It is not easy to come up against 500,000 cameras and sensors in all public places; even if one wanted to. If the gift of this giga-panopticon is absolute security …
Welcome to our store!
What could this be that appears in the photograph? The reception at a high-tech hotel perhaps? Or maybe at an electronics store? Could it perhaps be the passenger service desk …
Police glasses
What Google didn’t achieve with its “glasses,” the Chinese state will achieve – by putting the glasses on the American “giant.” Because being able to monitor each other so openly …
auto-shopping
You shouldn’t just pass it by with indifference. It’s a robotic shopping cart for the supermarket. If you input the right codes, it can “shop on its own.” It can …
Improve, or else lose!
You don’t want to improve your memory (whether neuroscientists figure out how it works or not); you don’t want to improve the “data processing” of your thinking; nor the speed …
It’s not what you think
It’s not a hand that was slightly injured somewhere. It’s a hand after the implantation of a microchip half the size of a toothpick, via a procedure that takes less …
The robot as a toy
Forget Barbie!!! She may have reproduced mainstream standards for girls, but she’s a 20th-century relic. The future belongs to the “next generation” – and my friend Cayla is a good …
housekeeper
This elegant, understated, pastel-colored, vase-like object on the right side of the photograph belongs to the category of things that will soon become commonplace. Not around here, at first—but what …
Solu
We don’t do advertisements, so the mention of Solu has nothing to do with the certainty that it’s the next popular gadget on the market, but rather the opposite: it …
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 …
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 …
memory reload
The widespread use of smartphones and personal computers is rapidly weakening our species’ “natural” memory, various researchers claim, and they present this as something “bad.” Is it? In the process …