World's smallest 3D printed lens could change surveillance system forever

Almost every aspect of our lives and the things we use is being changed by the introduction of 3DP. Planting of surveilance cameras like many other aspect of technology is about changing completely with the advent of 3D printing technology. 

The world's tiniest 3D printed lens

News coming out of Germany suggets this innovation has achieved something very remarkable again with the creation of  the world's tiniest lens that was 3D printed, which according to the scientists that made it, is just twice the width of a human hair, that's really ridiculously small for a lens. 

This lens could revolutionalize not just surveillance cameras but also health imaging, robotics and drone techs said the makers. Dr Timo Gissibl (Stuttgart University, Germany) and some of his colleagues explained in a published paper in the Nature Photonics of this week, how they3D printed a triplet lens devices by combining three of the lenses into a 'Pinhead' device. 

He continued that this Pinhead device is really capable of razor sharp pictures and can be printed directly onto image sensors other than optical fibres, such as those used in digital cameras, or even the tip of an endoscope ( a camrea used for internal examination of organs). 

When put into perspective, one will understand how this technology will even affect the current electronic pill being produced, as it requires lens of such tiny nature. Continued, Dr Gissibl and colleagues wrote: "Current lens system are restricted in size, shape and dimension by limitations of manufacturing. 

Multi-lens elements with non-spherical shapes are required for high optical performance and to correct aberrations when imaging at wide angles and large fields. Here, we present a novel concept in optics that...Opens the new field of 3D printed micro and nano-optics with complex lens designs." 

They have achieved something very remarkable no doubt in 3D printing, which made them believe that their innovation is a "paradigm shift." 

This 3D printed lens was made by Dr Gissibl and his colleagues by using a device which emits short pulses of light to harden material onto which the 3D multi-lens system could be printed. 

In addition, Dr Gissibl said "that the unprecedented flexibility of our method paves the way towards printed optical miniature instruments such as endoscopes, fibre-imaging systems for cell biology, new illumination systems, miniature optical fibre traps, integrated quantum emitters and detectors, and miniature drones and robots with autonomous vision." 

Wow, what can be integrated with this tiny device can really stretch very far, because our world presently is going more of the way of miniaturization, making things smaller and smaller with eachpassing time.

U.S to Take back the number one spot in Fastest Supercomputer in the world?

When China released the Sunway TaihuLight as the most most powerful computer in the world by some huge margins, well from whispers, IBM was already on the process of developing a better and faster supercomputer, with an insane theoritical speed. 

The U.S Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National LAboratory will be the reciepient of this IBM system known as the Summit in early 2018 according to reports from computerworld. 

The Chinese supercomputer as we know according to Top500, has a Linpack benchmark score of 73 petaflops. But, the system could in theory reach a speed of up to 124.5 petaflops. 

That's some specs, but compare that to what is expected of the monstrous Summit, according to foxtechnology, the rig of Summit will utilize IBM power9 CPUs and Nvidia Volta GPUs to reach a theoritical peak of 200 petaflops. 

This is an indication that Summit could outpace Sunway in the future tests by Top500. The Linpack systems puts supercomputers through their paces in situations that mimic real-world usage, in an attempt to verify practical application.

Also, the U.S plans to take back the title of being home to more supercomputers in the world, currently occupied by the Chinese. 

So the projects in their developmental stage could contribute to the balance shifting in the near future, as IBM system capable of 150 petaflops is being developed for the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, and the Argonne National Lab is to also receive a system built around Intel and Cray.

Zuckerberg's Neighbors in Hawaii Unhappy about his Rock wall

One of the trending news today, is the expression of unhappiness by Facebook's CEO's neighbors  about the rock wall he's building on his property on the north shore island of Kauai. 

According to Press association yesterday, a retiree named Moku Crain told them of how the wall looks so intimidating and forbidden. Mr Crain hopes and expects Zuckerberg will soften the wall's intimidating look by planting foliage around it. 

Still from the unhappy neighbor, "Whereas before when we drove along the road we could see the ocean and see through the property, it's closing off that view, so i think that's part of it. 

Nobody likes change."  Crain said further that the wall was about six feet and that another existing wall on the propert was only about four feet. Few would complain if the new wall was the same height he predicted. 

But according to Lindsay Andrews, a spokeswoman for the billionare's Kauai property operations, the rock wall is designed to reduce highwaay and raod noise, she is also said that similar walls are rouutinely used for this purpose which follows all rules and regulations. 

