Imagine A World Without Wires
The power is everywhere, like god. You wouldn’t know where the power is coming from. You don’t need cords or batteries for your gadgets and computers. The laptop could be recharged when the machine gets within several feet of a transmit resonator. This reasoner could be embedded in tables, work surfaces, and even behind walls. This is one of the Intel’s technology which relies on an idea called magnetic induction. A principle similar to the way a trained singer can shatter a glass using the voice (frequency). Power can be put into magnetic fields at a transmitting resonator at the wall socket. The receiving resonator is tuned to absorb energy from the magnetic field.
In this research, Intel has built a sample light bulb to make a 60-watt glow from an energy source 3 feet away. This was achieved with high efficiency and only a quarter of the energy has been lost. Researchers admitted the technology will be on market in at least five year.
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IBM Prepares Students for Jobs of the Future.
“T-shaped” skill, which is what businesses are looking in their new hires. Deep business skills and technical understanding is what meant by this “T-shaped” skills. IBM is teaming up with Michigan Technological University to help students develop these skills. IBM has donated WebSphere software for this initiative with the agreement that any assets created through these programs will be made available to other universities around the world at no charge. Over the past five years, IBM has been working with more than 150 universities around the world to grow the adoption of Services Science, Management and Engineering (SSME).
Disruptive Technologies
Top 10 Disruptive Inventions that have changed our lifestyle as follows:
- Internet: Everything is documented on the internet
- Flight: Getting to one continent to another in few hours rather than weeks or months
- Nuclear Fission: Teeny tiny atom of uranium produces energy of unimaginable magnitude.
- Electricity: Power that is instant and easy to access
- The Microprocessor: Keep getting smaller and more powerful
- X-rays: Illuminating the diseases and disorders that lie beneath a person’s skin.
- Rubber: 70% of world’s rubber supply is used by the automotive industries.
- Iron Smelting: Made settlements more independent.
- Gun Powder: Mixture that’s been used into a weapon; changed world’s peace.
- The Magnetic Stripe Card: One of the most universal technologies on earth.
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