You may have missed it two years ago when Harold Haas demonstrated the first commercially available Li-Fi system at the 2014 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The man who coined the term Li-fi itself showed the world how this emerging, and very cool technology, can actually work as a consumer product. But you won’t be able to miss it soon. Li-Fi is about to go mainstream.
We have been looking for a quality video editing software for years. And while some have come close, they end up failing due to their lack of features, high cost, or complicated interface. But this is not the case with our latest find—Renderforest. If you are looking for an affordable high-quality online video editing platform, then this is probably going to fit the bill.
You have probably noticed that your social media updates quickly get buried under other updates. In fact, it would seem they are only at the top of the news feed for a millisecond before being trumped by the latest cat video or restaurant-booking app. Worse yet, your followers and connections most likely check their accounts randomly, not every time you happen to post an update. It is a miracle that your updates are seen by anyone at all.
Business communications technology has evolved drastically over the past decade. When we started VTSL nearly 10 years ago, there were only a handful of business VoIP providers in the UK, and VoIP was still considered a ‘new’ technology. Nowadays IP business phone systems are seen as standard. The same is true of several other communications innovations, all which have the power to improve efficiency and collaboration at your organisation—some of which you may not be using.
We hear the word disruptive a lot with regard to successful and aspiring technologies: game-changing tech; tech that shifts the status quo and displaces previous tech. But what is really disruptive tech these days? Most of us probably feel like we haven’t seen any earth-shattering innovations for a while, but rather incremental progressions that were no surprise at all.
In the not too distant future, you are likely to live in a world underpinned by blockchain—the technology behind the cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. The technology has instigated a new generation of young companies looking to invent applications, and we are already beginning to see the results. Imagine being able to vote in the upcoming Brexit referendum on your phone, or make an offer, complete an exchange on a new flat in an afternoon? As unpractical as this sounds, it is where we are headed.
You come home after a long day of work. Hungry, thinking about leftover pizza, you say: Turn on oven to 180. Feeling slightly chilly, you say: Turn heat up to to 22. Then you ask, What TV shows are on now that I would like... only to hear a familiar voice tell you Top Gear is starting in 10 minutes. As you enter each room, the lights automatically come on to your desired night-time level and you throw yourself on to the inviting sofa.
We have had a few ideas lately about where technology is heading, spurred on not only by our own experiences with clients, but also from what we are seeing from other technology providers.
From bendy TVs that you hang like a picture, to virtual-reality headsets that can transport you far away, to the glass tables that we will soon be conducting meetings on – the technology on the brink of becoming ‘mainstream’ is the stuff of movies, dreams and elite government sects. Some years, it feels like technological progress is happening, but slowly—the internet is still the internet, apps are still the latest rage and phones are rather unremarkably able to take better pictures. But THIS year, it feels like technological progress is about to deliver an explosion of products, interfaces, and sheer genius integrations that will absolutely blow your mind.
