With no ports, no wires, this first of a kind OLED TV also sticks itself to the wall
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Wires and cables suck but we’re stuck with them … or are we? 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. I’ve been saying for years that...
LG shows off its latest amazingly stretchy display tech
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The fixed, glass displays we’re all used to are changing fast, and that opens the door to new display formats and possibilities. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
US Government to start giving IOT devices a cyber security rating from 2023
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Most IOT connected devices have little to no security which means they can be hacked, abused and used, so this rating hopes to solve that and raise IOT security awareness. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
Intel Samsung show off their first ever expandable display
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As screens become more flexible and evolve the more use cases and applications there are for them. 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. Intel’s 2022 Innovation...
In a world first LG’s latest stunning OLED display is also the speaker system
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By embedding the speaker system into the display LG’s new display makes it easier to turn every surface into a speaker system. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about...
The world’s first augmented reality contact lens just got its first human trial
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Up until now the contact lens hasn’t been put onto anyones eyeball, and for good reason, so this first human trial is a significant step forwards. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses from...
LG’s rollable TV screen becomes the center of attention as a sound bar
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF New innovative displays are helping designers innovate new design concepts which could change how we live and lounge. 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. TV’s...
This E-Ink reader now comes in full colour
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF E-Ink displays are handy in all kinds of ways, from helping you create colour morphing cars to sneakers, and better E-Readers … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
Vivo patent shows a smartphone with its own built in flying drone camera
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Drone cameras give users a new take on life as tech miniaturises concepts like this become increasingly feasible. 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. Everyone...
HTC unveil their latest “slimline” VR glasses to conquer the Metaverse
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF VR headsets are getting smaller and slimmer and it’s only a matter of time now before we see the first VR glasses. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
New light field technology breakthrough could revolutionise AR and VR experiences
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We still experience AR and VR worlds in an artificial way that makes it look different to the real world, this tech changes that. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
GE teams up with NIH to put a COVID-19 sensor in your smartphone
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF How many times during the pandemic did you wonder if you’d been in contact with “the virus” – this could tell you in the future. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
Samsung just built the world’s highest resolution 200MP camera sensor
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Why settle for photo-real images when they can be better than life itself?! Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Samsung’s latest super-sized camera sensor is the “Isocell HP1” and it has a...
Apple announces plans to scan every iPhone for child abuse images
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF This strikes at the heart of people’s moral conundrums when it comes to the ethics of privacy – on the one hand the idea is to be praised, and on the other demonised … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof...
Samsung shows off a new stretchable display perfect for wearables
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Fixed rigid screens and displays are becoming a thing of the past and that’s opening up a world of new applications … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. We’ve had curved displays...
To beat Deepfakes researchers built a smarter camera
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Deepfakes and synthetic media are here to stay and they’re getting better – better at spawning misinformation and undermining democracy. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. One of the most difficult things...
Futuristic Dubai nail salon turns your nails into digital storage devices
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As compute and storage gets smaller people will find all kinds of new use cases for them … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Dubai is truly the land of man-made wonders....
Three tech giants team up to build ‘giant’ laptops with flexible displays
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to fold screens and displays opens the door to new computer and smart device formats, and this is just the beginning. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. We’ve all seen...
New smartphone ultrasound fingerprint sensor really gets under your skin
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Biometrics can be increasingly easily hacked, so we need to find new ways to authenticate people. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Many people already use fingerprint recognition technology to access their...