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GLIMPSES OF THE FUTURE – APRIL 2019

Glass Battery Breakthrough? If Proven, This Is A Game-Changer

A 94-year-old professor who pioneered the world-standard lithium ion battery technology has now announced a new glass battery which, he and his team claim, has triple the storage capacity of a … Read the rest

GLIMPSES OF THE FUTURE – MARCH 2019

China’s Gene-Edited Babies May Become Super Smart

 New research indicates that the controversial use of CRISPR gene-editing on twin girls in China last year might have inadvertently improved their cognitive capacities, including their ability to learn and form memories, leading … Read the rest

GLIMPSES OF THE FUTURE – FEBRUARY 2019

Basketball Sneakers You Can Tighten With Your Smartphone

Nike is preparing to launch a new self-lacing basketball shoefor the masses (that’s us) that can also accommodate prescribed tightness settings.

Just before Christmas Nike revealed its redesigned self-lacing shoes would arrive … Read the rest

GLIMPSES OF THE FUTURE – DECEMBER 2018

Mad Scientists Consider Alerting Aliens To Our Presence

Although it’s a great idea for science fiction, I consider the idea of deliberately trying to tell aliens that we exist to be extreme folly.

But a new MIT studyoutlines a way … Read the rest

GLIMPSES OF THE FUTURE NOVEMBER 2018

London Cab Company Addison Lee Developing Self-Drive Taxis

After undertaking a year-long investigation with Ford and four other mobility specialists on how to build self-driving systems that integrate with London’s existing transport infrastructure, Addison Lee has announced the next step … Read the rest

GLIMPSES OF THE FUTURE – OCTOBER 2018

Wireeless “Black Box” Remotely Monitors Your Health

 Imagine a box, similar to a Wi-Fi router, that sits in your home and tracks all kinds of physiological signalsas you move from room to room: your breathing, heart rate, sleep, gait, and … Read the rest

GLIMPSES OF THE FUTURE – SEPTEMBER 2018

VR Headset Gives The Partially Sighted Better Sight

 A virtual reality headset has restored sight to people who are legally blind. While it didn’t cure the physical cause of their blindness, the device let people with severe macular degeneration resume … Read the rest

GLIMPSES OF THE FUTURE – AUGUST 2018

Attitudes Toward “Designer Babies” Start To Change

Letting parents use new gene-editing technology to pick characteristics of their unbornchild can be “morally acceptable”as long as it doesn’t increase social inequalities, an influential medical ethics group has said.

In a major … Read the rest

GLIMPSES OF THE FUTURE – JULY 2018

Uber’s App Will Soon Be Able To Tell If You’re Drunk

 For many commuters who have had one too many after work, Uber has been a godsend, allowing over-the-limit passengers to stumble into a cab and get dropped off outside … Read the rest

GLIMPSES OF THE FUTURE – MAY 2018

Putting The Whole Planet Under Real-Time Surveillance

 Airbus SEand two of the world’s most recognizable tech billionaires, MicrosoftCorp. founder Bill Gates and SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Executive Masayoshi Son, propose to build and launch some 500 small satellites intended to … Read the rest