Companies are creating space based energy grids that beam electricity to anywhere Earth

Companies are creating space based energy grids that beam electricity to anywhere Earth

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if you could just beam energy from space to anywhere on Earth? It would change global energy generation …   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...

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Scientists have found a way to use people as antennas to power future 6G networks

Scientists have found a way to use people as antennas to power future 6G networks

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Asides from creating better 6G mobile signals and boosting coverage I’m guessing conspiracy theorists will have a field day with this one.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch...

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Quantum sensors help BT boost the power of its 5G network a hundred fold

Quantum sensors help BT boost the power of its 5G network a hundred fold

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF While this technology is new and emerging it shows great promise for the future.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. British telecoms giant BT is...

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Elon Musk’s Starlink space internet system brings 500Mbps to anywhere on Earth

Elon Musk’s Starlink space internet system brings 500Mbps to anywhere on Earth

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you live anywhere that doesn’t have great, or any, internet connectivity then this is for you as space internet systems help finally connect everyone on the planet.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...

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Researchers made the world’s smallest antenna out of DNA

Researchers made the world’s smallest antenna out of DNA

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF One day everything will be connected – even your cells and this is the tech that could do it …!   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...

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Material that harvests electricity directly from 5G signals ushers in the “Internet of Electricity”

Material that harvests electricity directly from 5G signals ushers in the “Internet of Electricity”

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Imagine never having to plug your devices into a plug socket again, and accessing electricity in the same way you access WiFi – that’s now possible.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....

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Researchers create first of a kind quantum sensor that scans the entire RF spectrum

Researchers create first of a kind quantum sensor that scans the entire RF spectrum

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The RF spectrum is huge, and it’s increasingly important in warfare and communications, now we have a single sensor that can scan it all and when combined with AI optimise it.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...

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MIT invents a cryptographic “Tag of Everything” to defeat counterfeiters

MIT invents a cryptographic “Tag of Everything” to defeat counterfeiters

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As it gets easier to produce products of every kind, from parts for nuclear submarines to medicines, we need a way to guarantee the authenticity of our products.   Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Recently a team in...

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Drexel’s new spray on antennas can connect everything to the internet

Drexel’s new spray on antennas can connect everything to the internet

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Tomorrow’s world will be increasingly connected, and connecting old legacy devices and things has been difficult, but it’s about to get much easier.   Engineers are good at making minuscule antennas. Nowadays, we can cram antennas into our smartphones or smartwatches without much trouble. But...

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Revolutionising communications, Kymeta starts shipping metamaterial antennas

Revolutionising communications, Kymeta starts shipping metamaterial antennas

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Metamaterials have amazing, and unique, properties and they’re turning up in more places, and helping revolutionise more industries.   The first 400 flat panel antennas developed by Redmond based Kymeta, which has received over $200million in funding so far from luminaries such as Bill Gates,...

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Revolutionary Nano-antenna is hundreds times smaller than today’s state of the art

Revolutionary Nano-antenna is hundreds times smaller than today’s state of the art

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF It’s not just our devices that are getting smaller and more powerful, the components that make our devices are also going through their own revolutions.   Recently I discussed how a new Metalense breakthrough from Harvard University will help us realise atomic sized camera lenses,...

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