Starting up a new business is hard, setting up shop can be even harder. You have had to  brainstorm to decide what type of business you are launching, you carefully rented a storefront location, stocked it with your chosen specialty, and reserved advertisements in local media.

What are  you planning to do about a POS? Point Of Sale. (What used to be called a cash register.) A good Point Of Sale is one of THE most important things a merchant needs. The buck quite literally stops here, and unfortunately for many new startups, POS is usually the one most often overlooked part of the business, or at best, not optimized for maximum efficiency.

You certainly don’t want to spend all your startup seed capital on complicated systems, and few have the budget to pay an IT guy to set up, configure, and maintain.

Well all that that has changed. A revolutionary company named Vend has come up with an even MORE revolutionary way to take the complicated electronic cash register systems and make them as simple to use as a cash drawer.

Vend takes the whole back end of the POS, Software, Systems, and IT, and moved it off your computer, to the Cloud. This means you don’t have any configuring or software upgrates and updates, because it is cloud based, it is already done for you. If you can use a web browser (Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome, etc.) you can use the Vend system, and it works on an iPad, Mac, Windows, or Android device.

If you lose your internet connection, not to worry, Vend keeps processing your sales, the data will automatically synchronize the next time you connect. Your data is also secure, as Vend backs up your data several times a day, on secure servers. So it’s protected, and can only be accessed by you.

Vend is as malleable as the cloud itself. Go from just one register, to multiple registers at multiple locations. Vend has done an amazing job of keeping the user interface clean and uncluttered, so when it comes time for the all important check out, it’s quick, easy, and fun to use.

Over the years, I have seen many different POS systems come and go, and in my experience, Vend is by far the best economically, technically, and for ease of use, freeing up a new merchants frazzled mind to focus on the important things, like running their business.

The good news: Everything above, plus Vend lets you get started free of charge with one register and up to 10 products. From there, the prices are incredibly reasonable.

Caveats: I haven’t been able to find any.

We all know there is no such thing as 100% hacker proof system. In the past, I have written several articles about how to protect your data from many threats, one of them is “Thanks For The Memory ~ Digital Amnesia” that I posted back in 2011, that tells you not to put all your eggs (information/data) in one basket, meaning trusting just your hard drive to keep all of your information. A study by Carnegie Mellon University shows that hard drive failure rates are much higher than manufacturers let you know. Relying on just one with all of your information is total folly.

USB Flash drives are even more volatile. Just last week, in the column “Why Flash Media Will Burn You“, I warned about the dangers and perils of counting on Flash media to store all your important information on.

Data loss due to physical hardware failure or fire/flood/natural disaster is just one of the threats awaiting to attack your data. What about all the hackers and viruses and other virtual threats? It seems like every day in the news there are more and more incidents of data loss and theft.

This week, I am going to show you how, step by step, to use two amazing tools to make a free FREE 500MB (or larger) encrypted cloud storage drive accessible from any PC, and we are going to do it together. We are going to combine DROPBOX with TRUECRYPT.

This will make a virtual encrypted vault that you can access from your work PC, home PC, tablet, laptop, etc., keeping all your critical information fluid and cloud mobile between all your devices, keep it safe at the same time. As I stated at the beginning, there is no such thing as 100% hacker proof, but this method is as safe as you can get.

First of all, open up Notepad on your Windows PC, or Textedit on your MAC, (or whatever your favorite text editor happens to be), and enter in just a few random words, and save it as a .txt file. Name it something like “passwords”, or something similar. You aren’t going to actually use this file for anything but some smoke and mirrors diversion to foil potential hackers later in this how to.

Next, if you haven’t done it already, high tail it over to DropBox and set up a free account, which gives you a minimum of 500mb of FREE storage. You can use my referral link here.

Next, download Truecrypt: Run it, do NOT install it, but instead EXTRACT IT to your new DropBox folder.

Next, we are going to make an encrypted volume. This is going to let you run TrueCrypt and mount your new DropBox encrypted volume on any machine.

Go ahead and run the extracted TrueCrypt.exe file you just saved to DropBox.

When TrueCrypt starts, click CREATE VOLUME. Select the options CREATE AN ENCRYPTED FILE CONTAINER, and HIDDEN TRUECRYPT VOLUME, and NORMAL MODE.
TrueCrypt will now create an “outer Volume”.

