Innovation is about finding a better way of doing something. Like many of the new development buzzwords (which many of them are over-used on many business documents), the concept of innovation originates from the world of business. It refers to the generation of new products through the process of creative entrepreneurship, putting it into production, and diffusing it more widely through increased sales. Innovation can be viewed as t he application of better solutions that meet new requirements, in-articulated needs, or existing market needs. This is accomplished through more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas that are readily available to markets, governments and society. The term innovation can be defined as something original and, as a consequence, new, that “breaks into” the market or society.
Innoveracy: Misunderstanding Innovation article points out that there is a form of ignorance which seems to be universal: the inability to understand the concept and role of innovation. The way this is exhibited is in the misuse of the term and the inability to discern the difference between novelty, creation, invention and innovation. The result is a failure to understand the causes of success and failure in business and hence the conditions that lead to economic growth. The definition of innovation is easy to find but it seems to be hard to understand. Here is a simple taxonomy of related activities that put innovation in context:
- Novelty: Something new
- Creation: Something new and valuable
- Invention: Something new, having potential value through utility
- Innovation: Something new and uniquely useful
The taxonomy is illustrated with the following diagram.
The differences are also evident in the mechanisms that exist to protect the works: Novelties are usually not protectable, Creations are protected by copyright or trademark, Inventions can be protected for a limited time through patents (or kept secret) and Innovations can be protected through market competition but are not defensible through legal means.
Innovation is a lot of talked about nowdays as essential to businesses to do. Is innovation essential for development work? article tells that innovation has become central to the way development organisations go about their work. In November 2011, Bill Gates told the G20 that innovation was the key to development. Donors increasingly stress innovation as a key condition for funding, and many civil society organisations emphasise that innovation is central to the work they do.
Some innovation ideas are pretty simple, and some are much more complicated and even sound crazy when heard first. The is place for crazy sounding ideas: venture capitalists are gravely concerned that the tech startups they’re investing in just aren’t crazy enough:
Not all development problems require new solutions, sometimes you just need to use old things in a slightly new way. Development innovations may involve devising technology (such as a nanotech water treatment kit), creating a new approach (such as microfinance), finding a better way of delivering public services (such as one-stop egovernment service centres), identifying ways of working with communities (such as participation), or generating a management technique (such as organisation learning).
Theorists of innovation identify innovation itself as a brief moment of creativity, to be followed by the main routine work of producing and selling the innovation. When it comes to development, things are more complicated. Innovation needs to be viewed as tool, not master. Innovation is a process, not a one time event. Genuine innovation is valuable but rare.
There are many views on the innovation and innvation process. I try to collect together there some views I have found on-line. Hopefully they help you more than confuze. Managing complexity and reducing risk article has this drawing which I think pretty well describes innovation as done in product development:
8 essential practices of successful innovation from The Innovator’s Way shows essential practices in innovation process. Those practices are all integrated into a non-sequential, coherent whole and style in the person of the innovator.
In the IT work there is lots of work where a little thinking can be a source of innovation. Automating IT processes can be a huge time saver or it can fail depending on situation. XKCD comic strip Automation as illustrates this:
System integration is a critical element in project design article has an interesting project cost influence graphic. The recommendation is to involve a system integrator early in project design to help ensure high-quality projects that satisfy project requirements. Of course this article tries to market system integration services, but has also valid points to consider.
Core Contributor Loop (CTTDC) from Art Journal blog posting Blog Is The New Black tries to link inventing an idea to theory of entrepreneurship. It is essential to tune the engine by making improvements in product, marketing, code, design and operations.
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Experimental Confirmation of the Fundamental Principle of Wave-Particle Duality
https://scitechdaily.com/experimental-confirmation-of-the-fundamental-principle-of-wave-particle-duality/
Complementarity relation of wave-particle duality is analyzed quantitatively with entangled photons as path detectors.
The twenty-first century has undoubtedly been the era of quantum science. Quantum mechanics was born in the early twentieth century and has been used to develop unprecedented technologies which include quantum information, quantum communication, quantum metrology, quantum imaging, and quantum sensing. However, in quantum science, there are still unresolved and even inapprehensible issues like wave-particle duality and complementarity, superposition of wave functions, wave function collapse after quantum measurement, wave function entanglement of the composite wave function, etc.
