It's not a real teleportation, but almost. In fact, Microsoft announced to the world that it had created Holoportation: the system allows you to transport your virtual image from one part of the world to another and interact with distant people as you would face to face. In short, with a kind of hologram of the type seen in Star Wars. The system is based on a high definition video camera system and Hololens viewers, which, … Read more
QiCycle, the first smart bicycle, will arrive soon. After smart phones, smart watches and so on and so forth, smart bicycles are also arriving. We all know the Xiaomi brand for smartphones, but the company doesn't just deal with smartphones or smartbands. Indeed, Xiaomi sells the Mi Air Purifier and the Mi Smart Scale, and soon also a smart bicycle called QiCycle. This is what an indiscretion that appeared in the pages of the Wall Street Journal reports today: there is talk... Read more
It's called Aipoly and it's an app that allows blind or partially sighted people to "see" what's around them. Aipoly is an artificial intelligence app that allows you to explore the world in a different way, through a technology that communicates what you are framing with a guiding voice, obviously thanks to the use of the smartphone camera. The app currently allows you to identify around 1.000 different objects and 900 colors in real time. Aipoly was presented for the first… Read more
Amazon intends to change our lives, and not just when it comes to purchasing products online. No, Jeff Bezos really wants to take us into space, as tourists, and he promises to do it within just two years. Science fiction or very close reality? In fact, it seems that Bezos will begin testing space flights with people on board next year and, if all goes well, tourists in groups of six will be able to experience a short space flight as early as 2018. Bezos himself said it, ... Read more
Within a few years, Facebook will be a huge virtual cemetery. Sooner or later it had to happen: just as in the history of humanity, the dead will surpass the living. It has been calculated that in 2098 Facebook will transform into the largest 'virtual' cemetery in the world. This is according to the prediction of Hachem Sadikki, a statistics expert from the University of Massachusetts, who developed his theory based on the social network's choice to continue to refuse to automatically delete the accounts of deceased users, and in… Read more
The robots of the future will not have skin inspired by human skin, but decidedly better, more similar to that of an octopus. This special type of skin lights up and changes color if it is touched, it is elastic and can stretch up to 500%, it senses touch and pressure. Not bad for a robot. This is the first hi-tech skin inspired by the octopus, which could make the robots of the future camouflage. The skin of the future was described in the journal Science. This is the invention from… Read more
The future will be made of solar cells, yes, but super light and very small. In fact, MIT researchers announced to the world that they had created the lightest and thinnest solar cell ever, which could easily be placed on any material and surface, such as t-shirts, smartphones and sheets of paper. To always have a clean energy source. To show everyone that the cells are really very light, scientists placed the solar cell on a soap bubble, without ... Read more
We have all asked ourselves at least once: but what is 3D printing for? To many things, including the faithful reproduction of human organs and tissues. Will organ donation become a distant memory? Reading the latest news, it seems so. The news was broken by the team at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, whose researchers have found a way to print "living" tissues and organs that can function properly when implanted in the body of ... Read more
Drinking water is a precious commodity, which is completely lacking in many countries around the world. To win the battle against malnutrition and lack of drinking water, scientists are looking to the past, to be precise to ancient Egypt, when at the time of the pharaohs water was made good and drinkable thanks to the use of some seeds. Among the many research on the subject, the one carried out by Pennsylvania State University stands out, which was responsible for examining this topic in depth to find methods that ... Read more
Science is often at the service of common life and, above all in this case, the aim is to improve safety and everyday gestures by making them simpler and more functional. It happens with Cyclee, a project developed by designer Elnur Babayev which is about to be released on a global scale. How does this system work? Everything is very simple, as it is a luminous dispenser that is positioned on the back of the bicycle seat, a sort of drain… Read more
Mini drones, or drones that have the shape of an insect, are very particular robotic devices, as they manage to enter places inaccessible to humans, photographing what they see and therefore offering a real-time report of the situation. This is a sector in which science is investing a lot, and which is therefore becoming increasingly sophisticated. But how can insect drones see in low light? To give life to… Read more
