The 2019 drone market map is out and it shows a strong growth in many sectors.  It may be interesting to compare the 2018 map with the new one. We have a new category, drone-in-a-box, pointing at the growing interest for fully autonomous drones (taking off from a box and …

Our world is so much different from the past but I think that one of the thing that would strike one of our great-great grandfathers if they were to come back and walk around would be seeing the incredible magic of cultivated fields with no one tending them and the …

Did you see the Lion King 2019 trailer? Just in case I inserted the clip here. I don’t know about you but it is a long way from Disney animation. Most details look real, can you tell the lion cub is not a real lion cub? Reading the article on …

Researchers keep looking at more efficient ways to distribute power, particularly in areas where the constraints are significant. Nature had billion of years in experimenting energy savvy solutions and through natural selection it has achieve impressive results. In most cases, particularly when we are looking at small sizes, Nature is …

When I started working, back in 1971, magnetic tapes where seen as a magic form of data storage. One could store an unbelievable 1.1 MB of data! At that time the alternative was storing data on paper tapes… This very old technology (in Moore’s clock reference) has kept improving, although …

Over the last 20 years microfluidics has made possible to create micro-laboratories where molecules can interact in predefined stages, like writing and executing a program with a computer consisting of tiny reservoirs connected by pipes. This evolution led to the development of organ on a chip easing the testing of …

According to the 2018 Pizza Power Report the worldwide business of selling pizzas has reached 134B$, 3 billion pizzas have been eaten last year in the US, over 30 billions in the world. That’s not bad for something that started as a slice of bread with some tomatoes and cheese. …

There are many persons that cannot use their senses, and movement, to interact with the environment and with devices that in most cases have been designed to interact with people with normal abilities.  The use of computers, sensors and software has made possible in the last twenty years to develop …

Human Machine Interaction Interactionwith a machine has been basically a mechanical activity. I push a lever and a cog is engaged. There is no awareness on the side of the cog, it just finds itself executing what has been forced on it. When interacting with a computer the situation is …

Home Intelligence If there is an area where AI hype is in full swing that is the home environment. We are bombarded by intelligent vacuum cleaners, intelligent microwave ovens,… even intelligent toobrush. True to tell, some advertisers downplay the intelligence a bit and talk about “smart”: the smart kitchen, the smart …