The AMOLED Display from Samsung, A Super Thin Flexible Display Screen

Samsung has been working on a super-thin transparent and flexible display technology called the AMOLED which stands for Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode. This display technology is so durable that the screen can survive any deformations making it rollable, bendable and can even withstand impacts from a hammer. Organic compounds are used in this technology to form the luminous material that lights up the thin film, while the systematic addressing of the pixels on the screen is made possible by the active matrix technology. Although Samsung is yet considering the potential application for this display technology, they are seeing endless application possibilities that will benefit from this technology in the near future. The video demonstrates screen models for smartphones while another video shows transparent see-through screen application models.

Digital Connected Dermatoscope for iPhones

The popularity of iPhones brought an immensely rapid proliferation of iPhone accessories and apps designed for a wide range of industry application. Another concept in revolutionizing the use of Smartphones is shown here in the video implemented particularly as a tool for use in health care. Handyscope by Fotofinder is an alternative to handheld dermatoscopes which is capable of providing clear and sharp dermatoscopic images of the skin with a maximum 20x magnification range. A separate device called the Handyscope is attached to the iPhone which transforms it into a digital dermatoscope for skin examination. Pictures of the patient's skin can be labeled for identification purpose and can be emailed to the physician for remote analysis.

Quadrotors, The Future of Building Construction Workers

If you think the remote controlled helicopter you got last Christmas is awesome, wait till you see this video which shows an impressive crew of miniature autonomous quad-rotors that hovers to grasp and move components working together to build a structure. This technology makes it remarkably fascinating to speculate on the future construction workers lifting assembly parts to construct buildings or skyscrapers. Quadrotors which is a project of the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania is an automated electro-mechanical machine, which when programmed to work together in tandem makes up an impressive team of robots which can be told what to build and figures out the assembly plan by itself. Quadrotors are fitted with grippers to enable it to pick up parts both vertically or horizontally then tries to attach these parts into place. Equipped with artificial intelligence, the quadrotors can determine on its own if a component is fitted successfully or not, and if ever there's a need to repeat the task then it automatically retries until it establishes a successful assembly of joining building parts into place. A group of quadrotors can also be programmed to obey a synchronized system of work sequence using a program algorithm to make them follow a systematic pattern of work flow such as determining if the first quadrotor is already finish with a particular task so that the next quadrotor can proceed to do its task one after the other in a complete organized sequence.

A Revolutionary Text in Photo Translator iPhone App with Speech Pronunciation Feature

Imagine yourself traveling to another country where the climate and the environment and the hostile inhospitableness of the people puts you in a state of culture shock. You wind up finding yourself intimidated not knowing how to approach a total stranger on the street to ask for directions or even not being able to converse properly to state your point in a casual conversation. This situation reminds me of an embarrassing scene in one of Bruce Lee's film back in the 1970s where he played the role of an alienated Chinese from Hong Kong arriving in Rome, that while waiting for his female contact who was running late to meet him in the airport terminal, Bruce suddenly felt hungry and decided to walk into the airport diner to grab a bite but unfortunately didn't know how to read and understand the menu to order his meal from a very impatient waitress. But that was way back in the 1970s where you don't have any other alternative means of communication. Fast track that very same situation to the 21st century and you'll be thankful you have your iPhone handy in your pocket to do the translation for you. Presenting the PicTranslator, a revolutionary iPhone app that translates text in photos which also features an audible live speech function which will demonstrate to you the correct pronunciation of the foreign word allowing you to accurately say the word with proper diction. The attached video demonstrates using the iPhone app to translate the text in photos taken from the iPhone camera, then cropping the portion of the picture which contains the text to be translated then selecting the appropriate language from the app to complete the translation process. PicTranslate initially supports more than 10 languages, so to freely converse in a foreign language without actually learning how to speak the dialect, all you need to do is speak into your iPhone's microphone and PicTranslate will do all the verbal translation for you.

Wireless Electricity

Once again the inspiration behind the theory of Nikola Tesla in wireless technology is extricated in this sci-fi tech demonstration of a cable-free electric power by the world renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) which offers an alternative means of harnessing the power of frequency signals to generate electricity. This MIT inspired project named WiTricity headed by Eric Giler envisions a plan to beam electric power through the air to wirelessly power your laptop or recharge your cellphones or even electric vehicles without the need to plug them in to wall outlets again. Early visions of wireless power were actually thought of by Nikola Tesla about a hundred years ago, although it was discontinued for mysterious reasons. Imagine the possibility of not needing to invest trillions of dollars in infrastructure around the world just to put up power lines to transmit power from a generating source to reach the consumers. And how about our dependence on batteries, we may not be aware but there's about 40 billion disposable batteries manufactured every year. The extent and complexities of these conventional methods of power sources are quite cumbersome considering that wires and batteries are becoming more and more expensive and difficult to dispose and handle. The basic concept behind the WiTricity technology is in using resonant energy transfer, given the mechanical construction of a transformer, it consists of two separate coils of wires very close to each other but without any physical contact or mechanical attachment, yet they do actually induce electromagnetic force with each other and transfer energy from one coil to the other coil at a very short distance. What was done here was to separate the coils in the transformer to a greater distance and have similar magnetic power transfer. How does it work? Imagine if you can manipulate a single coil with an attached capacitor to resonate in order for it to pulse at a fairly high alternating current (AC) frequency, then bring another coil close enough to the source that will only work at exactly that same frequency, then you can actually get them to do what is called a strongly coupled and transfered magnetic energy between them. The major concept here is using electricity on one end then turn it to magnetic field and take that magnetic field and turn it back to electricity on the other end.