Digital Technologies

Say goodbye to Alexa and hello to gadgets listening to the voice inside your head


Controlling your gadgets by talking to them is so 2018. In the future, you won’t even have to move your lips. A prototype device called AlterEgo, created by MIT Media Lab graduate student Arnav Kapur, is already making this possible. With Kapur’s device—a 3-D-printed plastic doodad that looks kind of like a skinny white banana…

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Digital Technologies

2018


Every year since 2001 we’ve picked what we call the 10 Breakthrough Technologies. People often ask, what exactly do you mean by “breakthrough”? It’s a reasonable question—some of our picks haven’t yet reached widespread use, while others may be on the cusp of becoming commercially available. What we’re really looking for is a technology, or…

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Biomedical Applications

The Exponential Medicine Experience – Exponential Medicine | November 2019


The Exponential Medicine Experience A message from Conference Chair Daniel Kraft, MD: Healthcare is in many ways being practiced as it has been for millennium, as ‘SickCare’ — using old, reactive models and mindsets where the FAX machine is the primary mode of sending patient information, where data is still silo’d amongst paper charts or […]

Source: The Exponential Medicine Experience – Exponential Medicine | November 2019