Future Lens Podcast

08/01/2021

In the latest episode of Future Lense Today we talk Virtual Reality, Soft Robots and catching rockets out of the sky!

Fututre Lens Today - Virtual Reality Exosuits from Holotron, Soft Robotics, and catching SpaceX rockets as they fall out of the sky.

17/11/2020

🎧 Check out the latest episode of the Future Lens Podcast - Episode 22 - The Global Need For Multi-Pronged Sterilization and Disinfection Protocols! Out Now!

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15/10/2020

15/10/2020

🎧 A brand new episode of Future Lens Today!

https://www.humanatronix.com/future-lens-today/the-age-of-supersonic-is-back-nasa-moonwalking-spacesuits-self-healing-glass

Read along or listen in as we talk about some sweet new technology that feels a lot like the world is coming full circle from all the way back in the 1960s, when moonwalking and supersonic jets were state-of-the-art. We also talk about some of the innovations coming out of Compton where a small San Francisco-based startup is testing out new forms of vertical farming with autonomous robotic farmers being trained and tested in warehouses.

Additionally, some news coming out of silicon valley as Apple makes headlines while filling for new patents for some next-level advanced materials to be used in its mobile phone suite moving forward.

17/07/2020

🎧 Now Streaming - Future Lens: Episode 18 - Alternative Burial Practices - From Ashes to Diamonds and eternal Reefs. https://buff.ly/2Z0Qgdn

A Biodegradable Urn Designed To Turn You Into a Tree In The After-Life.

In 2002, the Bios Urn® went on to be a winner of the ADI FAD design awards, and in the year 2005 it was nominated as a finalist for the INDEX award with a “design to improve life.” During this time, one of the very first Bios Urn® produced was used by the Barcelona zoo to plant the remains of the iconic albino gorilla - known as Little Snowflake - and turned him into an African tree.

In 2013, Gerard launched an internet startup company to market the Bios Urn® online, and more importantly worldwide, with the aim of changing the way in which people face the end of life in a very traditional and conservative sector. While the design has changed over the past decade, the core focus of Bios Urn® has remained the same: to add meaning to this process of life, and return to nature.

It is composed of 100% recycled materials which are locally sourced. It is also produced ethically, and locally. The main offices and warehouse are located in Spain with an additional warehouse in Michigan, US. Since its creation, the Bios Urn® has reached customers in 47 countries in 5 continents.

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16/07/2020

🎧 Now Streaming - Future Lens Today. In this week’s episode, we take a look at the population numbers of the human race as it begins to trend towards negative, how Zero Mass Water is using solar power to create water in deserts, and some clever robotics in fast-food and in your office. https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/future-lens/id1490765907

16/07/2020

🎧 Now Streaming - Future Lens: Episode 20 - Archeology. https://bit.ly/2ZF7a1m

Turns Out 4 ‘Blank’ Dead Sea Scrolls Actually Have Text

THE 16 PURPORTED fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Museum of the Bible might be fakes, but at least four such fragments housed at the University of Manchester in the UK are the real deal. For decades, those fragments were presumed to be blank, but a new analysis has revealed the existence of actual text, most likely a passage from the book of Ezekiel.

These ancient Hebrew texts—roughly 900 full and partial scrolls in all, stored in clay jars—were first discovered scattered in various caves near what was once the settlement of Qumran, just north of the Dead Sea, by Bedouin shepherds in 1946-1947. Qumran was destroyed by the Romans, circa 73 CE, and historians believe the scrolls were hidden in the caves by a sect called the Essenes to protect them from being destroyed. The natural limestone and conditions within the caves helped preserve the scrolls for millennia; they date back to between the third century BC and the first century CE.

The scrolls are understandably of great historical and archaeological interest. Several of the parchments have been carbon-dated, and synchrotron radiation, among other techniques, has been used to shed light on the properties of the ink used for the text.

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14/07/2020

🎧 Now Streaming - Future Lens: Episode 20 - Archeology. https://bit.ly/2ZF7a1m

Looking Into Our Past Using Technology Of The Future

In this episode of Future Lens our hosts Gord Stencell and Mark Pundzius discuss the future of archaeology and how we’ve changed the way we discover the secrets of the past, how we preserve them, and how we share them.

