Emerging Technology News

In this marvelous world of ours, security fills our homes and keeps us safe from potential harm. Some of the latest security gadgets to wriggle into our lives are listed below, so check them out and enjoy a future of extra-cautiousness:

Hidden wall safe:

When house-breakers enter your premise, one of the first things that they do is to check behind mirrors and paintings in order to find the wall safe. Yet what if the wall safe was simply too hard to discover? Enter the Socket Wall Safe. This ingenious little item seems to be a standard wall socket with working plugs. Even if you inspect it you will find no fault, only a tiny metal screw which hides its true objectives. By sticking a special key into the metal screw, you unlock the Socket Wall Safe, sliding it downwards like a filing cabinet, revealing the jewels and money hidden inside. This utterly amazing device can be installed by a security company in Johannesburg.

International travellers will be all too familiar with stringent airport security measures, particularly those in the US. Queues of business travellers in their mens and ladies workwear suits often find airport security checks to be a nuisance, slowing down the boarding process – and when you’re in a hurry to catch your next flight, the last thing you want to worry about is having to remove your work shoes! However, there is good news for frequent flyers; the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is looking to make airport security procedures smoother and easier with the use of shoe scanning devices, allowing passengers to keep their footwear firmly on their feet.

In the overcrowded streets of Taiwan, a man has his eyes on the future of the clothes hanger. That man is known as Jhihjie Liou’s and his ‘Tree Hanger’ will surely became a prized possession as homes become smaller and buildings start to move closer to each other. If you cast your eyes on the images which we have included below, then you will see that these green clothes hangers have a neat new feature to them. Besides the fact that they are easy to stack, the hangers can be joined by a shelving unit which turns the hangers into portable shelves which can be hung on any rope or pole.

Lord Alan Sugar has been put in charge of YouView, the ambitious digital/internet television option which should have gone live a year ago. This project has been met with technology delays, governmental bungles and a bleeding budget which has hemorrhaged deep into the pockets of British tax payers. Alan Sugar is not a man to be toyed with and his hands on approach to business dealings may set this failure up for instant success – if not the entire project will be scrapped and stockholders will be ordered to withdraw their funding from the project.

The Rockhopper TV crew is known for taking their cameras into hostile terrain, using the latest technology to document the world’s most pressing socio-economic and environmental issues. In 2009, Rockhopper TV filmed a BBC Documentary on climate change, looking at several major cities affected by drought, heat waves and other natural disasters.

South Korea is certainly no stranger to an incredible level of internet speeds. As a matter of fact, digital statistics have shown that South Koreas internet speed is on average four times faster (up to 150Mbps) than Americas and Europe’s best efforts – how is this possible? Thanks to inexpensive (think twenty pounds per month average) internet connections the government has managed to inject digital speed into every facet of society. Let’s dig a little deeper into the digital statistics of this madcap country for a more interconnected picture:

To see a ship of any size being built is an impressive sight, but to see what Hornblower Cruises in Connecticut is working on is even more impressive. They are building a hybrid boat in which nearly every piece of energy technology is eco friendly – hydrogen, batteries, solar and wind.

With a new Apple product (the iPad 2), a new iOS is always most certainly on the way to compliment the new hardware features. When the iPad 2 dropped last week, iOS 4.3 was also released and millions of iPhone, iPad and iTouch users the world over plugged their devices into iTunes for the latest and greatest update. Let’s not waste anymore time though and get straight to the new and improved features of iOS 4.3:

The world of on-the-fly translation devices is a burgeoning market and the first company which can produce an exceptional portable translation device will be rewarded with accolades far beyond their grasp. As for now, we must rely on tools such as Google Translate and SpeechTrans to assist us in our translation chores. Both of these fine products have been tested by our blogging staff and we have come to a few conclusions about their general operations. Our findings are below:

Abu Dhabi is known for many technological breakthroughs and is well respected in the field of information technology in general. What they are lacking though, mysteriously enough is an IT plant to live up to the levels of business technology which is present in many other countries. Thankfully though, a doctor of the United Arab Eremites University has managed to create a marvelous chip which may one day allow the disabled to walk without the aid of a wheelchair or crutches.