Body Stickers

Health & Wellness, Wearables

*This* is the future of wearables – the Fitbit plastic wristbands and other variants are merely temporary in between steps to discreet, personal stickers. No larger than a postage stamp and as thin as a human hair, these devices consist of an antenna and thinned near-field communication chip mounted onto a stretchable adhesive.  Disposable, wearable anywhere on the body – these can be used wherever, and whenever is necessary. The implications for the personal data being gathered and shared with healthcare providers and insurance companies is another frontier in privacy, that personally I feel

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Presenting 3d printing

3d printing, Appearances & Press

Hah! An action shot of me presenting at the Empiricist League about 2 years ago, on the future impact of 3D printing….dug up by a friend of mine. Proud I am. I was presenting after George Musser (former senior editor for Scientific American and the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory) and Chuck Blake (former research scientist at the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT) – both very hard acts to follow. Yoda was my attempt at humor, following people of that caliber! Eeks! Think I carried it off 😉 And yes, I

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Quantifying apparel

3d printing, Apparel, Data & analytics, Health & Wellness, Quantified Self, Wearables

Fascinating work on invisibly embedding technology that measures us throughout the day (and night?)…someday wearables will be disposable, 3D printed textile-based “devices” that can measure whatever we, and our doctors deem important (or maybe…not so important; I call that navel gazing); then our pharma printers can supply us with our customized supplements and medicines to compensate for whatever we need.

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Innovation in unexpected ways

Innovation, Random interestingness

Innovation isn’t always grandiose, or complicated, requiring teams of badly dressed nerds in disheveled clothes working around the clock…don’t know if that last bit applies or not in this case, but this elegantly simple solution to real problems caught my eye; edible disposable cutlery. Cutlery you say? Innovative? – apparently India throws away 120 BILLION plastic spoons forks and knives a year. And that’s a lot. Not just because I’m a closet tree-hugger, but because India has a particular problem with trash disposal – and drought. So this wonderful solution emerged: made from Millet (a grain that is

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Lucid trips

Focus: AR/VR, Games, Gaming, technology trends, Virtual world technology

This virtual reality “experience” (it’s not really a game) does sound like serious fun…instead of the traditional combat-themed shoot ’em up aggression-based environment, this strives to create an out 0f body experience. The article’s author says it feels a lot like being Ironman! You’re floating and sinking and through using your virtual arm and hand positions, interact with different worlds. There is apparently a game component as well…. Virtual and other alternative reality experiencing is going to take off this year. And just like video killed the radio star, it will kill the flat screen video

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