Tag Archives: sensors

The pandemic has forced health providers and institutions to activate some services through tele-health, technology was there, it was mostly a matter of using it and having regulation to allow their use. As an example, in Italy we went in few days from needing to see our physician in person …

I have been asked to give a talk at MedicRes AI 2023, a conference that will play out virtually in the week of February 6th, 2023. I actually gave the talk few days ago when it was recorded well in advance of the conference.  I just want to outline the …

I should say I never felt the need to tickle a bug, not even sure if tickling is something that bugs experience, like/dislike. Yet a team of researchers at the Ritsumeikan University  noticed that with our big human fingers it would be impossible to “tickle” a bug and therefore took …

What could be easier than a soccer ball. I remember as a kid anything can be turned into a soccer ball, starting with a used “can” to a bunch of rags tied into a ball. Having a real soccer ball, a leather one, at that time was an event. It …

People living in the Bay Area (San Francisco, CA), woke up few weeks ago (October 25th) because of an alarm message generated by their Android based smartphone saying: An earthquake of 4.8 magnitude is likely to hit you in the next few minutes, take cover. Indeed, an Earthquake took place, …

I listened recently to a podcast by WiredGadget on the future of cars that is already happening today. It makes for an interesting lateral thinking, I would advise to listen to it if you have half an hour to spare. Some interesting points made: vehicles today, and even more so …

The cost of a prosthetic limb may well approach and exceed 100,000$, depending on the sophistication. Additionally, customising a prosthetic limb requires several visits with a specialised doctor and follow up visits to make sure the limb fits as it should and to learn using it. Moreover, the cost of …

I am working with Derrick de Kerckhove to finalise a book on the evolution leading to the merging of the physical space and the digital one, a topic that I am addressing from a technology point of view whilst Derrick looks into the societal and ethical aspects. I came up …

The Metaverse has become the talk of the town, particularly so after Facebook decided to change their name to Meta. I am currently involved in setting up an event in Milan targeting a very specific industry, the Lottery industry (can we call it “an industry”?), and I was asked to …

That the telecommunications network can be used as a gigantic, and pervasive, sensor is not a news. As an example the mobile network has to track the movement (and position) of cellphones to be able to connect them. Get those data and you can have a very accurate map of …