Bill and Melinda Gates have a pretty substantial to-do list. In the Gates Foundation annual letter, they have outlined their long-term, 15 year goals for the challenges they wish to solve. Continue reading… “Bill Gates wants to tackle mobile banking without bitcoin”
How would you, your loved ones, or even your pet like to grow into a tree after death? It is now possible with the Bios Urn. Continue reading… “Grow your ashes into a tree with the Bios Urn”
The tricorder was a handheld device, featured on the Star Trek shows and movies, that is able to diagnose a wounded or sick patient in seconds.
Continue reading… “Real life Star Trek Tricorder By 2016?”
Every new year comes with a landslide of predictions and trends to guide us through the year. Continue reading… “Disruptive technology trends for the coming year”
Farmers, police forces, and extreme sports enthusiasts have already found uses for drones. Now engineers are testing versions of the tiny craft that can do more than just observe.
Electric bus in NYC
Electric cars have come a long way and they continue to wrestle more market share from their fossil-fueled counterparts, but electric cars can only take us so far. Electric buses, on the other hand, are a lot more exciting and becoming more commonplace. Continue reading… “Electric buses on the rise”
A sweeping bird’s-eye view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is the largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, it is also the sharpest large composite image ever taken of our galactic next-door neighbor.
By Developing systems to identify the tangibles in life come to her naturally, from how to stock her canned goods to labeling her music collection so she can listen to which ever genre strikes her, Karen Koch Rasmussen can navigate life just fine without sight. Continue reading… “New iPhone app helps blind with sight on demand”
Thomas Frey is a the founder of the DaVinci Institute, and his job is to think about the future. How cool is that? Continue reading… “Semi-Random Walks #26: Futurist Thomas Frey”
A team led by Nicolas Giuseppone, professor at the Université de Strasbourg, at CNRS’s Institut Charles Sadron, has developed a polymer gel that is able to contract through the action of artificial molecular motors. Continue reading… “Polymer gel that stores light energy”
Atomizing newspaper bales into URLs, and replacing albums with streaming tracks, the Internet is, theoretically, the Great Unbundler, yet companies keep trying to stuff all that unbundled goodness back into new bundles, for a price. Continue reading… “‘Netflix for Magazines’ an impossible dream”
Attempting to find a cheaper alternative to the high cost of laser scanners used by self-driving and automated cars, a new software system was developed at the University of Michigan using video game technology. Continue reading… “Lowering the cost of self-driving cars using cameras”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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