To test the fundamental principle of wave-particle duality and complementarity quantitatively, a quantum composite system that can be controlled by experimental parameters is needed.
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200 Years Ago, Faraday Invented the Electric Motor After Faraday published his results, his mentor accused him of plagiarism
https://spectrum.ieee.org/200-years-ago-faraday-invented-the-electric-motor
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Cameras
Trillion-frames-per-second camera takes photos of light moving
Researchers have created a new camera that is capable of capturing a trillion-frames-per-second. Can capture the light movement.
Read more: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/81411/trillion-frames-per-second-camera-takes-photos-of-light-moving/index.html
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Scientists get photons to interact with pairs of atoms for the first time
https://phys.org/news/2021-08-scientists-photons-interact-pairs-atoms.html
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These Super-Efficient, Artificial Neurons Do Not Use Electrons So could the brain’s super-efficiency have to do with ions?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/these-artificial-neurons-use-ions-rather-than-electrons
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Particle seen switching between matter and antimatter at CERN
https://newatlas.com/physics/charm-meson-particle-matter-antimatter/
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Speden salattu elämä
https://www.veikkaus.fi/fi/x/speden-salattu-elama
Spede Pasanen loi Uuno Turhapuron, Kymppitonnin ja Speden Spelit, mutta kansanviihdyttäminen oli pelkkä leipätyö. Todellinen elämäntehtävä oli keksintöjen kehittely tuntemattoman tosiystävän Raimo Kaukisen kanssa. Vierailu kaksikon keksintöpajalla todistaa, että vaikka Spede kuoli, hänen ideansa ja tuhannet tarinat elävät.
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We’re Getting Closer to Flying Humanoid Robots As if humanoids weren’t hard enough, try getting one to fly
https://spectrum.ieee.org/flying-robot
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Chase Roberts created an interactive, Arduino-based board book to keep babies engaged and teach them about the basics of computer engineering. Currently on Kickstarter!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/babyengineering/computer-engineering-for-babies
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Air conditioning is one of the greatest inventions of the 20th Century. It’s also killing the 21st
https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/28/eric-dean-wilson-interview/?tpcc=ECTW2020
When did indoor air become cold and clean?
Air conditioning is one of those inventions that have become so ubiquitous that many in the developed world don’t even realize that less than a century ago, it didn’t exist. Indeed, it wasn’t so long ago that the air inside our buildings and the air outside of them were one and the same, with occupants powerless against their environment.
It took hustle, marketing skill and mass societal change to place air conditioning at the center of our built environment.
Wilson covers that history, but he has a more ambitious agenda: to get us to see how our everyday comforts affect other people. Our choice of frigid cooling emits flagrant quantities of greenhouse gas emissions, placing untold stress on our planet and civilization. Our pursuit of comfort ironically begets us more insecurity and ultimately, less comfort.
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Reopening the critical period with MDMA: https://ifls.online/3zQrkXk
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58 Cognitive Biases That Are Screwing Up Everything You Do
https://www.businessinsider.com/where-to-live-to-avoid-natural-disaster-according-to-insurance-workers-2018-10?r=US&IR=T
We like to think we’re rational human beings.
In fact, we are prone to hundreds of proven biases that cause us to think and act irrationally. In fact, even thinking we’re rational despite evidence of irrationality in others is known as blind-spot bias.
The study of how often human beings do irrational things was enough for psychologist Daniel Kahneman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, and it opened the rapidly expanding field of behavioral economics. Similar insights are also reshaping everything from marketing to criminology.
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I Changed Astronomy Forever. He Won the Nobel Prize for It. | ‘Almost Famous’ by Op-Docs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDW9zKqvPJI
Growing up in a Quaker household, Jocelyn Bell Burnell was raised to believe that she had as much right to an education as anyone else. But as a girl in the 1940s in Northern Ireland, her enthusiasm for the sciences was met with hostility from teachers and male students. Undeterred, she went on to study radio astronomy at Glasgow University, where she was the only woman in many of her classes.
In 1967, Burnell made a discovery that altered our perception of the universe. As a Ph.D. student at Cambridge University assisting the astronomer Anthony Hewish, she discovered pulsars — compact, spinning celestial objects that give off beams of radiation, like cosmic lighthouses. (A visualization of some early pulsar data is immortalized as the album art for Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures.”)
