Day: December 23, 2021

For many people, recording memorable events through photos and videos has become a part of daily life. However, since these photos slowly build up to take up a large amount of storage space, it has become imperative to find a storage solution that can provide ample space for all the memorable events, keeping them safe for future references and away from prying eyes while also making them convenient to access. Qubii Duo, an auto backup storage device designed by Maktar Inc, provides an ideal storage solution for memorable photos, videos, and documents.

Qubii Duo is an auto backup photo and video storage drive compatible with iPhone & Android Type-C Phones. Designed to automatically auto-backup during charging, no further action is needed after setting up to store contacts, photos, and 4K videos securely. Qubii Duo is ideal for home and office use and supports backups with Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Twitter and more. This innovative and straightforward storage device also has a 2-factor authentication password encryption feature that offers the safest auto-backup security with face ID and touches ID App Lock. 

To use with a laptop, Qubii Duo can be plugged in as an external drive, photostick or thumbstick into the USB port on your computer/laptop to immediately view, edit, and transfer. In addition, the storage device can be auto-synced with multiple smart devices to provide offline storage and resume automatic backup of photos, contacts and 4K videos every time you charge your iPhone, iPad or Android phones. 

Unlike many other storage alternatives, including Cloud storage, Qubii Duo’s unlimited storage comes at no extra charge or hidden fees. The MicroSD card has a storage capacity available up to 2TB and can easily be switched without triggering content duplication. In addition, the automatic backup storage device is MFi-certified by Apple and comes with a year-long warranty backed with in-app customer support.

Qubii Duo was designed by  Maktar Inc., a technology company established in Taipei, Taiwan, to improve storage efficiency and security. Through their designs, the company is on a mission to protect the privacy and safety of its customers both online and offline and allow them to live adventurously and fully. The team of experts behind the design identified the prevalent problem in today’s highly digitalized society and created a device that caters to the needs of everyone from young professionals looking to keep their files and confidential work materials secured, new parents needing enough memory space to keep the many cute baby pictures to everyday individuals needing a suitable storage device to keep photos and videos of daily life, adventures and trips. 

Qubii Duo was exquisitely designed and perfected through the various prototype before its launch to tackle today’s technological problems and make life easier for customers by providing enough storage space to keep all their memories and confidential document that needs to be kept from the prying eyes of the internet with no additional cost incurred as often encountered with Cloud storage. 

To learn more about Maktar Inc. and their auto-backup storage device compatible with iPhone & Android Type-C Phones, visit its website.

While education is a valuable resource, formal degree programs have grossly overpriced it.  The costs of college have tripled in less than 20 years.  By paying tens of thousands while forgoing a full time income, over half of college students are housing insecure and unable to afford a healthy diet.  The average learner spends decades paying off their debts while working in a job that, for 73% of them, does not relate to their degree.  Why do we ask millions of young adults to pay so much to receive so little in return?

Attitudes surrounding college degrees are changing.  More than half of Gen Zs in the US believe degrees are not necessary for success, and companies as well recognized as Tesla are coming to agree with them.  A vast majority of people believe education is shifting in a self-taught direction.  The world of autodidacts, or people who are self taught in whole or part, is composed of many notable figures.  Melanie Klein, the founder of children’s psychology, achieved her breakthroughs without ever attending a university.  Apple cofounder Steve Jobs spent less than a year in an institution of higher learning. 

The reality is that the internet has placed opportunities for self-education right at our fingertips.  Finding what you need for a college level education online is easier than you think.  In a bout of irony, it’s some of the most expensive universities that offer the widest selection of free courses on their website.  Harvard, MIT, and Berkeley all have a large catalogue of courses available for anyone to enroll in.  For those who want to pick and choose across universities, aggregate sites like College Cliffs and edX curate the best course offerings for their users.

College websites aren’t the only place you can search for a self-taught college education.  Also out there are expert-made courses uploaded to Khan Academy and TEDEd.  MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, are free for anyone to enroll in as well. A popular offering in the MOOC category is LinkedIn Learning, which allows users who complete their courses to post accomplishments to their profiles.  If you’re someone who struggles to succeed in a traditional classroom environment, Codecademy or SkillShare may be the platform for you.  Both teach using interactivity and project completion.

With so many options out there, gaining access to a college-level education is not the difficult part.  The hard part is retaining the knowledge in a way that peers and employers recognize.  To do that, one needs to finish their education well.  Here are a few tips to stay on course: physically move to a different space to complete your education.  It can be a library, coffee shop, or business center, but it needs to be somewhere where the rest of your busy life can’t intrude on you.  Working in a quiet place helps minimize distractions. Get an accountability buddy with whom you can set realistic goals.  Help each other stick to the plan, and always remember why you want to learn.

Source: Amazon

Amazon has recently announced a slew of brand-new products during its fall product event. One of the event’s highlighted announcements came in the form of the company’s very first home robot, Astro. Equipped with a rotating screen that’s mounted onto a base with wheels, Astro is a home robot designed to appear animated and friendly, with eyes and expressive body movements that respond to user interaction.

