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 …
“free” as in “free software”: a small tribute to free software
When it comes to the consumption and use of electronic products/goods, one can often observe phenomena of fandom among their users/consumers. The battle over which is the best mobile phone …
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 …
the worker-machine: governance, mechanics, ideology
Cybernetics and mechanical engineering …Sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, linguists, mathematicians, philosophers, are searching from different starting points, in the twilight of academia, for answers to the question: what is it that …
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 …
home helpers
The humanoid robot in the photo cooks (among other things). But there’s no reason to worry: it won’t replace “mom,” and it won’t fill lunchboxes… Home robotic machines are one …
uninterrupted transport
This is a fundamental function of technology: to replace living labour. To throw workers onto the street, that is, in order to keep the working class disciplined. The excerpt below …
robotic self-organization
From a technological and construction perspective, it is something remarkable. The robotic ants are the work of one of the leading companies in research and application of cutting-edge technologies: the …
flex screens
No one was interested (until now) in how flexible screens, televisions or “smartphones” are made, and the reason is simple: such products are not yet available on the market. And …
“smart watch”
Google Glass may be pulling ahead with difficulty (the fate of the pioneer who rushes), but Apple seems to be stepping firmly into the wearables arena. Its watch (available next …