The parasitic house (in a good sense) to live on the roofs
The parasitic house exploits the existing connections, responds to the need for houses with minimal approaches, zero waste and saving the cultural heritage of the cities.
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The consequences of Splinternet
The Internet is becoming a patchwork of different webs for each nation. It is a reality, and it will characterize the coming years, whether we like it or not. A very sad circumstance to suffer limits in the only place in the world that virtually had none.
The office of the future has everything but an office
Its founders met online and only met after 3 years. It has 600 employees and will have a thousand more within the year, when it launches a public offering to go public. It does not have and will not have a physical office.
Experts warn: don't fall in love with a robot. The story of Jibo
No matter how engaging a device is, or how cute it is, it will never return your affection. Story of the little robot that preceded the virtual assistants Google and Alexa, and broke everyone's hearts by announcing its "death".
Singularity: Kurzweil expects intelligent computers as humans within 12 years.
According to futurologist and Google chief engineer Ray Kurzweil, the singularity is approaching by leaps and bounds. “By 2029, computers will have the same level of intelligence as humans.” This is the statement made in a recent interview at the SXSW Conference. What is the singularity? (It is always good to remember this) It is a process-event that will bring the intelligence of computers to a higher level than that of human beings. And according to leading experts on the subject it seems to be getting closer over time. Even the theoretical physicist Stephen… Read more
Unexplained area discovered on the surface of Mars
Stars and planets are fascinating universes, which every day reveal dark and difficult to explain areas. It happened recently with the discoveries involving the planet Pluto, where a mountain chain was discovered that overturns every scientific thought carried out so far and it also happens today with Mars, a planet that seemed to have been studied in every single portion of it. The Curiosity probe has in fact detected the presence of a very special area in the crater area... Read more
Fight against a half obese and half hungry world: which side are you on?
The fight against waste in an increasingly crowded world immersed in a dense network of economic exchanges is a fundamental direction. Add to this the shortage of energy resources and the scarcity of food and we will have a future scenario that is truly difficult to face, unless we come up with an important idea, or we decide together to work on a better way of producing, consuming, even eating. . Every year, for one thing, almost a billion and a half is wasted... Read more
10 helps to increase intelligence
With the new technologies of the near future, we will all be able to achieve super intelligence: while you wait, there are a few things you can do now to increase intelligence. Of course, it will be difficult to become a genius in one fell swoop, but learning skills, mental clarity and mood can be improved. Here are 10 remedies. Before reading how to increase intelligence, consult your doctor before taking one of the 10 "tips" contained in this article (except for number 3, for which you can ... Read more
3 cities to launch new projects: password? #wcap 2013
This year too working capital 2013 will support innovative companies by developing a path to encourage meetings between startups, investors and communities. The choice is strategic and "geosmart": the secret of success lies in a large 'backbone' made up of 3 cities (Milan, Rome, Catania) which will host spaces in which the mentors will be able to support the ideas of the competing teams. For inspiration and emulation it is possible to take a look at the winning projects of the past editions, consulting the repository developed in collaboration with the Kauffman Society: a platform that … Read more
Muse, take a look at your brain
There are several wearable devices already designed to monitor our vital parameters, from heartbeat to sleep patterns: a group of inventors is bringing to the market a user-friendly and wearable approach to brain wave monitoring. InteraXon is a Canadian company that is working hard to introduce a band called Muse, to be worn on the forehead, which uses 4 EEG (Electro Encephalogram) sensors capable of showing the traces of the brain. In the initial release… Read more
The era of "printed" food is approaching
Natural Machines is a Spanish startup that is currently working on a 3D printer capable of producing pasta, bread and other types of food starting from liquids and pre-packaged mixtures: it is a formula that could revolutionize the 3D printing market and also a a bit like gastronomy. Unlike other 3D printers, the device developed by Natural Machines could 'print' food from 6 different materials (treated a bit as if they were food inks). … Read more
Chiba, the robot chair that breaks down architectural barriers
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
The robotic arm of DARPA ready in 4 years.
When over the last 5 years we reported news on DARPA's robotic arm (if you feel like it, the old site is available), we talked about advanced prototypes: today we can talk, with satisfaction, about clinical tests: it is the future. No later than two weeks ago, American health bodies approved the protocol that will allow volunteers to obtain the implant of a bionic arm: on the front line, once again, soldiers wounded in war. They will be the ones to experiment… Read more
Urine produces electricity: in 36 years I have squandered a fortune.
And I'm only counting humans: until yesterday it was considered an unpleasant waste product (except for diehard lovers of the drink). Today a team of English scientists has discovered a possible and very useful application that would help transform urine into electricity. Dr Ioannis Ieropoulos and his team at the University of Bristol last week published the surprising results of a study demonstrating how urine can be successfully used in microbiological fuel cells. … Read more
In nanomachine towards the future
It's not the first and it won't be the last. Scientists from the University of Groningen (Holland) and the Empa research center (Switzerland) have created a nanometric transport system equipped with four motor units (translation: a “namomachine”). It's electric, four nanometers long and every half turn of the wheels has to fill up... It works thanks to a scanning tunneling microscope positioned above it, which transmits a tiny electric charge that causes reversible structural changes in the wheels (translation: … Read more