Use the FAT file system with DEFAULT CLUSTER, lets pick a
FILENAME for the VOLUME, the SIZE, and a good strong PASSWORD.

TrueCrypt will have you wiggle your mouse around in a window (the randomness sets up the encryption) and then click FORMAT, and your DropBox will be formatted.

After the outer volume is complete, we rinse and repeat to create the hidden volume within the outer container.

Select a size for the inner volume that is just a tad smaller (like just a few kb) that provides enough room to leave some “dummy” data in the outer volume, and create a completely different passphrase than the outer volume.

This is where our fake PASSWORD.TXT file that we made earlier will come in handy! This is used as a blind facade. Deception, basically, to fool a hacker.

If a hacker somehow did manager to breach the outer container, he would just see your PASSWORD.TXT file and fool him into thinking you are using DropBox to store your password list on… totally missing the hidden inner volume with a different password we are making now. See? There is a method to the madness.

VOILA! That’s the hidden volume, accessible at any time, on any PC, just click SELECT FILE, browse to the volume, and click MOUNT from the TrueCrypt screen. You can enter either the outer or inner passphrase.

I hope this information gives you the freedom and flexibility to use your critical data and share it between multiple machines and devices, using cloud storage, and keep it locked down from prying eyes.

J. D. Redmond  ~ “Dr. Tech” ~ http://www.DrTech.co

USB Flash drives are absolutely amazing, capable of storing up to ONE TERABYTE of data in the palm of your hand is miraculous. Gone are the days of floppies, and CD/DVD disc media is all but gone as well.

In addition, the fact that Flash media is supported by all modern operating systems, from Linux, Mac, Windows, and mobile devices, means you can quickly transfer files and media between them at will. Add in the fact that they are so convenient to carry around with you, and they come in so many different shapes and sizes, colors, and novelty designs. They are absolutely amazing.

Unfortunately, Flash media is NOT the utopian solution that most think it is. Many consumers have been lulled into a false sense of security, mistakenly thinking, or assuming, that Flash drives are somehow infallible, and choose to put all their most important information in them, trusting them blindly. Unfortunately, like all forms of digital storage, the media can become corrupted, and you can, and will, lose valuable, if not priceless information.

From a security standpoint, Flash media is an absolute nightmare of epic proportions for many reasons, for example DATA LEAKS and VIRUS/MALWARE, and others too numerous to even detail in this one column. The high probability of physical loss or theft of a USB flash drive (A quick search shows this happening over and over and over) is reason alone to never use it as a long term storage option. Even if it isn’t stolen, your data can easily be tampered with, and your data can easily be copied without you ever knowing it.

I frequently get into heated debates with people about these issues, so I decided to write this in depth look at Flash technology.

Let’s take a look at what flash is, the different types, their inherent vulnerabilities, and the reason I don’t use, trust, or recommend Flash media to be used for anything but extremely short term use, transferring or copying files from one system to another, or to hold data that I will assume will be lost. I use flash drives all the time, and I encourage their use, but it is important to be realistic and understand what their capabilities, and most importantly, their LIMITATIONS are.

First, let’s take a look and understand what flash media actually is, without getting TOO technical.

Flash memory is digital computer memory that is erased and re-written by electrical signals. Flash memory was originally developed from EEPROM  (electrically erasable programmable read-only memory). There are two main types of flash memory, which are named after the NAND and NOR logic gates. The internal characteristics of the individual flash memory cells exhibit characteristics similar to those of the corresponding gates.

The NAND type is primarily used in main memory, memory cards, USB flash drives, solid state drives, etc., for general storage and transfer of data.There are three types of NAND Flash memory chips:

SLC ~ (Single Layer Cell) – Only has the ability to hold can hold one bit per cell. This is the most expensive type of Flash media available, as it uses less power, enjoys faster write speeds, and is optimum for both industrial uses, and holding critical data.

MLC ~ (Multi Layer Cell) – Can hold two bits per cell, storing twice as much information. MLC is usually used most in consumer products because it is less expensive than SLC. Unfortunately, it has a lower endurance limit, and less program/erase cycles per cell.

TLC ~ (Triple Layer Cell) – Sounds great when you hear it holds three bits per cell, has the lowest cost of all Flash media, with the highest density. The trade off downside, it has slower read and write speeds, and significantly lower endurance. Usually only low end products contain TLC media, and certainly not recommended for the storage of critical data.

