The word haptic, from the Greek: ἁπτικός (haptikos), means “pertaining to the sense of touch” and comes from the Greek verb ἅπτεσθαι haptesthai, meaning “to contact” or “to touch”.
Haptic technology will be more remarkable than any breakthrough in the past technology
Haptic technology will change the way we live and interact with technology in the future. As mobile devices to act more like an extension of our body, so that the connected smart devices will act as an extension of our environments, allowing us to control the world around us in a unimaginable way.
Horizon Europe the next EU research and innovation programme
The Commission welcomes the political agreement between the European Parliament and the Council on Horizon Europe, the largest transnational programme ever supporting research and innovation. The new EU research and ...
Enhancing energy efficiency of artificial synapses
A joint research led by City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has built an ultralow-power consumption artificial visual system to mimic the human brain, which successfully performed data-intensive cognitive tasks. Their experiment ...
Impact of social presence in business-to-business online chat
For a long time, companies have used cost-effective chat services in their business-to-customer (B2C) sales. Companies engaged in business-to-business (B2B) sales are also increasingly moving their activities online, but their ...
Business Travel is the real engine of global economy
New research from Harvard’s Growth Lab finds a direct link between a country’s incoming business travel and the growth of new and existing industries. The findings, published in the journal Nature ...
A viable path forward for hybrid energy systems
Future novel hybrid energy systems could lead to paradigm shifts in clean energy production, according to a paper published last week in Joule. Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) ...
Most organizations do not know how to manage the transition to a ‘new normal’
Researchers share important information and solutions related to the challenges facing human resources and system managers in a special issue of Human Systems Management This word cloud encapsulates the three key concepts underlying ...
New EU Sustainable & Smart Mobility Strategy
The European Commission presented today its ‘Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy’ together with an Action Plan of 82 initiatives that will guide our work for the next four years. This strategy lays ...
Smart City Summit and Expo – SCSE 2021
Smart City Summit and Expo is not only the largest smart city fair in Asia-Pacific, but also will be the first hybrid in the region, both virtually on Smart City ...
Digital4Development Hub officially launched
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will officially launch the Digital4Development (D4D) Hub in the presence of representatives from the five Hub-founding EU Member States, under the German EU Council Presidency ...
nanoPCR technology can accurately diagnose the infection in less than 20 minutes with zero false positive and false negative
A “nanoPCR” technology was developed for the point-of-care (POC) diagnosis of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19). This new technology can diagnose the infection within ~20 minutes while retaining the accuracy of conventional ...
EU auditors scrutinise 5G security in Europe
The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has launched an audit to assess whether the EU and its Member States are implementing secure 5G networks in a timely and concerted manner ...
The need to integrate social media into firms’ marketing strategies
Social MediaCREDITThomas Ulrich/ Pixabay.com The more interactions and connections firm’s social media marketing strategy generates, the more customer engagement value it brings. In the new study, Fang Fang Li and ...
