Thursday, December 13, 2012

Innovations 2012- year back and forth


A year in the communication era is quite a long time. Minds capable of changing the cosmic vagaries had been pushing their limits to conceptualize what  we earlier never thought of using .The scintillating year is sailing through and has brought along the successful tidings of many innovations and ingenious concepts. The paraphernalia of events has built upon a fantastic cinematography for the genres in the likes of Entertainment, Information Technology, Retail Business, Automotive et al.
We will take a look on some of the maverick advancements in following lines.
Information Technology: Comprehensively most of the innovations has been in the Information technology field, and has brought forward some groundbreaking concepts which are too awe inspiring.
Brainwave headband has been debuted in Paris wherein a computer window aka screen is inside your mind.
An Indian Innovator has won $50,000 to realize his concept of touch-screen Braille devices.
MIT media lab has worked on to develop a bulb called LuminAR which will make any surface a touch-screen where ever it illuminates.

Automotive industry has witnessed some fantastic innovations, which have given a whole new idea of driving.
TOYOTA is testing cars for one of its concepts which ideates communication between vehicles on the road and live feeds to entail maximum road safety and accidents prevention.
Subaru’s eyesight anti-collision system brakes automatically when moving under 19 mph to prevent any probable accidents, and alerts driver on higher speeds (also tries to apply brakes if driver doesn’t do anything).

Biomimicry: a term given to using nature as a source of inspiration for sustainable technological advancements.
A team of young entrepreneurs has prototyped a self filling bottle with water, mimicking the Namib desert beetle. This beetle can pull water from air and in the same lines this prototype has been conceptualized. 
Agriculture:
Malaysian venture for Autopot systems where each plant in its pot has automated delivery of water and nutrients and this has helped the farmers in saving their efforts and time to invest in other tasks, besides optimizing the usage of water and nutrients.

Retail Brilliance shines off with more ideas of service offerings to consumers.
Dollar save razor where the startup offers monthly subscriptions of quality razors using direct-to-consumer manufacturer method.
BeachMint a California based company has started using personalized recommendation to their shoppers based on their designer preferences.

Entertainment: The celluloid unfurls more of its wings to deliver the extravaganza. Some of them are lined up in following lines.
 GoPro camera, created by Nick Woodman, has changed the video filming methods entirely to present the views which were never possible before.
Vyclone: an application which can connect four cameras (till date and is working for more) in any place and make your device an editor of their videos.
Dolby Atmos: has again revolutionized the movie experience by providing a sound pattern over head also, besides in your right, left, front and back.  Overkill? May be but it is almost a 4D for your ears.

 With the advent of the most festive season of the year there are plenty of opportunities to be cashed. The Retail business and online marketing has been mushrooming at a very fast pace. The ignition had started with Diwali in India and Thanksgiving in western worlds and now the stage unfolds for the bigger game.  In most of the countries merchants starts preparing from October and in Canada after Halloween. Retail Innovations get one through tough weathers and also bottom-line gains. Promotional pricing masquerade the shelf goods and more so with innovation leverage.  Now time alone remains as factor which will provide aplomb to the revelation of any new technique across the world in the year end.
Keep watching.

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