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The new digital camera sensor, designed for top of the line smartphones by Sony, is quite remarkable and it shows the kind of sophistication, and ingenuity, reached in this area. Cramming 48Mpixels in the small surface available for a sensor targeting smartphones means having to reduce the pixel size considerably, …

Optimised diet We already have plenty of “apps” to help in monitoring our food “intake” and advising on what would be best for us and for the kind of activities we are planning. They just represent a starting point for what it might be possible tomorrow. Do you like nightmares? …

4. Digital biometrics How many passwords do you have? How tough is it to remember them? And yet you never need to identify yourself when you meet a friend, even when you meet him again after 10 years! Connectivity of our body with the cyberspace will be a given in …

Progress continues in developing more advanced devices to deliver “as real as it gets” sensation of augmented, mixed and virtual reality. If we look back just 2 years we are surprised at how much bulkier the devices were. The last one coming soon to market, the One Creator Edition from …

2. Enhanced Sensing A lot of research is ongoing to meet the needs of impaired people who lost completely or partially some of their sense capabilities, be it hearing, seeing, touching, smelling and tasting (the order reflects both the investment and the results obtained so far). Most of the results …

Human augmentation is a form of evolution that our species has taken in its own hands and it is not going to be stopped. Eventually it might end up in the creation of a new species through bio-engineering that modifies the genome. We are still far from that although the …

What could be more brick and mortar than a real estate company? One would expect that a company in the real estate brokering business would have offices disseminated in many location to attract sellers and prospective buyers. It turns out that one of these companies, a big one having over …

We have started to augment our body long long time ago, probably the first augmentation go back 170,000 years ago when our ancestors started to wear clothes to protect themselves from cold weather. You might not consider that an “augmentation” but it actually made possible to extend significantly the human …

Evolution has marched along the 4.5 billion years of our Planet. Although life seems to have started some 3.5 billion years ago, evolution was already at work before that time, creating new and more complex molecules that eventually gave rise to the first forms of life. It has never stopped, …

Last CES (Las Vegas January 2018) Samsung showcased a wall display with a diagonal of 146′ (that’s 3.7 m) made of microLED module. They called that display, aptly, The Wall.  The resolution was 4k (meaning that the individual microLED were quite big, since you get the same resolution in a …