"Our entire team remains committed to ensuring that any development respects the local landscape and environment and is considerate of neighbors," she saidin a statement. 

Other Zuckerberg neigbors told the Garden Island that the wall was oppressive, blocks breezes and views and "doesn't feel neighborly." It's immense, "Gy Hall, a resident, said in an interview with west Hawaii Today. 

"It's really sad that somebody would come in, and buy a huge piece of land and the first thing they do is cut off this view that's been available and appreciated by the community here for years." Others have also described it as a "monstrosity." 

Residents have also put up signs on the rock wall urging Zuckerberg to take it down. But software Engineer Brian Catin said the fence looks nice. He said it's an improvement on tyhe barbed wire fence that was there. 

He said the complaining was limited to "just a few crybabies" and "nobody else cares." "If they wanted to protect the view, they should have bought that land," Catin said. 

"He paid a lot of money for that so he can do what he wants with it. Catin insisted that the rock wall as less than six feet tall because that's how tall he is and he can see it over. Thomas Beebe is another supporter of Zuckerberg's wall. 

"I find that it greatly enhances the natural beauty of the land, appropriately makes use of local materials and serves as a tastef; reminder of an ancient method of defining boundaries, he said. 

Forbes reported Zuckerberg paid over $100 million for the propert, which spans more than 700 acres on the coast, in 2014.

                                     Source: Foxnews

No Will in Independence Day 2 Bad Outing

The expectation for this movie was so high because of the first independent day, where Will Smith as the fearless Captain Steven led his crew/gang to save the world from Alien invasion. 

While most of his crew members return for the sequel, Will was unable to return, which according to the BBC, he complained of tight schedule as the reason behind his exclusion from the movie not from lack of interest though. 

Well Independent day: Resurgence didn't exactly fare too well at the box office in it's domestic opening weekend, as it was able to rake in only $41.6 million when you compare with others like Superman vs Batman: Dawn of Justice and X-Men: the Apoclypse

,the you will begin to grasp how poorly it performed. 

Maybe if Will had featured in the movie, 'maybe' the movie could have been received differently.

The First 3D Printed House in the world

Pictures of the world's first 3D printed house has emerged, and honestly did you think it would first come out from any other place apart from China? Well China has become the first country to 3D print a house, it sounds so 'crazy' but it's an amazing feat. 

A projet of six-and-a-half weeks, which produced a 400 square meter house according to the architects. It is also reported to have a wall as thick as eight-feet, where giant printers used special reinforced concrete to build the villa before it was painted and given finish touches by decorators.

3D printed Home in China

3D printed beautiful home in China

3D printing really is one of the scary technological innovation that will marvel the world still, because at this rate, who knows what might be 3D printed in the future.

Augmented and Virtual Reality continued...

Virtual reality or realities can be explained word for word, with virtual being something close or near, and reality being human experience, meaning that virtual reality can be close reality, bringing the human experience closer. Interresting to know that almost everything we know about our reality comes by way of our senses. 

Meaning that our entire experience of reality or real world is simply a combinatin of sensory information and the sense-mechanism of our brain for that information. Now we can say then, that if you can present your senses with some fabricated information, your perception of reality would also change in response to it, which means you will be presented with a version of reality that's not really there, but something from your fabricated perspective, that will be perceived as real. 

This is what can simply be termed as virtual Reality, that is, presenting our senses with a computer generated virtual environment that we can explore in some ways. So basically that is the no technical definition of VR.

We can also define virtual reality in more technical terms as a three-dimensional, computer generated environment which can be explored and interacted with by a person, who becomes immersed withing this very envirnoment and aslo be able to perform a series of actions or manipulate object in that virtual environment. 

There are systems that can be used to stimulate our senses together in order to create the illusion of reality, systems like a headsets, Special gloves and some goggles. One may even ask, what's the need for virtual reality? well the entertainment value of this innovation is enermous. 

Here, immersive movies and video games are very good examples, but there are other more powerful applications that can use virtual reality in achieving great fits. 
We can see for example, that wherever experiments or things are too dangerous or too expensive to do in reality, virtual reality can be the answere here, like trainee Surgeons, trainee fighter pilots and others can be simulated in the VR, meaning we take virtual risks to gain real world experience. This like i wrote in the first article can change the way we interface with our digital technologies.

Could this simulation be possible with Quantum Computers?

