Normally you see advanced technology being designed for niche markets and once they get a grip on the market (and usually becomes cheaper) it moves into mass market. With Google Glass it seems it may go the other way around. They have been designed having in mind the mass market (their …

In just 2 years (actually less than that…) Vine has become a widespread reality capturing the eyeballs of millions around the world. To me it looks a bit like having a video SMS, although it is much more and it requires much higher skill. The idea behind Vine is that …

Plastic electronics started in the 90ies as a way to create flexible circuits that can adapt to a variety of surfaces, from wearable to body implants. The idea was to use a polymer (plastic) as a board and the main obstacles were to find ways of anchoring the electronic parts …

Progress in technology and science are opening up new uncharted territories reached the depth of our feelings. We saw this happening in the past first by observation of the effect of natural substances (like opiate from the poppies) and then by chemistry (possibly the first was the LSD in the sixties). …

For many years researchers have tried to teach computers to recognise objects and then to recognise the "meaning" of an image (e.g. moving from recognising a dog and a kid to recognise that the dog scared the kid or that the kid was playing with the dog). This recognition and …

It is now several years that researchers are studying ways to restore sight to people who lost it. In a way, amazing results have been reached; retinal implants have been approved by FDA and European counterparts and a few patients have got a limited, but useful sight restored. So far retinal …

I noticed in some posts I wrote in the past the different ways to calculate the number of connected objects. Telecom based companies (like Ericsson, Cisco) tend to estimate in around 50 billions the number of connected objects by 2020, Information Technology (IT) based companies (like HP, SUN) tend to estimate in 1 …

I have already posted several news on molybdenum disulphide (MoS2), a material that can be produced in layers one atom thick, like graphene, and that may be contender to graphene in several applications in the next decades. Researchers at the Columbia University have developed what is the smallest-thinnest electricity generator using a …

Since the very beginning of human history, manufacturing has led the way to the production of wealth (even agriculture has been leveraging on manufacturing progress). Indeed progresses have been enormous but if you look closely the paradigm has remained the same: shaping something large into something smaller with a suitable …

We have seen amazing improvements in smart phones’ screens, with resolution that are now beyond the eye resolution as you watch the screen from a "regular" distance (like 20cm away from your eyes). With the very best resolution screens you won’t be able to see individual pixels even if you …