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Just after having discussed on electric vehicles, cars mostly, I run into this news about NASA starting testing its X-57 electric airplane prototype. For the time being the testing is focussing on the software to control power to the engines (propellers, as seen in the photo) snd the vibrations. The …

I am involved in a group in Turin, Italy, setting up a lab for sustainable mobility and there is lot of talks on hydrogen as a fuel, electrical vehicles (of different sorts) all of this under the umbrella of sustainability, lower CO2 emission, circular economy. The more you look into …

I still remember my first film camera (I was really proud of having a camera!). It had an optical indicator that as I turned the focus ring on the lens showed a detailed area in the frame split in two that recomposed into a single image once the focus was …

Just few days ago I had a conf call with Janet Garcia, Founder and CEO of Bleutech Park. (I inserted in “italics” sentences taken verbatim from Janet). This is a moonshot project aiming at developing a self-sustainable city by leveraging the most advanced technology that is at the same time …

It is probably more than 20 years that I have been hearing about the paperless office. At the turn of the century I was still working in a research centre of a Telecom Operator and there was a general agreement that paper was about to disappear. What I saw what …

Yes, I know, this is the statement of the obvious, a Lapalissade (although La Palice’s phrase was misunderstood: he said “If he weren’t dead, he would still be envied” but that, in French, sounded as “If he weren’t dead, he would still be alive”). This post was prompted by a …

Just few days ago I listed a number of different use for a smartphone and I stated that it was by no means a comprehensive one. Today I stumbled on SPADE, a new product by Axel Glade (not the first in this area by all means) that has been designed …

The Internet was designed as a loose interconnection of nodes (computers) that can be added in an un-coordinated way, provided they all communicated using the IP protocol and following the standardised addressing scheme. Because the addition is not coordinated and the links (both physical and logical) among the various nodes …

Synthetic Biology was born at the turn of the century but it got serious in 2010 when researchers at the JCVI (J.Craig Venter Institute) were able to create, by syntheses, the first fully working bacteria genome. The problem facing synthetic biology was to move from “syntheses by chance” to an …

5G is being deployed in many parts of the world, and has reached some significant coverage in the North America, Europe and Far East Asia (China, South Korea and Japan). Among all these Countries South Korea is leading in terms of coverage and penetration of 5G enabled devices. Looking at …