Some of the very special tasks as we know require some cracking of  'brain' from our machines, which these days come with diverse sophistications. I use my normal classical machine (Laptop Computer) to type this article and do some other works meant for this type of machine, which processes data in 1s or 0s, can do some pretty fast calculations per second, and other great stuffs, there are things its not meant to do. 

That's where we will be talking about Quantum computers and some simulation that scientists are working towards achieving with this machine. Before we go into what the simulation is, let us look at what this quantum computer is all about and some stuffs it can do, quantum computer built by the D-Wave for example is one of the most advanced quantum computer in the world, based on a novel type of superconducting processor that uses quantum mechanics to massively accelerate computation. 

Now this machine, rather than stor information as 0s or 1s as mentioned above, a quantum computer uses qubits, this can be a 1 or 0 or both at the same time, which along with quantum effects of entanglement and quantum tunneling, enable quantum computers to consider and manipulate all combinations of bits simultaneously, thus making quantum computation very powerful and fast. This computer though is best suited to tackling complex optimization problems.

Quantum computing

  Quantum computer for very advanced simulation

Scientists have discovered that simulation of virtual particles can be done with the help of quantum computers, according to research, it cold help explain more on currently hidden aspects of the universe, from the hearts of neutron stars to the very first moments of thye universe after the big bang. 

Now interactions between elementary particles are often described with what is known as guage theories, but getting real-time dynamics of particles in guage theories are extremely difficult for the classical or conventional computers to compte, except in the simplest cases, which is where quantum computers come into play according to research. 

These quantum computers were made to simulate the apperance and disappearance of virtual particles in a vacuum, with pairs of qubits representing pairs of virtual particles, electrons and positrons. 
According to the scientists experimenting on advanced simulations using qantum computers, quantum computers can simlate high-energy physics, showing how particles might behave at energy levels that are much too high to be easily generated on Earth. For more visit livescience.com .

Augmented and Virtual Reality...An attempt to understand this wonderful tech

Augmented reality i think is not a technology that started as recent as it`s present popularity suggests, because when one goes back a little bit in the time past, you find out that some gadgets used by some fighter jets in the 1990`s had some element of Augmented reality in it. 

We can i argue that it`s barely the sophisticated tech we have now that was in use then, the truth is that it might not have been what we have now in this present time, but the technique was in use in the fighter jets heads up displays. 

Now augmented reality can be defined in no so technical terms as placing information on the world we see, to improve vastly what we see, i will use a particular word i saw in livescience site, which to me best describe what augmented reality is all about. 

So it means superimposition of information on the world we see, the reality we see, information is superimposed to give us more options in the things we see. An instant example comes to mind if you have watched the Iron Man or the Avengers, where Tony Stark and his friend used it when in their Iron man suits.

Iron man`s Stark with the AR in his suit

When we look at the picture illustration above, it should give us the clearest indication of what AR (Augmented Reality ) is all about. Scientists are still exploring more ways they can integrate this tech in most of the devices we use today, like our smartphones, tablets, etc. and by way of transitioning it into our lives. 

A company (Vito Tech) produced an app called Star Walk app, which allows a user to focuse a camera built into their phone or tablet at the sky and see the names of the stars and planets superimposed on the image (sky), which is one the many ways AR has entered the smatphones and tablets.

So i defined before that this tech has its primary objective of enhancing the options of what you view with the ordinary eyes or better still creates a convenient and natural absorbing environment.

Augmented Reality will not just be confined to Smartphones and tablet only, as it will touch other parts of technology, like it`s presently entering into AR earbuds, which gives you the power to adjust the sounds reaching your ear from the surroundings, thereby giving the user varying options about the sounds that permeats through the ear. 

When we look at the image above, we will realise that Augmented Reality is making inroad into contact lenses, and wearables that will highly integrate this great technology into human everyday life, like the smart glasses being developed for blind people.
 I will continue with Virtual Reality in the next post.

Basic Understanding of IPv6

I know IPv6 is not a new technology per say, but there is every need for many more people to understand atleast the basic workings of this protocol for the internet. IPv6 is a huge, infact gigantic departure from IPv4, the one we are most conversant with, the one on the brink of complete exhaustion. 

IPv4 as many of us rightly know is a 32 bit value or character, which at the time it was introduced, seemed a lot, though they lacked real vision at the time to have limited the address space the way they did (Internet Engineering Task Force), given that it produced exactly 4 294 967 296 (Four Billion, two hundred and Ninety four Million, Nine hundred and sixty seven thousand, two hundred and ninety six) unique combinations. 

