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Jim Ligotti
Today, it’s still in that business, but COVID-19 put a further dent in it. Luckily, Reality Interactive has spent years diversifying into anything from web design to building security.Amid COVID-19, it s even pivoted into providing services and products specifically designed for pandemic protocols.
For example, last year it began making and selling an internet of things (IoT) door lock/ entry product that scans peoples’ temperature and requires them to answer pre-set questions in order to gain entry.
It’s a product that aims to help make the workplace a safer place amid concerns about the spread of a deadly virus.
Sample Management: Past, Present, and Future
insights from industryNeil BennManaging Director & FounderZiath Ltd.
In this interview, News-Medical talks to Neil Benn, Managing Director at Ziath, about the role they play
in the sample management industry and the exciting technologies on the horizon.
Please could you give an overview of Ziath and what they do?
Ziath was formed about 15 years ago by myself and a colleague, Tim Dilks. We determined that the technologies to be used for sample management in the lab, such as the tracking of tubes with medical, biological, chemical samples, et cetera, were quite difficult to use.
Our aim was to democratize sample management by making equipment that was easy to use and developed by the people who worked in the field.
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Project Loon was developed in Google s secretive X Lab by the same team behind Google Glasses and the driverless car.
It had aimed to bring connectivity to areas of the world where building cell towers is too expensive or treacherous – such as parts of Africa, south-east Asia and the Amazon.
Developing countries that couldn t cover the high cost of laying fibre cables to get online were hoped to benefit from the project, leading to a dramatic increase in internet access.
Loon had said that once the project is up and running, the balloons could supply internet to an area of about 780 square miles – twice the size of New York City.
Have you finished that sandwich? If not, it’s classified as contraband
Alistair Dabbs Fri 15 Jan 2021 // 09:30 UTC Share
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Something for the Weekend, Sir? What was the big story of 2020? With the luxury of two weeks hindsight, I think we can all agree: it was, of course, the year autonomous vehicles failed to go mainstream again.
Five years ago, you might have been excused for thinking they were already rolling off the production line (that ll be their dodgy brakes) but then they just vanished like a pantomime genie in a puff of low-emissions diesel exhaust. It was as if manufacturers were hoping that by talking up EVs so much, we d forget AVs ever existed – which in a very real sense they didn t.
Evolution In A Nutshell
Putting recent human evolutionary history in a nutshell: the period before Homo sapiens is known as the Lower Stone age, and that gave way to the Middle Stone Age, where we began developing simple stone, wood and rope tools. In the Late Stone Age, the skill sets that were developed using these tools became craft disciplines, and the rapid advancements in technologies started at that time haven’t stopped since, leading to our current state, as tool wielding monkeys with big aspirations. Note: I said that last bit, not the researchers at the Max Planck Institute .