House 3D printing is nothing new and has become a reality in a few parts of the world. If you want to take a look at how it feels to be inside a 3D printed home take a look at the video. That shows a “nice” home, on the expensive …
Read More »Bordering on science fiction
Researchers at MIT. coming from different fields of expertise, have created a pill that you can swallow to check for inflammatory condition of your gut. The magic lies in how this pill has been created. First researchers working in the area of synthetic biology have genetically modified e-coli bacteria in …
Read More »Earphones with a twist
Brain Computer Interfaces have got us used to see helmets of sort with plenty of wires coming out of them or, even worse, boxes plugged on the skull through surgery to connect with electrodes implanted in or on the brain. In other words from inconvenient to scaring. Now researchers at …
Read More »The Market of One
For most of its history, human kind have lived in a market of one world. That is, most products (all in the very beginning of our history) were custom made. You wanted a pot? You build it yourself exactly the shape and size you needed/fancied (or were able to …). …
Read More »Exploring ideas to foster the Metaverse – XXIV
Industrial Metaverse – Sustainability – ii According to the MIT-Siemens report the Industrial Metaverse -IM- can support sustainability in various ways: The IM can assist in decreasing the use of physical resources by emulating them in the digital space and making use of them only at the very last moment. …
Read More »Computer Society Technology Predictions 2023 – V
The technologies identified by the team are expected to reach a commercial adoption at different times in a range spanning 2 to 10+ years as shown in the graphic. Let’s take a look at those expected to reach commercialisation level over the next 4 years. I already mentioned in the …
Read More »Computer Society Technology Predictions 2023 – II
As described in the previous post, the team ended up in identifying 19 technology predictions that ordered in terms of likelihood of success are as follows: Remote Healthcare & Wearables: Remote healthcare with advanced wearables will enable patients to obtain remote medical assistance, physicians to perform procedures and consult with …
Read More »Wrapping up the year – Sustainability … tomorrow
Each black dot in the graphic represents around 1,000 tons (740,000 tons in total) of apparel textiles that has gone landifilled in California in 2020. The blue dots (difficult to spot them? There are just 4 of them on the tip of the left sleeve) represents the 4,000 tons that …
Read More »A new type of biz: print guns and hand them back
I remember several years ago the Campania Region in Italy set up a program to stimulate people to capture vipers and hand them in. They have become a danger in the countryside and the program aimed at decreasing their population. After a while the “collectors” noticed that all vipers that …
Read More »From Knowledge Company to Intelligent Company – III
The focus in the past has been on finding the needed knowledge and acquiring it, inside my (your) brain and inside the company. This is something that is becoming more and more challenging. The fact is that the transfer of knowledge is costly in effort and even more crucial in …
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