Sensors that detect Covid-19 in the air get major US military funding
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you’d like to know if there are any pathogens in the air around you then this is the tech for you. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
Researchers new penny sized computer monitor bone health in real time
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Lots of people suffer from bone problems and this new computer could help track disease progression as well as help develop more effective personalised treatment plans. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
World’s first living robots made by AI surprise scientists by spontaneously reproducing themselves
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI, supercomputers and scientists created the world’s first living programable robots from frog cells, and they just spontaneously reproduced themselves surprising the everyone … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Amazing new grain sized nanocamera snaps amazing hi def images
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Everything gets smaller and better, and camera systems are no exception which opens up all manner of new use cases and applications for them. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Non invasive wearable tech monitors cholesterol levels through the skin
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Cholesterol can be a killer but detecting and measuring it is normally invasive and tricky, but soon your smart watch could measure it for you. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
New penny size computer monitors bone health in vivo
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you’ve got osteoporosis or have broken a bone then this could revolutionise your treatments … 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. “As a surgeon,...
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...
A new biocompatible AI takes healthcare monitoring to the next level
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Most medical implants are dumb, but by creating the world’s first biocompatible AI researchers are literally putting a doctor inside your body. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
Researchers have flown the world’s smallest flying computers
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Flying computers, or Smart Dust, has applications in environmental monitoring and elsewhere. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. As though microchips, which are now almost as small as a grain of dust,...
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...
Scientists have created a swarm of injectable brain reading nanosensors
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you think the only way we can connect your mind to a computer is via a chip or a skull cap think again. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. The mission...
Scientists built a perfectly replicating synthetic cell
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the future not all organisms will be children of Mother Nature … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Synthetic cells and basic synthetic organisms that have no equal or equivalent in...
Pentagon scientists microchip detects COVID-19 in the blood before symptoms show
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to detect viruses in the blood and filter them out before they cause harm has its uses … 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 biggest problems during...
Scientists developed a device that enables two way communication with plants
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Plants are a rich source of information – if you can communicate with them that is … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In the past couple of years I’ve seen scientists...
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...
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...
Memristor breakthrough puts a human brain at the edge of every network
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Memristors work like human synapses and are a building block of highly energy efficient Neuromorphic computers which make them perfect for running AI at the edge. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
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...
The US military found a way to use AI to turn humans into living sensor networks
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF This sounds like science fiction, again, but turning humans into living sensor networks that are monitored and controlled by AI is technologically possible now. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In...
Apple iPhone 12 packs in Lidar to bring physical and virtual worlds closer together
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Lidar sensing systems used to be an incredibly large and incredibly expensive, and now they’re in your phone. 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. This week Apple introduced its latest line...
