In a world where game-changing innovation has become the norm, the Digital Transformation Initiative (DTI) provides a unique insight into the impact of new technology on business and society over the next decade.The past 12 months brought such an array of exciting new ideas to market that it is now almost ‘normal’ to expect game-changing innovations to come off the product line every week.The...

LG is the latest to file a patent for a foldable device, but this time rumors claim that the company really does plan to launch such a product in the near future.In its patent, which was recently filed in its home country of South Korea, LG’s diagrams seem to show that this display wraps around the outside of the actual phone/tablet hybrid. There’s a place on the side of the device when in ph...

The hype behind augmented reality tech has been giving a lot of display manufacturers the motivation to rethink how modern displays work.Current optics technologies being used by HoloLens, Vuzix and Magic Leap all rely on a complicated high-end type of waveguide display technology that utilizes lenses with etched structures that capture and diffract light being projected into the edge of the gl...

Cyberattacks, cyberbreaches, cybercrime. These are not new problems, and they are universally acknowledged to be costly, pervasive, and increasingly sophisticated. Each week new breaches become public, most recently an incident at a large internet service provider that had gone unnoticed for more than two years. The best defense against such intrusions is cyberresilience—building in both the c...

San Francisco health startup Forward recently opened its first medical clinic promising a look at the gadget-filled, AI-driven, doctor's office of the future.The reception area in a Forward medical clinicThe exam room on-screen display integrates all the patient's data into an AI controlled touchscreen interfaceEvery member can access all their medical data through a smartphone app which also a...

“Problems sometimes involve human error, so full automation enhances the safety level.”In a nation where food safety is so elusive that even some chicken eggs have been found to be fake, China’s consumers have good reason to be skeptical about their groceries. That’s forced many food processors to look for novel ways to highlight the wholesomeness of their products. But few have gone to suc...

Airfares have cratered to the lowest level in seven years. But there is no ticket price low enough to make up for the biggest downside of commercial air travel: other people.The online travel agency Expedia polled passengers for a fourth year on the most obnoxious passenger behaviors, and—surprise!—the “rear-seat kicker” yet again turned to be passengers’ biggest gripe, with 64% of respond...

InGen Dynamics provides you with a solution, an affordable home robot, Aido. Aido is a smart, social robot, a helpful companion at home. The company aims to join robotic revolution by placing Aido in every home.As an interactive personal robot, Aido offers all-in-one package, it offers you home automation, assistance, security, entertainment, and many more. this robot can play with your kids, h...

Which trends may disrupt business? How could consumer habits change? Will biometrics be big? Is the tablet market in decline? What’s the one automotive feature that could save thousands of lives in 2017? These and other questions are explored in our 2017 Predictions. As the pace of technological change becomes exponentially faster, it is increasingly difficult to identify the major trends that...