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Jet Capsule, the "utilitarian" yacht is born

January 27 2017November 9, 2013

Studio Lazzarini, an Italian design group, recently presented a “mini yacht” at the annual sector fair in the Principality of Monaco. The Jet Capsule is a vessel 7 and a half meters long and 3 and a half meters wide: its small size and the enormous possibility of customization make it suitable for many applications such as taxi, patrol, ambulance. Lazzarini's "utility yacht" is single or twin-engined and accommodates up to 8 passengers with automatically closing doors, convertible bed, ... Read more

Nearly one in 5 children under 8 years old use a mobile device every day

December 26 2019November 8, 2013

Boom in interactions on mobile devices for US children. It is the result of a survey by Common Sense Media, which interviewed a sample of 1500 families with children in that age range. That's currently a third of the number of children reading books every day. It is an important transition phase, not necessarily negative: just consider the data of children under 8 years old engaged in an activity that is often much less interactive: that of watching TV. 58%… Read more

RealView 3D, interactive holograms, light takes shape

November 8, 2013

Here is one of those things that make us understand how many degrees of separation there can be between science fiction and reality. Some fields of knowledge are still in a phase of pure speculation, others in the advanced research phase, still others are about to take flight in the form of technologies offered to the masses. This is the case of holographic displays, which have long been on the notebooks of science fiction writers and successful directors (who doesn't remember Star Wars?). RealView 3D… Read more

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

Print a house in less than a day.

November 7, 2013November 7, 2013

One of the most promising fields of near-future technologies is that of 3D printing. We talked about it in this recent article with reference to food, and now we have the opportunity to admire 3D printers one and a half meters long, capable of building a 700 square meter house in 20 hours. The special construction process called CAD/CAM includes computer assistance for both the design and manufacturing parts. Entire housing units… 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

The Thorium engine: with 8 grams it 'runs' for 100 years without stopping.

December 21 2019November 6, 2013

How about a vehicle with thorium engine, which runs without polluting and does it for 100 years without stopping with only 8gr of fuel?

3 IT trends for 2014

November 8, 2013November 5, 2013

Not all predictions and predictions are long-term: after all, I have to give someone the chance to refute what I say. If the topic is 'IT', then, it will be even easier to prove me wrong given the extreme 'elasticity' of certain situations. Yet some trends in my opinion are traced, and I am pleased to arrange them here for future reference. Here are 3 IT trends for the coming year: 1. The Cloud will be the new hardware. – All major industrial changes… 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

All ready for India on Mars

November 5, 2013

A few hours before the departure of India's first historic interplanetary mission. After a short delay due to small component problems, the trip to Mars of the vehicle developed by ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) will be a reality. It's just the beginning, they say in New Delhi: with the typical enthusiasm of a nation growing at supersonic speed, ISRO has already declared that it wants to send a human mission by 2016, and this would be just the beginning of a long series of stages necessary for preparation. … Read more

How interactive displays change the future of retailing

November 4, 2013

PERCH pioneered the transformation of a normal display into an extraordinary means of communication, changing the users' purchasing experience. In these videos we show different possible applications of this technology, and how it will be possible to observe, choose and purchase objects in a much more interactive way than the one we adopt today. At the New York company they experiment with design, contents and forms, thanks to a system that combines cameras and sensors "evaluating" in real time the action that the buyer takes on the object, and... Read more

AR Wear, anti-aggression hot pants: a shield in defense of women.

November 2, 2013

According to the most reliable statistics, out of 10 victims of sexual assault, 91% are women and 9% are men. The large difference in numerical terms justifies the need to find forms of protection and legal protection, and the topic forcefully came back to the surface in our country when the opportunity of measures to punish 'femicide' with aggravating criminal penalties was discussed. Not only are legal solutions being studied: there are those who are working in other ways, such as AR WEAR, ... 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

Toyota ready to launch partially automatic driving cars by 2015

November 1, 2013

Toyota Motor Corporation announces that it has developed a new generation of vehicles with an advanced driver support system. The system, called AHDA (Automated Highway Driving Assist) aims to reduce the workload and concentration load for drivers on the motorway: while driving, it activates a "cooperative-adaptive" driving control which communicates with the vehicle in front and with the which follows to optimally manage the safety distance. The company is still focused on offering the… Read more

English team creates the first reusable spray suits

November 17, 2013October 31, 2013

Spanish designer Manel Torres has developed in partnership with a team of researchers from Imperial College London the first spray-on dress that can be worn, washed and reused. To 'spray' a t-shirt directly on our skin takes about 15 minutes. The compound, made up of non-toxic polymers and solvents, allows the liquid part to evaporate within a few minutes, leaving behind a garment that can be reused and adapts like a glove to the wearer's measurements. The fibers can… Read more

Ara: Motorola tears the cell phone to pieces.

October 31, 2013

An interesting modular smartphone concept, Motorola's Ara project could sooner or later find application in reality. Ultimately it answers a pertinent question: "what if instead of purchasing 4 distinct types of devices (phone, tablet, phablet, watch) you could 'assemble' a phone using only the parts you need each time? It's an innovative but sensible vision, which could revolutionize the entire smartphone market: the tendency to renew an 'obsolete' mobile phone every year or two would be replaced... Read more

V-Tex, here's the microwave fridge

April 26 2019October 30, 2013

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Who hasn't come home at least once on a hot summer day and discovered that they had all their drinks OUT of the fridge? Forced to wait at least a quarter of an hour to be able to drink them cold, how many of you have asked yourself "why isn't there something like a microwave fridge that instantly cools food?". Very soon the question will be answered: V-Tex is a device being created by a consortium of companies... Read more

Nomix Toilet, the toilet becomes a biogas generator

October 26, 2022October 29, 2013

A toilet capable of producing biogas from our… er… biological activities? It would be a pretty good innovation.

Atlas, the robot now also walks on rocks.

October 27, 2013

Atlas is the latest anthopomorphic robot created by Boston Dynamics, the 'mother' of Big Dog, the disturbing mule-robot soon to be supplied to the American troops. It was developed to walk on all sorts of terrain, and in this demonstration video it walks without too much difficulty on uneven ground, remaining in balance even when pushed to the side by a weight. Next Future will continue to inform you about Atlas' evolutions until he starts walking like Schwarzenegger with the aim of ending us all. Joke. Perhaps.

Robo Raven, the solar bird

October 25, 2013

Solar energy is a crucial factor in powering the robots of the future, and it is absolutely possible to find it in an incredible number of applications. The latest, suggestive and disturbing like few others, concerns a class of totally automated micro aircraft that fly using the movement of birds. Prof. S.Gupta of the University of Maryland presents 'his' Robo Raven as follows: Currently the solar cells cover less than half of the wingspan of Robo Raven: they produce 3.6W of power on a sunny day, with an efficiency of the … Read more

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