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Italy 2050, a workshop to build the future.

November 7, 2013

The Italian Institute for the Future (IIF) is a non-profit association that develops scenarios and forecasts for the future promoting sustainable and long-term policies. A real future study on the model of many foreign companies, which is not limited to offering visions of tomorrow but also contributes to the realization of the future through concrete proposals. On November 16th from 10am IIF hosts a workshop event at the Città della Scienza in Naples: "Italy 30, the remote future of our country". "Italy … Read more

Technical tests of 'replicator': here is the morphic table that transmits objects in real time

November 7, 2013

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We are approaching the 'mimetic' era in which devices will not simply recognize our words, our actions, our objects but will begin to reproduce these things in three dimensions. The device that we show you in the video is the result of the work of Keiichi Matsuda, a Japanese architect and filmmaker who has been studying applications and installations based on the interaction between sensors and servomotors for years (in the photograph there is a frame of his previous work based on reality increased). This is a 'morphic' table... Read more

The Internet of Things will be the biggest business in the history of electronics

November 7, 2013November 6, 2013

Think of a world full of objects that behave like links on a website, connecting to each other and interacting to completely transform our user experience. The Internet of Things is the 'goose that lays the golden eggs' of the near future because it can revolutionize all sectors of technology and do it quickly: the latest estimates speak of a 15.000 billion euro market within the next six years. And it's not about mysterious oracles or courageous... Read more

Within three years wireless electricity on the market

November 5, 2013November 5, 2013

That immense, gigantic genius that was Nikola Tesla built a tower, the Wardenclyffe Tower, in the middle of Long Island: an installation, he said, capable of transmitting electricity without the need for wires. The project (with the associated mysterious fire) foundered among a thousand mysteries even though Tesla had already transmitted remote energy in other experiments, and since then the project was shelved. More than a century later it's still a big hunt: big companies (Toyota, Intel, Samsung, Foxconn) and small startups (WiTricity, ProxybyPower) have... Read more

5 trends in the future of packaging

November 1, 2013

The concept of 'packaging' has been the cross and delight of all industrial development: on the one hand it has guaranteed better, faster and more widespread distribution and preservation of food, on the other it has contributed to forming a generation (more than one for truth) “disposable” accustomed to not reusing anything and using things quickly and hastily. In any case, the virtue lies in the middle: we need packages and containers, we will need them more and more. Here you are … Read more

The road will purify the air thanks to a special asphalt

November 14, 201318 September 2013

Even if the masses focus on the poisonous emissions of carbon dioxide, other dangers hide behind (it must be said) our cars: nitrogen oxides, for example. deadly because they react to sunlight and form nitric acid, directly involved in the formation of ozone, smog and acid rain. Exposure to these agents in traffic damages the respiratory tract, even seriously in the medium to long term. Some tests are verifying a possible solution to the problem: that of 'purifying' the ... Read more

Telecom cools costs with a hot offer

November 5, 2022August 24 2013

The digital divide in Italy is still at rather worrying levels: it's not just about the distance between those who have a connection and those without one, there is also a big difference between the various types of connections and the average time spent on the web. Internet connection today allows much more than the simple use of a PC: new generation consoles, on-demand video content and interactive activities on smart TVs can only be used through a 'broad' contract... Read more

Samsung prepares the landing: flexible screens in the home stretch

7 September 2023May 21, 2013

Here we are: after years of development and tons of false previews on sites around the world, Samsung is ready to launch a new range of smartphones equipped with a flexible screen on the market. “Mobile phones with flexible, nearly indestructible screens that can be rotated, folded and placed in your pocket or wallet” (for this last sentence I smile: is it early yet?). The keystone in this new technology is the use of OLED (organic light emitting diodes) screens, which are very thin and … Read more

#WeLikeMusic, or 'how sonic passion became social'

November 5, 2022April 23 2013

We have seen a lot of it in the last 15 years: the Internet has gradually increased its reach, overwhelming many aspects of entertainment, from films to video games, through conversations and music. At first the major record industry tried to oppose its resistance based on the (albeit legitimate) protection of copyright and 'canonical' distribution systems; then the Napster cyclone (followed by P2Ps, led by Emule, Torrents and other systems based on sharing... Read more

All about the super job of the future

December 26 2019April 2 2013

I often jokingly hear friends say that to get (or keep) a job today you need superpowers (the most sexist and boorish ones in the case of pretty colleagues argue the need for other skills). The future is made up of many things, and an important theme is precisely that of human enhancement, the improvement of physical and mental performance that can arise from the use of new technologies or medical procedures: in this article I want to offer you some ideas to reflect on. … Read more

Saphon patents a wind turbine without blades

7 September 2023March 2 2013

A Tunisian startup, Saphon Energy, has created a new model of bladeless wind turbine. It is inspired by the design and structure of sailing boats and converts wind energy into electricity with double the efficiency and half the cost. This is the second prototype developed by the company: the solution appears very valid because it practically eliminates every negative factor (real or 'alleged' and for the use and consumption of oil lobbyists). It doesn't bother the birds, it doesn't make much noise, ... Read more

