Trends & Innovations - Tuesday
12 5 2007 12:28PM
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Silicon Valley is breaking away from its the traditional reliance on cubicle-dominated offices as part of an effort to boost collaboration among workers, the San Jose Mercury News said. Chip giant Intel is redesigning its offices with open areas furnished with comfortable armchairs and tables where workers are encouraged to make themselves comfortable while working on their laptops. A program manager at Cisco said the cubicle-less environment has increased team interaction and boosted productivity.
College requires GPS cell phone
A New Jersey college has become one of the first in the U.S. to require full-time undergraduates, numbering about 6,000, to carry phones equipped with GPS tracking. Montclair State Univ. officials expect the phones will improve safety by enabling campus authorities to quickly send out campus alerts or allowing students to call for help with the device pinpointing their location. While students praise the safety features, some grumble that the phones must be bought through the school for $210 a semester.
Honey proved better than cough syrup in suppressing nighttime coughing by children, a Penn State Univ. study concluded. Researchers said buckwheat honey clearly performed better than the common cough syrup ingredient, dextromethorphan, in a test of 105 children. The popular folk remedy was found to effectively soothe sore throats and reduce the frequency and severity of coughing.
Faster movie downloads are the most appealing promise of a next-generation, high-speed Internet, a survey of U.K. Web surfers found. About 61% of those queried said they would like to see 5-minute downloads of DVD-quality movies, easily surpassing other innovations such as video phone calls and high-definition gaming. In S. Korea, the need for speed has been driven by the growing popularity of online gaming. 94% of emergency rooms are not equipped to care for young children, a UCLA study found. Half of hospitals surveyed didn't have medical equipment designed for use on infants and small children, such as breathing masks or small forceps to remove objects from young throats.
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