Technology

June 1, 2018

Use Your Smart Phone to Check Your Blood Pressure

Many people with heart conditions must wear a blood pressure monitoring machine to keep track of their heart health. These can be very large and awkward to keep on you, much like the one above. For decades, people have been wishing that there was a more portable and convenient way […]
July 11, 2018

Drones are the future of food

In the 20th century, if you ordered pizza, Chinese, or sub sandwiches, you knew your pizza was going to be delivered by a kid in a crappy car or even a bike. It’s become a cultural icon having a pizza delivery man a common sight in day to day life. […]
September 7, 2018

The Skywalker Hand

Star Wars is the modern-day Odyssey. It has dazzled movie-goers since its initial release. The classic scene where Luke Skywalker loses his hand gave rise to the next scene, where Luke is given an artificial one. His high-tech prosthetic was nearly indiscernible from the real thing. While we don’t have […]
October 27, 2018

Apple vs Gray Shift

Our phones have some very sensitive data on them. They often have our credit card information, bank account information and personal communications. It is essential that this data stays protected with encrypted locks on the phone. Apple has committed to keeping iPhones encrypted so that no one would be able […]
November 4, 2018

Neural Machine Translation

From search engines, to online documents, to language translation, Google has been a leader in the technology industry for decades. Several years ago, Google started to dip it’s toes into Neural Machine Translating (NMT) — essentially teaching a machine a language similar to how the human brain learns languages. It […]