Peter Diamandis: “In the next 10 years we will reinvent every sector”
In his new book, entrepreneur and futurologist Peter Diamandis strikes us with optimism: in 10 years, he says, the world will change completely. Here's how.
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Deceased actors return to the cinema "resurrected" in CGI. Ethical doubts
James Dean will be the next deceased actor CGI'd to star in a film long after his death. Digital immortality raises serious doubts.
Lost, the L'Oréal gadget that mixes makeup based on trends on the web
Makeup also enters the technological phase of personalization with Perso, a L'Oréal gadget that mixes lipstick and foundation based on online trends.
30 Great technological flops of the last 10 years: the future that has not been.
10 years of great news, but also of monstrous technological flops. Here is a small gallery of the horrors of what has miserably failed in recent years.
11 bold forecasts for the near future technological decade
The last 10 years have seen half of the forecasts come true: this is what has happened, and here are those for the near future.
The material of the future? Transparent and enhanced wood
New construction methods, bright ceilings, futuristic car interiors, even batteries: transparent and enhanced wood is the most promising material of the future
Dynaflash, the incredible 1000fps projector for dynamic images
Objects “covered” with moving images? Just one of the applications of the Dynaflash projector and its 1000fps technology
Facebook acquires CTRL-Labs and its bracelet that "reads" the brain
The CTRL-Labs wrist band encodes the signals sent from the brain to the hand and transforms them into actions in VR or AR environments.
In the iOS13 code a clue about the new Apple Glasses
Apple will unveil iPhone 11 next week alongside new Apple Watch models. They're not the only products Bitten Apple is developing, however. Some may be introduced in the near future, and I'm not referring to the new 2019 iPad Pro models that will be announced in October, but to a new series of AR glasses. Yes, the infamous Apple Glasses augmented reality devices. Remember Apple Glasses? For a while they threw the… Read more
Facebook finances thought-writing devices
At Menlo Park they say they are ready to present by December a functional and wearable prototype of a device for writing with thoughts
Step forward towards electronic contact lenses: now they integrate functioning batteries
For the first time in the world, a research team from the French university IMT Atlantique has found a way to integrate a flexible battery into a pair of contact lenses.
Pokémon Go, record-breaking app!
The #Pokémon Go #app is not yet available in Italy, but it should be available soon on both iTunes and Google Play. Impossible not to have heard of it; Since the app came out, Nintendo's shares in America have gone from 16 dollars to a peak of almost 28. It's a very simple but captivating game, a simplified version of Pokémon that uses geolocation and augmented reality. We go around the city hunting for the various Pokémon that go first... Read more
How the future will be according to Facebook
According to Mark Zuckerberg, the future in ten years will be increasingly virtual. Between video chats, holograms, augmented reality viewers and robots to chat with, here is the vision of the future of the man who created an Internet giant (even if at the moment he is not sailing in excellent waters, given the decline in shares and activity of social media users). According to Mark, therefore, we will soon be inundated with videos, we will use chats to access any type of service and all... Read more
Virtual teleportation has arrived
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
With HoloLens sport becomes 3D
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
6 bets for the future
The list of technologies under study is very long and is constantly updated: one of the latest lists of future developments that could change the world forever comes from the Institute of Ethics and Emerging Technologies, a research center founded in 2004 by a philosopher, Nick Bostrom, and a bioethicist, James Huges. The list, drawn up with the consultancy of futurologist Gray Scott, presents really interesting elements: here are the "magnificent" 6 technologies that could arrive in the near future. Age reversal… Read more
Technical tests of 'replicator': here is the morphic table that transmits objects in real time
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
5 trends in the future of packaging
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
Jobs of the near future: 26 jobs of tomorrow
In the days that mark the fall of the Berlusconi government and the Italian economic crisis (remember? we predicted it on the old site) I am as disheartened as all of you. The moment is difficult: we can only get out of it if all levels of our country change by looking to the future more than to the past. Some jobs will still survive in the future, let's be clear: but there is a whole series of jobs that don't exist today and which could be useful in the near future. Let's go with common sense: 60%... Read more
“Spiral” contact lenses: eliminate all vision defects in one fell swoop
A French research team creates a lens with a spiral pattern that focuses at different distances and corrects all visual defects in one shot.
Wearing a navigator: the innovation of pneumatic fabrics
Forget GPS and headphones: the navigator of the future could be sewn into our clothes, thanks to innovative wearable technologies
