Tag Archives: sensors

Earbuds have become so tiny and light that you can forget you are wearing them. For some, they have become an integral part of their “persona”. Let a few years go by and the broad adoption of aural augmented reality (getting augmented information through sound and voice, seamlessly, through earbuds) …

Harvesting crops (and fruits…) used to make up to 40% of the total cost of farming. This is no longer so, thanks to automation. Robotic machines, ever more powerful, and smart, are not just taking the labour off this activity, they are slashing cost. They are so effective that we …

Autonomous ships are coming. A few have already been sailing in a controlled environment, with human supervision (watch the clip). So, where is the “news”? Building a ship takes time and is expensive. There are, end of 2021 figure, 5,434 container ships in the world. There were 4,966 at the …

A cross disciplinary team at the university of California San Diego, comprising surgeons, engineers and researchers, announced the development of a membrane designed to pick up electrical activity from the brain cortex with a never before achieved spatial resolution. The membrane is a thin pliable foil embedding nanorods of platinum …

The increase in sensing capabilities and the pervasive diffusion of sensors are creating more and more data. In turns, AI (in all its forms, including Machine Learning) is showing that we can leverage on those data to extract meaning that is becoming more and more valuable. Hence, the trend towards …

A truck is a truck, you can’t expect advanced design wasted on a truck.Yet, Pininfarina Shanghai has decided that this should not be so. Pininfarina is a well known design leader for (luxury) cars and it is sort of surprising to see them engaging on truck design. On the other …

The trend towards continuous monitoring of our healthcare through ambient and wearable sensors is more than a trend: it is becoming reality. It is also a step towards the digital transformation of healthcare. This is what I see when looking at statistics like the one published by Park Associates on …

CES 2022 is back to (quasi) normal and many companies are using this opportunity to present their latest innovation as well as to make promises on their commitment to release those innovations to the market. In the coming days I will comment on a few of these announcements. Today is …

If you ever had direct or indirect experience with chronic wounds (wounds that are very hard to heal) you know how complex is the monitoring, as well as -quite often- how painful for the patient the removal of bandages, the cleaning of the wound and its medication. Now a team …

In the past decade digital cameras (including the now extinguished point and shoot, killed by smartphones) have learnt to look at the scene you are about to shoot to single out some detail, like a smile, a face, even a dog and automatically focus on that object. Some cameras can …