When these designer cells hear music they release insulin for diabetics
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Our mastery of synthetic biology is improving so much that this weird breakthrough is now possible. 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 seen lots...
Electrogenetic breakthrough finds a way to control your genes via wearables
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if you could change your genes with your smart watch? Or just using electricity change your eye colour? That’s what we might be looking at in the future. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
Researchers innovative nanomaterial opens the door for bulletproof shirts
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As our ability to engineer materials at the nano level improves we can create new materials with amazing properties. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. If you’ve ever fancied a bullet proof...
Scientists are building the Earth’s digital twin to help solve global problems
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Once you digitise a physical object you can analyse it, model, and simulate scenarios at exponential speeds to discover more and design better solutions. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Celebrities have...
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...
Researchers new breakthrough computer chip transfers data at light speed
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the world produces more information that ever before we need faster and faster systems to move it around and analyse it. Love the Exponential Future? Join our free XPotential Community, enjoy premium content, futureproof yourself with XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. For years now researchers have...
Disney just unveiled its high def face swapping tech
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Can you believe what you see online? Increasingly no, and this latest high definition “DeepFake” tech is going to make it even harder. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. How would you like to swap faces with people? Perhaps,...
Nanotech helps chocolatiers create rainbow chocolates and give artificial colourings the boot
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Foods contain all kinds of harmful or questionable artificial colourings, by using this new manufacturing method those can all be eliminated. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. To date there have been all kinds of developments when it comes...
First of a kind biosensor detects Covid-19 in the air around you
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF During the current Coronavirus pandemic how do you know the air around you is free from the virus? Or not? Now you have a way to find out. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Over the past few...
Scientists have managed to clone photons using quantum dots
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to clone photons opens up new possibilities when it comes to quantum computing and quantum internet, but could also help hackers hack these systems. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In the global quest to develop...
Scientists unveil self-healing asphalt to end potholes
WHY TIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Many a motorist has been upended by potholes, as their cars clang into one, this might be a way to end them for good. Interested in the future and want to experience even more?! eXplore More. Self-healing materials are in vogue at the moment with...
Synthetic lifeforms closer to reality after AI creates world’s first synthetic genome
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The creation of the world’s first fully synthetic genome by an AI is a major milestone in synthetic biology researchers quest to create the world’s first fully synthetic lifeforms. Interested in the future and want to experience even more?! eXplore More. Scientists from ETH Zurich...
Researchers gene hacked human cells and turned them into dual core computers
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Computers have transformed human society, and next they’ll transform humans. Interested in the future and want to experience even more?! eXplore More. The CRISPR gene-editing system is usually known for helping scientists create gene hacked twins resistant to HIV and cancer vaccines, cure blindness, genetic...
Boston Dynamic’s robot Spot the dog learns to dance
WHY THIS MATTERS Teaching robots to dance helps researchers fine tune robots motor skills so they can be more agile and dextrous. At IROS in Madrid, Marc Raibert from Boston Dynamics, one of the world’s most advanced robotics companies, showed a few videos during his keynote presentation. One was...
Reverse engineering computer chips just became ridiculously easy
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Computer chips are prized assets, but now reverse engineering them and spotting state sponsored built in security “Trojans,” are easier than ever before. Peering inside semiconductor chips using X-Ray imaging isn’t new, but the technique hasn’t been especially good or easy to accomplish. New...
New Quantum ML algorithm could revolutionise Quantum AI before it even begins
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Artificial Intelligence, whether it’s Artificial General Intelligence or even Artificial Super Intelligence, could be completely eclipsed by the power of new Quantum AI models. One of the ways that intelligent computers and Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms “think” is by analysing the relationships between and...
3D printed living inks breakthrough could revolutionise manufacturing
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Bacteria have some amazing capabilities and soon we’ll be able to harness them to help us 3D print and create new exotic materials and products like never before. This week researchers unveiled a new kind of 3D Printing platform that, rather than using the...
Microsoft enters the race to build a viable quantum computer
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum computers are millions of times more powerful than todays traditional computers, if they can be developed and bought into the mainstream humanity will see major innovation breakthroughs across the board, from drug discovery to space travel. Microsoft, who earlier last year release a...
