resolution photographs while it takes the information that it has to make a picture. This technology is actually similar to the Sudoku puzzles where just enough information is needed to construct the whole puzzle correctly. Nevertheless, comprehensive sensing will use less power, enable the camera to take more high-resolution photographs, and increase the capabilities of mobile phones!
Both of these pieces of technologies show just how much the consumer industry is changing. While many people are still getting used to the fact that WiFi now rules the digital age, here comes more pieces of technology that shape the whole industry. But researchers and scientists are certainly working hard at producing efficient tools in order to make consumers’ lives easier and happier!
Changing and emerging technology has always been a big part of our world. While some people feel that scientists are spending their time for nothing, others feel the exact opposite and are cheering them on in the big race for the betterment of the world. Indeed, some of the emerging technologies that are previewed throughout the market today will have a greater impact on the health of the population, as well as on other aspects of societies throughout the world. But in order to see what emerging technologies will actually come into production we must first take a look at all the available technological advances that have been made.
3. Optical Antennas
Researchers at Harvard University have now found a new technology that will allow consumers’ DVD players to hold more than 700 movies and videos. Kenneth Crozier and Federico Capasso are two leading electrical engineers at Harvard University that have created these optical antennas that diffuse the diffraction limit of normal physics theories in order to create a highly capable technology that will allow for greater storage capacities of DVDs, higher-resolution images to be taken, as well as a whole other host of benefits. The way this technology works is that small optical antennas are added to a laser in order to create an intense electrical field that makes it possible for the device using the technology to be improved. But even though more research and work needs to be done with this new technology, they have already begun speaking to 2 major device-storage companies, Hitachi and Seagate, about the possibilities.
4. Nanoscale Peptides
This is a technology that has been discovered that many people will realize its value once it has actually been firmly established as a life-saving tool. Researcher and scientist Rutledge Ellis-Behnke found a way to stop bleeding almost instantaneously. No, this technology is not part of the tools that Superman uses, but could easily be described as a similar one. He and his fellow researchers have actually made it possible for a rat in their laboratory to stop bleeding from a wound by pouring a gel-like substance on it. This substance is known as a Nanoscale protein fragment and essentially uses tiny proteins that act as a mesh cover over a wound. This technology, or gel, has great implications for future use during wartimes, accidents, and even surgeries, and could eventually help save lives instantaneously!
5. Neuron Control Technology
Karl Deisseroth at Stanfield Medical center has greatly improved the way that Depression is treated among his patients. Rather, he has created a way so that his depressed patients will have hope to get out of the situation that they’re in. He has actually developed a system of on and off switches that will enable the brain to manipulate certain areas that are affected by Depression and other mental health disorder. Deisseroth, along with his other colleagues, have found that neurons can artificially produce a protein that acts as an “on switch” that is sensitive to light. By using flashes of light to activate the protein then the certain areas of the brain that need to be stimulated are stimulated. This method of working with neural correlates in the brain could have dramatic positive affects for research into how the brain works and how certain disorders are treated, such as Depression and Parkinson’s Disease. But until then, Karl Deisseroth will continue to improve his system to make it an even more viable form of treatment!
All of these pieces of changing and emerging technologies have great implications for not only the future, but also for future research that needs to be done within their respective industries. But the health of the larger population, as well as other parts of their lives, will greatly and positively be affected by the changing technology throughout the world!
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