On June 23 last year, the Sentinel 2A satellite flew among the stars, a device that will monitor the health of our planet using colors. That's right, as the satellite is equipped with a special camera connected to the Sentinel 1A radar, which can scrutinize large swathes of territory using reduced frequencies and which can therefore monitor the changes that have occurred in global agricultural crops, offering an accuracy of unprecedented images. It's about… Read more
At first glance it may seem like a nice colorful toy, but in reality it is a refined device designed to produce electricity. It is a device developed by researchers at Columbia University, who used very special materials to create an instrument that exploits the humidity present in the air to generate 'clean' electrical energy. The device was made with colored Lego bricks, a sheet of rubber coated with spores, a coil and … Read more
Will 2016 be the year of virtual reality, or augmented reality? Many analysts believe so. And Google doesn't want to miss the opportunity. Already in mid-January the company announced the launch of a new division, which will focus exclusively on the development of projects related to virtual reality. In fact, the strong competition from Facebook and its Oculus should not be forgotten. Google CEO Sundar Pichai has named Clay Bavor to head the division, which previously ran Gmail and Drive. Being… Read more
Not just electric and hybrid cars: the airline sector also wants to renew itself, and EasyJet wants to lead the way with the project of a hydrogen hybrid plane. In fact, air pollution also comes from airplanes, and the EasyJet company has been trying for many years to reduce CO2 emissions and become more "green." The company recently presented the concept of an aircraft that uses fuel cells to power the engines during hovering. … Read more
Precisely today that Parkinson's disease has taken away Maurice White, founder and leader of Earth, Wind & Fire, we talk about how technology can help those suffering from this pathology. A team of British researchers is in fact experimenting with the use of an app to monitor the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, helping those who suffer from it in many ways. If at the beginning we thought that wearable devices were almost useless or just nice to look at, the introduction of parameter analysis… Read more
What will it be like to watch the sport of the future? With Hololens, futuristic Black Mirror-style scenarios, with each of us equipped with a microcomputer and recorder in our eyes, is not that far away. If we no longer hear about Google Glass, in fact, Microsoft's HoloLens project is more alive than ever, and shows us today what it will be like to watch the sport of the future. The first models of HoloLens will be given to developers only in March this year (at a cost… Read more
Alphabet, the Google super-holding founded in August which unites innovative companies in the field of new technologies and medicine, is about to enter the testing phase with its first project, Google Loon. It is a series of sounding balloons that travel at high altitudes creating a global internet transmission network. The web giant has asked the Federal Communications Commission for a license to test experimental radio mechanisms in 50 states of American soil and in Puerto Rico, attaching a ... Read more
Technical evidence of Third World War: in an interview with Sputnik News (a rather pro-government Russian site), the head of the Turkish Intelligence department Hakki Pekin stigmatized the recent shooting down of the Russian Sukhoi24 bomber by the Turkish air force, calling it a " big mistake." Pekin predicts big problems from now on, and a very tough and well-organized response. “Aside from the cancellation of official visits and probable economic sanctions, Russia is placing its Iskander missile systems in Kaliningrad. And … Read more
Do you remember the Microsoft Holodesk project and its developments? We talked about it in an article some time ago. The first practical applications of this holographic technology are arriving all over the world, and Volvo, the Swedish car manufacturer, did not wait long to embark on a path that will lead to holograms becoming an integral part of the process of choosing and purchasing a car. car. Let's just think for a moment about the immediate implications of Holodesk and its Hololens, the headset attached to it... Read more
A team of scientists from Imperial College London has probably made the possibility of obtaining unlimited energy from nuclear fusion less distant thanks to a theoretical model of a laser that can develop 10 million degrees Celsius (probably a higher temperature than what is found to the center of the Sun) in 20 quadrillionths of a second: practically instantaneously. The development represents a step forward towards the dream of obtaining energy from thermonuclear fusion: a clean, sustainable and unlimited source… Read more
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