Wearables may improve clinical outcomes in the OR.
Healthcare is one of the ripest markets for Google Glass and Glass-based apps. While patient care has become increasingly data-driven, doctors need a way to receive the data while remaining hands-on with patients. (Video)
Continue reading… “Google Glass makes doctors better surgeons: Study”
Many of us now receive payments as well as make payments.
Ross Dawson: Last week I gave a keynote on The Future of Banking to a group of the most senior risk leaders in a major bank, sharing some provocative ideas on how the banking landscape may change in the years to come.
Continue reading… “Micro-payments between connected devices could enable a new layer of the economy”
Instead of putting fun first, Western developers focused too heavily on analytics.
The mobile-gaming gold rush is over, according to Rick Thompson of Signia Venture Partners. But he says the industry can reestablish a stronger, more sustainable model by looking to the East.
Continue reading… “China is years ahead of western mobile gaming”
Robotics is a transformative technology.
Brookings Institution is a prestigious organization in the nation’s capital. When organizations such as that decides to study civilian robotics, you know that at the very least the organization will present some thought-provoking views.
Continue reading… “The future of robotics: What is a robot?”
By the late 2020s or early 2030s renewables could be competing much more aggressively with the oil market.
Kepler Chevreux, a French investment bank, has produced a fascinating analysis that has dramatic implications for the global oil industry. The investment bank estimates that $100 billion invested in either wind energy or solar energy – and deployed as energy for light and commercial vehicles – will produce significantly more energy than that same $100 billion invested in oil.
Continue reading… “$100B invested in wind or solar will produce more energy than oil”
This portrait was woven using a Jacquard loom.
Before IBM, before punch-card computers, before Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, one of the very first machines that could run something like what we now call a “program” was used to make fabric. The machine was a loom and could process so much information that the fabric it produced could display pictures detailed enough that they might be mistaken for engravings.
Continue reading… “Before we had computers, people programmed looms”
The Simulator Program surpasses conventional systems with next-generation mannequins and 3D printing.
Gabriel Mandeville at five months old seemed like any other normal, healthy baby. Then he began having infantile spasms. The spasms became so frequent and severe that he had to undergo a hemispherectomy: a complicated surgical procedure that separates one side of the brain from another. Luckily, doctors at the Boston Children’s Hospital were able to use 3D printing technology to greatly increase the chances for a successful operation. (Video)
Continue reading… “Top 3 amazing ways 3D printing is already revolutionizing healthcare”
Google makes so much money that it is now worth three times more than every U.S. airline combined.
This question is harder than it looks – what valuable company is nobody building? That’s because your company could create a lot of value without becoming very valuable itself. Creating value isn’t enough—you also need to capture some of the value you create.
Continue reading… “Competition is for losers: Peter Thiel”
Governors from Michigan to North Carolina and the Obama administration have a solution for some of the U.S. manufacturing sector’s woes: German-style apprenticeship programs.
Solar cell printers.
We’ve come a long way from the solar-powered calculator to waiting to see when innovators are going to give us solar-powered smartphones, where most of our calculators are these days. While the average energy consumer is busy worrying about such everyday concerns, scientists at the Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium (VICOSC) are wondering how to power entire buildings, and pretty much the whole planet, as the technology they are creating will be easily transferred inexpensively to developing and third-world areas, thanks to 3D printing and design. (Video)
Continue reading… “The sky’s the limit for 3D printing solar panels”
The IoT will affect all types of organizations.
The number of mobile-connected devices this year will exceed the world’s population. Most organizations will have to respond in some way to the rise of connected devices in order to survive the next decade. As connected products, connected logistics, and connected phones become ubiquitous, they create value for users and risks for companies.
Continue reading… “Top 10 ways connected devices will impact every business”
Operational analytics not only predict what the next best action is, but also cause the action to happen without human intervention.
In the future, just having predictive models that suggest what might be done won’t be enough to stay ahead of the competition. Instead, smart organizations are driving analytics to an even deeper level within business processes—to make real-time operational decisions, on a daily basis.
Continue reading… “Let algorithms make real-time decisions for your company”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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