7.2 Areas of emerging technology and innovative applications within a commercial and domestic context
Extended Reality
AR-Augmented Reality
VR-Virtual Reality
MR-Mixed Reality
Combines Real world and Virtual world environments
When a concept or object is brought to life which would otherwise only be imagined
3D computer generated world, which can be interacted with.
VR used by many military organisations to train troops.
Overlays digital with physical elements and allows interaction between them (AR just overlays). For example
cogs could be turned or zoomed in on by hand gestures.
Applications of 3D Printing
3D printing in essence is taking a digital file and producing a
3D model from the information in the file.
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The process is known as an Additive Process, which means
that thin layers of material are added on top of each other
until the object is completed.
3D printing uses only one machine to manufacture
an item
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A 3D printer will only use the exact amount of material to
create an object
This is due to the process being additive, so when the object
is finished the process stops.
The object is made from a digital file where the object has
been designed using a CAD package.
Uses of 3D printing
Architectural scale models
Props for theatre and film
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AI
Computer systems designed to perform tasks that would require human intelligence.
Strong AI
Can carry out a range of functions and
can then eventually learn to solve new problems.
Weak AI
the AI, is focused
on one task e.g. diagnostic based on user input.
Applications of AI
Speech recognition
Visual perception
Decision making
Language translation
Machine Learning
Where computer systems automatically learn and improve with experience without being programmed.
Deep Learning
Imitates how a human brain works in respect to the processing of data and creation of patterns in order to make decisions.
IOT
Four Pillars of IOT
People>Data>Process>Things
Benefits to utilizing IOT
E-Commerce
Personal Use
Transport
Financial
Drones
An aircraft without a pilot,crew or people onboard
Drone types of control
RPA-Remotely Piloted Aircraft
Semi autonomous-Can fly on an autopilot for extended periods
Fully Automated flying with no human interaction.
Drones provide military with surveillance 24/7 eye in the sky. The drone can be airborne for 17hrs.
In the UK you must pass a test with the CAA- Civil Aviation Authority to legally fly a drone.
Never fly more than 120m above the surface
DNA as a data storage
DNA already encodes all of the data required to make life, making an ideal storage solution for digital data too.
DNA can be represented in four different states using nitrogenous bases:
adenine (A), cytosine (C), thymine (T), and guanine (G).
Energetic cost- DNA in a encapsulated in a tightly sealed shell with an inert atmosphere should preserve DNA for time ahead.
every nucleus of every cell in your body holds 800 MB
of information.
Human cell nucleus has a diameter of ~10 μm = be 12 000 000 bits/μm3,
ONE gram of DNA can store 215 petabytes of data (215,000) terabytes.
Quantum Computer
A standard computer works in a binary state e.g. 0 and 1 – On / Off
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A Quantum Computer works based on the Probability of the state e.g.
Quantum State, before it is measured or observed. This is a qubit.
They view qubits as being on/off or in both. This is known as Superposition
Each qubit is in superposition
Pairs of qubits can be entangled, which means the state, superposition of one
qubit cannot be changed without altering the other qubit its entangled to.
Quantum teleportation is a technique for transferring quantum
information from a sender at one location to a receiver some distance away.
Quantum Key Distribution
This is a process of encoding a Classical Encryption Key being coded into
qubits.
The qubits are sent to the receiver who measures the qubits to gain the key
values.
Quantum computers use
Analysis of big data sets
Maths and science problem solving