Nearly one-third of the 36 emerging technology pioneers chosen by the World Economic Forum this year have implications for the life sciences and health IT space. They represent robotics, noninvasive prenatal testing, using edible identifiers to guard against counterfeit drugs and an anti-smoking vaccine.
Since 2000, the World Economic Forum has identified companies based on their potential to make a global impact with the groundbreaking technology they’ve developed. Here are 11 of the companies.
The retina is an enormously powerful tool. It sorts through massive amounts of data while operating on only a fraction of the power that a conventional digital camera and computer would require to do the same task.
Now, engineers at a company called iniLabs in Switzerland are applying lessons from biology in an effort to build a more efficient digital camera inspired by the human retina.
Like the individual neurons in our eyes, the new camera—named the Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS)—responds only to changes in a given scene. This approach eliminates large swaths of redundant data and could be useful for many fields, including surveillance, robotics, and microscopy.
El modelo cooperativista ha salido reforzado durante la crisis. Las cooperativas han sufrido como todas las empresas, pero en líneas generales lo han hecho en menor medida, y pueden dar lecciones de cómo resistir y salir de la recesión. La receta parece sencilla: sazonar el trabajo social con comercio exterior en abundancia, pero tras el éxito hay en la mayoría de los casos muchos años de trabajo.
Imagine a brave new world where an affordable family EV sedan could cover the distance between New York City and Washington, D.C., on a single battery charge. It remains a fantasy, but perhaps not for too long. Scientists at GE Global Research and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are developing a new kind of water-based “flow” battery for electric vehicles that could achieve this driving range and go beyond it.
audience targeting, has raised a $2 million seed round led by Pitango Venture Capital with the participation of serial entrepreneur and angel investor Eyal Gura. Based in Tel Aviv, Ubimo was founded by the team behind Web widget developer LabPixies, which was acquired by Google for $25 million in 2010. Its executives are CEO Ran Ben-Yair, CTO Oded Poncz, Creative Director Udi Graff and COO Gilad Amitai. Ubimo will use its new funding to scale up its product offerings and grow its sales presence in the U.S.
Eurobike 2013, la feria de referencia internacional en el sector del ciclismo, se celebra entre el 28 y el 31 de agosto en la localidad de Friedrichshafen (Alemania). Orbea presenta en la feria nuevos modelos y novedades.
Electronic medical records. DNA sequencing. Big data. These technology trends are changing the way medicine is practiced today — but what’s coming next?
I scoured the web, reached out to futurists and drew from past conversations with industry leaders to compile a list of the next generation of disruptive technologies that are on the brink of breaking through in healthcare. What’s missing from this list?
Once again, Google is apparently working on its own version of hardware at the same time that it’s partnering with mainstream manufacturers of the same kind of device. But this time, it’s a car.
El cuerpo a cuerpo por la tienda de barrio se ha ido intensificando en España al tiempo que las grandes superficies han sentido la sequía de crédito y el desempleo, que amenazan a los hogares, con una notable bajada en la venta de productos no alimenticios (desde textil hasta ferretería, electrónica de consumo o muebles), a los que se debe buena parte del boom del hipermercado antes de la crisis. La alimentación sigue tirando, tanto en frescos como en congelados, y la batalla se libra en pequeños y medianos comercios. Muy cerca del cliente.
TiVo was an early disruptor of conventional television-watching. In 1999 it launched a black box that stored shows on hard-disk – the digital video recorded or DVR – making it famously easy (compared to VCRs) for people to record lots of shows and skip through ads when watching them. But as other set-top boxes got better, and cloud-based streaming services arose, TiVo customers plunged from a 2007 high of 4.4 million customers, to less than half that today.
