Tag: Digital Transformation

A tattoo can help protect people from sexual assault. Whereas a non-profit organisation in Berlin is focusing on how to combat gender-based violence within relationships. The group’s app allows those affected to keep an incident log, which serves as proof in court proceedings. Additionally, information is available on different types of violence. For security reasons, details of the app,...

A simple system could protect cars from unauthorised entry. Log-ins, passwords and, most recently, passkeys, do the same job for email or other online accounts. Service provider logs record access, also recognising devices and IP-addresses. But experienced hackers with knowledge of this private information can use this to mask their own details during login to falsify records. Staying undetected...

A new method of calculation prevents location data from being exposed. Digitalisation means more and more data is being generated. Now, an international research team from England and Australia has developed a new magnetic molecule to improve storage capacity. The team sandwiched the rare earth element dysprosium between two nitrogen atoms. A hard drive made up of such molecules...

Smart home devices needn’t reveal users’ data. A ring could perform a similar function in public. Navigation and weather apps (along with many others) store users’ location data. Now, a university team from Munich has developed a new method to prevent such data being used to infer private information. The basis for the method is a digital grid system...

The right outfit can help people relax. But comfort is also a must for those who wear prosthetic limbs. Enter a London-based startup which is aiming to ensure artificial and real body parts fit perfectly together. The team’s smart liner stems from a university project and is padded with an elastic silicone insert with embedded air chambers. The insert...

A digital pen can detect and translate Braille in real time. Now, a Swiss startup has developed smart glasses to help blind people or those with limited vision detect obstacles and move around safely. Two radar sensors in the frames, which run for six hours on a single charge, scan the area above chest-level. An algorithm then analyses the...

New wheelchairs can be controlled by head movements. Now, a Californian startup has developed a wearable ring to operate light switches, fans and air-conditioning units more easily. The ring uses infrared to communicate with an electric switch cover, placed over a rocker switch, at distances of up to 10m. Both ring and switch cover take an hour to charge. Low...

Body-like models present new possibilities for testing medical products. But the road to market maturity is paved with long-term clinical studies into the efficacy and side effects of new medicines. Having products fail during testing is disheartening, destroying hopes of a cure and using up research funds. Which is why a London-based startup has developed a platform to examine...