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13/07/2020

🎧 Now Streaming - Future Lens: Episode 19 - Our Thirst For Water. https://bit.ly/2ZF7a1m

Obtaining Drinking Water By Harvesting It From The Clouds

In dry mountainous and coastal regions with high fog concentration, the CloudFisher collects water from fog and provides a secure supply of drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people.

In January 2017 the expansion of “30 CloudFisher” was launched. 15 collectors were installed in collaboration with local construction companies and organised by the Dar Si Hmad Foundation. Another 15 CloudFisher collectors followed in 2018. This is the world's largest collector park, with 1,682 square metres of mesh space.

The WaterFoundation, who was responsible for the project, commissioned aqualonis with its implementation. The venture was facilitated by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) with the generous support of the Munich Re Foundation and the German Technical and Scientific Association for Gas and Water (DVGW).

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12/07/2020

🎧 Now Streaming - Future Lens: Episode 15 - Manipulating Matter on an Atomic, Molecular and Supramolecular Scale. https://buff.ly/3dnhyAM

In this episode of Future Lens our hosts Gord Stencell and Mark Pundzius discuss the discoveries and advances being made in the field of nanotechnology and how these will change our approach to monitoring and treating disease, growing crops and tracking manufactured goods. Might an abundance of nanoparticles inevitably become a concern if they accumulate in our waters and in the air that we breathe?

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11/07/2020

🎧 Now Streaming - Future Lens: Episode 16 - Tech Anxiety. https://buff.ly/2MTta2V

In this episode of Future Lens our hosts Gord Stencell and Mark Pundzius talk about anxiety, when it is triggered, and how technology can often amplify its effects on our day-to-day experiences. Hear how innovators are mitigating anxiety with specially crafted technology designed to help us cope and overcome it, in its many forms.

09/07/2020

🎧 Now Streaming - Future Lens Today. In this week’s episode, we talk about big tech companies and their participation, both good and bad, in the fight for civil rights around the world. This and much more now for free wherever you get your audio content. https://www.humanatronix.com/episode/the-great-firewall-of-censorship-big-tech-business-vs-civil-rights

09/07/2020

🎧 Now Streaming - Future Lens: Episode 19 - Our Thirst For Water. https://bit.ly/2ZF7a1m

An Age-Old Approach For Desalination Using The Power Of The Sun

Sunny Clean Water is developing a highly efficient solar still, a device that uses the power of the sun to clean and desalinate water.

The company’s current prototype — about the size of a mini fridge — uses sunlight and dark nanofabric materials to evaporate water, leaving behind salt, germs, dirt and other foreign matter. Then, the water condenses back into a liquid state in a clean container.

This patent-pending system is able to evaporate water three times faster than the natural evaporation rate, says Qiaoqiang Gan, PhD, associate professor of electrical engineering in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Sunny Clean Water’s technology could help solve two global market needs: First, the device could broaden access to drinking water, including in developing areas and regions facing temporary shortages due to causes including natural disasters.

Learn about this and so much more on the latest Future Lens Podcast Episode on Humanatronix.com, check out the link in bio!

08/07/2020

🎧 Now Streaming - Future Lens: Episode 19 - Our Thirst For Water. https://bit.ly/2ZF7a1m

Last year the world fought some of the world’s worst forest fires across the west coast of North America and across Australia. California was struggling to find available sources of water it could use to fight these fires, while some organizations are fighting to remove water as a human right, such as Nestle. In this episode of Future Lens our hosts Gordon Stencell and Mark Pundzius discuss the future of water and how over 30% of the human population is affected by water scarcity, and what companies around the world are doing to solve this critical issue.

Learn about this and so much more on the latest Future Lens Podcast Episode on Humanatronix.com, check out the link in bio!

