Nobel Prize in Physics
FOR their work on “theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”, one half of the Nobel prize in the Physics category was awarded to David J.…
Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology
JAPANESE cell biologist, Tokyo Institute of Technology’s Institute of Innovative Research professor Yoshinori Ohsumi, was awarded with this honour for his discovery of mechanisms for autophagy. Autophagy, from the Greek…
Nobel Peace Prize Bearing Likeness of Alfred Nobel
GENIUS AT WORK
NOBEL Prizes in Physics, Chemistry and Physiology or Medicine recognize revolutionary discoveries that will advance our understanding of the world around us. When Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel read a premature…
Top ICT (Information & Communications Technology) Predictions In Asia Pacific
IN the increasingly digital world, new and emerging innovations are set to disrupt the way people live, work and play. According to youth across the Asia Pacific region, the most…
MORE FUNDS FOR ROBOTICS AND DRIVER-LESS CARS IN UK
THE UK government recently announced extra funding for technologies, including robotics and driver-less cars as part of the year’s budget. Chancellor Philip Hammond announced plans to “enhance the UK’s position as…
APP USES IMAGE RECOGNITION TO IDENTIFY ART
SMARTIFY uses image recognition to identify scanned artworks and provide people with additional information about them. Users can add the works to their own digital collection. The app’s co-founder Thanos Kokkiniotis…
MUST READ: The Inventor’s Dilemma
HAPPY World Intellectual Property Day! A tricky issue that has long plagued inventors and researches who invent potentially commercially useful products or processes is the dilemma whether to: Seek patent rights…
Be Digital Free Trade Zone (DFTZ) ready at ITEX 2017
THE Malaysian government has long acknowledged that digitalisation will change the face of business sooner than we know it. Malaysia’s big push for digitalisation became evident when Prime Minister Datuk Seri…
Growing Trees Into Furniture & Art
THE next time you sit on a wooden chair, don’t be surprised to discovered that the chair has been ‘grown’ and not manufactured in a factory. No nails, fixings or…
From Sci-Fi Dream to Reality
FOR many decades, science fiction films have often shown what they think the future could look like – some were ludicrous, some were realised. However, self-lacing shoes was a…