Cyber Attacks and Industrial Espionage – How Safe Are You?

Recently, there have been a growing number of reports in the press highlighting the issues of cyber attacks as a growing threat to companies. From eHarmony to LinkedIn, it is estimated that in the US alone, cyber-espionage has cost businesses $14 billion. While a company’s intellectual property and data are threatened, it is their reputation […]

Biometrics for Bars

Biometrics refers to the identification of humans by their individual biological characteristics, such as fingerprints, voice, DNA and Iris. The idea of biometric identification has been around for some time, initially in the realm of science fiction. But with the advent of cheaper technology, the identification methods have been used in a number of areas, […]

Virtual Patient

Touchscreen technology has gone from strength to strength within a few years. Although the technology has been around since the 70’s, it has been too costly to manufacture on a commercial scale.  The largest attempt before it became mainstream was by Sega, the games console manufacturer back in the early 90’s. But again they found […]

Wireless Body

Wireless technology or Wi-Fi is nothing new. It has in fact been around for 25 years, and has become progressively omnipresent with advances in technology. Some would say progress has been slow, with Wi-Fi still not openly available on commercial aircraft for example. What could be thought of as a tech boom in the 2000’s […]

Printers: Do They Have a Place in the Future?

The world’s going digital. There are now more screens than ever before – ten times the number there were in the year 2000. 94% of teenagers in the UK own a mobile phone and 63% of their daily communication is done through texting. Schools are pushing to go ‘paperless,’ and e-mail has almost brought about […]

Memristors: A Memory Device Revolution

Many of us have the good old USB stick; a great invention which has revolutionised the storage and transfer of electronic data. The explosion in the popularity of digital cameras spawned the emergence of memory cards and now we have so many varieties, it’s hard to keep up. But there is a similar problem lurking […]


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