But as Ben Proudfoot’s “The Silent Pulse of the Universe” shows, the world wasn’t yet ready to accept that a breakthrough in astrophysics could have come from a young woman.
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Touchscreens on phones, tablets and smart devices are at the core of digital life today. But why can’t *any* surface be made into a touchscreen? With a projector and single camera, US and Japanese researchers did just that.
Turn Any Surface Into a Touchscreen A clever optical trick can help project interactive touchscreens onto any surface
https://spectrum.ieee.org/any-surface-a-touchscreen
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Clickspring Imagines The Workshop That Built The Antikythera Mechanism
https://hackaday.com/2021/09/08/clickspring-imagines-the-workshop-that-built-the-antikythera-mechanism/
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Brain Interface Uses Tiny Needles
https://hackaday.com/2021/09/08/brain-interface-uses-tiny-needles/
We often look at news out of the research community and think, “we could build that.” But the latest brain-machine interface from an international team including the Georgia Institute of Technology actually scares us. It uses an array of tiny needles that penetrate the skin but remain too small for your nerves to detect. Right. We assume they need to be sterile but either way, we don’t really want to build a pin grid array to attach to your brain.
It seems the soft device is comfortable and since it is very lightweight it doesn’t suffer from noise if the user blinks or otherwise moves. Looking at the picture of the electrodes, they look awfully pointy, but we assume that’s magnified quite a few times, since the post mentions they are not visible to the naked eye.
A Soft, Wearable Brain–Machine Interface
https://spectrum.ieee.org/a-soft-wearable-brain-machine-interface
Imperceptible micro-needles and flexible circuits improve neural signal recording
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Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon says it will offer to cover 100% of college tuition for its 750,000 hourly employees in the US after 90 days of employment, starting in January 2022
Amazon to cover 100% of college tuition for U.S. hourly employees
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/09/amazon-to-cover-100percent-of-college-tuition-for-us-hourly-employees.html
Amazon is offering to pay the full cost of college tuition, including books and fees, for its 750,000 hourly U.S. employees.
Amazon is the latest large U.S. company to dangle perks such as education benefits or more pay in light of the competitive job market.
Amazon said Thursday it will offer to pay 100% of college tuition for its 750,000 U.S. hourly employees.
The e-commerce giant is following the lead of other large U.S. companies that are dangling perks such as education benefits or more pay to woo workers in a tight job market.
Starting in January, Amazon said, it will cover the cost of college tuition, fees and textbooks for hourly employees in its operations network after 90 days of employment. It will also begin covering high school diploma programs, GEDs and English as a second language certifications for employees. Operations workers include employees in Amazon’s sprawling network of warehouses and distribution centers.
The benefit will apply to hundreds of education institutions across the country, Amazon said. Amazon previously offered to pay for 95% of tuition, fees and textbooks for hourly associates through its career choice program.
Rival retailers, including Walmart and Target, have also beefed up their education benefits in recent months. Target in August rolled out a program that covers the cost of associate and undergraduate degrees at select schools. Walmart in July said it would pay 100% of college tuition and books costs for associates of Walmart and Sam’s Club.
As the job market has grown more competitive, Amazon is ramping up incentives to lure workers. In some areas of the country, Amazon is offering sign-on bonuses for new employees worth up to $3,000.
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https://hackaday.com/2021/09/09/historical-hackers-the-hacker-of-cragside-circa-1870/
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As More US Men Abandon Higher Education, Are Admissions Officers Discriminating Against Women?
https://m.slashdot.org/story/390169
The Wall Street Journal reports an interesting observation about America. “Men are abandoning higher education in such numbers that they now trail female college students by record levels.”
Slashdot reader Joe_Dragon shared their report:
At the close of the 2020-21 academic year, women made up 59.5% of college students, an all-time high, and men 40.5%, according to enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit research group. U.S. colleges and universities had 1.5 million fewer students compared with five years ago, and men accounted for 71% of the decline.
This education gap, which holds at both two- and four-year colleges, has been slowly widening for 40 years… In the next few years, two women will earn a college degree for every man, if the trend continues, said Douglas Shapiro, executive director of the research center at the National Student Clearinghouse.
