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Synthetic hamburger: 5 years for sale

November 25, 2015October 17, 2015

In 2013, research by Prof. Mark Post at Maastricht University in the Netherlands led to the development of a synthetic hamburger that takes 8 to 9 weeks to grow in the laboratory. With the same technologies as two years ago and more resources, even a million products can be created, and maintain a pace worthy of a fast food chain. This is meat "grown" in the laboratory starting from stem cells: the commercial prospect is incredible, because a product... Read more

6 bets for the future

December 26 2019October 8, 2015

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

G3DP, the “glazier” printer

October 6, 2015

G3DP is a manufacturing platform designed to 3D print transparent glass developed by researchers at MIT. Not only that: it can make them graduated by varying their thickness and also modify through other steps the degree of opacity of a glass and its color, the index of transmission, reflection and refraction of light, and all the other parameters specific to any type of glass. The platform is based on a thermal printer with two heating chambers: the upper one acts as an oven… Read more

i30: small flashes of the future.

March 24 2014

Calling it a 'restyling' is humiliating: after extensive renovation work above and under the bonnet, the Hyundai i30 presents itself with a decidedly 'European' and decisive appeal, and gives the readers of Futuroprossimo (and those who write to you first of all) a lot of insights into the innovations that are now part of modern automotive culture. From the multipurpose solutions to the greater possibility of 'customising' the purchase, from the ever greater guaranteed (and perceived) safety to the stylistic innovations, this car convinces from the first glance. Just for … Read more

15 predictions about the future of consumer sales

November 17, 2013November 17, 2013

“Change is the law of life: those who look only to the past or present will certainly miss the future.” JF Kennedy Consumer choices and expectations will change very rapidly with the advancement of technological progress, often forcing companies to adopt a strategy of continuous adaptation to new generations and new trends. Here are 15 predictions on future purchasing experiences that I have collected and formulated through the analysis of data and reports from companies and study centers: … 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

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

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

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

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

Telecom cools costs with a hot offer

November 5, 2022August 24 2013

The digital divide in Italy is still at rather worrying levels: it's not just about the distance between those who have a connection and those without one, there is also a big difference between the various types of connections and the average time spent on the web. Internet connection today allows much more than the simple use of a PC: new generation consoles, on-demand video content and interactive activities on smart TVs can only be used through a 'broad' contract... Read more

Samsung prepares the landing: flexible screens in the home stretch

7 September 2023May 21, 2013

Here we are: after years of development and tons of false previews on sites around the world, Samsung is ready to launch a new range of smartphones equipped with a flexible screen on the market. “Mobile phones with flexible, nearly indestructible screens that can be rotated, folded and placed in your pocket or wallet” (for this last sentence I smile: is it early yet?). The keystone in this new technology is the use of OLED (organic light emitting diodes) screens, which are very thin and … Read more

#WeLikeMusic, or 'how sonic passion became social'

November 5, 2022April 23 2013

We have seen a lot of it in the last 15 years: the Internet has gradually increased its reach, overwhelming many aspects of entertainment, from films to video games, through conversations and music. At first the major record industry tried to oppose its resistance based on the (albeit legitimate) protection of copyright and 'canonical' distribution systems; then the Napster cyclone (followed by P2Ps, led by Emule, Torrents and other systems based on sharing... 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

Saphon patents a wind turbine without blades

7 September 2023March 2 2013

A Tunisian startup, Saphon Energy, has created a new model of bladeless wind turbine. It is inspired by the design and structure of sailing boats and converts wind energy into electricity with double the efficiency and half the cost. This is the second prototype developed by the company: the solution appears very valid because it practically eliminates every negative factor (real or 'alleged' and for the use and consumption of oil lobbyists). It doesn't bother the birds, it doesn't make much noise, ... Read more

Holland drops 5 axles for the motorway of the future

July 10 2013November 27, 2012

We often tend to think of innovations in the field of road safety as solutions limited to cars, but a team of Dutch designers makes us understand how the road itself can also play an active role. This gave rise to a series of interesting studies to make driving safer. The Glowing Lines concept takes inspiration from the lines of reflectors that can be found here and there on European motorways, but replaces the latter with a special luminescent paint in … Read more

Flying salvation: a network of aerial drones for first aid

May 11, 2013October 31, 2012

The statistics released by the WHO tell us that of the millions of cases of fatal cardiac arrest occurring outside of hospital facilities, more than a third could be tackled: the timely arrival of an ambulance, the use of a defibrillator and lots and lots of speed (6 minutes is the window of time needed to save the patient). Many cities around the world do not have the capacity to act in time and lack the necessary organization. This translates into genocide: hundreds of thousands… 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

A bionic leg guided by thought and chasing a record.

November 14, 20135 September 2012

Zac Vawter lost a leg in an accident 3 years ago and since then he has been through an ordeal looking for a prosthesis (he calls it a 'fake leg') which for him had satisfactory answers close to those of a real leg. So the thirty-one-year-old software engineer from Washington signed up in 2010 as a volunteer tester in a research program with the aim of creating a thought-guided bionic leg. The Rehabilitation Institute of the Medical Center… 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

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