SLC Flash has 10x more endurance than MLC Flash, and 20x more than TLC. This is why SLC is industrial grade Flash, while MLC is consumer grade.

How flash media works, and how it becomes corrupted.

Just like a rechargeable battery loses the ability to recharge after so many hundred charge cycles, NAND Flash memory also loses the ability to retain data after thousands of write/erase cycles. The older your flash drive gets, the less reliable it becomes. This limitation is normally specified by Flash manufacturers and referred to as ENDURANCE.

NAND Flash also has a specification called RETENTION, which expresses how long the flash memory cells within will maintain their programmed state while not under power bias. This measurement metric is sensitive to environmental factors, for example, high temperatures can reduce the duration of retention, as well as the number of read cycles can degrade retention, particularly true on TLC Flash media drives.

Most drive manufacturers don’t tell you whether the Flash technology they use is SLC, MLC, or TLC. As we outlined above, particularly low cost TLC Flash can lose data very quickly, corrupting your data and files.

High temperatures, or humidity can cause shorting of circuit boards or corrosion of contacts,

Flash data is frequently lost by removing the flash media from the computer or device incorrectly, or while data is still being transferred, causing file system damage, and in rare instances, this can also cause cell damage.

It is extremely important to safely remove Flash memory from a device and never unplug a USB Flash drive while reading or writing information.

Furthermore, of all that isn’t enough…

Deleted files on FLASH drives are not deleted. They are in fact simply hidden. Why? Flash uses the FAT (File Allocation Table) format to make it easy to use on multiple operating systems and devices. As Wikipedia succinctly explains it, “The FAT file system is a legacy file system which is simple and robust. It offers good performance even in light-weight implementations, but cannot deliver the same performance, reliability and scaleability as some modern file systems. It is however supported for compatibility reasons by virtually all existing operating systems for personal computers, and thus is a well-suited format for data exchange between computers and devices of almost any type and age from the early 1980s up to the present.” Therefore, when you “delete” a file, it just removes it from the directory on the drive, but the data contained inside the file is still there, easily recoverable by prying unauthorized eyes.

USB Flash drives and Flash media certainly have their place, enjoy their convenience, and novelty factor, just use them wisely. Never put anything on a flash drive that you can’t afford to lose forever.

J. D. Redmond  ~ “Dr. Tech” ~ http://www.DrTech.co

Yet another major website ( LivingSocial.com ) falls prey to a hacking attack. What was the treasure hackers were after? What is the bounty they lust after?

Well, approximately 50 million email addresses and passwords for starters.

In a USA Today interview, C.E.O. Tim O’Shaughnessy stated: “We recently experienced a cyber-attack on our computer systems that resulted in unauthorized access to some customer data from our servers. We are actively working with law enforcement to investigate this issue,”. He went on to say “Although your LivingSocial password would be difficult to decode, we want to take every precaution to ensure that your account is secure, so we are expiring your old password and requesting that you create a new one.”

What an understatement. The fact is, passwords are becoming totally useless for several reasons. which I will outline here, but first, it’s important to know HOW hackers get your password in the first place. The vast majority of the public don’t have a clue what is really happening out there.

Sit down and buckle up, let’s go.

The age old art of cracking passwords has advanced capabilities so much so in the last 5 years, than it did in several decades combined. This is due to two reasons:

#1. The average person uses weak passwords, and re-uses them on multiple different sites, so if one site is compromised, down come the house of cards.

With each major security breach over the years, over 100 Million real-world passwords have provided hackers (more accurately called CRACKERS) with an immense database of compiled data, giving them a broad picture about password behavior. This compiled information allows CRACKERS to program sophisticated software like oclHashCat to crunch through algorithms and immense amounts of data, which leads to reason:

#2. The computer hardware hackers are using now is advancing faster than you can image. Most people have a password that is 8 characters or less in length. Crackers can now crunch through 16 character passwords with ease.

By combining this raw computational ability, with a massive database of known passwords, regular passwords are now compromised almost instantaneously, allowing the computing horsepower to focus on the longer passwords, making it easier and faster to crack through them as well.

A THIRD issue, is that most websites encrypt passwords using cryptographic algorithms that were never designed to protect passwords, for example, SHA1, DES, NTLM/MD4, MD5, etc. ( LivingSocial.com was using SHA1 ) They use these so they can encrypt plain text passwords, and do it incredibly quickly. Unfortunately, they can be decrypted just as quickly.