08/07/2020

🎧 Now Streaming - Future Lens: Episode 18 - Alternative Burial Practices - From Ashes to Diamonds and eternal Reefs. https://buff.ly/2Z0Qgdn

Spin Tunes To Awaken Memories

An existential concept Leach concocted after his mom started working with funeral directors, the UK company “And Vinyly” will press cremation ashes into the working sides of a vinyl record for you.

“I was amazed by how little I or any of my friends had even properly considered or accepted our own mortality, and how incredibly sheltered many of us are from death and conversations around it,” Leach told BBC of his venture. “It was not intended to be a business. It was the result of having a bit of fun with what at the time felt like a shocking and disconcerting inevitability.”

Leach says that customers have requested a wide range of recordings for the specialized discs, from personal conversations to the simple but distant sound of crackling vintage vinyl. On the occasion that a client is looking to have certain songs and music added to the records, the company has found that most copyright holders are fine with the process.

Learn about this and so much more on the latest Future Lens Podcast Episode on Humanatronix.com, check out the link in bio!

03/07/2020

🎧 Now Streaming - Future Lens: Episode 16 - Tech Anxiety. https://buff.ly/2MTta2V

In this episode of Future Lens our hosts Gord Stencell and Mark Pundzius talk about anxiety, when it is triggered, and how technology can often amplify its effects on our day-to-day experiences. Hear how innovators are mitigating anxiety with specially crafted technology designed to help us cope and overcome it, in its many forms.

01/07/2020

🎧 Now Streaming - Future Lens: Episode 17 - Emerging Waste Management Technologies. https://buff.ly/3enWHxK

Green Farming Practices are Becoming Part of the Recycling Culture in Seoul

The number of urban farms or community gardens in Seoul has increased sixfold in the past seven years. They now total 170 hectares - roughly the size of 240 football fields. Most are sandwiched between apartment blocks or on top of schools and municipal buildings. One is even located in the basement of an apartment block. It is used to grow mushrooms.

The city government provides between 80% and 100% of the start-up costs. As well as providing food, proponents of the scheme say urban farms bring people together as a community in areas where residents are often isolated from one another. The city authorities are planning to install food waste composters to support urban farms.

In spite of this success, some people argue that South Koreans will need to change their eating habits, if they are really going to make a dent in their food waste.

Learn about this topic and much more on the latest Future Lens Podcast episode on Humanatronix.com.

29/06/2020

🎧 Now Streaming - Future Lens: Episode 18 - Alternative Burial Practices - From Ashes to Diamonds and eternal Reefs. https://buff.ly/2Z0Qgdn

Hard pressed for an after death gift

The company name ‘Lonité’ originates from ‘Longévité’ in Swiss French, which translates to last in time. Diamonds after death is one aspect of this idea. The technological beginnings of LONITE AG date back to the early 1950s, when scientists learned you can turn ashes into diamonds using High-Pressure High-Temperature anvils.

Your memorial diamond can reflect the loved one's personality and charm so that becoming a diamond after death continues their presence in your life.

Turning cremation ashes into diamonds is possible because Carbon [C] accounts for 18% of the human body and diamonds are crystallized carbon. Cremation diamonds are genuine diamonds grown by using the carbon contained within hair or cremation ashes.

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27/06/2020

🎧 Now Streaming - Future Lens: Episode 14 - Individual and Societal Health Monitoring by the World’s largest Private Big-Data Institutions. https://buff.ly/3eltL9c

Would you be more or less comfortable knowing that your health related data is being fed into a system designed to monitor your vital signs and track associated behaviours in order to provide early detection of worrisome changes in your health?

As far back as 2002, some municipalities in Canada were analyzing effluent to monitor public health. Recently, in Massachusetts, high concentrations of SARS-CoV-2 were found in water collected at a major sewage treatment facility.

Some companies are leveraging data from wearable devices to provide you with up to date health vitals. Now they want to tie that data to your health information, currently stored by hospitals and health clinics.

Learn about this and so much more on the latest Future Lens Podcast Episode on Humanatronix.com, check out the link in bio!

26/06/2020

🎧 Now Streaming - Future Lens: Episode 15 - Manipulating Matter on an Atomic, Molecular and Supramolecular Scale. https://buff.ly/3dnhyAM

We are only years away from using armies of nano robots to support our day to day lives.