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#DYSTOPIAN_TUESDAY — Scientists from Brown University have created tiny microchips, designed to be scattered over the brain’s surface — or even within its tissue — in order to collect an unprecedented wealth of neural data.G
Researchers Propose Sprinkling Hundreds of Chips Into Human Brain
https://futurism.com/neoscope/chips-human-brain-neurograins
Scientists from Brown University have created tiny microchips, designed to be scattered over the brain’s surface — or even within its tissue — in order to collect an unprecedented wealth of neural data.
The researchers call the chips “neurograins,” according to Wired. Each is roughly the size of a grain of salt, and are intended to be spread throughout brain tissue where it can record brain activity, according to a recent paper about the work published in the journal Nature Electronics.
https://www.wired.com/story/neurograins-could-be-the-next-brain-computer-interfaces/
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Dynamicland Makes The Whole Building The Computer
https://hackaday.com/2021/09/18/dynamicland-makes-the-whole-building-the-computer/
Every once is a while a research project comes along that has the potential to totally shake up computing and what it even means to interact with a system. The project Dynamicland.org, is a result of [Bret Victor]’s research journey over the years, looking into various aspects of human computer interaction and what it even means to think like a human.
One of the overhead projectors tied to a realbox
In Realtalk, paper is your programming medium
Dynamicland is an instantiation of a Realtalk ecosystem, deployed into a whole building. Tables are used as computing surfaces, with physical objects such as pieces of paper, notebooks, anything which can be read by one of the overhead cameras, becoming the program listing, as well as the user interface. The camera is associated with a projector, with the actual hardware hooked into so-called ‘Realboxes’ which are Linux machines running the Realtalk software. Separate Realboxes (and other hardware such as a Raspberry Pi, running Realtalk) are all federated together using the Realtalk protocol, which allows communication from hardware in the ceiling, to any on the desk, and also to other desks and computing surfaces.
https://dynamicland.org/
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https://www.considerable.com/health/brain/dark-humor-high-iq/
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11 Common Traits Of Highly Intelligent People
https://www.iflscience.com/brain/11-common-traits-of-highly-intelligent-people/
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Maapallo on kokenut viisi suurta joukkotuhoa – tutkijan mielestä tulevaisuuden uhkakuvia on yhä vaikeampaa ennakoida
Teknologinen kehitys tuo mukanaan mahdollisuuksia, mutta myös uhkia, joita voi olla vaikea ymmärtää, koska ihmiskunta on uuden edessä.
https://www.is.fi/tiede/art-2000008271934.html
Kirjassaan Salonen kartoittaa geologisessa historiassa tapahtuneita joukkotuhoja, jotka ovat saaneet alkunsa ihmisen geologisesta tai tähtitieteellisestä ympäristöstä.
MENNEIDEN joukkotuhojen lisäksi Salonen käy kirjassaan läpi mahdollisia tulevaisuuden uhkakuvia. Huomiota saavat muun muassa asteroidien, supertulivuorten ja ilmaston aiheuttamat uhkakuvat. Luonnollisten uhkien lisäksi Salonen käsittelee teknologisia eli ihmisen omista toimista johtuvia uhkakuvia. Ne ovat pitkälti tulevaisuuden uhkakuvia.
Teknologinen kehitys mahdollistaa ihmiskunnalle uutta, mutta samalla ihminen on saattanut itsensä ennen kokemattomaan tilanteeseen, jossa uhkia ja niiden seurauksia voi olla vaikea ennakoida.
TEKNOLOGISET uhkakuvat voivat toteutuessaan osoittautua yhtä vakaviksi kuin menneisyydessä koetut maailmanloput. Merkittävä ero on, että luonnollisista uhista ihmiskunnalla on kokemusta ja tietoa, mutta teknologisten uhkien edessä ihminen katsoo osin tuntemattomaan. Jotkut uhkakuvista ovat melko mielikuvituksellisia, toiset taas jopa pelottavan ajankohtaisia.
Tekoäly
Vaaraksi on nostettu, että tekoäly saavuttaisi pisteen, jossa se kykenisi kehittämään itseään nopeasti.
