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Today’s topics to consider are airships, a vocal cord patch, Apple, smart glasses, deep tech, biotech, media fragmentation on steroids, sailing, sand batteries, 3D printing and hacking VR.
Watch Inception or Mission Impossible or both.
Flying high: UK’s modern-day green airship takes shape
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-flying-high-uk-modern-day.html?
The Airlander—which is 300 feet (91 meters) long—is lifted by its gigantic helium-filled hull, which is then steered through the air by engine propellers powered by conventional fuel.
New self-powered throat patch could help people speak without vocal cords
A new, flexible device that clings to the neck can translate muscular movements into speech, enabling people to talk without using their vocal cords. Remember Mission Impossible.
Apple just hinted at its AI plans, and they could be game-changing. Here’s why
https://www.fastcompany.com/91047728/apple-ai-applegpt-generative-siri-m3-macbook-air-cloud-device?
Apple’s AI chatbot may live on your device, not in the cloud
Smart glasses are the future, but who will get there first?
https://www.theverge.com/24099475/smart-glasses-ray-ban-meta-google-glass-wearables
Smart glasses offer the rare opportunity for a computer to be at eye and ear level and be embedded into an accessory that a majority of folks already wear.
Deep Tech: Transforming the Technology Investment Landscape
https://insight.openexo.com/deep-tech-transforming-the-technology-investment-landscape/?
Deep Tech are companies that are founded on a scientific discovery or genuine technological innovation” and aim to improve the world.
Why Nvidia, Google And Microsoft Are Betting Billions On Biotech’s AI Future
Tech companies are looking to biotech as the next frontier in artificial intelligence. Imagine a super intelligent bio chip……
The Year(s) Ahead in Media — Fragmentation
https://dougshapiro.medium.com/the-year-s-ahead-in-media-fragmentation-903a9f80d4e5
As content becomes infinite, a few things become relatively scarce: attention; hits; first-party data; curation; community and fandom; IP and brands; marketing prowess; and IRL experiences.
Sail-powered cargo ship ‘shows potential of wind’
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68543677?
Retrofitting giant, rigid sails to a cargo ship has effectively cut its fuel use and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, shipping firm data shows.
Finnish company to build 100MWh ‘sand battery’ using crushed soapstone
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/crushed-soapstone-battery-finland?
The battery is 42 feet tall and 49 feet wide and can store up to a week’s demand of heat during winter months.
New high-speed microscale 3D printing technique
https://news.stanford.edu/2024/03/13/high-speed-microscale-3d-printing/?
A new process for microscale 3D printing creates particles of nearly any shape for applications in medicine, manufacturing, research and more – at the pace of up to 1 million particles a day.
VR headsets can be hacked with an Inception-style attack
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/11/1089686/hack-vr-headsets-inception/?
In the Christoper Nolan movie Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character uses technology to enter his targets’ dreams to steal information and insert false details into their subconscious. A new “inception attack” in virtual reality works in a similar way.
