Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Tech article 10/24

Hovering boarding, is it still in future?

  • Hendo hover board
  • Made for to protect buildings not create skate parks
  • Original idea was to hover a building out of an earthquake
  • Hovers an inch above the ground
  • It can float above copper surfaces
  • Battery life only a few minutes long

Friday, October 17, 2014

Tech Article 10/17

Apple Pay is launching on Monday

  • Apple Pay is a smartphone-based payment
  • This allows you to use your credit cards just by using your phone
  • Roughly about 500 banks will support apple Pay
  • It allows iphone 6 users and iphone 6 plus users to spend money at particular stores by just simply using there phones' finger print scanners and holding the device up to the register
  • The app gives out a code that is changed every time you it 
  • No code is used more than once

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Tech Article 10/10

Blindness could it be gone in the next 10 years?
  • All of our eyes deteriorate, in some way or another 
  • Of over 250 million people that suffer visual impairment around the world, however 4 in 5 cases preventable or curable
  •  280 million laser surgeries carried out to this date
  • The laser scans the eye indicating were little bumps are
  • These bumps could effect our vision 
  • They cut a flip in the cornea in surgery
  • Peel it back
  • A second laser is used to smooth down the bumps  

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Tech Article 10/3

New airport scanners, as easy as 1,2,3!

  • Alfa3
  • Walk by solution 
  • Works like a camera
  • No X-rays, but body heat
  • Thermal imagery 
  • A single unit cost over a quarter of a million dollars