I am not supposed to go into IPv4 as the heading says IPv6, but in other to appreciate so much what IPv6 brings to the table, we need to understand IPv4 and know exactly what we are departing and where we need to be. 

IPv4 is seperated into three classes with varying address lenghts, which has class A given a total address lenght of 126 (got from (2ˆ8)-2) please it should be on record that this is the network address, and the first bit of the octet is always set to 0, meaning that the first octet starts from 1-127, e.g of a class A ip address is 255.0.0.0

We should also remember that 127 is reserved for loopback addresses only, effectively making it 126 we got above. The same procedure can be applied in class B, only that there is no loopback addresses in class B.The breaking down of these ip addresses is called subnetting, which we will definitely not go into in this particular article, but maybe in sbsequent articles, we can go into details, the act of subnetting. 

Now into the main business of the day, IPv6, which so nfortunately my country is one of the African countries still lagging far behind in the use and assigning of this protocol. Maybe because there is no red alert yet in the IPv4 registery of African Region. But like i wrote in my previous post, that you can`t begin to imagine IoT if you are not running totally IPv6, because there won`t be just enough space in IPv4. 

The main goal of IPv6 creation is to increase the Internet`s address space, but then, it also has some ehancements to the IPv4, including an autoconfiguration feature, built-in security through the IPsec protocol, more IP header flexibility and simplicity. Most of us are very conversant with the address mode of IPv4 (192.168.1.0) but not many people are very conversant with the way IPv6 is written and ways to assign network and host addresses. 

IPv6 addresses are denoted by eight groups of hexadecimal quartets separated by colons inbetween them, making it instantly differrent from what we know in IPv4. 

Take a look at how IPv6 address looks like, 2001:bdca:0000:0000:0000:0000:2324:0001, now when you look at this address, it is not exactly the easiest address to remember, but wait, we can still do something about the address, to make it a lot easier to write and recall. It can be re-written as 2001:bdca::2324:1, looks simpler and easier to remember i guess, but not as easy as IPv4 we are used to anyway. 

In explanation to the reduced IPv6 address, any four digit group of zeros in an IPv6 address can be replaced with double colon, and the leading zeros can be removed, like the three zeros attached to 1, also, each of the octet is 16-bit long, unlike the IPv4 that is 8 bit long. 

I will not go deeper into the technical part of this IPv6 which was not my intention from the outset, but to atleast let us be able to explain what IPv6 means to anybody.

A little Insight into the infrastructural rquirements for IoT to succeed

Following my previous post on IoT, i pointed to the fact that i will write about the infrastructures neccessary for IoT to work. It will require a huge amount of infrastructural provisions. 

For instance, to run IoT successfully, huge amounts of network reliability will be required and will also requie a very scalable network infrastructure and good bandwith to go with it, for your smartphones to be interconnected with your computer system, connected to your car, connected to your health care implants, connected to your fitness devices, connected to your home automation systems, and so on. 

Well, it won`t be just bandwidth that will need to be steadily provided, because these systems connect to the internet or gateway in a variety of ways, such as long-range Wifi/Ethernet using IP protocols (TCP/UDP, including cellular), short range Bluetooth low energy, short range NFC (Near Field Communication) and others. P-P radio links and serial lines are also used. 

Some devices connect straight to the internet through an IP protocol and some others with specific IoT protocols such as Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) which is a subscribe and publish messaging protocol designed for lightweight machine-to-machine communications, CAP (Constrained Application Protocol), etc. 

Now these devices may need specialized IoT networking hardware to speak to the data center. Think of adding IoT to the current infrastructures on ground as bringing the engine of a Macopolo and then fixing it with benze, think it will be a great fit? That`s my point, IoT requires absolute upgrade in terms of what we have now in the network infrastructure. 

Majority of today`s traditional architectures will  buckle under the inceasing demand of all the connected devices. As more applications are needed to run the setup, traditional infrastructure concerns such as scale and reliability will become paramount, meaning that a robust, scalable, and intelligent infrastructure will be absolutely neccessary to handle huge traffic increment.

To read deeper, please visit www.f5.com/resource.

Ethical questions arising from the driverless car innovation.

Driverless cars are just exceptional innovation that man is working towards. Though still in prototyping stage and testing, driverless cars have the potential to change human nature considerably, giving that a lot of things will give way for this beautiful innovation to thrive. Taking a look into not scientific questions over the workability of this car, but social / ethical questions, the basic human interraction with this innovation and how we see it, both now and the times to come. 

