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The CD died with Michael Jackson

Photo by mightyohm
In 1985 the first CD ever was sold, it was an album by Dire Straits and later on Michael Jackson’s Thriller became the most sold CD (or LP) ever. Now when he is dead he will sell even more but that is also the death of the CD. For me it has been a [...]

Humans and robots in a team

Be it in assembly lines, the military or in surgery rooms in a hospital, today’s robots can perform highly complex tasks. The research of the day is to find robots that can work in team with us humans, also known as teamworkbots. They are supposed to observe human activity and try to understand the intentions. [...]

TED Talks Catherine Mohr: Surgery’s past, present and robotic future

In this video the surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr have a very fascinating speech about surgery in the past and in the future. She starts from the time when there was no pain killer, ouch! The main part is about surgery robots performing micro-surgery in places where humans just can’t. This quote (not verbatim), made [...]

The time for OLED is now (and in the future)

The paper-less society is near!

Picture by Sarah G…

The next generation of eReaders have a great potential for saving paper and the next step some years later is digital paper or ePaper that eventually will replace eReaders. One thing that is so interesting with ePaper is that it’s flexible and bendable. The dream for mobile devices! [...]

Four Computer Interfaces that will change your life

Some technologies look so cool and nifty but they don’t change much of our life and behaviour. Other technologies might not look so interesting or sometimes even boring but will have a crucial role in our future lives.
For instance 3D TV that I wrote about before will not have any special impact on our lives as [...]

Mobile Wallet: Goodbye cash!

Once upon a time we traded goods and services without any money at all. After a while we started to use  gold and jewelry to pay goods and services. Later on we started to make coins with the same value as the metal it was made from. When banks where introduced and we started to [...]

Maglev (Magnetic Levitation) Trains, 500 km/h

Maglev is short for magnetic levitation trains. These trains use electricity to power up magnets in order to float on a cushion of air over the ground. They reach 500 km/h and are really interesting alternatives to trains and airplanes.

Meet human and insect cyborgs

The future is already here – it is just unevenly distributed
William Gibson
The best example of a cyborg is, in my opinion, people with a pacemaker. Helping such a vital organ as the heart with a machine is really an example of human and machine in symbiosis. Pacemakers have been around for more than 50 years [...]

Twitter: The difference between listeners and followers

There are a lot of  “get thousands of followers in less than x days!” but for what? Why do you want many followers? I have asked myself that question.

Let’s use some Twitter slang…
I am currently following around 1000 Tweeple. That doesn’t mean that I can read all their Tweets.  No one (almost) are using the [...]

What will you have for breakfast 2020?

I have my breakfast right now, a cup of red tea, fruit, some bread and butter and corn flakes. I also take an Omega-3 pill. It is not very different from what I had 10 years ago except  from the Omega-3 pill. 10 years ago I wouldn’t touch a pill if I was not ill. [...]