3D printing has moved from the printing of small prototypes to industrial manufacturing (like printing the blades for airplanes turbine) and has expanded the possibility of materials that can be printed. Bio-printing is not new, researchers, and doctors, have been printing tissues using cells, starting from skin up to cartilage …
Read More »Augmented Reality for wearable design
I stumble on this news, that actually is an old one, as I was looking for new application of Augmented Reality. It goes back a long way, to 2015, when it was presented at CHI, the Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems, I had the pleasure of hosting when …
Read More »Cooking your next steak with laser
We have already seen robots that cook, like Flippy -cooking hamburgers-. Now a team of engineers (word of cautions, in general the engineering category is not the one you would think of as expert cooks) has decided that tech can change the cooking procedures for good. Why place food in …
Read More »Printing prescription pills out of your smartphone…
As we are progressing towards personalised healthcare that can be supported from remote our smartphone is becoming a key component in the value chain. We have already seen several examples of using the smartphone as a diagnostic device by having apps making sense of the data that it can capture …
Read More »Would you like a Vish for dinner?
I am seeing more and more news on 3D printing food. A recent report from ResearchAndMarkets forecasts a growth from 485 million $ expected in 2020 to 1 billion in 2025. So far most of the talks have been hopes enveloped in marketing, aimed mostly at Venture Capital. There are …
Read More »Planning for the New World – VII
Developing Sustainable Business Models Sustainability is a no brainer. Ask anybody if they want a sustainable world or a world where resources are progressively depleted, plastic litters the oceans, air is polluted and you can guess the answer. The question then is why are we not pursuing in a determined …
Read More »Industry 4.0 – Symbiotic Autonomous Systems Part II
On line shopping, of course, was made possible by the Internet, connecting any person in any part of the world to giant virtual shops that in turn, and seamlessly, connected the request to a variety of providers and through an ever more sophisticated value chain delivered the product to the …
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