Patching up holes in blood vessels and the heart’s walls may become easier with blood-resistant glue.
You’re operating on a heart and it’s got a tear in it. How do you mend it? The traditional answers are with sutures or staples, but they aren’t good ones. Both involve piercing tissue and creating holes, which is bad news for an organ that’s constantly moving, and vigorously pumping blood. Holes lead to clots. They also bleed.
Continue reading… “New surgical glue can mend a broken heart”
Watson rose to prominence when the super computer ‘won’ US quiz show Jeopardy.
IBM is planning to invest more than $1 billion into Watson, its super computing platform. The company announced that the investment program will see a new business unit created for the technology, alongside a $100 million VC fund that will be used to encourage developers to create apps on the platform.
Self-driving cars and driver controlled cars are expected to hit highways around the world before 2025 and self-driving “only” cars (only the car drives) are anticipated around 2030, according to an emerging technologies study on Autonomous Cars from IHS Automotive.
Continue reading… “54 million self-driving cars expected to be in use globally by 2035”
Information and knowledge are rapidly being rewritten by technology and humans are changing because of it. The torrent of information and knowledge flowing into our mobile devices – and the global network delivering it – is rapidly changing our lives, says Gerd Leonhard.
Continue reading… “Technology and the future of knowledge”
Futurist Thomas Frey: “2014 will be the year the ’quantified self’ goes mainstream.” Those were the words Silicon Valley prodigy Marc Andreessen used in a recent article to describe changes about to happen to American healthcare.
Continue reading… “Eight Reason Why Future Computers will make better Decisions than Doctors”
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One day, Google Glass could enable some pretty incredible augmented reality apps. Its camera might recognize a person’s face, then scour the Internet for information about him or her, beaming that back to you in real time. It’s neat stuff for sure, but as this concept demo from Israeli software developer Infinity AR shows us (completely unintentionally): automatically digging up too much information about someone else can be downright creepy.
Continue reading… “How app designers can make the future of dating less creepy”
Futurist Thomas Frey published 33 Dramatic Predictions of things that he projects may occur before the year 2030. Here are a few of these predictions that could have some immediate impact on the field of human resources.
Continue reading… “Top 5 dramatic predictions for HR”
Fat consumption remains a concern among developing countries.
The extent of the obesity epidemic worldwide has been thrown into stark reality as a report from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) puts the number of overweight and obese adults in developing countries at more than 900 million.
Continue reading… “Obesity rates soar in developing countries”
Three-dimensional dancing on soundwaves.
We are nearing the middle of the second decade of the 21st century and we finally have video phones. But where are the floating skateboards and flying cars? Perhaps what researchers are describing as “acoustic levitation ballet” points to some eventual possibilities.
Continue reading… “Researchers find new ways to levitate objects with sound”
Snake oil?
There are many conflicting studies and reports about health supplements. Is Vitamin C worth taking or not? Does Echinacea kill colds? Am I missing out not drinking Goji juice, wheatgrass extract and flaxseed oil every day? Author David McCandless has created a visualization of scientific evidence of health supplements.
Kandi Technologies car vending machine.
The company, Kandi Technologies is based in Hangzhou, China. They want to challenge the idea of traditional car ownership. In a country where air pollution is a serious environmental and health hazard, the company has created a giant vending machine that allows citizens to rent electric vehicles on an hourly basis. With a fleet of more than 100,000, Kandi already has plans to expand to other cities this year.
Continue reading… “Giant car vending machine could steer people away from private car ownership”
Programming skills can be a ticket to upward mobility.
If you are looking for a sure route to a job, learn to code, says Codeacademy co-founder Zach Sims.
Continue reading… “Computer programming holds the key, says Zach Sims, Codeacademy CEO”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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