Holland drops 5 axles for the motorway of the future

July 10 2013November 27, 2012

We often tend to think of innovations in the field of road safety as solutions limited to cars, but a team of Dutch designers makes us understand how the road itself can also play an active role. This gave rise to a series of interesting studies to make driving safer. The Glowing Lines concept takes inspiration from the lines of reflectors that can be found here and there on European motorways, but replaces the latter with a special luminescent paint in … Read more

Flying salvation: a network of aerial drones for first aid

May 11, 2013October 31, 2012

The statistics released by the WHO tell us that of the millions of cases of fatal cardiac arrest occurring outside of hospital facilities, more than a third could be tackled: the timely arrival of an ambulance, the use of a defibrillator and lots and lots of speed (6 minutes is the window of time needed to save the patient). Many cities around the world do not have the capacity to act in time and lack the necessary organization. This translates into genocide: hundreds of thousands… Read more

Chiba, the robot chair that breaks down architectural barriers

November 14, 201318 September 2012

Creating a wheelchair capable of overcoming architectural barriers couldn't have been very simple: today a team of engineers from the Chiba Institute of Technology, led by the Associate Professor, succeeded in the feat using a good dose of lateral thinking. A wheelchair? It's difficult to define it this way: when it encounters an obstacle, Chiba transforms its wheels into... legs! It goes without saying: the wheel is a universal and efficient way to allow all people with limited mobility to travel. However, … Read more

A bionic leg guided by thought and chasing a record.

November 14, 20135 September 2012

Zac Vawter lost a leg in an accident 3 years ago and since then he has been through an ordeal looking for a prosthesis (he calls it a 'fake leg') which for him had satisfactory answers close to those of a real leg. So the thirty-one-year-old software engineer from Washington signed up in 2010 as a volunteer tester in a research program with the aim of creating a thought-guided bionic leg. The Rehabilitation Institute of the Medical Center… Read more

Connectomics – Building a map of the mind

October 15, 2015July 10 2012

There are approximately 100 billion neurons in the brain of an adult human, and each of these neurons is connected to hundreds of others for a total of approximately 150 billion connections in total. Neuroscience is discovering that it is the pattern of these connections, the structure of this immense neural network, that is largely responsible for the functionality of the brain, in other words for our mental life: everything we feel, think, experience or do. Our … Read more

You move on to artificial blood

June 27 2019June 15 2012

Artificial blood could soon become a reality thanks to the first successful human transfusion. Dr. Luc Douay of the Parisian University 'Pierre et Marie Curie' extracted stem cells from bone marrow and 'encouraged' them to grow and transform into blood cells by administering a cocktail of growth factors: finally he injected 10 billion of these cells (the equivalent of 2 milliliters) in the donor's spinal cord. After 5 days 94% of the cells were still alive and… Read more

Smart steering wheel controls vital signs while driving

November 14, 2013March 2 2012

We have already said a lot about devices that check if you are too drunk to drive, but today a group of German researchers want to take this concept a little further: their 'intelligent steering' constantly monitors the driver's vital functions and changes behavior of the vehicle in their operation. Developed by the Munich Technical University in collaboration with BMW, this steering is equipped with numerous sensors capable of measuring heart rate, oxygenation levels and blood pressure: if … Read more

ATLAST, Hubble 3.0 will put its nose everywhere

July 10 2013February 16 2012

ATLAST (The Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope) is the acronym that distinguishes the project of the next Hubble space telescope: a little gem capable of studying and mapping the atmosphere and surface of habitable exoplanets within a radius of 200 light years. The ability to capture light in all its spectrum and the very advanced technologies are two particularities that can easily be summarized in a feature that will make ATLAST the largest human eye on the universe: the size of the optics. The 'old' Hubble 2.0 has the lens … Read more

Blood nanorobot to treat infections and tumors

October 15, 2012November 24, 2011

This is the case of "nanobots" or microscopic machines (about 50 nanometers in size) that science fiction had imagined in the Star Trek series and which, injected into a patient's circulation, went there to rebuild damaged tissues, eliminate pathogens such as viruses and resistant bacteria or even eradicate a cancer. Unfortunately, the economic factor often stops the ideas and drive towards innovation of motivated researchers: no one puts in the money and the research remains on paper. … Read more

Today is World Toilet Day: the future is also to have more hygiene.

November 5, 2022November 21, 2011

Dirty, smelly and not recommended for hygiene, but they do their job: these are our sewers. Although it may present serious structural problems (often all sorts of problems arise from their congestion, in conjunction with rains and overflows), our Network is an achievement of civilization from which not everyone in the world can benefit. Take developing countries: the absence of any system for disposing of our biological waste causes the death of hundreds of people every year... Read more

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