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The control unit for energy and clean water, homemade

October 26, 2016

At the #Maker Faire in Rome, #Watly was presented, a hi-tech #control unit also connected to the web, which allows you to produce energy and clean water directly at home. Watly is designed primarily to be used in places without services, such as refugee camps, but it can be applied anywhere. The cities of the future, for example, may not be born in very favorable places, and therefore will have to equip themselves technologically to survive. Watly was born because we wanted to free the user from centralized distribution networks, allowing… Read more

Child abuse, a network of 'sentinel' paediatricians will combat the phenomenon

January 30 2017May 19, 2016

Today more than ever the issue of child abuse is on the agenda: a society bereft of values and prospects for the future brings other orphans into the world, often abandoned at the mercy of a TV or internet without control and without sufficient protection . This is the context that puts more and more minors at risk of suffering violence, and increases the work of all the associations that have always been fighting to avoid child abuse. Among these the best known… Read more

Here is the new artificial skin from MIT

April 11 2022May 12, 2016

MIT in Boston, Massachusetts has successfully created the first artificial skin. This new development could lead to huge advances in prosthetic technology and treatments for burns and other skin injuries. How is artificial leather made? Artificial skin is made from sheets of collagen that have been coated with a special type of sugar molecule. When this artificial skin is implanted under human skin, it bonds with the natural tissue of… Read more

Intel buys Italian autonomous car company

April 6 2016

The self-driving car is certainly the future of the automotive sector; Intel also understood this, having recently purchased an Italian company to develop this project. Intel has in fact purchased Yogitech, as the Santa Clara (California) company itself announced on the official blog: “For years, Intel has been producing high-performance IoT systems that allow people and companies to make more informed decisions. Right now the industry is moving away from data automation towards a… Read more

3D printing of human organs and tissues is reality

February 25 2016

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

Science against Google

February 24 2016

Problems ahead for the most famous and used search engine in the world, as the scientific community has lashed out against the US giant, accusing it of not being neutral in the propagation of search results and of offering only commercial ones in the scale of results, which often they do not rhyme with quality results. There are many problems that Big G has to face these days, from the complaint of abuse of a dominant position by the European Community, ... Read more

First results of DARPA brain implants: improve memory

February 3 2016November 27, 2015

According to DARPA statements, the group of volunteers who underwent brain implants are experiencing improvements in memory. The project, Restoring Active Memory (curiously the acronym is RAM, just like the memory of a computer) can promote the mnemonic and cognitive recovery of all subjects affected by brain trauma. The group of volunteers, subjected to surgery for the positioning of brain implants through electrodes close to the regions of the brain responsible for the development of declarative memory, obtained better results... Read more

Chemtrails against global warming? There are those who say yes

January 27 2017October 29, 2015

Always protagonists in the argumentative repertoire of curious people, independent analysers, scholars, conspiracy theorists and free thinkers, the famous "Chemtrails" could emerge from the literature of counter-information to become part of tangible reality. No longer a borderline theme, therefore, but a conscious human activity. What is it about? The scientific journal PNAS (relaunched instantly by the more widespread Popular Mechanics) published joint studies by American, Scandinavian and Chinese scientists based on scenarios that effectively constitute speculation on the opportunity to do ... 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

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

What is life? Venter promises a new human evolution

November 18, 2019October 23, 2013

“What is life?” asks Craig Venter, the man who first mapped the human genome and created the first cell with a synthetic genome. “Just 3 letters are enough to compose a universe of questions still unanswered. What separates the animate from the inanimate? What are the basic ingredients of life? Who lit the first spark? How did the first organism evolve? How extensive is life in the universe? If other types of creatures exist on other planets, they are intelligent… 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

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

The Twitter suit displays messages in real time

November 14, 2013February 20 2013

Wearable technology has already made its appearance in the sports sector (now bracelets and chest bands for monitoring data and performance are countless) and is now preparing to land in the world of high fashion: the model and pop singer Nicole Scherzinger a few days ago he wore a dress connected to Twitter and capable of showing his message stream in real time. A crazy rudeness according to myself: yet in her way worthy of note... Read more

The mad rush of miniaturized health

July 10 201326 September 2012

The efforts that technology has made to improve our health conditions and our life expectancy seem to be preparing for the big leap, causing a substantial transformation in the way we treat ourselves and stay healthy for a long time. Here are the changes we should prepare for, and if they don't arrive quickly we should push for them to happen: Loanable Telemedicine: Telemedicine services, 'lighter' consultations that can be delivered via telephone or internet, now have an excellent propensity to ... 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

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

The greenest fuel there is? Made with air and water.

July 10 2013June 22 2012

AFS (Engineers at Air Fuel Synthesis) based in the north of England claims to have produced 5 liters of synthetic oil in the space of 3 months. It's a little bit, you might say. And give me a break. The technique consists of extracting carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from the water, then combining them in a reactor which produces methanol with the help of a catalyst. The methanol is then converted into oil. Now have you understood why it takes 3 months for 5 liters? Not exactly the time that… Read more

Lumineyes: in 20 seconds the eyes change color (forever).

December 16 2021April 28 2012

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Have you always dreamed of having a beautiful pair of blue eyes, but were you born with dark eyes? A Californian doctor has patented and developed a method capable of changing dark eyes to blue (forever) in just 20 seconds. How does Lumineyes work? Dr. Gregg Homer is an optical specialist at the Stroma Medical Institute in California. He has patented and uses a technique called Lumineyes to remove the brown pigment (melanin) from the top layer of the iris using a unique laser. … Read more

5 skills to survive the future

November 14, 2013April 9 2012

What skills need to be developed? Surviving is a relative concept: you can do without a lot, but beyond easy philosophy, an immersive world like ours characterized by an enormous amount of information is a jungle that is difficult to cross without having strong shoulders. Here are 5 skills to focus on for society in the coming years: 1 – Knowing how to manage communications According to Nielsen, in the first quarter of 2010 European teenagers sent and received… 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

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