Flash Technology

07/02/2022

The company is engaged in the development of new inventions in innovative areas of modern society. We also promote humanistic goals and ideas for the economy and society on the market.

07/02/2022

07/02/2022

07/02/2022

Tired of the color on your car? A new innovation from BMW will let you change it at the touch of a button.
At CES, the luxury automaker introduced the iX Flow featuring E Ink, a concept that would allow owners to change the exterior color of their car by pressing a button.
BMW said the SUV featuring the iX Flow tech at CES includes a specially developed body wrap stimulated by electrical signals to change the color of the vehicle's exterior.
"In the future, digital experiences will not only take place on displays. The real and the virtual will increasingly merge," said Frank Weber, a member of BMW AG's board of management, in a statement. "With the BMW iX Flow, we are bringing the car body to life."

07/02/2022

Researchers are developing a new technology that uses hand gestures to carry out commands on computers.

The prototype, called "Typealike," works through a regular laptop we**am with a simple affixed mirror. The program recognizes the user's hands beside or near the keyboard and prompts operations based on different hand positions.

A user could, for example, place their right hand with the thumb pointing up beside the keyboard, and the program would recognize this as a signal to increase the volume. Different gestures and different combinations of gestures can be programmed to carry out a wide range of operations.

The innovation in the field of human-computer interaction aims to make user experience faster and smoother, with less need for keyboard shortcuts or working with a mouse and trackpad.

07/02/2022

07/02/2022

In contrast to common perceptions, plastic is in no way near one material. Rather, it is a combination of many materials (polymers) with different chemical compounds and additives such as pigments or fibers, depending on its use. It is very difficult to tell the difference between different types of plastics, and this is what makes it difficult to separate and recycle them.
In collaboration with Vestforbrænding, Dansk Affaldsminimering Aps, and PLASTIX, researchers from the Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering at Aarhus University have now developed a new camera technology that can see the difference between 12 different types of plastics (PE, PP, PET, PS, PVC, PVDF, POM, PEEK, ABS, PMMA, PC and PA12). Together, these constitute the vast majority of household plastic types.
The technology makes it possible to separate plastics based on a purer chemical composition than is possible today, and this opens up for completely new opportunities to recycle plastics. The technology has been tested at pilot scale and is planned to be implemented at PLASTIX and Dansk Affaldsminimering Aps in spring 2022.
"With this technology, we can now see the difference between all types of consumer plastics and several high-performance plastics. We can even see the difference between plastics that consist of the same chemical building blocks, but which are structured slightly differently. We use a hyperspectral camera in the infrared area, and machine learning to analyze and categorize the type of plastic directly on the conveyor belt. The plastic can then be separated into different types. It's a breakthrough that will have a huge impact on all plastics separation," says Associate Professor Mogens Hinge, who is heading the project at Aarhus University.

07/02/2022

Trends of 2022 — The year of virtual reality:
* Healthtech: Technology within the health sector has grown by approximately 37% this year, from USD$38.5bn in 2019 to an expected USD$52.5bn by the end of 2020 in Venture Capital investment. This increase is proportionally related to the COVID-19 crisis, as technological solutions were globally sought to address the global pandemic, from which we highlight telemedicine, IoT in medical devices and AI used to track the spread of the virus.
* Direct to consumer: The multiples and long lockdown periods led people to change their consumption habits, resulting in the closure and fewer visits in stores and restaurants, forcing these businesses to give a try into new online platforms to provide delivery service. Within the food sector, multiple solutions excelled among virtual supermarkets, digital wholesalers and distributors, as well as on-demand delivery platforms that helped the world’s population migrate to a virtual reality. For further information about the Digital Retail Food Services industry, direct to this article.
* Offline to Online: Digitalization accelerated in today’s context; traditional businesses found the need to digitalized. Within these efforts, there are startups that have allowed this transformation process to be easier for businesses through tools enabled by Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Big Data, etc. For example, some startups driving this change are: Mmuze in Israel, Intouch in Ireland, and LoveLocal in India.
* Social Distancing: It is the most obvious result of this pandemic. From work-from-home tools to online events platforms, technology development increased to drive this trend. Some technologies that are used within the future of work are: augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality. Some examples of startups in this space are Magic Leap, Spatial and Tandem in the US.
* Ghost Kitchens: The restaurant and food sector experienced a profound transformation this year, derived from the confinements and the need for restaurants to serve the masses of customers who shifted to the digital world, from which it has been notorious the adoption of ghost kitchens, virtual restaurants, kitchensas-a-service, kitchen aggregators and prop-kitchens. Some startups creating this ecosystem globally are: Mimic in Brazil, Kitopi in UAE, Nextbite and Kitchen United in the US. For further information about the Kitchen Multiverse, please direct to this article.
2022 is presented as the year of the renaissance to the new normal. The expectation is that the pandemic will continue at least the first half of the year and daily life will gradually re-establish under a hybrid reality. It is important to emphasize that some habits established during the pandemic will be perpetual, and some others will return to normal.
Nonetheless, there are trends that we’ll see next year that are driven by the unprecedented context and some others that have been driven by the natural development of the market. We also consider that the level of popularity of each of them varies according to its impact expectation. The trends we consider will arise in 2022 are shown in the following graph