Futurist Thomas Frey: A few nights ago, I arrived at a very nice Radisson Blu Hotel in Minneapolis for my talk on the “hotel of the future.”
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Archimedes Liam F1 Urban Wind Turbine is the world’s most efficient urban wind turbine
Liam F1 Urban Wind Turbine
The Rotterdam-based tech firm The Archimedes has introduced its Liam F1 Urban Wind Turbine, which is said to have an energy yield that is “80 percent of the maximum that is theoretically feasible.” That’s quite the assertion, given that most conventional wind turbines average around 25 to 50 percent. (Video)
A third of 18- to -34 year olds in the U.S. live with their parents
The number of young Americans heading to college continues to increase where they are racking up debt to pay for rapidly increasing tuition costs.
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The future of retail will blow your mind
Brick-and-mortar retailers didn’t have a fighting chance these past few years to compete with the personalization and convenience provided by online shopping. By cultivating mountains of rich customer data, online retailers had the upper hand.
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New thinking leads to a decline in homelessness
The National Alliance to End Homelessness sees the recent success as the “giant untold story of the homelessness world.”
Since 2005, there has been a 17 percent decline in homelessness because of a radical change in how states address homelessness. This trend has withstood financial panic, a foreclosure crisis, and the Great Recession.
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Google invests $1B on satellites to bring WiFi to the world
The project is scoped to provide internet to areas around the world without wired connections.
Google plans to spend over $1 billion on a fleet of satellites that will be used to provide internet to parts of the world that currently lack digital connections, according to a report from Wall Street Journal.
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MIT creates wearable set of robotic arms to give a helping hand
Supernumerary Robotic Limbs
MIT creates robotic limbs that, when worn, give you more limbs than you’d normally have. The Supernumerary Robotic Limbs (SRLs) are not designed to replace biological limbs that you might be missing, but rather robotic limbs designed to augment the number of limbs that you have already. (Videos)
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3D printing and microrobots make headway on building tissue which will enable large printed organs
Artificial blood vessels.
3D bioprinting has made new headway recently in fabricating blood vessels. Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed a method for 3D printing biological material using magnetically controlled robots.
Classcraft – a new way to teach students by turning the classroom into a giant role-playing game
Classcraft
Shawn Young, a high school physics, has a class full of warriors, mages, and healers. Warriors get to eat in class, mages can teleport out of a lecture, and healers can ask if an exam answer is correct. But this isn’t some Dungeons & Dragons-style fantasy. This is education as it’s happening for over 7,000 kids in more than 25 countries right now. (Video)
Is the Internet of Things critical to the survival and growth of the enterprise?
Should we to add the Internet of Things to the top strategic technology priorities for the decade? That’s the question increasingly in front of IT decision makers these days as tech vendors add the buzz phrase to their marketing and practitioners evaluate the rapidly growing array of related tools and technologies.
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Graphene contact lenses could give everyone night vision
Contact lenses with night vision could be on the way.
We all might be able to experience soon the super hero ability of having night vision thanks to graphene contact lenses. Contact lenses one day in the near future will be able to register the entire infrared spectrum as well as visible and ultraviolet light, according to Zhaohui Zhong, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan.
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Scientists erase, then restore rats’ memories
Researchers can selectively remove a memory and predictably reactivate it by stimulating nerves in the brain.
The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers have erased and reactivated memories in rats, profoundly altering the animals’ reaction to past events.
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