Tag: innovation
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Mathematical Model Reveals the Patterns of How Innovations Arise
Innovation is one of the driving forces in our world. The constant creation of new ideas and their transformation into technologies and products forms a powerful cornerstone for 21st century society. Indeed, many universities and institutes, along with regions such as Silicon Valley, cultivate this process. And yet the process of innovation is something of…
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The New and History – art*science 2017/Leonardo 50 Proceedings
The book, published by Noema Media & Publishing, collects the proceedings of art*science 2017/Leonardo 50 conference, that took place in Bologna, July 3-5 2017. fivewordsforthefuture has been a media partner of the event.
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fivewordsforthefuture è media partner di art*science 2017 / fivewordsforthefuture is media partner of art*science 2017
Italiano [English below] art*science 2017/Leonardo 50 – Il Nuovo e la Storia / The New and History Bologna, 3-5 Luglio 2017 Factory, via Castiglione, 26 Sala conferenze “Marco Biagi”, Baraccano, via S.Stefano, 119 https://artscience.online https://www.leonardo.info/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=22 art*science 2017/Leonardo 50 ha il patrocinio di: Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo (MIBACT), Leonardo/ISAST,…
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Interview with Pavel Smetana
Pavel Smetana was born in Ústí nad Labem, Bohemia. From 1979-1982 he studied at the Arts and Crafts School in the Prague Žižkov neighborhood. He was not accepted to the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague because of political reasons, which was one of the reasons why he decided to leave for France…
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Interview with Christa Sommerer
Christa Sommerer studied Biology and Botany (1982-85), followed by Art Education and Art Study in Modern Sculpture (1985-90) in Vienna, Austria. She concluded her post graduate study at the Staedelschule Institut for New Media, Frankfurt (1993-94). Subsequently, Christa Sommerer was an artist-in-resident at the NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Application, Beckman Institute (US) and at…
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Bricks Grown From Bacteria
A unique start-up company have developed a method of growing bricks from nothing more than bacteria and naturally abundant materials. Having recently won first place in the Cradle to Cradle Product Innovation Challenge, has developed a method of growing materials by employing microorganisms. Arguing that the four traditional building materials – concrete, glass, steel and wood – both contain…
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Body odor as a biometric identifier
The research of the Group of Biometrics, Biosignals and Security (GB2S) of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in collaboration with unveils that there are recognizable patterns of each person’s body odor that remain steady. Therefore, every person has his/hers own odor and this would allow his/her identification within a group of people at an accurate rate higher than 85%.…
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Ambient Backscatter
As computing devices become smaller and more numerous, powering them becomes more difficult; wires are often not feasible, and batteries add weight, bulk, cost, and require recharging/replacement that is impractical at large scales. Ambient backscatter communication solves this problem by leveraging existing TV and cellular transmissions, rather than generating their own radio waves. This novel…
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MIT Produces Synthetic Bone With 3-D Printing
What if next time you broke a bone, instead of going to the doctor for a cast, you just printed out a new one? It sounds certifiably insane, but it’s actually not. MIT announced this week that its researchers have found a way to produce synthetic bone using 3-D printers, which work by converting digitized…
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The future of the human machine interface
Four converging technologies are going to transform our interaction with the world radically: genetics, robotics, information and nanotechnology. With a few exceptions, such as pacemakers and artificial hips, technology has always been at one distance removed from our bodies and brains. Not for much longer. The interface between the made world and us is going to become…
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“Invisibility Cloak” Hides Cats and Fish
A fish swims into an enclosure and disappears, while the pondweed behind remains perfectly visible. A cat climbs into a glass box and vanishes, and again the scene behind the box remains visible through the glass. This latest addition to the science of invisibility cloaks is one of the simplest implementations so far, but there’s…
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Turning Pine Sap Into ‘Ever-Green’ Plastics
Chuanbing Tang at the University of South Carolina is developing new plastics that are “green” from the cradle to the grave. Given that the new polymers he’s working on often come from pine trees, firs and other conifers, he’s giving the word “evergreen” added resonance. Rather than tapping a barrel of oil to obtain starting…
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Plug it on the window
The Window Socket offers a neat way to harness solar energy and use it as a plug socket. So far we have seen solutions that act as a solar battery backup, but none as a direct plug-in. Simple in design, the plug just attaches to any window and does its job intuitively. http://www.yankodesign.com/2013/04/26/plug-it-on-the-window/
