Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts
Thursday, 3 July 2014
Android Wear Launch
Android Wear officially launches early July 2014 and LG seems to be the only supplier determined to have a product ready soon that features Android Wear. The LG G watch is set to ship 7 July.
Google announced their new venture into wearable tech at Google I/O and there has been a lot of fuss concerning the new technology that is going to arrive.
Pebble made huge success with their Kickstarter funded watch that has the same features shown by Android Wear. The Pebble has to make do with its own app and it causes bottle necks for them.
Google has embedded their beautiful Google Now interface into the Android Wear that makes the upcoming watches much more appealing to the public. Pebble watches were only seen on the wrists of the Geek community and it did not benefit the average Mobile user as much.
What does apple have to say?
The iWatch has been leaked and shows off, in true apple beauty, their take on wearable tech. Apple has little experience with wearable tech though so it will be interesting to see what Apple can produce, but apple has never disappointed their customers in the 21 first century.
Motorola announced their new Moto 360 watch, it will provide a much more natural look to the smart watch industry. The round face of the watch, brings a lot of challenges with it for the developers.
It has a small blank spot at the bottom of the screen where all the hardware necessary to power the device is stored.
Motorola claims their device will include a wireless charger, this is confirmed by the lack of charging ports on the device.
The Moto 360 is set to launch later in 2014 and could finally provide the industry with a good looking smart watch.
Android wears features include weather, commute, notes, appointments, fitness, voice search, navigation, and music control. All these features are also available on the pebble but in a drastically more stylish fashion and the main reason is: Android Wear includes colour display.
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Wednesday, 2 July 2014
3D Printed Blood Vessels
Researchers have made an extraordinary breakthrough in
medical science field with the help of 3D printing technology.
Researchers from the University of Sydney, MIT, Harvard, and
Stanford have discovered a way in which the can print working blood vessels.
They constructed minute interconnected fibres with a futuristic bio printer,
next they covered the fibres with human endothelial cells and applied a protein
material. The whole print gets to be hardened by light and finally remove the
fibres and what is left behind is an extremely complex array of hollow cell
material.
Days later, those cells manage to reorganize themselves into stable
capillaries
Dr. Luiz Bertassoni from the University of Sydney said it is
still a long way to go before this technology will replace the traditional
donation and transplant system like the first successful heart transplant
accomplished by Dr Barnard in 1967.
In the last decade, the number of patients awaiting a
donation has doubled and the number of organ donors has barely gone up
Scientist had managed to grow working blood vessels in labs
and together with the 3D printing technology it can show promise for patients
in the future that can not find a donor in time.
In March 2011 Dr Anthony Atala shocked the world when he
showed off a working printed kidney at a interesting TED talk he broke the necessary
steps to successfully print a working organ requires 3 major components: Biomaterials,
cells, and blood supply channels.
In conclusion the researchers have made a extensive breakthrough
in the field of medical science
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