In 2003, the office supply chain store Staples launched the advertising campaign “ that was easy.” The campaign featured a red “easy” button workers could press to instantly organize their offices-an icon that even today has a special place on millions of workers’ desks. Guest author Robert Jenkins is CEO of CloudSigma, a public-cloud "infrastructure as a service" provider. This may never be a profitable product, but Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has said that that this project is an example of how “the Internet of Things can help change lives.” (Alternate Video Link) | The Connected Wheelchair is still proof-of-concept, not a commercial product. What if a connected wheelchair spent all of its time far from the home of the person to whom it was assigned? That would be a red flag, and investigators could follow up to see if that wheelchair was in legitimate hands or was part of a scam. Falsified requests for durable medical goods are a huge drain on Medicare's budget. | Besides helping wheelchair-dependent people live a better life, the Connected Wheelchair Project may help prevent Medicare fraud, says Hughes in our video interview with him. (You can see our interviewee, David Hughes, at 0:58 and again at 1:38.) This is an Intel project, in conjunction with Wake Forest University, run by student interns. If you're in a wheelchair, wouldn't it be nice to have your chair automatically alert a caregiver if changes in your heart rate or another vital sign showed that you might be having a problem? And how about helping you rate sidewalks and handicapped parking spaces to help fellow wheelchair users get around more comfortably? Steven Hawking endorses the idea, and the Connected Wheelchair Project, in this short video. Of course, those who work in tech already know that globalization is a huge issue. That's in sharp contrast to countries such as France, where a significant majority of citizens seemed willing to explore jobs in other nations. But citizens in the United States seemed a bit more reluctant to return the favor-less than 50 percent said they either lived abroad or would consider doing so for work. (37 percent), Canada (35 percent), Germany (33 percent), Switzerland (29 percent), and France (29 percent). Where do the majority of global workers want to head? The United States, which 42 percent of respondents listed as their top potential work destination, followed by the U.K.
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Their conclusion? People will indeed set down professional roots in another country-although younger workers seem far more willing to expatriate than their older peers. Nerval's Lobster writes The Boston Consulting Group and The Network recently surveyed 200,000 people in 189 countries to figure out the global willingness to work abroad.
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