October, 2017

Forget Messy Dining – Food Could Soon Levitate Itself Straight Into Your Mouth

18/10/2017

Reading Time: 4 minutes Forks, spoons, knives and those fancy cutleries were once invented for a convenient and hygienic dining experience. Over time they evolved into exquisite pieces adorning dining tables, exhibiting sophistication, luxury and class. But what if dining can be made more convenient and fun? What if you… (Featured image source is for representational purpose alone and has been sourced from https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/32301315311/) *** […]

Smartphone or Tablet – Fold, Unfold to Your Choice

Reading Time: 2 minutes After bezel-less screens and in-display fingerprint sensors, smartphones are now moving towards a new phase of foldable displays. Samsung’s recently unveiled foldable Infinity Flex Display phone SAMSUNG F can be a real game changer for the company at a time when it witnessed a drop in its market share in the smartphone space. (In Q2 of 2018, Samsung’s market share […]

Mathematics can reduce crowd deaths

Reading Time: 3 minutes Stampedes and claustrophobia in crowded places leading to injuries and deaths has become quite the norm over the years. Be it a musical concert or a religious gathering, a sports event or a shopping fest, or even a local train, overly crowded places are quite popular for the disasters that come packaged with it. In a fervent bid to prevent […]

Blockchain is the Locker to your Medical Record Safety

Reading Time: 3 minutes When it comes to medical records, right from a baby to an adult, and even our pets, we end up reserving a big fat file with past prescriptions and diagnosis. For those who consistently visit a specific multispecialty hospital, there is an even more detailed history available within the hospital’s internal cloud. But what if a patient ends up visiting […]

Heuristic Attack on Ransomware to Protect Your Business

Reading Time: 3 minutes If you are running or heading a business, then these are questions you would have asked yourself often: Is my data protection fast enough to win the business race?Is the business driving with the control needed to win the data protection race?Can I dodge ransomware obstacles at the speed of business growth Ransomware in 2017 2017 has probably gained popularity […]

Hyperloop through vacuum at the speed of an airplane on Earth

Reading Time: 3 minutes Hyperloop is one of the most ambitious transportation systems of the future where a capsule carries passenger inside a vacuum tube along a magnetic levitated track. With air friction and surface friction negated in this transportation system, the hyperloop is likely to become the most efficient mode of transportation we can envision in the near future. How does a Hyperloop […]

Bits of Quantum Computing

Reading Time: 4 minutes In 1971, Intel introduced the first 4-bit microprocessor which composed of 2,300 transistors which solved the problem of computers being available commercially. The 1980s bought exponential advancement in microprocessors which made computers available for the public and led to the start of many powerful companies such as Apple, Microsoft, etc. Now, we have computers in the garb of smartphones and […]

CIMON: World’s first AI robot in Space

Reading Time: 4 minutes When a character from science fiction comes to life, it shows how human beings have come so far as a civilization. Prof. Simon Wright, a flying human brain, is a character from the 1940s pulp magazine Captain Future which formed the basis of the free flying AI… Featured image is for representative purpose only and has been sourced from https://www.flickr.com/photos/dlr_de/28300532237 *** […]

A marriage of the human brain & computer

Reading Time: 3 minutes For over a thousand years, human brains have remained the same – same as that of a cave person. But the world around us has completely changed. In recent times, we have begun changing our brain with technology. I don’t mean it to metamorphose, but… Featured image is intended for representational purpose alone and has been sourced from https://www.flickr.com/photos/158301585@N08/43267970922 *** […]

Simple Sensors that bid you Safe Travel

Reading Time: 3 minutes With increasing dependence on cars in our day to day life, it becomes quite vital to ensure the safety of the driver and passengers. In a move towards this safety, automobile manufacturers have shifted their focus to secure their product (read vehicles) with multiple features that can… Featured image is for representative purpose only and has been sourced from https://www.pexels.com/photo/red-and-yellow-hatchback-axa-crash-tests-163016/ *** […]

