Innovation Improving Lives Everywhere you look, someone’s made life just a little easier, a little more fun, and a lot more worth living to the max. Innovation has been sweeping the globe since time began. The cavemen were the first to make a fire. The Greeks were the first to conquer the known world
Advancing Technology Mankind took a slight break during the Dark Ages but came back with the Industrial revolution and has been improving lives ever since, and not just helping them get their bread and butter. Hobbies are being taken by storm as well. Recently, Oakley brought some of those cool gadgets from spy movies to life. Think about Mission Impossible 2 when Tom Cruz gets his mission from a pair of sunglasses. On the inside of the glasses, he got a display of everything he needed to know about the mission. Oakley has finally broken into that market with a new set of snowboarding goggles. These goggles display information you want to know in front of your eyes. It will display your current speed, keep track of your friend’s location on the mountain and connect to your smart phone to play your favorite music. When you finish your run, you can review your trip in full— including the chance to see your performance statistics. It also helps you measure the height and hang time of your jumps, find your location on a resort map—using GPS, and filter through the rays of a bright, winter sun. It works by connecting to an active smart phone via Bluetooth. The app tracks your global position and gives you statistics on your run—i.e. speed, elevation, etc. It also can connect to other people’s smart phones and show you where they are. The technology is making life better for those boarding on the groomed slopes and the backcountry. And you can’t complain about the safety factor implied in having the ability to find anyone anywhere. So aside from just making your run easier to see, you can self-track everything you’re doing on the slopes, listen to music and find your buddies around the mountain. Boarder’s lives just got a little bit better because of innovation. Oakley is just one example of innovation going to use to better the lives of those around them.
Other Useful Pieces of Technology Many others are working constantly to bring to life technologies that you could only previously dream of. Booktup is one of those innovators. They produce and maintain an appointment scheduling program that makes setting up appointments a cinch for everyone involved. The software connects to your website and makes your calendar viewable online. Clients can take a look at availability, and schedule their own appointment without ever having to leave their own home or pick up the phone. This helps the client fill your schedule outside of normal business hours, keeping the money flowing. It also helps the scheduler. He or she can focus on their work by reducing the amount of calls he or she would have to take to fill the schedule themselves.