Below is an except i culled from Wall Street Journal concerning this qestions posted to scientists and engineers working on the mass production / commercial production of these cars... 

In a study published in Science, researchers found people want the cars to be programmed to minimize casualties while on the road. But when asked about what kind of vehicle they might actually purchase, they chose a car that would protect the car occupants first.

The paper describes a series of online surveys that posited various scenarios.

In one, participants were asked to imagine that they are in a self-driving vehicle traveling at the speed limit. Out of nowhere, 10 pedestrians appear in the direct path of the car. Should engineers program the car to swerve off the road in such instances, killing the car occupant but leaving the 10 pedestrians unharmed, or keep going, killing the 10 people?

 In that scenario, 76% of the 182 participants said the moral thing for the car to do was sacrifice the car occupant rather than kill the 10.

Most people, researchers say, intuitively understand that, when viewed through the lens of the greatest good, sacrificing one to save 10 makes sense. But as researchers in the study continued with their surveys, eventually involving over 1,900 people in total, they identified what they call a “social dilemma.”

Researchers asked participants which car they would prefer to actually purchase, one programmed to put a heavier premium on saving more lives, or one that might sacrifice them or family members in the name of the greater good.

In that case, participants “preferred the self-protective model for themselves,” the researchers wrote.

“Just as we work through the technical challenges, we need to work through the psychological barriers,” said Iyad Rahwan, associate professor of media arts and the sciences at the MIT Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of the authors of the paper.

 The new research offered variations of what is known as the “trolley problem,” a cornerstone of modern ethical inquiry that social scientists use to illuminate potential moral conflicts. 

In a classic version of the trolley problem, researchers ask a person to imagine being on a trolley racing toward a group of workers. The person has an option of flipping a lever to move the trolley to another track where it would hit only one worker.

The essential difference, some ethicists argue, involves taking an action that doesn't intend to kill someone versus actively causing the death of one. Variations of these thought experiments test how people might make different choices—say, if the potential casualties are children, the elderly or a pregnant woman. 

The future of Transport Tech with Hyperloop

   Transportaion with hyperloop is a very high speed ground transport system, where passengers are loaded into pods and shot through vacuum tubes at more than 1,000 km/h (600mph). 

This Hyperloop according to HTT (Hyperloop Transportation Technologies), explained further the potential materials this innovation will use, and the mind blowing thing about it ? 

Well it`s going to use the same material that the fictional Captain America shield was made of, talking about Vibranium, a carbon fiber composition from Slovania, which is Eight times stronger than Aluminium and Ten times Stronger than Steel, that`s really a super strong material.

You can have a guess what it means, a crash which has a distinct possibility of being high, will not affect so much the passengers being conveyed inside the pod. So this very strong material is being developed in other to ensure the safety the passengers inside the pod, because a crash with a speed of 1,000km/h will really do some huge damage to the passengers.

Art Design of the Hyperloop

The question of overcoming high resistance inside the tube will be reduced to an extent by pumping air out, providing room for the high speed to be realized according to MIT engineers. This Hyperloop Transport tech also has a possibility of less power consumption than your normal train. 

This technology when actualized in most metropolis will be revolutionary, though in its prototype stage, might be realizable in no distant time at all given the contract involving the Rusians with the company into this tech (HTT). Exciting times really lie ahead...

But one crucial question and drawback posted by MIT engineers, is how does a pod with such speed negotiate a bend? Or is it going to be just a straight link of A-B? Well i do beleive that somehow, someway, a solution to this chalenge will eventually come. 

The beautiful Interior of the Prototype Hyperloop

The beautifuI interior of the Prototype Hyperloop

A little insight into 3DP

Three Dimensional Printing (3DP) is the rapid and flexible production of prototype parts, end-user parts, and tools directly from a Computer Aided Design (CAD) model.This innovation has unprecedented flexibility, reason being that it can create parts of any geometry, and out of any material, including ceramics, metals, polymers and composites. 

In addition, it can exercise local control over the material composition, microstructure, and surface texture. This functions by building parts in layers, from a computer (CAD) model of the part desired, an algorithm (slicing algorithm) draws detailed information for every layer. 

Each of these layers begins with a thin distribution of powder spread over the surface of a powder bed. Using a technology similar to ink-jet printing, a binder material selectively joins particles where the object is to be formed. 