5G: Charioteer for Connected Cars

Reading Time: 3 minutes The connected car has turned into a definitive IoT driver through vehicle-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-framework (V2X) correspondences. Connected cars interface with various vehicles gaining ground toward exchanging data, preparing drivers for potential crashes and bottlenecks. Connected car utilize gigantic proportions of data. It is said that in… Featured image is for representative purpose only and has been sourced from https://www.flickr.com/photos/140988606@N08/45370042854 *** […]

McKool Smith Helps VirnetX Get a Big Bite out of Apple

Reading Time: 2 minutes Apple involved in a patent lawsuit barely feels like news these days. While its war with Samsung has been a one-off case that has gizmo freaks across the world staring wide-eyed for updates that shouldn’t be missed, especially with Apple seeming to don a victory hat, a recent verdict against the company has made patent lawsuit followers sit up. VirnetX, an intellectual […]

Smartphones, Watch Out! Your Time Seems Up

Reading Time: 3 minutes Picture these. You are on one of your adventure trips and desperately need to quench your thirst. Instead of breaking a sweat and asking around for a nice restaurant you simply speak to your watch “Find a restaurant nearby”; and your watch presents you with feasible options and a map with directions to get to them. You are working out […]

iPhone X & its OLED – Going Behind the Screen

Reading Time: 6 minutes Apple’s iPhone X is a first in many aspects of iPhones. But it’s the introduction of an OLED display that brings it into a stronger competitive sphere with Samsung’s AMOLED displays. iRunway’s comprehensive teardown of the iPhone X, with a focus on its OLED display, tells you why the iPhone X is a ruler. In another first, iPhone X has […]

Zika: Another Epidemic That Could Have Been Avoided

Reading Time: 4 minutes The Zika virus outbreak in South America has created a medical emergency around the continent and beyond. Genetically modified mosquitoes designed and developed in the laboratories to fight dengue are being held responsible for this epidemic. The pharmaceutical industry appears weapon-less to tackle this disease. Lack of vaccines and mechanisms to combat it appears to be the major concern. Drug […]

Are You a Reliable Taxi Passenger?

Reading Time: 4 minutes Did you know that at least 180 gypsy cab drivers in New York died in the hands of violent passengers in the 1990s? And that at least 33 taxi drivers are killed on duty every year? While the world is raging with taxi passenger safety issues, a personal incident triggered the thought to look into safety of taxi drivers. In […]

Protecting Oscar

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Academy awards is around the corner with Bradley Cooper making it into the Oscar nomination for the third consecutive time, this time for American Sniper. Last year Cooper had taken the very popular celebrity selfie at the awards (from Ellen Degeneres phone?). The jury is still contemplating on who owns the copyright to the selfie. Interestingly this is not […]

Patentees Drive to Make the Virtual Real

Reading Time: 6 minutes Virtual Reality or Augmented Reality technology has begun revolutionizing industries. Yet, it is still in its nascent stage of growth with much left to discover. In the final of our five-part blog series on virtual reality technology, we showcase the patent landscape and the role of intellectual property in developing this tech domain. Virtual Reality in Gaming – U.S. Patent […]

‘New’ Joinder of Accused Infringers: Implications for NPEs?

Reading Time: 3 minutes Thursday, September 15, 2011, one day before the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (H.R. 1249) became a law, was a historic date in its own right. At least 54 new patent cases were filed across the district courts – accusing over 800 corporate entities of patent infringement. These numbers represent an all-time-high for a single day filing and are directly linked to […]

PC Designers Accept Bitcoin Challenge

Reading Time: 4 minutes In my previous blog on whether cryptocurrency can usher in a Utopia, I elucidated about a complete e-currency system that was bereft of a centralized authority and how a system determines the adding of coins to the e-coffer through ‘mining’ strategies. But how does one decide how many coins to produce and when to stop? Well, Bitcoin’s mysterious creator has […]

The Interstellar that NASA Knew?

Reading Time: 4 minutes Time and again we’ve seen science fiction inspire inventions, from Bat gadgets to Virtual reality in the Matrix and Jonny Quest series. However, let’s see if the opposite is also true? The Cooper Station that we see at the end of the latest Hollywood blockbuster, Interstellar, tolls us back to how probably the Noah’s ark looked. Replete with a baseball […]