Binaural Beats for Peace
An interesting illusion happens when we hear two pure tones that are close together: binaural beats - beats at a third tone at the frequency which is the difference between the two pure tones. Binaural beats are useful because they can…
Snap Buys into Mind-control
Snap has acquired NextMind, a Paris-based startup with a controller that utilizes brain signals to move images on a PC interface. The deal terms were not disclosed. NextMind has a $399 dev kit that actually works well, making BMI…
SpaceX Starlink Keeps Ukrainian Government in Communication
As Russian forces invaded, hackers disrupted satellite Internet communication in Ukraine. Four days later, Starlink dishes arrived, putting the Ukrainian government back in communication. Starlink is SpaceX’s megaconstellation of nearly…
Cannabis Clinical Trials – What’s Going On?
Cannabis clinical trials have been ongoing in the US since 2002, with close to one thousand studies documented on the Clinical Trials server. Many of these studies are publicly funded, but some are sponsored by companies developing…
Drone Delivery – Who’s Going to Make It?
The car-based delivery app business model is not profitable. Drone delivery, whose costs are 1/10 those of human car-based delivery, stands a better chance. But while it appears to be economically viable from this early viewpoint, does…
China Switching to Thorium
Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs), which were developed and tested in the 1960’s and 70’s at Oak Ridge National Laboratories but then moth-balled, are back. China is set to turn on their 2MW experimental Thorium MSR at Wuwei, on the edge of the…
Wildfires Making Microgrids Popular
As wildfires become increasingly common in California, microgrids are gaining support because they replace power during grid outages and public safety power shutoffs. The fact that they generally use renewable energy makes them even more…
Lancium’s Niche Patents Create Client
The Demand Response sector may appear to be dominated by several big players - Causam, ENEL, and Johnson Controls - but there are niches available for the smaller players. Lancium, whose software lets data centers ramp their power…
Nike Swimming Against the Tide with Smart Traffic Sneakers
Nike started a concerted effort in 2018 to patent smart traffic sneakers, sneakers that alert vehicles to the wearer’s presence. With 10 applications, Nike is almost alone in the field. Nike followed in Nokia and Continental’s footsteps,…
ENEL Group Expecting Bad Weather
ENEL, the multinational manufacturer and distributor of electricity and gas, is betting on the role of weather forecasts in the Demand Response market. With 19 patent assets in the weather forecast subcategory, it is way ahead of the next…
Velodyne & NVIDIA Partner in Austin, Better Watch Out for Intel
Velodyne is bringing its Intelligent Infrastructure Solution to Austin, where NVIDIA is launching the Metropolis program, a Smart City partnership. Velodyne’s LiDAR and AI software will be running on the edge on NVIDIA’s Jetson AGX Xavier…
NoTraffic Raises $17.5m With One Patent. Is There an Alternative Investment?
NoTraffic, an AI-based traffic management platform, has just raised $17.5 million in a Series A that it will use to support its rapid deployments into dozens of U.S. cities during the second half of this year and, hopefully, into European…
UK Unicorn Bringing Space-based Quantum Key Distribution Soon
UK startup Arqit plans to start distributing quantum encryption keys across the globe using satellites by 2023. Satellite delivery of quantum encryption keys overcomes the problem of terrestrial fiber optic transmission. Fiber optic…
Looking For A Growing Market? Look No Further Than Your City’s Trash Can
The European smart waste sensor market is expected to grow 29.8% annually through 2025. For the rest of the world it’s 36.5%. Smart waste sensors are sufficiently evolved to allow cities to affordably install them and provide better,…
Who’s Investing In Digital Twinning? Pretty Much Everybody And Their NPE
Digital twinning, a real-time simulation that relies on IoT for data, is maturing as the next mega-industry. Digital twinning is another child of “Big Data” because it is enabled by the massive amounts of realtime data that IoT can…
HERE Global and Bentley Systems Partner to Digitally Twin your Smart City
HERE Technologies, which has been investing heavily in smart city data collection, needed a way to display all that data to DOT personnel so they can better plan and use their infrastructure. Bentley Systems has been developing graphical…
Pentagon says UAP videos are real – here’s how to spot more of them
The DoD has confirmed that videos and still images of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) released in April 2020 are real. The videos can be found here: https://www.navair.navy.mil/foia/documents (FLIR.mp4, GOFAST.wmv, GIMBAL.wmv). Can…
Why did Giant Airbus Partner with Tiny Luminar? (Hint…patents)
Luminar is branching upwards, partnering with Airbus to bring LiDaR to autonomous aircraft. Airbus also has been developing LiDaR, as shown by its 12 issued patents. So, why does it need Luminar?…
Pipistrel And Its 1 Patent Forced To Partner With Honeywell (Which Has Hundreds)
Honeywell is providing its next-generation Attitude Heading Reference System and Air Data Module to Pipistrel, the cargo UAV manufacturer. Pipistrel will add this critical navigation and motion-sensing data to its Nuuva V300 cargo UAV,…
Velodyne and Ansys Collaborate to Solve A/V Edge Cases
If you’re following Autonomous Driving, you probably already know that Velodyne and Ansys are collaborating to integrate vehicle LiDaR into a driving simulator. This will allow engineers to rapidly model the numerous edge cases that are…
Robotic Trucks Using Peripheral Vision. See For Yourself
Kodiak Robotics Inc is adding Hesai Technology Co’s LIDAR to its autonomous trucks for peripheral vision. The trucks will keep their one forward-facing Luminar LIDAR and add Hesai LIDAR on each side of the truck. Although a Silicon Valley…
Apple Is Late To The Brain:Computer Interface Party – Stay Tuned
Brain:Computer Interfaces (BCIs) have tremendous potential. Like all technologies, a consumer product will really rocket its development. That’s where Samsung, Sony, Panasonic and the other major consumer electronics companies are. But…
Mobileye, Transdev and Lohr Group to Shuttle
Mobileye is integrating its self-driving system into Lohr’s i-Cristal electric shuttle, to be guided around cities using Transdev’s Autonomous Transport System (ATS). Patent Forecast data shows how Mobileye is concentrating its investments…
Nex Team App Adds New Features. What’s its Goal?
Nex Team, an industry leader in the world of app-based basketball skills development, has been in a rapid growth stage for some time now, landing partnerships with basketball teams and leagues all over the United States. Nex Team has…
Unicorn Uplight Emerges. Will It Disrupt Electric Power Management?
Uplight Inc.'s value rose to $1.5 Billion in a deal adding new investors Schneider Electric and a Huck Capital-Led Investment Group, while The AES Corporation extended its investment. Steve McBee, CEO, Huck Capital said: "Uplight…
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