Muslim Contribution to Modern Science Highly Questionable
With the world ever developing at a dizzying pace, there is a serious question out there that has not been sufficiently addressed.
View ArticleComputer Addiction Disorder: Does It Exist?
In the current 21st century, the computer, rather than the television, is probably the uninvited member of the family.
View ArticleMaking Sense of Cell Network Alphabet Soup
Whether you're on Android, iOS or Windows Phone you'll see the same thing in the upper right of the screen - a few bars representing your cell signal strength and a mysterious letter. Sometimes it says...
View ArticleUAVs: Viewing the World from Above
No doubt the drones are getting more popular these years. You can find them in different fields starting from recreational things like toys to major applications in for instance crops monitoring,...
View ArticleHow Does Your Smartphone Know Your Location?
GPS location apps on a smartphone can be very handy when mapping a travel route or finding nearby events. But how does your smartphone know where you are?
View ArticleMWC 2015: Alive at the Edge of Innovation
With 93,000 attendees, this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona adopted the theme of the Edge of Innovation, perhaps most visually demonstrated in...
View ArticleMWC 2015: New Tech Solutions
The night before the Mobile World Congress 2015 (MWC) in Barcelona began, Showstoppers and MobileFocus Global shared some of the leading technology solutions using mobile, IoT, and social media...
View ArticleAugmented Reality: The Future is Here!
It has been aptly described as one of the most exiting technologies around, and for good reasons too. Due to its intricate nature, many even claim it’s a technology for the future -- or is it?
View ArticleThe Revolution of Plastic Electronics
The 1981 movie The Graduate ends with a remarkable scene in which Dustin Hoffman (the young college graduate Benjamin) is advised to continue his carrier with plastics. A quarter century later,...
View ArticleElectric Power Cables and Cancer
Much controversy surrounds the effect of the electromagnetic fields of power cables on our health.
View ArticleSolar Energy Makes Sustainable Life in Tajikistan
Renewable energy currently provides the main hope that the world can avoid the catastrophic consequences of climate change.
View ArticlePakistanis Charge Up With the Sun for Ramadan
During the month of Ramadan, people living in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) in northwestern Pakistan experience prolonged and unscheduled power outages.
View ArticleFantastic 4 Clocks from Islamic Heritage
With the arrival of Islam came a strong emphasis on time management: {Prayers have been prescribed for the believers at set times.} (Surat An-Nisa’ 4:103).
View ArticleWaking for a Sunless Suhoor by Solar Alarm
How can a solar alarm clock wake me up for suhoor, I thought when I saw an online ad for one. It was shortly before the beginning of Ramadan and the importance of waking early for suhoor was running...
View ArticleTanzanian Scoops Engineering Innovation Prize
Askwar Hilonga, a chemical engineer from Tanzania, is the winner of the £25,000 (about US$39,000) inaugural Africa Prize for Engineering and Innovation.
View ArticleNew Timekeeping Devices from Tunisia
Muslims in the early medieval Islamic ages needed to know the accurate times of some Islamic rituals like prayers and Ramadan Iftar.
View ArticleBioterrorism.. Natural & Designed Disasters
Amid the terrorist attacks on Washington D.C. and New York in 2001, newspapers have been warning anyone involved in the crop industry to be on the lookout for suspicious people.
View ArticleMoving 3 Million People a Day During Hajj
With Allah's personal invitation to Makkah extended to every able Muslim throughout every age, Allah continually guides the service upgrades to ease the Hajj experience.
View ArticleIFA 2015: Reconnecting With Innovation
During his speech at the launch of the Spark, a GPS sports-health tracker with music, co-founder Peter-Frans Pauwels said, “At TomTom, when we recognize something like this, we just can’t help...
View ArticleHajj in 2025
The world is changing faster than any of us could have predicted. Long gone are the days when visiting Makkah for pilgrimage was viewed as a remote experience. By 2025 mobile devices and content will...
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