Technology News and Coding
Samsung has recently come up with a new concept for a smart contact lens that will link to your smartphone. This technology would allow for what they call “augmented reality,” hence the name AR Vision. This will lead to technology being integrated into all parts of the human body.
A company has recently invented an amazing new product that allows for blind and visually impaired people to have the chance to take part in the technology of today. This is a tablet that has the ability to have a transformable braille surface that updates with the tablet. This device is called BLITAB. This product will afford many people the ability to take advantage of tablet and multitouch technology.
Back to the Future had a very interesting image of where our world was going to be, technologically speaking. This included flying cars, hover boards, self fitting clothing (and shoes) and more. Some we have seen already and some people are still working towards. But Nike has just recently released their HyperAdapt 1.0, the first shoes with power lacing.
These cells are created by Ubiquitous Energy. According to the MIT Technology Review, they started working on this project back in 2013. Now three years later they are almost ready to bring their product to market. As they say on their website (link above), their ClearView Power Technology will allow for any transparent surface to gather solar power without losing its transparency.
Primo Toys, a UK based company, has recently released a new product. This product will allow the children of today to be more logically and technologically in tune people. They call their amazing new product Cubetto. This adorable little cube has been designed to interact with the accompanying board, allowing children to learn logical processes, without the need for a screen or even the ability to read.
The Human Media Lab (HML) at Queen’s University has just come out with a prototype for a bendable touch screen smartphone. They call it ReFlex. This phone not only bends, but reacts to how it is being bent. This phone is an incredible advancement in the field of mobile devices. With the recent outbreak of people complaining about their iPhone 6 bending in their pocket, this phone will solve all of their problems, because not only can it bend, it is supposed to.
Back in 2013, Google acquired a Canadian company that claimed to have designed a quantum computer. This computer was designed by a company called D-Wave. Ever since Google purchased this company, there has been controversy over the legitimacy of its ability to actually compute things using quantum physics. Optimally a quantum computer should be able to compute answers to optimization problems that would not be able to be computed on a regular computer.
Arrays are very useful to know because they are a standard that is built into C, its children languages (Java, C++, etc) and other languages such as Python. An array allows the programmer to store multiple different variables, of the same type, into a single list that can be called upon as a certain object. This, coupled with loops, makes it unnecessary for the programmer to know how many variables are being stored. It does this by allowing the programmer to create one thing (the array) instead of creating multiple different variables that would all be individually initialized and named.
Java is very versatile in its ability, but can become even more versatile with the integration of user input. One way to have user input is the Scanner Class. This class allows the programmer to scan the keyboard and get input from the user.
Since it is not built into the regular Java library, it needs to be imported. It can be imported like so:
or
Note: All imports are declared at the top of the program before the main method like so:
Scientists at the University of Southampton have devised a new way to store information. These storage devices allow the user to store information on a circular piece of glass. These pieces of glass are then able to be read and rewritten as the user chooses. These devices can store enormous amounts of information for longer than you will ever need.
