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,...
Smart bandages could one day monitor and medicate chronic injuries
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Most bandages protect, but there are a lot of new bandages coming onto the market that also accelerate healing. 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....
These sonar enabled smart glasses can listen in on silent voice commands
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Some people can’t speak and others don’t want to speak out loud in certain situations, but now your silent words can be heard. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
Your level of stress can now be measured using a simple palm worn smart tattoo
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Stress is a killer, among other things, so being able to measure it now means it’s easier for people to know when others need help. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
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...
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 wearable catches cancer cells directly from your bloodstream
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF This is the cancer equivalent of 24/7 monitoring of patients cancers and treatments, and it’s a historic milestone. 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. While...
MIT’s newest material contains sensors and a neural network
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As technology gets smaller it’s going to help us transform everything around us in new ways … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Materials have always been a physical thing. But that’s...
Speedo’s insane 3D printed whale inspired Aquaman swimsuit has its own onboard AI
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF All the technologies in this concept swimsuit are here already – that’s the real crazy part. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Just before the 2021 Olympic swimming trials Speedo unveiled an...
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...
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....
AI can sense students levels of stress from phone data and forms
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Stress is a killer and impacts health and performance, and now AI is being used to help identify it in new ways … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Recently scientists developed...
MIT’s smart clothes measure your body’s movements more accurately than ever
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Clothes will eventually become smart and be able to measure, monitor, and analyse everything from your movements and respiration rates to your biochemistry, this is another step in that direction. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
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 hail new Earable Computing era as a thing
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Ears are often overlooked as a place to shove a computer into but as computing and sensor technologies become smaller and more sophisticated the researchers have a good point. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch...
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....
Researchers’ brainwave reading temporary tattoo reads your mind and your moods
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Controlling technology with our minds will bring about a revolution in computing and computer interfaces, and this new BMI Smart Tattoo brings it into everyone’s reach. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. One of the facts about exponential...