Tag Archives: electronic contact lenses

Continues from previous post – The workplace in the Metaverse It is now a few months and I have a pretty good idea of what it means working in the metaverse, or better I should say in this company metaverse. Talking to colleagues that have experienced other companies metaverses I …

Augmented Reality is great, no doubt about it. It let us merge the digital with the physical space. The problem today is that we are missing “tools” that can make this bridge seamless. Sure, I can use my smartphone (and I use it from time to time) to get a …

Microsoft has announced its Mesh platform and t their Ignite event. You can get all details, and there are plenty, in their Innovation Stories and take a look at the clip to see how it may look like. I am saying “it may look like” because the way it can …

In March 2019 the OECD published a report “Preparing for the changing Nature of Work in the Digital Era” analysing the various impacts of digitalisation on current work activities. It pointed out that 14% of jobs may disappear as processes and activities (particularly “white collar” activities) move to the cyberspace …

Sense augmentation Our senses have evolved to capture certain parts of our ambient and evolution has been biased by the ambient we have been living in. As an example, our retina is more sensitive to green (plenty of green around in places where we started our human journey). Our sight …

As marketeers are busy extolling the virtues of 5G as the ultimate wireless system filling all of your needs and all of your dreams (and Operators are busy deploying and upgrading 4G!)  a few people are already looking at a new generation aiming at “filling the gaps between 5G promises …

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 …

Science fiction is about to be superseded by science. Have you ever dreamt of downloading a book content in your brain (particularly a book you had to study at school) saving you the time of reading? I bet you did. Now, we are not there yet, but what seemed to …

Electronic contact lenses have been around for a while, the first being experimented at the beginning of this decade, but they are still in the “prototype” stage. You may want to get an update on what is going on here. There are several features that an electronic contact lens can …