Technology

Tech Startup NYOUM’s Instant Video Messaging App is LOVE!

28Aug

By Linda AshokNo Comments

Technology

Tech Startup NYOUM’s Instant Video Messaging App is LOVE!

On August 26, 2021, a London communication technology startup, NYOUM Ltd, expressed LOVE in a brand new way! When Spotify & Facebook were busy copying Clubhouse, NYOUM got instant video messaging app LOVE by reinventing the messenger infrastructure. LOVE is NYOUM's flagship product disrupting social communication in innovative and interesting ways. At the core of LOVE, the NYOUM's has reinvented video and audio messaging, video calling, and many more social media app features. NYOUM's Founder and Executive Chairman, Christopher Schlaeffer, boasts of working with an extraordinary team of artists, technologists, and designers who built LOVE to redefine how we communicate on the internet. Schlaeffer explains that communication is a visual expression, speech, and human connection, exactly...

Live Workplace with Facebook Horizon Workrooms on Oculus Quest 2

22Aug

By Linda AshokNo Comments

Technology

Live Workplace with Facebook Horizon Workrooms on Oculus Quest 2

One of the challenges of remote work is isolation; one has to work alone without a colleague around. It is also a hassle to brainstorm in remote work arrangements. To tackle this, on August 19, 2021, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) launched the open beta of Facebook Horizon Workrooms. Facebook Horizon Workrooms is a flagship collaboration experience that brings together the remotely placed colleagues in a virtual meeting room. This new technology by Facebook operates in virtual reality (VR) and the web improving remote collaboration, communication, and connection. Harnessing the power of VR, Facebook Horizon Workrooms brings people together to brainstorm or whiteboard an idea, work on a document, hear updates from their teams, hang out and socialize. The VR experience is designed to aid better and f...

Is e-RUPI Non-Digital Payment for Welfare another Failed Innovation?

20Aug

By Linda AshokNo Comments

Technology

Is e-RUPI Non-Digital Payment for Welfare another Failed Innovation?

On August 6, 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched e-RUPI. According to the public statement issued by the Indian Ministry of Finance, e-RUPI is a cashless and contactless instrument for digital payment. According to the plan, the eRUPI voucher is intended to make Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) more effective as India strives to achieve 100% digital economy and digital governance. PM Narendra Modi said that e-RUPI is symbolic of a progressive India connecting people through technology. e-RUPI is like an e-voucher that beneficiaries will receive in the form of a QR code and SMS-string-based voucher enabling direct fund transfer to bank accounts. Any government agency and corporation can generate the e-voucher via their partner banks. Once a beneficiary shows the QR code or the SMS mess...

Israel HealthTech Startup Got your Heart in their Hands

18Aug

By Linda AshokNo Comments

MEA & Japan, Tech for Good, Technology

Israel HealthTech Startup Got your Heart in their Hands

In the first half of August 2021, an Israel healthtech startup, RealView Imaging, received the FDA 510(k) for its HOLOSCOPE-i holographic system, which provides realistic and spatially accurate 3D in-air holograms based on data received from standard CT scans and 3D ultrasound systems. With the HOLOSCOPE-i holographic system, physicians can view and interact with the hyper-realistic 3D holograms of patients to decide interventional procedures before hitting the operation theatre. According to CEO and co-founder of RealView Imaging, Shaul Gelman, there is rapid development in the space of hyper-realistic 3D holograms of human anatomy, advancing medical imaging for physicians to plan minimally-invasive procedures, which earlier exclusively relied on imaging technologies. In a press anno...

Is an Air to Water Generator the Answer to Global Water Crisis?

13Aug

By Linda AshokNo Comments

Technology

Is an Air to Water Generator the Answer to Global Water Crisis?

It is no magic, but a true story of an 82-year-old Enrique Veiga committed to helping people in the arid lands, and refugee camps access to water. The engineer has developed a technology with which water is extracted from thin air. You heard it right, Enrique Veiga extracts water from thin air with his innovative technology. Enrique Veiga, the founder of a Spanish company called Aquaer Generators, has worked for ages in water technology. He designed Aquaer that almost sounds like "Aquire: (v) To come into possession or ownership of" that is a water to air generator harnessing standard water condensation technology to deliver clean, safe water dry areas and refugee camps. The method of extracting water from air is condensation. Aquaer technology uses electricity to cool air that condenses i...

