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Rotating skyscraper set for Dubai in 2020

November 15, 2017 by Innovation for Africa - No Comments

A shape-shifting, rotating skyscraper is set for Dubai by 2020The 80-storey tower will constantly be changing shape as residents choose to rotate their homes, according to architectural firm Dynamic Group. The 80-storey Dynamic Tower will be the world’s first skyscraper made up of separate rotatin ...

Get to your location easier with what 3 words

November 10, 2017 by Innovation for Africa - No Comments

Have you ever been frustrated after your GPS sat-nav mapping function automatically disengages as you reach your destination? Or it misses your intended address by a whole block? Not anymore.what3words is a global grid of 57 trillion 3mx3m squares. Each square has a 3 word address that can be commun ...

What lies ahead of us in Africa in terms of networking and communications as 5G technology looms?

November 9, 2017 by Innovation for Africa - No Comments

The most important thing to understand right now is that the standards for 5G have not been finalized yet “with 5G specifications unlikely to be finished before 2018 at the earliest, that means anything deployed before and around 2020 will be pre-specification and hence not guaranteed to be aligne ...

Innovations in Cars

November 1, 2017 by Innovation for Africa - No Comments

Self-driving cars may not be available for the masses yet, but car manufacturers are already decking out their newer vehicles with some innovative technologies.The most high-tech features to look out for are:Vehicle-to-vehicle communicationVehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructur ...

Statistics and the influence they have on innovation

October 27, 2017 by Innovation for Africa - No Comments

Statistics are an invaluable tool; without which, we’d have difficulty in making sense of the world around us. Without statistics, there’d be no standard for measuring data. Without this standard, we’d lose control and predictability over our environment. Just imagine not being able to know wh ...

Addressing Mental Health and Innovations

October 27, 2017 by Innovation for Africa - No Comments

This year, Google launched a depression screening test that appears alongside search results for depression-related queries. Many companies offer Employee Assistance Programs, which provide support or benefits to employees with personal and/or work-related issues. And the National Alliance on Mental ...

Innovation in Transportation

October 19, 2017 by Innovation for Africa - No Comments

There have been many advances in the transport sector. Most of them have been in trailer technology or in the fuel saving abilities of the engine. Based in California, Peloton Technologies, an automated vehicle technology company solving truck crashes and fuel use challenges faced by the trucking in ...

Cyber Security Awareness Month

October 13, 2017 by Innovation for Africa - No Comments

Since 2004, the United States and other countries around the world have used this opportunity to educate, providing tools and training to help arm us against the daily threats that go hand-in-hand with the dynamic technology we enjoy in our personal and business lives. Even if you have chosen strong ...

The future of world energy

October 12, 2017 by Innovation for Africa - No Comments

According to the director general of State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, the world’s biggest challenge is energy poverty, as 2 billion people around the world are being "constrained" in terms of their access to power.Speaking on a panel at Russian Energy Week 2017, Alexey Likhachev said that ...

Innovation in Construction

October 5, 2017 by Innovation for Africa - No Comments

Concrete is one of the most common construction materials used in the world. It is cheap, strong and easy to make. Concrete allows cities to build skyscrapers, builds levees to hold back flood waters, and bridges to help roads stretch across the land. Concrete technology dates back to the ancient Ro ...

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