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The Future of Smart Watches

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The world of technology is abuzz with the announcement of the Apple smart watch.

Although Apple has predicted no release date yet, experts are already anticipating  that Apple is set to sell over 24 million smart watches in 2015! This means that smart watches are more than just a fad, they are a fixture that will be here to stay in 2015 and will become a permanent fixture on the list of must-have gizmos to buy. 

As of yet, wrist-based wearables fall into two product categories: notification-based watches and fitness trackers. Continue Reading

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Blood Culture System Software Extension

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The primary objective of FX Software Extension was to port existing Zinc-based software used on a fully automated medical blood culture system from VxWorks to Windows 7 platform. As part of the project, FX Hardware Simulator environment was utilized to emulate FX instrument hardware. In order to accomplish the task, we modified and adjusted Zinc libraries for Win7 environment.

As well, we added some new features to the FX. Specifically, we wanted to offer multi-language support, including the Chinese and Japanese languages, on-screen keyboard and debug console, changing drivers for barcode scanner, communication ports, reports and dynamic screen sizing. All these were added on as new features. Continue Reading