10 Breakthrough Technologies

MIT Technology Review presents these 10 breakthrough technologies. They will affect the economy and our politics, improve medicine, or influence our culture. Some are unfolding now; others will take a decade or more to develop.

One of those technologies is PAYING WITH YOUR FACE, which you can do now. Face-detecting systems in China now authorize payments, provide access to facilities, and track down criminals. Will other countries follow?

Windows 7 | Software Recovery

Microsoft has recently launched a new website that enables you to recover and install Microsoft Windows 7 purchased through a retailer.

This site will help you accomplish the following:

• Create a Windows 7 DVD for installation on a new hard drive
• Create a backup Windows 7 DVD
• Create a bootable USB drive with a copy of Windows 7

Make sure you have a reliable internet connection and sufficient data storage available. You also need a valid Windows 7 product key to start the process.

Head on over to Microsoft Software Recovery if you need to recover your Windows 7 product or create a backup for later.

User Support Editorial Report – January 2015

Latest Technology

Quantum Credit Cards:

In a report issued last month, a team of scientists from the Netherlands is proposing a security system for credit cards and passports that would leverage the power of quantum physics. Dubbed quantum-secure authentication (QSA), the technology uses a strip of nanoparticles on the card that would be virtually impossible to hack. Read on...                               

Tips & Tricks

Best Free Panorama Software
How to Resize Icons in Windows 8.1
Backing up the Outlook Address Book
Rename Email Accounts and Mailbox Folders
How to Manage Attachments in Outlook 2013

 

 Computer Safety

Make Your Entire Internet Life More Secure in One Day:

From chat encryption to secure backups, time to find the easiest ways to make your online life secure without causing too much inconvenience..  Read on...

 

 

Bonus Video of the Month

User Support Editorial Report – July 2014

Holovision: Life Size Hologram

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MYO - Armband Gesture Control

The MYO armband lets you use the electrical activity in your muscles to wirelessly control your computer, phone, and other favorite digital technologies.

Using groundbreaking technology, MYO is able to measure electrical activity in your muscles instantly. The result is a seamless way to interact with computers, and a truly magical sense of control. Pre-order for $149.

IBM Watson Healthcare

IBM has taken a major step forward with partners Memorial Sloan Kettering and WellPoint in putting IBM Watson to work in healthcare.

On Friday, February 8th, the team unveiled the first commercially-developed Watson-based breakthroughs. These innovations have the potential to help transform the quality and speed of care — and the entire healthcare industry — through individualized evidence-based medicine.

via IBM Watson

A Day Made of Glass 2

Corning’s expanded vision for the future of glass technologies. This video continues the story of how highly engineered glass, with companion technologies, will help shape our world.

IBM's "Next Five in Five"

2012 forecast of inventions that will change your world in the next five years; how computers will mimic the senses:

Touch:        You will be able to reach out and touch through your phone

Sight:          A pixel will be worth a thousand words

Hearing:      Computers will hear what matters

Taste:         Digital taste buds will help you to eat healthier

Smell:         Computers will have a sense of smell

Building a Smarter World

"First Retail 3-D printing store" in the U.S.

MakerBot, the unofficial leader of the hobbyist 3-D printing movement, has opened a consumer store located in the posh Manhattan neighborhood of NoHo.

The first full MakerBot retail experience in the world, will give customers the unprecedented opportunity to experience the MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer, live and in-person. Stop in to watch MakerBots at work, learn about 3D design and 3D printing, and leave with an authentic MakerBot-made gift for you or someone you think is cool enough to have it.

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T(ether)

T(ether) is a novel spatially aware display that supports intuitive interaction with volumetric data. The display acts as a window affording users a perspective view of three- dimensional data through tracking of head position and orientation. T(ether) creates a 1:1 mapping between real and virtual coordinate space allowing immersive exploration of the joint domain.

The system creates a shared workspace in which co-located or remote users can collaborate in both the real and virtual worlds. This allows input through capacitive touch on the display and a motion-tracked glove. When placed behind the display, the user’s hand extends into the virtual world, enabling the user to interact with objects directly.

Soundmachines

Rather clever device or as they have called it, an instrument for performing electronic music.

Three units, which resemble standard record players, translate concentric visual patterns into control signals for further processing in any music software. The rotation of the discs, each holding three tracks, can be synced to a sequencer.

This is what you get:

Flexible 3D AMOLED Display

Samsung Mobile Display produced a short video (in Korean) showing a transparent, flexible 3D AMOLED display based tablet. This is just a concept device, and it should take years before commercialization of the product.

We will be waiting to service it:

SoftPerfect Network Scanner

SoftPerfect Network Scanner is a free multi-threaded IP, NetBIOS and SNMP scanner with a modern interface and many advanced features. It is intended for both system administrators and general users interested in computer security. The program pings computers, scans for listening TCP/UDP ports and displays which types of resources are shared on the network (including system and hidden). 

In addition, it allows you to mount shared folders as network drives, browse them using Windows Explorer, filter the results list and more. SoftPerfect Network Scanner can also check for a user-defined port and report back if one is open. It can also resolve host names and auto-detect your local and external IP range. It supports remote shutdown and Wake-On-LAN.

Key features 

• Pings computers and displays those alive. 
• Detects hardware MAC-addresses, even across routers. 
• Detects hidden shared folders and writable ones. 
• Detects your internal and external IP addresses. 
• Scans for listening TCP ports, some UDP and SNMP services. 
• Retrieves currently logged-on users, configured user accounts, uptime, etc. 
• You can mount and explore network resources. 
• Can launch external third party applications. 
• Exports results to HTML, XML, CSV and TXT 
• Supports Wake-On-LAN, remote shutdown and sending network messages. 
• Retrieves potentially any information via WMI. 
• Retrieves information from remote registry, file system and service manager. 
• It is absolutely free, requires no installation, and does not contain any adware/spyware/malware. 

Download link: SoftPerfect Network Scanner, SoftPerfect website