What can be done? Websites need to start using encryption designed specifically for securing and protecting passwords, like the SHA512crypt, or BCrypt, which uses a variant of the Blowfish encryption algorithm’s keying schedule. This would definitely slow the crackers down a bit, but not forever, and certainly not guaranteed.

The end result is passwords are OUR responsibility. Make them long, change them frequently, and don’t use the same password at multiple sites. That’s just the way it is.

P.S… Don’t count on services like 1Password either, as services like these also have serious vulnerabilities.

I posed this question to a work associate was setting up her brand new MAC Air laptop that she just purchased. She was all excited, even spending extra for a beautiful turquoise shell cover for it. When I asked her what she was using for her antivirus software. She looked at me, and said with confidence and supreme certainty “Nothing, MACs don’t get viruses.”

Unfortunately, I had to inform her of the unfortunate news that yes, MACs most certainly DO get viruses. I didn’t do this to ruin the excitement for her, I simply wanted her to implement some protective measures for her computer as quickly as possible, however her initial reaction was denial, till I showed her recent posts in TechSpot, the New York Times, the Huffington Post, and many more publications to enforce the warning I was attempting to convey. Needless to say, this seriously burst her bubble, another victim of the myth that MACs are immune to viruses.

Hackers are interested in affecting the the largest number of targets possible, so they are going to write code that will affect the largest segment they can. The myth started due to slick Apple marketing, and two basic points.

#1. MAC OSX software is built differently than a Windows OS. MACOS doesn’t share a common registry, and MAC file structure is different, which means that Windows malware type of infections are just not as feasible on a MAC, but that doesn’t mean they are immune and totally safe, just not AS feasible.

#2. Point two is the simple fact there are far fewer of them compared to PCs, who’s number far exceed the number of MAC systems in use, again, hackers want the largest body count possible.

According to Top Ten Reviews, Apple viruses first appeared back in 1982 by “15-year-old Rich Skrenta creates the first known Macintosh viruses to go wild, Elk Cloner. The boot sector virus spreads itself on Apple II computers via infected floppy disk, and results in a short poem showing up every 50th boot.”

Since then, there have been the INIT-29-B virus, HyperCard HC-9507, Hong Kong virus, OSX/Leap-A, OSX.Macarena, the trojan horse AppleScript.THT,  OSX.Lamzev.A and OSX.TrojanKit.Malez trojans, OSX.RSPlug.D trojan, OSX.Iservice and OSX.Iservice.B trojans, OSX/HellRTS trojan, let’s not forget FLASHBACK that affected over an estimated 600,000 machines, and most recently, the “Pintsized” trojan., which goes around Gatekeeper allowing attackers potentially unhindered access to infected machines armed with basic, inbound-only firewalls.

The only way to guarantee your computer (PC or MAC) will never get a virus is to never plug it into the internet, and turn it off, other than that, you NEED to get a quality antivirus program installed on your machine, and keep it updated regularly.

I have created a free website ( VirtualThreatLevel.com ) to help explain potential threats, how to protect yourself, and what to do if you are attacked. Information will be regularly updated and expanded as necessary. While the  information on my site pertains mainly for PCs, the same concept applies for MACs as well. Protect yourself before it’s too late.

J. D. Redmond  ~ “Dr. Tech” ~ http://www.DrTech.co

If your computer is infected with a Virus / Malware, frustration and stress levels go through the roof.

As we all become more and more dependent on computers for our daily lives, everything from passing a few moments playing Bejeweled or World Of Warcraft, or actually important things like online banking, finishing your report, emails, and reports, etc., we need our computers to work properly.
The following are top warning signals your system may be infected with Malware, and what you can do to get yourself back online.

* Security warnings and windows popping up with really scary alerts. Have you ever seen a security alert telling you your system has multiple security issues, and a button to click to fix the problem now? DON’T DO IT! This message is in and of itself malware, and true, if you see something like this, your system is infected, but don’t click anything the alert is telling you to. The fake threats are exactly that.

* Browser is being redirected. When you go to Google.com or some other site, you suddenly find yourself at a different site you never saw before, you have a serious issue. Malware has hijacked your browser, and can be a very serious issue.