Uhkana on, että tekoäly karkaisi ihmismielen ulottumattomiin, jolloin paljon olisi kiinni siitä, mihin tekoäly alun perin kehitettiin ja olisiko sillä eettisiä rajoitteita. On kuitenkin syytä muistaa, että tekoälyn kehittäminen on hidasta ja että se perustuu paljolti oletuksiin.
Viruspandemia
Koronavirus on muistuttanut ihmiskuntaa pandemioiden uhkaavuudesta. Globalisaatio, kaupungistuminen, matkustaminen ja elintarvikkeiden globaali kauppa ovat tehneet pandemioiden leviämisestä yhä todennäköisempää.
Yksi tulevaisuuden teknologiaan liittyvä uhkakuva voikin olla laboratoriosta karannut virus tai bakteeri, joka aiheuttaisi miljoonien ihmisten kuoleman.
Nanoteknologia
Tekoälyn tavoin nanoteknologiaa kehitetään hyvään tarkoitukseen. Nanotason teknologiaa on jo olemassa, mutta nanobotit, mikroskooppisen pienet koneet, jotka liikkuvat itsenäisesti, kykenevät tietojenkäsittelyyn ja aistivat ympäristöään, ovat vielä tulevaisuutta.
Pitkälle kehittynyt nanoteknologia mahdollistaisi esimerkiksi lääkeaineiden toimittamisen tiettyihin kehonosiin ja äärimmäisen tarkat hoitotoimenpiteet.
Myös nanoteknologia on herättänyt myös huolta siksi, että se voisi tulevaisuudessa toimia tuhon välineenä. Uhkakuvissa hallitsemattomasti lisääntyvät ja korkean kehitystason nanobotit hävittäisivät kaiken elollisen elämän.
Hiukkasfysiikka
Neljäs ja mielikuvituksellisin Salosen kuvaama tulevaisuuden uhkakuva liittyy hiukkasfysiikkaan ja erityisesti hiukkaskiihdyttimillä tehtäviin kokeisiin, joissa luodaan valtavia energiatiheyksiä.
Vaikka tätä uhkakuvaa pidetään äärimmäisen epätodennäköisenä, tutkijoiden mielestä sitä kannattaa pohtia vakavasti. Uhkakuvaksi voi muodostua se, että kokeissa synnytetään olosuhteita, joita ei tunneta hyvin, minkä vuoksi seurausten ja riskien arviointi voi olla vaikeaa.
NELJÄN uhkakuvan lisäksi Salonen kirjoittaa teknologiapelosta ja siitä, mitä voi seurata, jos ihmiskunta on liian varovainen esimerkiksi tekoälyn kehittämisessä. Tällöin on kyse toteuttamatta jättämisen hinnasta.
Tekoälyn kehittäminen voi olla yksi merkittävimmistä välineistä, joilla ihmiskunta voi suojella itseään muita uhkia vastaan. Tekoälyn rajattomat resurssit voivat auttaa ihmistä ennakoimaan luonnosta syntyviä uhkia.
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We Created Holograms You Can Touch – You Could Soon Shake A Virtual Colleague’s Hand
https://www.iflscience.com/technology/we-created-holograms-you-can-touch-you-could-soon-shake-a-virtual-colleagues-hand/
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Monica Chin / The Verge:
Teachers say many students, brought up with search features on their computers, are unfamiliar with directories and folders, forcing a rethink of lesson plans — Catherine Garland, an astrophysicist, started seeing the problem in 2017. She was teaching an engineering course …
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A generation that grew up with Google is forcing professors to rethink their lesson plans
https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
CatherineCatherine Garland, an astrophysicist, started seeing the problem in 2017. She was teaching an engineering course, and her students were using simulation software to model turbines for jet engines. She’d laid out the assignment clearly, but student after student was calling her over for help. They were all getting the same error message: The program couldn’t find their files.