A piston that supports the powder bed and the part-in-progress lowers so that the next powder layer can be spread and selectively joined. The layer-by-layer process repeats until the part being built is completed. 

There remains unbound powders after this process, which can be removed by passing it through heat to get the fabricated part. Initially 3DP was in the infancy stage and prototyping, where it was used to creat some ceremic products, metals and less advanced stuffs. 

That was some years ago, fast forward to the present day and you would be amazed at what 3DP is used to creat in this age.

3D Printed material

3D-Printed parts and producers are qickly making serious headway into end products, from the prodction of Printed car to athletic shoes to a printed NASA rocket engines.

A lunar rover Wheel

Advanced material Carousal with 3DP

The future of this great innovation is still scary as it has not got close to its peak. Many manufacturers though are expressing some concerns, that the growth of 3DP will disrupt supply chains and threaten intellectual property.

The Undisputed number one Super computer in the world.

As the TOP500 organization announced monday night the world king of computers during the international super computing conference, it was a super super computer developed by the National Research Institute Center of Parallel Computer Engineering and Technology, China. 

The chinese developed the fastest and world most advanced super computer called Sunway Taihulight, capable of making a whoping 93 Quadrillions calculations per second, with 10,649,600 computing cores and 40,960 nodes. Another mind blowing thing about this machine is the amount of power it consumes at peak under load, it consumes a staggering 15.37MW, thats enough power to light a small town. 

When you factor how many calculations per second the close second is to this monster machine, then the reality of this great achievement will be appreciated.

THE CHINESE SUNWAY TAIHULIGHT

One other thing about this super computer was the raw materials used to build this wonderful machine. All the raw materials used were all sourced from china, with the machine running on the new chinese processor instead of intel the first uses.

The next super computer coming second is another super computer made by the same chinese, but with far inferior calculations per second when compared with the new heavy weight, SUNWAY.
Below are the order the super computers in the world were rated by TOP500 Organization.

1. Sunway Taihulight (China)
2. Tianhu-2 (China)
3.  Titan from the (US)
4. Sequoia (US)
5. Fujitsu (Japan)
6. Mira (US)
7. Trinity (US)
8. Piz Daint (Switzaland)
9. Hazel Hen (Germany)
10. Shaheen II (Saudi Arabia).

more photo of SUNWAY

You can read more from www.top500.com

PART 1. WHAT IS IoT?

The way i will define IoT (Internet of Things) might not be exactly how you have come across it before now. So i will define internet of things and then go into some of the things that will be required before anyone consider this technological evolution. Now, internet of things is the inter-connection of devices, both electronic and non ectronic devices, like your fridge at home, your light bulb at home, your house or home, your car, your electric iron, your TVs, and many more devices out there. 


What do i mean by their inter-connection? This means you can be confortable at your office and turn off all the light bulbs in yor house by accessing your bulb ip address or you can be at the office or in a meeting and still be able to regulate the temperature of the fridge in your home, this becomes possible because everything is connected. 


These are simple, very simple things you can do with this tech evolution, going forward, you can talk about your car being connected to the traffic light, your house being connected to the network and some very advanced cool stuffs that accompany this wonderful evolution. Someone will ask, how does an electric bulb be assigned an ip address? well you asked the right question, for this evolution of tech to happen, these devices will have to be enabled and be capable of supporting the software that will be embedded to activate the software support of this tech. A look at the picture below will help us understand more what am talking about here...

Inter-connection of different devices

When we look at the diagram, more questions will be raised, like, what ip addresses will all these devices be using, knowing that currently we are out of ipv4? that`s when the discussion of ipv6 will come into play. It is estimated that the number of ipv6 currently available is able to be assigned to every atom on earth more than 100 times. 

This is what will bring about the possibility of this great tech evolution. This is supposed to be one of the infrastructures we will discuss in the later part, but no problem, we will continue the disscussion in the next part, the part 2.

IoT - When will Africa Join

The introduction of IoT into the world, especially the technologically advanced countries of the world, talking about Japan, China, US, Korea and some part of Europe, is changing the way our world operate. Some of us in Africa can only imagine what sort of effect this technological advancement will have should it find its way into our own system.


We ask, what is IoT (Internet of Things)? How does this revolutionary technology change the way we connect both now and in the furure? Which countries have really kicked into this great connectivity? What are the infrastructural requirements to run this sort of connectivity? These and many more will be discussed as we begin a series on IoT. This is just the pre beginning...