* Social Media Mayhem. Have you seen your Facebook wall lately? Are your friends asking you about “that post”, and you never wrote it? Many forms of Malware will post things using your account, usually something quite inflamatory to get others to click on the link, which then spreads the malware around.

*RANSOMWARE Among the most insidious malware infestations is ransomware, which will actually lock your computer down, holding it hostage. The only way to recover use of your computer is to pay a “ransom”. Some have even gone as far as to display fake FBI screens on your system, pretending to be the government locking your system down.

If any of these scenarios seem familiar, you need to take immediate action.

Remember, all computer viruses are Malware, but not all Malware are viruses, so sometimes you may not know which you are dealing with. If you haven’t already done so, install a good antivirus or security suite and make sure it is up to date. IF you have one already, then you have a particularly nasty bug that slipped through your defenses.

One of the best tools for Malware is Malwarebytes.

I have created a free website ( VirtualThreatLevel.com ) to help explain potential threats, how to protect yourself, and what to do if you are attacked. Information will be regularly updated and expanded as necessary.

J. D. Redmond  ~ “Dr. Tech” ~ http://www.DrTech.co

Internet service providers love to hype their services, especially cable providers, talking about the speed of their bandwidth, but you won’t see anyone screaming their latency in advertisements. This isn’t the fault of anyone, no one is being misleading, the fact is that all internet connections, regardless of speed, have inherent latency.

So what is the difference between BANDWIDTH and LATENCY?

I am going to boil this down the the simplest explanation I can: Bandwidth is your connection SPEED, Latency is the inherent time delay before your data flows.

For example, you are home and you go to a favorite website. You type in the URL, and wait…your request has to go through the internet till it hits the server of the website you are visiting, and it has to make a return trip back to you.

Once the website starts to load, it flows in very quickly (Bandwidth)
It is the TIME you waited BEFORE the website was visible, we call (LATENCY).

So what’s the big deal, it was only a second or two…

Well, it is a very big deal. To best illustrate latency, have you ever watched a live news feed where the news anchor is interviewing a correspondent in another country via Satellite feed? The news anchor asks a question, and a second or two passes before the correspondent replies.

The video is nice and clear (this is fast bandwidth), but the DELAY in the conversation between the individuals is LATENCY.

Latency issues have a real effect when trying to do online gaming, for example World Of Warcraft, or VoIP services like SKYPE, or a U.S. soldier remotely flying a spy drone behind enemy lines to provide recognizance information for troops. For example, the soldier fires a missile at his command console, a second later the missile actually fires from the drone. That one second (1000 miliseconds) could mean the difference in hitting the target, or hitting an innocent bystander.

Real time applications are most impacted by latency. Studies show that when absolute delays are below approximately 20 milliseconds, they are generally imperceptible. A total system latency of 50 milliseconds will feel responsive, but still subtly lagging. For the average computer user, gamer, etc. things are not exactly optomized, resulting in an end to end latency of 100 miliseconds or more.

The internet connection in the general consumer’s home set up is twister pair copper ethernet. Let’s take a look at the fastest systems we have available. Fiber Optic.

Latency in Fiber optics: Light in a vacuum travels at 299,792,458 meters per second, and this equates to a latency of 3.33 microseconds per kilometre of path length. Light travels slower in fiber due to the fiber’s refractive index and this increases the latency to approximately 5 microseconds per kilometre. So, while we are using the current generation of optical fibers there is a limit to how low we can drive latency – take the shortest possible route and multiply this by 5 microseconds per kilometre. A 50km link would therefore have a fiber latency of 250 microseconds, a 200km link would have a latency of 1 millisecond and a 1000km link would have a
fiber latency of 5 milliseconds.

Latency is a very frustrating bottleneck, one we will have to live with for quite some time to come, if not forever. Einstein’s famous E=MC2 still holds true. Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, and this is the limitation inherent in the internet.

J. D. Redmond  ~ “Dr. Tech” ~ http://www.DrTech.co

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Last week’s testimony before the Senate by a high level security official revealed that cyber criminals and attacks actually post a greater threat the the security and stability of the nation than terrorism threats.

Also last week, a White House high level meeting took place with President Obama and C.E.O’s to discuss various modern threats.

There has been quite a bit of activity buzzing around cyber threats and our security recently.

