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Male pregnancy and artificial womb Technology is pushing the boundary of what is possible, blurring the differences between science and science fiction. This is happening in many areas, although the ones involving us, human beings, are the one most sensitive and more fraught with ethical, legal and societal implications. Male …

In 2017 we saw Birdly, a VR flying simulator on which you can lay down an feel like a bird flapping its wings over Manhattan or in a tropical jungle. Movement involving your whole body, a fan blowing air in your hair and a VR goggle providing immersive vision all …

As we look into the future we are going to face more and more technological possibility to augment ourselves, disrupting, in several ways, what it feels to be human.  The Imperial College Foresight study has identified eight technologies that are being studied and experimented in labs around the world that …

Battlefield robots Technology in the military field has been on the leading edge in the last two centuries, benefitting from huge investment. It has also created significant fall out in non military applications. Artificial Intelligence and robotics (tied together ever more) are seeing significant investment by the military, all around …

Imagine having a sensor that does not require any external power and that is so tiny you can place it anywhere. Stop imagining, here it is. It has been developed by a team of researchers at the university of Michigan and announced in an article available on IEEE Xplore. It …

In the technologies that, according to the Imperial College foresight study, will have a disruptive impact beyond 2040 let’s now consider the one related to extreme automation: Swarm robotics, Battlefield robots and AI board members and politicians. Swarm Robotics Robots are becoming more and more autonomous. At the same time …

Vacuum-tube transport Vactrain, sometimes referred to as the fifth transportation means, is a transportation system based on pipes in which modular vehicles can move at very high speed thanks to a frictionless environment since the pipes themselves have no air -vacuum- and the vehicles don’t touch the pipe floating in …

I posted a few news on the L16, the digital camera (or should I say “cameras”) of Light. First it was about a camera being “promised”, and that was in 2015, then about a camera being tested (2016) and then about being released to the market (2017). Now the camera …

Invisibility shields “Invisibility” has been part of popular narrative and science fiction ideas. Technology advances are providing some interpretation of “invisibility”, like fighter planes built to be invisible to radar or James Bond car surface that is actually a screen on which a computer is displaying what’s on the other …

Factory photosynthesis Photosynthesis is the magic that plants (green algae first) have invented to convert Sun’s rays energy into chemical energy (glucose) that can be used by the plant (and on, in the food chain, by animals). The theoretical efficiency of plants in converting sunlight energy into glucose is around …