2. Hybrid IT and Cloud Computing
Changes the role of IT. IT departments must
play more roles in coordinating IT related
activities.
3. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung
are among the firms launching a variety of
stylish, hi-tech watches, incorporating a
myriad of new hardware and software
features to boost their appeal to
consumers. Among the most popular uses
are in health and wellness monitoring,
sports and fitness. The market for
traditional watches is being disrupted by
the added functionality of this new
generation.*
4. APPLE is experimenting
with a new screen
technology that could
bring deeper, sharper
colours to the iPhone 6.
5. The iPro Lens System range, a
set of interchangable lenses --
Macro, Wide Angle, Super
Wide, Fisheye, and Telephoto --
has now been expanded to
include the iPhone 5, 5S, and
4/4S, as
6. As scientists look to find
alternatives to traditional fossil
fuels, a number of major
projects, including Cape Wind (in
Massachusetts' Nantucket
Sound) and Deepwater Wind
(near Block Island, Rhode Island),
are vying to become the first
offshore windfarm in the U.S.
7. • The ability to control a computer
using only the power of the mind is
closer than one might think. Brain-
computer interfaces, where
computers can read and interpret
signals directly from the brain, have
already achieved clinical success in
allowing quadriplegics, those
suffering “locked-in syndrome” or
people who have had a stroke to
move their own wheelchairs or even
drink coffee from a cup by controlling
the action of a robotic arm with their
brain waves. In addition, direct brain
implants have helped restore partial
vision to people who have lost their
sight.
8. LATEST SMARTPHONE
Seniors will be
the fastest-
growing
demographic
adopting
smartphones
across developed
markets, Stewart
believes.