Thomas Donilon, National Security Advisor, spoke before the Asia Society, placing a spotlight on the fact that a major number of attacks source from China.

Mr. James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, advised the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, touching on cyber security threats possible.

The Pentagon’s new director of the U.S. Cyber Command, and head of the NSA, Gen. Keith Alexander, informed the Senate Armed Services Committee he will be creating special teams capable of carrying out retaliatory cyber attacks if U.S. networks are compromised.

This isn’t the first time the Obama administration has focused on cyber threats. In 2011, he created initiatives like the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, and U.S. International Strategy for Cyberspace.

Lets not forget the National Cyber Range created by DARPA  (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency).

This isn’t just a governmental or corporate problem. It is a problem that can easily affect each and everyone one of us. An attack on our power grid and infrastructure, a disruptive attack on a financial institution, these are all very real possibilities that we all need to be aware of.

I have created a website ( VirtualThreatLevel.com ) to help explain potential threats, how to protect yourself, and what to do if you are attacked. Information will be regularly updated and expanded as necessary.

J. D. Redmond  ~ “Dr. Tech” ~ http://www.DrTech.co

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Matrix Audio, a Canadian company, has revealed a speaker smaller than the size of a golf ball, called the QUBE.

As we all know, good things tend to come in small packages, and the QUBE carries that on by packing a lot of fun into this QUBE. You will really want to get one of these for your office cubicle. Incredibly small, sexy, and beautiful, it rocks in the looks department. Coated with aluminum, it comes in three colors. Red, black, and native aluminum, and pumps out amazing sound for it’s size. Which one would you chose?

Decisions, decisions. Well you just might want to grab all three colors, but guard them, your friends will definitely be borrowing them.

The QUBE is actually slightly smaller than a golf ball, and twice the weight (78 Grams), so there is a bit of heft and significance to the unit.. With 3 watts output and Passive Vibrating Bass (PVB) technology, get ready to be amazed. For such a miniscule device, the QUBE is loud enough to fill large room with sound. Equipped with a built in rechargeable battery, get ready for up to 8 hours of continuous playback of your favorite music or book.

The wired version is $49.99. Each QUBE comes witha universal 3.5mm Headphone jack, carrying pouch included. Total dimentions: 38mm x 38mm x 38mm. A bluetooth version is coming approximately in March.

J. D. Redmond  ~ “Dr. Tech” ~ http://www.DrTech.co

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The line between man and machine is being obliterated. Forget everything you thought you knew, and consider this: electronic telekinesis and telepathy are now possible. Keyboards and mice are about to become obsolete. Simply think your command, and your computer responds. Are you in a noisy crowd or private meeting? Simply pick up your phone and subvocalize your conversation.

Sound impossible? Not according to Todd Coleman, electrical engineer at the University of California, San Diego, and high tech startup MC10. In an interview with txchnologist, Mr. Coleman states these tattoos placed on the throat, for example, can detect the electrical impulses within the muscles of our throat, allowing you to communicate just with thought.

How is this even possible? A company called MC10 manufactures circuitry into a 100 micron thin layer of ultra flexible polyester, essentially creating a temporary tattoo. Wrap your eyes around this:

These devices allow for a wide array of applications. A visit to the MC10 website shows they have a lot of irons in the fire, ingeniously using them for applications such as: Sports impact indicator, hydration sensor, heart rate & activity wristband, baby temperature monitor, remote heart monitoring, interventional catheters and electrophysiology, industrial and defense, and the rage of applications goes far beyond this.

Even Cosmetics. MC10 calls them “”cosmetic stickers” that give you control of your beauty regimen.” Their goal is to implement them “so products are so smart, they can alert you via phone when it’s time to reapply sunscreen. From measuring your skin’s properties while you sleep, to recommending the perfect moisturizer…”

Who is MC10? In 2008, founder Professor John Rogers of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign came up with something that would change our lives – stretchable circuits. They have taken Rogers’ brilliant stretchable electronics platform out of the lab and into commercial product development. They state that their goal is “To redefine the interface between electronics and the human body. In other words – make humans more superhuman.”

What this means for you, is in 5-10 years from now, this will be implemented into full production devices and gadgets. Slap on a temporary electronic tattoo and you become one with your technology. The applications this can potentially be implemented into are truly vast.

J. D. Redmond  ~ “Dr. Tech” ~ http://www.DrTech.co

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