Wearable Computing & Augmented Humanity

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  Sander Duivestein

  

  Cow computing? Scottish company creates wearable sensors for cows

  VentureBeat - Dean Takahashi

  Call it cow computing. Or cow chips. Scottish startup Silent Herdsman has raised £3 million ($4.9 million) to create remote sensors for livestock farmers. The wearable collars are part of the giant trend toward wearable computing and the Internet of things, which will provide a huge amount of data …

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  Sander Duivestein

  Sooner Than You Think, We Will Connect To The Cloud Directly From Our Brains

  fastcoexist.com - Molly Elizalde

  Ray Kurzweil, the inventor and futurist who now works at Google, explained at this week’s TED conference how computers are becoming more and more …

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  Sander Duivestein

  

  Predictive tech is getting smarter and more pervasive — but more controversial, too

  VentureBeat - Devindra Hardawar

  We’re seeing the biggest change in how we interact with computers in years. And it’ll mean much less input from you. Apps like Google Now, Tempo AI, and others represent the first wave of “predictive technology.” These are apps and services that are smart enough to fetch information for you — before …

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  Sander Duivestein

  

  Move Over Hackers, Biohackers Are Here

  Forbes - Jennifer Kite-Powell

  The creators of FOX's new science-fiction buddy-cop show, Almost Human focuses the uncontrollable evolution of emerging tech. The solution is real cops need robot cop partners to help control crime. Bio-3D printers, DNA swipes, machines that prick your finger and dispense a pill with the nutrients …

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  Sander Duivestein

  

  New Concepts Imagine the iWatch as a Lifestyle Device, Traditional Timepiece

  MacRumors - Kelly Hodgkins

  While earlier iWatch concepts were inspired by the wearable's health-tracking features, a new set of renderings from Argentine design student Tomas Moyano imagines the iWatch as a device that'll produce "a further and deeper interaction between human beings and technology." Moyano pictures a …

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  Sander Duivestein

  

  3D printer creates hi-res implantable device for customized heart treatment « Kurzweil

  kurzweilai.net

  An example of the 3-D elastic membrane being developed by Efimov and his team (credit: WUSTL) Using an inexpensive 3-D printer, Washington University …