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Augmented Reality
Augmented reality is a mix of technologies (software) built into a smartphone or laptop equipped with a webcam that allows you to observe and enrich surroundings with layers of informations, and virtual and multimedia elements. Creating new models of communication in real time, ranging from advertising to home automation, for different kind of markets: from tourism to consumer. Already used by military research or in academic or medical studies, augmented reality, since 2009, has reached people’s attention through adv campaigns, on newspapers or on the web. The fact that augmented reality applications are normally accessible by standard Internet browsers has boosted…
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CHAAC HA’, Water System Collector
“We addressed the issue of scarcity, over exploitation and pollution of water. It makes evident and urgent a rational and responsible water use, which allows its supply in quantity and quality over time through a dynamic and ecological balance. Therefore the effort to study the characteristics of our region such as the resources availability, population…
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Between the real and virtual worlds
Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a next generation user interface which can accurately detect the users finger and what it is touching, creating an interactive touchscreen-like system, using objects in the real word. Using this technology, information can be imported from a document as data, by selecting the necessary parts with your finger. This technology measures…
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Electricity through cycling
The Atom is a lightweight, highly efficient bicycle generator and rechargeable battery pack designed to power virtually any of your electronic or mobile devices via USB. Our generators easily mount on most standard bicycle frames and the battery packs detach easily to quickly extend your battery life. The Atom is for the modern commuter cyclist,…
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Fully Cellular 3D Bioprinted Liver Tissue
Organovo Holdings, Inc., a creator and manufacturer of functional, three-dimensional human tissues for medical research and therapeutic applications, presented at the 2013 Experimental Biology conference in Boston, Massachusettsdata on the company’s in vitro three-dimensional liver. “We have achieved excellent function in a fully cellular 3D human liver tissue. With Organovo’s 3D bioprinted liver tissues, we have demonstrated the…
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Future energy
Future Energy is a series of startup-investor pitch events that connects entrepreneurs, researchers, and private investors in the energy and clean-tech industries to develop and commercialize radical solutions to the world’s energy challenges. The Problem Step change in Energy demand – In coming decades, the world will need huge amounts of energy to support population and economic…
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Tablets thin and flexible as sheets of paper
Watch out tablet lovers – a flexible paper computer developed at Queen’s University in collaboration with Plastic Logic and Intel Labs will revolutionize the way people work with tablets and computers. The PaperTab tablet looks and feels just like a sheet of paper. However, it is fully interactive with a flexible, high-resolution 10.7” plastic display…
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Flexible Display Using Printing Technology
There is at least one connection between printing technology and flexible displays. The connection between these two innovative technologies resulted into a huge flexible display with 42-inch diagonal. The display is the result of collaboration between Toppan Printing and Plastic Logic, and the first demo was presented at Retail Tech Japan. The 42-inch bendable display…
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Electric Bacteria for Bio-Batteries
In an important step toward the creation of “bio-batteries,” a new study reveals how bacteria produce electricity when proteins in their cell membranes come into contact with a mineral surface. Scientists have known for some time that a family of marine bacteria known as Shewanella oneidensi, found in deep ocean sediments and soil, can create…
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SpaceTop, integrating 2D and spatial 3D interactions
SpaceTop is a technological and design solution to fuse 2D and spatial 3D interactions in a single desktop workspace. It extends the traditional desktop interface with interaction technology and visualization techniques that enable seamless transitions between 2D and 3D manipulations. SpaceTop allows users to type, click, draw in 2D, and directly manipulate interface elements that…
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Recyclable organic solar cells on cellulose nanocrystal substrates
Solar energy is potentially the largest source of renewable energy at our disposal, but significant advances are required to make photovoltaic technologies economically viable and, from a life-cycle perspective, environmentally friendly, and consequently scalable. Cellulose nanomaterials are emerging high-value nanoparticles extracted from plants that are abundant, renewable, and sustainable. Here, we report on the first…
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Openarch – the house of the future?
Openarch is a real prototype of a smart home. The first home designed from scratch to incorporate a digital layer connecting the house and its elements to the Internet. Its inhabitants lead a new digital and connected life. It is flexible and thanks to its ability to transform, it can adapt to any condition that…