From a Vietnamese refugee huddled with more than 400 frightened others as a flimsy craft took them across the South China Sea, to a potential Nobel Prize laureate for Chemistry,…
Improving older people’s health with Dr Google
With more health information going online every day, it has never been easier to proactively manage our health. The problem is, the people who would benefit the most seem to be using…
Why people deny the obvious?
“Despite the fact that we live in an ‘information age’, and are finding out more and more about the universe, some people seem determined to reject knowledge. For example, in…
The APP FACTORY
Apps are happening. An industry that only came into being seven years ago with the launch of the first iPhone has quickly become a global technological phenomenon. How phenomenal? As…
OMG, YouTube a valuable educational tool, not just cat videos
For many, YouTube is little more than a deluge of low-quality videos depicting the latest internet craze or conspiracy theory, perhaps some painful-looking accident, music videos and video-bloggers of dubious…
Job survival in the age of robots and intelligent machines
In Australia, there are reports that up to half a million of existing jobs could be taken over by robotics or machines run by artificial intelligence. So with smarter computers taking on…
Towards 2018: The future of wearable tech
By the time the Gold Coast hosts the 2018 Commonwealth Games, athletes may have access to up to 30 times the wearable technology products available today. So predicts Associate Professor…
Public Lecture – Wearable Technology: The edge of the BOOM! – Part 1
To launch the 4th edition of IMPACT @ Griffith Sciences public lecture was held at the Brisbane Square Library. Dr David Rowlands, Deputy Director of Griffith’s Sports and Biomedical Engineering Lab, SABEL, gave…
Public Lecture – Wearable Technology: The edge of the BOOM! – Part 2
In the 2nd half of the public lecture to launch the 4th edition of IMPACT @ Griffith Sciences Dr Rowlands will introduced our special guest Judd Armstrong, CEO of Jaybird…
How to find the knowns and unknowns in any research
UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH: What do we actually mean by research and how does it help inform our understanding of things? With so much research already published it can be a daunting…