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The evolution of healthcare in this decade will be sustained by the convergence of several technology areas, each progressing independently from one another under the pressure of demand from several markets: ambient, wearable and implantable sensors There are already millions of wearables in use that monitors some basic physiological parameters. …

For quite some time the focus of researchers working on creating an artificial hand/limb has been on functionality, and rightly so. How can we create an artificial hand that can be controlled by the person’s brain via the stump? Researchers have discovered that the brain of a person with an …

14. Sense and Know anything, anytime, anywhere This Megatrend is about the never ending explosion of knowledge. This looks like a very recent phenomena, however, if we go back in time and take a broad view we can realize that the growth of knowledge has characterized not just our history …

11. Insurance: from “recovery after risk” to “prevention of risk” Today we insure our home, our car … ourselves from accidents and insurers evaluate the risk such accident may happen. To do that they are using statistics and more and more try to customise the risk evaluation to be as …

Data are created by sensors and aggregated by the company (institution) that has an interest in those data (and probably owns/deployed the sensors). Data creation, as noted, is a fall out of the Digital Transformation, companies digitise their environment and create data that are used by them and can be …

In the last few years more and more people have started to turn to their watch to glance at their fitness, how many calories have been burnt through the day, how many steps have been taken, even look at their heart beats through the day. People practicing sports have been …

Researchers at the Delft University of Technology have presented a modified GameBoy that can work without batteries, using a bit of solar power AND converting the power of thumbs pressing on the GameBoy buttons into electrical power. The conversion of pressure into electrical power is nothing new, it is based …

Sometimes technology goes beyond imagination and this is surely one of those cases. A team of researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology in Saudi Arabia have managed to create a set of inks that can be used by a 3D printer to manufacture solar cells 1.7µm …

Our brain has been shaped by evolution to process and understand a multi-sensorial flow of data and to interpret them in a 4 dimensional space. Data that are generated in a lower dimensional space are re-interpreted by the brain to fit its 4 dimensional framework. So, when we watch a …

Harvesting Data Value When one says “data are valuable” that’s not the complete truth. It is sufficient to look around at how many data are being used every single day for free (getting and using is almost a synonym in data, which is not the case in the world of …