Antoine Gavignaud
Environment
to bee or not to bee
Varroa destructor, a parasitic organism, is destroying bees and their hives. To add insult to injury, our beloved bees are extremely sensitive about heat changes, and pollution. Acknowledging their distress, BeeHive decided that nature could use a little electronic technology: they developed an Anti-parasitic beehive: CoCoon. Using a stable temperature and completely autonomous, they allow bees to survive climatic changes and parasitic infections.
When humans imitate plants
Researchers from Waterloo University, Canada, have been working on a synthetic version of photosynthesis. This natural process aims to create organic matter, like glucose, with non-organic material, such as minerals, water, and C02. It needs a vegetal cell of course. Instead of a vegetal cell, they use a red powder made out of glucose, copper acetate, sodium hydroxide, and sodium lauryl sulfate. Exposed to light and immersed in water, this mixture produces methanol, an already known biofuel.
Digital Healthcare
Hypnosis and VR
Hypnosis is used for reducing pain in hospitals. It’s a non-medicated way to soothe post-surgical periods. In order to ease the process and to be able to use it on more than one patient at a time, researchers at HypnoVR chooses to use the VR technology to induce hypnosis, with the help of relaxing and calm background.
We also are interested in other ways to use VR:
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Interview of François Garnier uses VR in digital creativity.
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Treatment of public-speaking fear with virtual reality by Nia Cason.
Self-care with robots
Charlie is the new robot created by Home Hospital Robotics for New Health Community. It’s an autonomous medical robot whose purpose is to help patients at home, provide them help and support whenever needed, without the need for human intervention.
Spatial and aeronautic
Our way to the stars
On the 5 of august, the spatial telescope James Webb was first fully assembled. This successor to Hubble has the mission to observe our universe through infrared vision and bring back new images of the depths of space. Its particularity is its five-layer solar shield, supposed to protect its instruments from solar radiation waves.
Data takes highs
The European Space Agency successfully launched the second European Data Relay System (EDRS) Satellite. This technology is used for Earth observation, using a laser system to transmit information. The current speed is 1.8gigabits/second, which is extremely powerful considering what a gigabyte represents. A constellation of those instruments could, in the near future transmit more information, such as the internet.
Public Health
The Open Insulin Project
Yann Huon de Kermadec is a French chemist. Upon seeing the outrageous prices hospitals charge the diabetic patients, he is currently trying to develop a simple way to create insulin. The current state is that people suffering this disease have to pay around 1200 dollars per month not to die. According to Yann, if companies lower their prices in order to concurrence him, it will still be a victory for those who have to fight diabetes.
The WHO Digital Health Technical Advisory Group organized a meeting to globalize digital health tools. The aim is to ensure its efficiency in developing countries, a global impact so that no country is left behind and to make sure the process of development are ethical. This operation never tried before is a first attempt to improve digital health around the world, especially in developing countries. A global and digital health process that is necessary to embrace the difficulties of global healthcare.
Technology
Fly me to the moon
Upon seeing the tremendous issue that is public transports and all the side problems it creates, the company Hovertaxi had an idea. What if taxis could now take the aerial way? It looks like a small helicopter, that can lift two people. Entirely electric, it is almost silent and will be used as a taxi and as a service for green tourism.
Mind control? Yes, please!
The company Mentalista is developing a new algorithm in order to give you superpowers. They apply machine learning to extract and analyse data produced by our brain upon seeing objects. All this data has been used in order to create robots controlled by our very mind. Playing football without our feet the first step. This technology could create opportunities for surgeons, precision workers, and military. All-purpose being to create a distance between the human and the objective.
