On Fridays I post here my favorite stories about emerging technologies, experiential activations, interactive art, advances in scientific research, and other things I find inspirational.
Swiss researchers have developed an exoskeleton to prevent the elderly from falling:
Image: EPFL News / Scuola Sant’Anna
Silicon Valley is bullish on AI disruption of the medical industry, but doctors are more skeptical:
Image: Darko Stojanovic / Pixabay
A look at how the US Marines are using HoloLens augmented reality as a training tool:
Image: U.S. Marine Photo / Tayler P. Schwamb
Whole genome sequencing shows that CRISPR gene-editing can cause hundreds of off-target mutations:
Image: Thomas Splettstoesser / Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
MCity researchers devised an autonomous car testing method that could cut costs 99%:
Image: University of Michigan
Silicon-laced synthetic diamonds could allow for better practical quantum computers:
, Image: Steve Jurvetson / Wikipedia, CC BY 2.0
Nvidia wants to use its new Holodeck virtual world to create a Matrix for AI to train in:
Image: Claire Reilly / CNET
Mycroft’s Mark 1 is an open-source AI digital assistant that it hopes can compete with Amazon Echo:
Image: Mycroft
Startups Axiom Space & Bigelow Aerospace both want to be first to build a commercial space station:
Image: Joel Kowsky NASA
Tongues might have a sixth sense of taste beyond salty, sour, sweet, bitter and umami – for water:
Image: Science Magazine / AAAS
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