Astro is about the size of a small dog. It roams around the house on three wheels, including two big ones that prevent it from getting stuck and a smaller one for rotating. The robot is like a combination of Amazon’s other gadgets on wheels.  

Astro can move on its own, traversing from room to room by navigating around objects on the floor or braking to avoid collision with obstacles. It also halts and navigates around pets that move into its path. The home robot is equipped with a periscope camera that is attached to the base of the device, which can be raised or lowered to view objects that are higher up.

The robot can also be remotely controlled from a phone app, which is useful for keeping a close eye on loved ones. Amazon will also sell a third-party insert created by Omron that fits into the back storage compartment of Astro, allowing it to hold a blood pressure cuff. This opens up so many possibilities for aged care from a distance, allowing users to set up reminders such as blood pressure checks and the like.

Astro also comes equipped with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant. It can set and deliver reminders, serve up entertainment such as TV shows or podcasts, control smart home devices, and many more. Astro also responds if its owner asks it to beatbox, making the robot make musical noises to the best of its abilities.

The innovative home robot also has security and safety features that would keep any home safe from any harm through integration with Amazon’s smart home security subsidiary Ring. Astro can autonomously patrol a user’s home while they are away, keeping watch for any suspicious activities. It can flag potential intruders and listen for things such as broken glass or smoke alarms through its Alexa Guard feature.

Privacy should not be a concern with Astro around. Amazon has reiterated that Astro’s camera, microphone, and motion sensors can be switched off by pressing a button. Users may also designate rooms and boundaries where Astro is off-limits.

In spite of its amazing features, Astro has its limitations as well. It doesn’t have arms or limbs, so it can’t pick things up. It also can’t go up or downstairs, so it’s really only good for one floor of a house.

Starting today, Astro costs $999.99 and is available via invitation only. Currently, there is no commercial release date for Astro, but the company said that it would begin granting invitations later this year. Amazon continues to innovate the world one product at a time, and Astro is yet again another milestone in the company’s astronomical success in the field of technological innovation.

Digital health technology has been on the rise for many years, but with the COVID pandemic of 2020, digital health received a huge boost in acceleration.  Where just two years ago, most medical interactions of any sort were done face to face, now it’s common and even standard for routine visits and treatments to be done virtually or with the least amount of physical contact possible (think drive through COVID testing.)  From doctors, to patients, to pharmaceutical reps, digital health tech, has taken hold of the healthcare industry in big ways. 

Today, 80% of surveyed physicians are making use of digital health tech in their personal and/or professional lives. These physicians are also more likely to recommend digital health tech such as smart gym equipment (211%), smart watches (200%), fitness wearables (182%), smartphone apps (167%), and disease-related devices (146%).  Ninety percent of physicians also make use of social media sites professionally to communicate with other physicians (19%), share videos with patients (17%), repost messages for professional use (16%), and to post professional updates (15%). In fact, more than 1 in 4 doctors are high adopters of digital health in their practice.

Another area where digital health is making a big impact is in the way pharmaceutical reps interact with physicians.  Since the outbreak of the pandemic, in-person sales rep visits fell by 63%, which has created new challenges as 2x as many physicians find in-person visits highly valuable, compared to digital interactions.  Fifty-three percent of physicians rely heavily on pharmaceutical reps for their source of information, second only to medical journals.  The aspects of interactions with pharma reps that physicians value the most are product samples (59%), information on new products (55%), answers to product questions (53%), support for insurance and access (51%), and materials for patient education (47%).  Nearly 1 in 3 doctors expect to see big changes in physicians/rep interactions within the next two years. 

The third major area of growth bin digital health usage is, of course, with patients. Patients who make use of digital health feel that it allows them to better manage their own health and to be more informed. Seventy-five percent see increased ease of access to their health records and 67% report greater access to new health information.  Sixty-four percent believe digital health helps with appointment scheduling, and 63% see improved interactions with physicians.  Digital health is even more valuable to patients with chronic conditions.  One in three of these patients prefer telemedicine for routine visits and treatments. Those with chronic conditions also find other digital health tools valuable such as websites related to their conditions (61%), online-disease related resources (56%), links to patient advocacy groups (53%), health-related smartphone apps (49%), and pharmaceutical company or product websites (47%). 

It is simply part of human nature to resist changes, and some 2020 certainly brought us our fill of “new normals”.  Nevertheless, doctors, patients, and pharma reps all agree that digital health is growing and is doing much to improve the state of healthcare. 

<a href=”https://www.realchemistry.com/article/5-things-to-know-about-the-rapid-acceleration-of-digital-health”><img src=”https://assets.website-files.com/602810ff8259272fd981f232/6064f11a93a7d2247ef085d2_acceleration-digital-health.png” alt=”Acceleration of Digital Health” width=”1000″ border=”0″ /></a><br /><a href=”https://www.realchemistry.com/”>Via: realchemistry.com</a>