Best of MWC: Coolest tech coming your way

Best Educational Technology: Cubroid Coding Blocks

Cubroid Coding Blocks teach children to enjoy building robots and code them to bring their ideas to life. The company aims to contribute to the world of Robotics and AI through emphasising learning by doing and through play, using existing technologies. The Coding Blocks consist of 7 sensors that can be coded and wirelessly connected with other building blocks. Children who do not have any knowledge of coding can learn it through playing with the sound block, light and touch sensor block, two DC motor blocks, an LED block, a proximity sensor block, and a “Master Block”. Children who want to take their coding to a higher level can use it with Scratch.

Best Health Tech: ITRI intelligent breathing monitor

Industrial Technology Research Institute stole the show at the Taiwan pavilion at MWC with a new intelligent breathing monitor that works through a home Wi-Fi network. The device is able to recognise a patient’s breathing, measure it and store it in its system so that it is available through any mobile device. In this way, both doctors and family members can access the patient’s breathing data in real time.

• Arthur Goldstuck is founder of World Wide Worx and editor-in-chief of Gadget.co.za. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram on @art2gee

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