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Author: Andy Walker

Video: Meet Diane the QC bot

  From Chapter 4 of Super You: Meet Diane, a QC Bot. It (she?) can carry supplies from point-to point around the hospital. It also comes with a large screen and an onboard camera, enabling it to serve as a self-serve station for patients—people can check in for their appointment and follow the QC Bot right to more »

Video: Glucose-sensing lens

This Alphabet (formerly Google) designed  contact lens prototype  looks like any other contact lens on the market, except tiny antennae run rings around the outside of the lens. They are connected to a tiny sensor that can measure glucose levels found in the wearer’s tears once every second. That information can then be more »

Video: The Archimedes Screw

From Chapter 4 of the book Super You – p.131 In the 1980s, physician inventor Rich Wampler visited Egypt and witnessed local workers using a hand-turned Archimedes screw to pump water up a river bank for irrigation. He realized that if a screw could move water against gravity, perhaps it could move blood against pressure.

Get ready for hybrid thinking: Ray Kurzweil

Two hundred million years ago, our mammalian ancestors developed a new brain feature: the neocortex. This stamp-sized piece of tissue – when wrapped around a brain the size of a walnut – is the key to what humanity has become. Futurist and author Ray Kurzweil suggests, we should get ready more »