Mind candy 20 June 2022

You can't predict the future, you can make smart business decisions today by understanding the latest technology and business.

Dashboard 21 June 2022?

The topics to think about (and discuss in your company) are seaweed and 3D printers, virtual dolls, sensing tattoos, smart clothing, cheap solar cells, cheap plastic processors, self-plugging micro needles, Futurecrunch and an AI-designed katana.

As an exercise combine some of the technologies. Whatever you imagine is likely to happen. Be prepared.

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• Seaweed and 3D printers: Chile's innovative approach to feeding kids

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-seaweed-3d-printers-chile-approach.html?

Some dehydrated "cochayuyo" seaweed, some instant mashed potatoes and hot water: these are the ingredients for a nutritious menu of 3D printed food that nutritional experts in Chile hope will revolutionize the food market, particularly for children

• China ponders the humans behind “virtual idols”

https://www.economist.com/china/2022/06/16/china-ponders-the-humans-behind-virtual-idols?

Many Chinese firms are choosing to work with “virtual idols” instead of the human kind.

• Blood pressure e-tattoo promises continuous, mobile monitoring

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-blood-pressure-e-tattoo-mobile.html?

Researchers have developed an electronic tattoo that can be worn comfortably on the wrist for hours and deliver continuous blood pressure measurements at an accuracy level exceeding nearly all available options on the market today.

• What is Smart Clothing Technology and How Does it Work?

https://interestingengineering.com/what-is-smart-clothing-technology-and-how-does-it-work?

Shapeshifting, self cleaning, cooling, energy harvesting, programmable and biometrics.

• First perovskite solar cell with a commercially viable lifetime

https://www.inceptivemind.com/first-perovskite-solar-cell-commercially-viable-lifetime/25159/

Perovskites are semiconductors with a unique crystal structure that can absorb and emit light, making them well suited for solar cell technology.

• The First High-Yield, Sub-Penny Plastic Processor

https://spectrum.ieee.org/plastic-microprocessor?

For decades, hopeful techies have been promising a world where absolutely every object you encounter—bandages, bottles, bananas—will have some kind of smarts thanks to supercheap programmable plastic processors.?

• Scientists Created a 'Self-Plugging' Eye Microneedle, And It's as Creepy as It Sounds

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-created-a-self-plugging-microneedle-that-is-inserted-into-the-eye-and-it-s-as-creepy-as-it-sounds?

The microneedle has a hydrogel 'plug' to seal up the created hole and gradually releases the drug it is coated in while inside the eye area.

• The Kids Are Not Doomed

https://futurecrunch.com/172-earth-aunties/

Earth's aunties, electronic skin, two amazing cancer breakthroughs, and good news on inequality in the US, air pollution in China, heat pumps in Austria, and monarch butterflies in North America.

• A.I. designed a katana, then 15th-generation Japanese swordsmith made it

https://flipboard.com/@livejapan/a.i.-designed-a-katana-then-15th-generation-japanese-swordsmith-made-it-v68550jjvegu707u?

Modern technology intertwines with 400 years of swordsmithing skills