TCL shows off the world’s first sideways rolling TV
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Flexible displays and screens have been a long time coming, but they are finally emerging … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Sci-fi films often have a bunch of fancy gadgets,...
Hassell and NASA show off their fantastic Martian habitat concepts
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to 3D print buildings on the Moon means optimising 3D printing technology and processes, operating lean, and being as efficient as possible – which one day could revolutionise how we build buildings on Earth. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community,...
LG’s first rollable TV is now on sale for an eye watering price
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF They’ve been years in development, but finally flexible and in this case rollable displays are coming to the market. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. LG has been talking about a huge...
At just 11 atoms the world’s smallest sensor sheds light on the quantum realm
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are rapidly getting to the point where the smallest sensors are just atoms in size, which means we could integrate them into almost anything and everything in the future. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from...
NASA partners with ICON to 3D print its future Moonbase
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF While 3D printed buildings are disrupting how we build buildings on Earth off world it looks like it’s going to be the defacto standard. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. All...
Virus based molecular assembler helps researchers build next gen batteries
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Nature is fantastic at assembling, well, everything, so scientists are trying to harness nature’s smallest “life forms” to try to create the first molecular assemblers. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
Researchers develop microstructures that can self-assemble into new materials
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Biological systems can change their shape, and now researchers are getting better at creating shape shifting materials of all kinds … Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. A new process developed...
Students AI written blog fools most humans and rockets to the top of the charts
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As AI’s get better at generating and writing content, then writing viral content, soon most of the content we read could be AI generated rather than written by humans. Love the Exponential Future? Join our FREE XPotential Community, enjoy exclusive content, future proof yourself with XPotential University, connect, watch...
3D printed mini-satellites head into space for first trials
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF 3D printing products that operate in space is difficult, but entrepreneurs are slowly figuring it out and it will revolutionise the space industry. Love the Exponential Future? Join our FREE XPotential Community, enjoy exclusive content, future proof yourself with XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In the past twelve...
New printing process turns common-a-garden paper into electronic gadgets
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly everything can be turned into an electronic smart device – even paper – and innovations like this will make a raft of new products possible. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, enjoy exclusive content, future proof yourself with XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. I’ve...
Printed flexible electronics bring smarter smart clothes closer to reality
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Smaller and more flexible electronics and computer components will help us create even more intelligent smart clothes that can monitor our wellbeing in immense depth and detail. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, enjoy exclusive content, future proof yourself with XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
Xiaomi show off the world’s first mass produced transparent television
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to manufacture truly transparent displays takes us one step closer to being able to develop transparent electronics – if you like that kind of thing. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote,...
Raytheon unveils the world’s first 3D printed guided missile
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF 3D printing can be used to make artificial human hearts, but on the other it can also be “weaponised” in increasingly sophisticated ways. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. 3D printing...
ESA machine turns moondust into oxygen and metal to help first moon colonists survive
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF This new machine turns the Moon into the equivalent of a motorway service station by helping astronauts create rocket fuel for onward missions to Mars, and oxygen for survival. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential...
Massive AI powered robots are 3D printing entire rockets in the US
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF 3D printing has come a long way in the past decade, and it won’t be long before it starts going mainstream. Amazed by the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Artificial Intelligence (AI)...
Bespoke 45 carat lab grown diamond ring designed by Jony Ive sells at auction
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are moving from a world of scarcity to abundance, whether it’s energy, food, or even diamonds. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. As if to prove that nothing is impossible...
World’s spies finally get the bug on a wall cam they’ve been chasing for so long
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you ever wanted to spy on anyone the cameras of the future won’t disappoint. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. It’s long been known that bugs would make the perfect...
Revolutionary flat nano-thin cameras edge closer to mass production
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Metalenses are revolutionary – they’re nano-thin and flat which makes them the future of camera technology, now they could be manufactured at millionths of cents on the dollar. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our...
World’s smallest camera is so small it travels around your bloodstream scanning you from the inside
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Big tech companies watch you from the outside, now they can watch you from the inside, literally. And it also has medical applications … Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Cameras...
Higher Steaks shows off the world’s first lab made bacon and pork bellies
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of food doesn’t involve raising animals for slaughter or growing crops in fields … and it’s arriving. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Amazon and Ocado are growing crops in vertical farms in warehouses, not open fields, companies are 3D printing beef...