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https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/12-books-elon-musk-think-everyone-should-read/
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https://www.iflscience.com/technology/a-prediction-about-future-tech-from-the-1990s-has-gone-viral-because-its-spookily-accurate/
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https://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/news/20210514/elon-musk-is-it-aspergers-or-level-asd
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https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/22/flite-material-sciences-uses-lasers-not-chemical-coatings-to-keep-ice-and-rust-off-surfaces/
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https://blog.arduino.cc/2021/08/16/arduino-partners-with-altium-and-the-ipc-education-foundation-to-launch-pcbethechange-competition/
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Researchers realize a spin field-effect transistor at room temperature
https://phys.org/news/2021-09-field-effect-transistor-room-temperature.html
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LG Chem’s “Real Folding Window” Promises Bendable Displays as Flexible as Plastic Yet Hard as Glass
https://www.hackster.io/news/lg-chem-s-real-folding-window-promises-bendable-displays-as-flexible-as-plastic-yet-hard-as-glass-99067cff3b9c
Designed to protect future flexible displays, LG Chem’s new material is claimed to offer the very best of flexibility and hardness.
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https://edisontechcenter.org/Transformers.html
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Engineers figured out how to cook 3D-printed chicken with lasers
Setup can’t synthesize complete meals like the Star Trek replicator, but it’s a start
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/engineers-figured-out-how-to-cook-3d-printed-chicken-with-lasers/
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Espoolaisfyysikon transistoriläpimurto leikkaa hukkatehoa 99,9999 % ja parantaa säteilyn kestoa kertaluokan – Voi mullistaa satelliitit ja iot:n
Tuomas Kangasniemi21.9.202109:00ELEKTRONIIKKASTARTUP
Hyperion Semiconductorsin keksintö on uusi transistorikytkentä, joka yhdistää mosfet- ja jfet-tekniikoiden etuja.
https://www.tekniikkatalous.fi/uutiset/espoolaisfyysikon-transistorilapimurto-leikkaa-hukkatehoa-99-9999-ja-parantaa-sateilyn-kestoa-kertaluokan-voi-mullistaa-satelliitit-ja-iotn/28b85ea5-1c0a-4c82-a34f-6486a02cd705
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BATTERY-FREE ELECTRONICS BREAKTHROUGH COULD RADICALLY REDUCE E-WASTE IN LANDFILLS
BFree system allows devices to run perpetually with only intermittent energy input
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/battery-free-electronics-bfree-ewaste-b1924692.html
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New Microsoft Study of 60,000 Employees: Remote Work Threatens Long-Term InnovationThe new study confirms what Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls the hybrid work paradox
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/remote-hybrid-work-paradox-microsoft-satya-nadella.html
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Kobakant’s Stocking-Based Stretch Sensor Turns Embroidery Into Valuable Data
Designed to stretch, flex, and distort, this piece of embroidery is a fully-functional low-cost stretch sensor.
https://www.hackster.io/news/kobakant-s-stocking-based-stretch-sensor-turns-embroidery-into-valuable-data-73fb14dd2e51
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Crash Course in Avoiding Crashes
This new method makes drones easier to fly, and safer, by understanding the operator’s intent and keeping an eye out for dangers
https://www.hackster.io/news/crash-course-in-avoiding-crashes-cf36d65ddfa1
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Do y’all remember, before the internet, that people thought the cause of stupidity was the lack of access to information?
Yeah. It wasn’t that.
https://mobile.twitter.com/bamafangrl/status/1155293759929835520
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A long-lived exotic particle discovered
Discovery of a new exotic hadron containing two charm quarks and an up and a down antiquark.
https://www.techexplorist.com/long-lived-exotic-particle-discovered/40351/
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Intelligent Robots Could Manage Peach Orchards to Help Reduce Costs
Georgia Tech Research Institute’s robot is designed to handle the human-based tasks of thinning and pruning peach trees.
https://www.hackster.io/news/intelligent-robots-could-manage-peach-orchards-to-help-reduce-costs-71595bba53cb
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https://muovia.com/materiaali/tekniset-muovit
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/remote-work-is-making-productivity-and-innovation-harder-says-microsoft-study/
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‘Neurograins’ Could be the Next Brain-Computer Interfaces
Dozens of microchips scattered over the cortical surface might allow researchers to listen in on thousands of neurons at the same time.
https://www.wired.com/story/neurograins-could-be-the-next-brain-computer-interfaces/
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https://www.veikkaus.fi/fi/x/speden-salattu-elama
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https://www.iflscience.com/technology/45yearold-footage-shows-arthur-c-clarke-accurately-predicting-the-future/