11Aug

By Linda AshokNo Comments

Europe, Technology

Replicant.Fashion Experiments Virtual Clothing in Innovative Ways

An NFT fashion brand, Replicant.Fashion virtual clothing, got cost-effective ways for fashion designers & influencers to explore fashion! We knew that fashion designers decide the trend for fashion lovers. But now, fashion designers borrow the latest technology trends to deliver on the evolving demands of the fashion industry technologies that simultaneously impact the creator economy and the green tech economy. Replicant.Fashion is a Russian virtual clothing startup. You can also call Replicant.Fashion a digital fashion technology startup or an NFT clothing marketplace. E-commerce brought fashion and technology together already, but now fashion enterprises like Replicant.Fashion has leveled up considerably by satisfying art, global NetZero goals, and the creator economy. Launched ...

Is BeeWise Smart Beehive Technology the New Pegasus?

9Aug

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Technology

Is BeeWise Smart Beehive Technology the New Pegasus?

On the one hand, Israel-based NSO Group develops the infamous Pegasus spyware to monitor the acts of humans; on the other hand, Beit HaEmek, HaZafon, Israel-based BeeWise got its robots spy on bee health; inspecting bees for diseases, monitoring for pesticides, and reporting in real-time hazards threatening the colony. BeeWise, an agri-tech company, uses Industry 4.0 technology that automates all beekeeping activities to increase honey yield, reduce colony loss, and eliminate chemical pesticides. BeeWise, a smart beehive technology, aims to keep bees alive despite all the stressors and challenges they face, allowing them to thrive, pollinate, and produce honey. The Langstroth box used to culture bees has major challenges not conducive to effective bee farming. Here, BeeWise's solar-powered...

A Suitable Reply to Bill Gates: Covid-19 Health Tech DIYA Vocal BioMarker

6Aug

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Technology

A Suitable Reply to Bill Gates: Covid-19 Health Tech DIYA Vocal BioMarker

At par with the mutation of the SARS-CoV-2 and its variants, global health technologists are leveraging Industry 4.0 technology to determine non-invasive ways of diagnosing Covid-19. Two years ago, the crisis started with the potential discovery of vaccination. When fulfilled, technologists have up their game to vocal biomarkers in a marketplace poised for a CAGR of 15.5% by 2027. Thinking of innovation, we consider India at the receiving end. India, as per Bill Gates, was not competent enough to manufacture Covid-19 vaccination. Adar Poonawala, the CEO of Serum Institute of India, fought a battle to get Europe to approve international travel from India. They believed that Covishield-vaccinated Indian travelers were unsafe. But now, India has pivoted amidst all challenges, and here's how i...

Is The Galileo Project by Avi Loeb from Harvard University a Mousetrap?

30Jul

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Technology

Is The Galileo Project by Avi Loeb from Harvard University a Mousetrap?

The Galileo Project by Avi Loeb is an interesting foray into the alien kingdom. No, we are not making it up; it is for real that scientists are actively invested in discovering a parallel alien civilization somewhere in outer space. And so when the moment is rife with advanced space missions and curiosity of advanced life forms, the Israeli astrophysicist and Professor Avi Loeb at Harvard University conceived the Galileo Project with substantial financial backing from the aliens private investors. Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb believes in a parallel universe inhabited by aliens, and his belief is based on an interstellar object called Oumuamua. Oumuamua was noticed for the first time in the year 2017. Based on astronomical observations, Oumuamua turned out to has got highly anomalous pro...

Space Tech Startups: For VCs, it’s More than a Jab on the Edge of Space

24Jul

By Linda AshokNo Comments

Business, Technology

Space Tech Startups: For VCs, it’s More than a Jab on the Edge of Space

Space tech startups lure global venture capitalists as Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson complete their edge of the space mission! Global space tech startups are now enjoying the new wave attracting more investments than ever. For venture capitalists, space tech startups are the next most lucrative sector after edtech. Collectively, the world didn't solve pressing climate challenges, but determined space tech as an urgent and timely goal before NASA issued a lockdown on space voyages suspecting extraterrestrial invasion. Space tech startup funding comprises venture funding for space travel, satellite manufacturing, aerospace technology, etc. This would mean that venture capitalists have a buffet of choices when space technology is a $200 billion market spanning startups manufacturing product...