The sense of touch is crucial to everybody, although we may neglect to perceive its importance, it is natural that we don’t give it a second though, till we have lost it. That’s what happen to people having lost a limb using a prosthetic. Prosthetics, as I had the opportunity …
Read More »Printing connections to the brain
The dream to connect a brain with a computer has roots in the past, first part of science fiction and more recently morphing into real science and technology. There are many aspects involved in this connection from sensing to understanding (brain to computer) and from coding to reaching the right …
Read More »Cloud+Sensors+AI+VR+5G+3D printing= ? You’ll never guess!
In this blog I often discussed Cloud, Sensors, AI, VR, 5G, WLAN, 3D printing and the various use cases, may be never considering all of them together. Indeed, there are plenty of application areas for these technologies and the more they evolve the broader their application areas become. Having said …
Read More »Rolling out your personal 5G radio cell
5G is going to provide very high capacity, reaching 1Gbps in favourable situations, but this higher capacity is dependent on the use of millimetre waves (in the tens of GHz), and the reason is not in any magic coding, rather in the huge spectrum that can be associated to very …
Read More »Transhumanism: Evolving the Human Body II
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 …
Read More »I’ve got a feeling
A collaboration among researchers at Stanford and Seoul National University has resulted in the creation of an artificial sensory nerve. A sensory nerve is a complex entity, part of the somatosensory system, that is able to integrate different physical stimuli into a tactile information. Our sense of touch generate data …
Read More »Disruptive Technologies in human augmentation impacting beyond 2040 VI
Transhuman technologies II embellishing Cosmetics seem to go as far back in time as we can tell. Some peoples traditionally modify their bodies, sometimes embedding natural objects (like shells in African tribal piercing) or artefacts (like jewels). Cosmetics have become quite sophisticated, leveraging on advanced technologies like carbon nanotubes and …
Read More »Stroke rehab leveraging on sensors data
Following up on yesterday’s post on the quantified self, a news on application of smart sensors to fine tune the rehab process following a stroke. At Northwestern University researchers have developed a stretchable sensor that can be used as a band-aid on the body of a patient to detect health …
Read More »Getting 5G in your sweater
5G is going to be a sort of umbrella connecting a variety of things using different frequencies and different protocols. IoT will be part of the 5G “ecosystems” and the evolution of materials and production processes promises to extend the range of objects that can be IoT, by embedding electronics, …
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