The opportunities are becoming limitless, as we become able to produce millions of tiny robots at a cost of less than a penny each. Researchers have been studying the possibilities of using nano robots to manage crop pests and bypass the use of pesticides to grow better food.

On other fronts, scientists are developing protocols for injecting these microscopic robots into our bloodstream to monitor for signs of disease or health complications, before they reach a critical state.

Learn about this and so much more on the latest Future Lens Podcast Episode on Humanatronix.com, check out the link in bio!

25/06/2020

Tech Giant Coalitions, Nuclear Thermal Propulsion & 16 Atom Engines - The latest episode of Future Lens Today - Weekly News Podcast!

The world’s smallest conceivable engine, the US government and DARPA have announced plans for the first even Nuclear Thermal Propulsion systems and a line drawn in the sand as Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and Apple go head to head for dominance in the world of online and mobile gaming.

25/06/2020

🎧 Now Streaming - Future Lens: Episode 18 - Alternative Burial Practices - From Ashes to Diamonds and eternal Reefs. https://buff.ly/2Z0Qgdn

Eternal Reefs - Allowing Death To Bring New Life To Coral Reefs

Florida-based Eternal Reefs offers an oceanic burial option that lets you add your cremains to a perforated dome called a “reef ball,” which will sit at the bottom of the ocean and become a home for local sea life.

While the business is centered around disposing of the deceased, it began as a project between a couple of diving buddies. Cofounders Don Brawley and Todd Barber knew that the coastal reefs around Florida needed some help to keep them from deteriorating. Their solution was to develop reef balls, which are made of a specially formulated concrete designed to encourage the growth of new reefs with minimal effect on the existing environment.

The reef balls also had to be something that could survive the violent influence of underwater storm currents. “If it moves it’s useless,” says Frankel. So the hollow reef balls weigh anywhere between 800 and 4,000 pounds, and have a domed shape with large perforations all across the surface. Those perforations ensure that storm pressure can’t build up against them and shove them out of place.

Learn about this and so much more on the latest Future Lens Podcast Episode on Humanatronix.com, check out the link in bio!

24/06/2020

🎧 Now Streaming - Future Lens: Episode 16 - Tech Anxiety. https://buff.ly/2MTta2V

Can on-screen communication replace face-to-face interactions?

Early in the 1990’s, when email first became popular, experts predicted we’d spend half our workweek sunbathing with all of the time we save using electronic mail. In practice, what has happened is that all the methods of communicating via a screen: email, texting, instant messaging, DMs and posting to social media - allow us the comfort of reacting to things on our timetable, but that takes up more time.

Although on-screen communication allows us time to compose, edit, and perfect - human face-to-face communication happens in real-time. It has been reported that more and more individuals are feeling increased anxiety when having to participate in real-time conversations or when addressing others in-person.

Learn about this and so much more on the latest Future Lens Podcast Episode on Humanatronix.com, check out the link in bio!

23/06/2020

🎧 Now Streaming - Future Lens: Episode 17 - Emerging Waste Management Technologies. https://buff.ly/3enWHxK

A Green Future With BrightMark - Creating a World Without waste.

By using “science-first” approaches and leveraging powerful partnerships, Brightmark is transforming organic waste into renewable natural gas.

By 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. Only 9% of the plastic manufactured in the United States each year is recycled. The rest ends up in an incinerator, a landfill, or as litter in the natural environment, where it is doomed to sit for thousands of years. Post-use plastic is choking our waterways, littering our communities, and harming our wildlife.

We need better mechanisms for managing this waste stream, limiting its impact on the planet, and turning plastic back into useful products. That’s where advanced chemical recycling, or plastics renewal technology comes into play.

Learn about this topic and much more on the latest Future Lens Podcast episode on Humanatronix.com.

