Gadgetory

when you fall in love with your macbook air or Galaxy s7 phone you know companies like Intel and Samsung deserve a lot of the credit for building the electronic brains in those devices but to develop future chip technology those chip makers rely on an organization here in Leuven Belgium called iMac that you've probably never heard of here more than 2,300 researchers figure out what will work and what won't work in next generation ships they've just opened a vast new facility called a clean room where they'll figure out how to build the chips that will power the PC you buy in 2024 the phone you'll buy in 2024 but there's a lot more going on at iMac we're talking about autofocusing contact lenses solar panels that generate more power costs lesson could be built into your windows and a chip that can scan more than 4,000 blood cells a second screen for cancer as computing brains spread beyond PCs and phones I mech is branching out to into healthcare wearable computers self-driving cars and more for details check cnet's full story on iMac