Top Tech#9: Stickers and Snacks

Posted March 5th, 2015 @ 2:34pm

Highlighting interesting or important innovations with long-term promise.

Today’s developments:
• Print delicious snacks
• Emerging technologies of 2015
• Flexible wearable stickers control your phone

Print delicious snacks

3D printing can now assemble and manufacture everything frommolecular switches to full-size buildings — but edible food must be sometime inthe far-off future, right?

Wrong — It’s almost here now. And 3D print with living organisms can even grow into food so fresh you’re practically a farmer.

Boing Boing writes about it here.

Emerging technologies of 2015

As regular readers know, there are new developments every day in a wide variety of fields. Some of those have the most potential to change our society, and the World Economic Forum called on 18 experts lists the top ten. Their choices include:

1. Fuel cell vehicles
2. Next-generation robotics
3. Recyclable thermoset plastics
4. Precise genetic engineering techniques
5. Additive manufacturing

Here is the full article.

Flexible wearable stickers control your phone

You may no longer have to fish your phone from your pocket, or even reach up to your ear to tap the Bluetooth receiver: computer scientists are developing flexible silicone stickers that embody circuitry and switches to let you tap on your forearm, for example, to control and device.

Popular Science reports on “iSkin” here.
There’s also a demo video here on the “Flexible, stretchable and visually customizable on-body touch sensors for mobile computing.”