“The ribs eat first”: the saying is about something else, but however it is reversed (for the moment…) at the point of the new example: the first eat the ribs! …
the tendencies
It is probably not one of the burning issues in our (digital) lives, but it is certainly a topic: which technological research and applications will be launched in 2016? The …
algorithmic predictions
“Big data” are not (more precisely: must not be allowed to be) merely vast piles of data that clever machines will dig through each time, on demand, now extracting one …
Zika: a dangerous virus or something more?
Microcephaly is a disorder in the development of the nervous system, resulting in restricted brain (and skull) growth. It manifests either prenatally or after birth (in the baby’s first years) …
scientific “truths”
“Researchers lie” (not always!). If you make this kind of observation in front of even one researcher, from any field, you’ll get seriously bashed. It’s the fate of the “unskilled”: …
robot-games
“The children are playing.” Not only with tablets (on the left) but also with small-scale robots (in the middle). Children’s play will undoubtedly be a process of familiarization with domestic …
Ehang 184
Our opinion (for years now!) that land-based transportation is obsolete, since it is limited to the two dimensions of the ground while there is an (capitalistically) untapped 3rd dimension (the …
biometric cinema
DiCaprio as Hugh Glass in “The Revenant” by Alejandro Inarritu. Before you saw the film (if you did), others had already seen it. The production company, 20th Century Fox, held …
workplace homicide;
While he was part of a team of technicians/developers at the Volkswagen car factory in Baunatal, 100 km north of Frankfurt, the stationary parts-selection and handling robot moved past, outside …
cyber-love
The 2015 English psycho-thriller film Ex Machina (not released in Greece), by Alex Garland, tells the story of programmer Caleb Smith, who is invited to the home of his eccentric …
furrows
Gullies of this kind, on craters or on slopes of the surface of Mars, convinced NASA scientists that water flows there. The related announcement has once again fueled fantasies about …
pepper
The robot named Pepper, a creation of the company SoftBank Mobile, is the most recent achievement in robotics in the field of “home services”. Pepper is designed to coexist with …