23/06/2020

🎧 Now Streaming - Future Lens: Episode 17 - Emerging Waste Management Technologies. https://buff.ly/3enWHxK

Enerkem -
Turning Trash Into Clean Fuels and Chemicals

Located outside of Edmonton, Canada, is the only commercially operating MSW-to-biofuels facility in North America. Designed to produce 10 million gallons of ethanol per year, construction of the facility began in 2014. In 2016, it produced bio-methanol as a renewable chemical feedstock. In 2017, it was certified by the U.S. EPA to produce and sell bioethanol through the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard. Enerkem, its investors and partners are now developing additional facilities in North America and Europe.

Learn about this topic and much more on the latest Future Lens Podcast episode on Humanatronix.com.

23/06/2020

🎧 Now Streaming - Future Lens: Episode 17 - Emerging Waste Management Technologies. https://bit.ly/3hPxhei

In this latest episode of Future Lens our hosts Gordon Stencell and Mark Pundzius discuss the implications of one of society’s most important yet underfunded and undervalued systems. We talk about waste management and recycling centres and how they are trying to innovate on behalf of the rest of the world to try and save it.

No-One Wants Our Cast Offs - Although many communities have updated their garbage management and recycling programs over the past decade, much of our detritus and recyclables have been shipped to countries overseas as our landfills reach maximum capacity and our production of packaging waste exceeds our capacity to recycle it. Unfortunately, many countries that used to take our waste are now refusing to do so.

Learn about this and so much more on the latest Future Lens Podcast Episode on Humanatronix.com, check out the link in bio!

19/06/2020

🎧 Now Streaming - Future Lens: Episode 13 - Artificially Intelligent Companionship. https://buff.ly/2LF2ulI

Film and TV have explored the subject, with chatbot love in Her, romantic interests expressed by robot Ava in Ex Machina, K’s relationship with his virtual assistant in Blade Runner 2049, or the on-going human-robot relationships in shows like Westworld and Humans. Now think about when you first meet someone, what are the signifiers you pick up on that make you attracted to them? Their laugh, their smile, their wit.

Things that go beyond likes and dislikes. Imagine a machine programmed to not only agree with your preferences – favourite movies, bands, and books but one that will be built to exhibit these more human-like qualities.

Engineering and programming human intimacy is a challenge, but with companies already invested in this research, it might not be all that long until we see wider commercial availability of such bots.

Learn about this topic and much more on the latest Future Lens Podcast episode on Humanatronix.com.

19/06/2020

🎧 Now Streaming - Future Lens: Episode 14 - Individual and Societal Health Monitoring by the World’s largest Private Big-Data Institutions. https://buff.ly/3eltL9c

On April 23, TELUS Health announced the expansion of its Home Health Monitoring (HHM) solution so that nurses and other healthcare providers in British Columbia can digitally monitor more patients remotely while they recover from COVID-19.

Launched in partnership with the B.C. Ministry of Health and local health authorities, this digital health dashboard enables healthcare providers to track symptoms and provide medical help for more patients, as they recover outside of hospitals in the comfort of their own homes.

Easily accessible through a mobile device, the program sends daily prompts to the patient to report their biometrics such as temperature, physical symptoms and overall health condition.

Learn about this and so much more on the latest Future Lens Podcast Episode on Humanatronix.com, check out the link in bio!

17/06/2020

🎧 Now Streaming - Future Lens: Episode 15 - Manipulating Matter on an Atomic, Molecular and Supramolecular Scale. https://buff.ly/3dnhyAM

Nanoparticles are expected to help reduce the risk of most types of heart attacks.

Michigan State University and Stanford University scientists have invented a nanoparticle that eats away - from the inside out - portions of plaques that cause heart attacks. Bryan Smith, associate professor of biomedical engineering at MSU, and a team of scientists created a "Trojan Horse" nanoparticle that can be directed to eat debris, reducing and stabilizing plaque. The discovery could be a potential treatment for atherosclerosis, a leading cause of death in the United States.

Once inside the macrophages in those plaques, it delivers a drug agent that stimulates the cell to engulf and eat cellular debris. Basically, it removes the diseased/dead cells in the plaque core.

Learn about this and so much more on the latest Future Lens Podcast Episode on Humanatronix.com, check out the link in bio!