Featured Research: Technology

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    Mobile technology brings healthcare into people's homes

    Mobile technology has taken the world by storm. These days, it seems there is an app for almost anything you can think of – from apps that remind you to drink enough water throughout the day, to more complicated ones that can calculate how many calories you burn while exercising, or help you to decide which course to study.

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    Tap into tech for clean drinking water

    Despite the fact that access to clean and disease-free drinking water is a basic human right enshrined in South Africa’s constitution, utilities often find it difficult to produce safe drinking water as they have to deal with highly contaminated water.

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    Tap into tech for clean drinking water

    Despite the fact that access to clean and disease-free drinking water is a basic human right enshrined in South Africa’s constitution, utilities often find it difficult to produce safe drinking water as they have to deal with highly contaminated water sources. Poor sanitation and sewage contamination often leads to polluted surface water, which in turn is a major challenge for water utilities.

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    Team UP against lifestyle diseases

    The vision for the institute is to be an “international leader in scientific, translational research that promotes health and well-being in the population through lifestyle interventions, reduces exercise-related injuries and medical complications, and promotes sporting excellence on a platform characterised by world class education, service delivery and the use of modern technology.”

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    How social media can encourage energy efficiency

    Ms Uduakobong Ekpenyong had never thought of having deep-fried ice-cream. Until a friend recommended it to her, that is. This simple endorsement of a snack by a close peer was the inspiration behind Ekpenyong's PhD research on the use of social networks in energy-efficiency projects.

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    UP student's invention provides early warning system for Asthma attacks

    Mr Moses Kebalepile, a PhD student in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Research Officer in the Department for Education Innovation at the University of Pretoria (UP), has made it to the semi-final stage of the 2016 GIST Tech-I Competition for his invention of a medical diagnostic instrument called the Asthma Grid.

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