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I got intrigued on light field photography some 10 years ago. The concept is quite old, going back to the 1930ies, although the first camera exploiting this idea was a prototype back in 1992. The first commercial camera, that I am aware of goes back to 2011 (see clip) when …

Sort of ironic that a safety worker is being laid off because of safety reasons. Isn’t it? Yet, this is what is happening in California where Zoox, a taxi service using self driving cars has laid off some 120 safety drivers required by California law to provide the service. Because …

Being locked down at home, courtesy of the epidemic, I spent a few hours trying out a number of apps I downloaded on my smartphone that claim to be able to recognise objects in the surrounding using the smartphone camera and some sort of AI. Overall I had fun, but …

I got several reactions to the posts on the PDT and epidemics and several questions on the effectiveness of actually applying PDTs in this area. With this post I try to clarify some of the points I made in a more systematic way. In mathematical terms, an infection is characterised …

LAT has been a growing trend over the past few years. LAT stands for Living Apart Together and refers to couple in a stable relation that for any of a number of reasons choose to not live in the same house (some are stretching the LAT also to couple using …

As technology progresses our established categories lose their well defined borders. We are seeing this happening in many areas, and in many cases this brings new ethical questions to the fore, Think about the fading boundary between life and death: a person physical processes can be kept operating thanks to …

It is now several years that researchers are looking into ways to interconnect living cells with electronic components. A major push comes from the goal of interconnecting prosthetics to the human body, to have a seamless interaction, on the one hand letting the body/brain control the prosthetic and on the …

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are working on an AI based test for Covid-19 that uses your voice pattern for analyses by comparing it to the voices of hundreds of thousands of other people, infected and not. You can participate in the trial and get yourself checked here. Once you …

Google glass were met with curiosity but eventually raised strong opposition for their potential intrusiveness, a omnipresent Peeping Tom, to the point they were banned from several places. Oculus Rift are cumbersome and surely not suitable for moving around. True augmented reality glasses, affordable and seamless for a mass market …

The disparity in the world healthcare among Countries is huge, as shown in the World Bank data, and, unfortunately, it is no April fools. Bet869ween the Gambia 20$ and the US 9869$ per person per year there is a factor of 493! Now, one might observe that the value of …