Medical Monitoring
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An implant or device(s) attached to your body measuring in real time what your bodily state is and if there is a requirement for action regarding your healthcondition.
It will automatically make appointment to the nearest doctor (your personal or local if you are traveling) and/or hospital if required, eliminating the need to worry about your health.
Further advancement in measuring technology will be keeping a track of whatever goes through your bloodstream in real time, no need for blood tests having to be done as a chip can detect infections and/or events in your blood circulation.
Further development of in-place medicine printing technique, could yield a device capable of printing medicine straight into your bloodstream if a measuring system alerts that you need it.
A sample in this direction is the recent development of nearly invisible wearables and digital tattoos, read more also here: Rise of the nearly invisible wearables.
Intelligent Materials
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Advanced 3D printing of intelligent materials
What could we see of development of intelligent materials? From advancements in 3D printing, faster and with extremely small detail, a good few new constructed"materials" for building could be made.
For platform game enthusiasts, to make a correlation with game-level design and 3D printing, one could achieve tile based "game structure like" material parts which interconnected could construct micro functionality for new types of materials and fabrics.
Self Heating And Cooling Clothes
Let us look at f.ex. clothing; Wearable fabrics are fibers woven or different classic materials for most clothes, cotton, wool, etc. In the near future though, if printing speed at micro level gets fast enough and such materials could be combined with f.ex. heat conducting, and moving of heating and cooling channels via wires, combined with sensors towards the underneath layer of either skin or other fabric, one could hence make fabric that adjusted heating and cooling for what is underneath sensed, and what is outside sensed, to adjust towards an optimal preferred temperature for the wearer.
Self Cleaning Kitchen Bench
With an advanced structure composition, building on knowledge from f.ex. road construction (up to 11 layers for water disposal), other type of "worker" structures to move germs or other unwanted substances, from a layer on top and via nano level sewage like systems, one could imagine an intelligent kitchen bench which would dispose of leftover mess from food making automatically, a self cleaning kitchen bench system.
More ideas to come, probably.
The Future Of Clothes
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Seeing a future where we have areas with very varied weather conditions, and also us wanting to get more out of the potential for evolution within clothing, there are a number of elements that will play a role in the coming time of design and innovation of what clothes of the future can be for humans. Some loose thoughts on what clothing could go towards of potential in a world of innovation and new technologies for making them.
Commonly Known Key Components In Clothing Designs
Ease Of Use, Looks / Fashion, Arenas Of Use, Seasons, Climate Changes.
Synthetic Biology Protocells, 3D sewing machines and more.
3D Printing of textiles already have evolved in creating intelligent pieces of fabric of assorted purpose.
With new "textile" fabrication when combining 3D printing technologies in a new way to sew fabric in sheets that can be made into wearable clothes, we can see a whole new area of venture into exploring new capabilities of fabric.
The fabrics we are used to have characteristics as structure and texture, softness, how easy they fit, and how they feel while wearing them.
Imagine then that fabric could be intelligent, with the addition of innovation and technology on a nano/micro scale inside the fabric "sewn" you can imagine automatic cooling and heating networks imprinted, hence clothes that sense if you need to cool an area of your body, or heat it, to your liking. Disposal of sweat through micro-channeling of sweat-removal mechanisms at micro/nano level, think nanobots as a fabric.
The intelligent clothes could have both animation and visual characteristics of a new generation too, changing colors based on surroundings, even communication properties that could be attuned to connect with the AR and VR agenda.
Challenge: Cleaning of clothes, what could be done to make self-cleaning clothes? What if you would not need to clean your clothes, ever? They cleaned themselves?
More to come..
References:
MIT Professor Creates 3D Printed Wearable Skin
Technical Textiles Market To Reach $193,7-billion By 2020 E-Textiles at wikipedia, Conductive Ink Ushers In The Next Generation Of Wearable Technology (2015), Non Wetting Fabric That Drains Sweat Invented (2013), Ultra Thin Flexible Transparent Can Wrap Around A Hair, Poseidon: 3D Printed Collar Inspired By Shark Scales, Behind Clothing Innovation: Smart Textiles (2015)
Thoughts On Space Exploration
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Given that the idea of sending humans out in space has a following, there are also alternatives. Particularly now with the evolution of Virtual Reality we could send robots instead, the size of these will not matter, as cameras can be smaller than eyes and sensory input from robots could be scaled up, hence one could do remote exploration if we could achieve faster travel speeds. We could experience being near other planets and feel them, if we had material able to withstand conditions on some planets, the sensory input from such robots could be tuned to scale to an emotional sensory input to the explorer in VR and hence not be overwhelming, with the ability to tune the experience. It might of course also be virtually induced, we could literally make new planets for that matter, but for the matter of what we call actual space exploration, there are many thoughts on the subject.
We could consider remote working in space through robotics and VR/sensing/manipulation and of course both scale and shape of the other-end robotics or vessels of experience/manipulation could be approached with wild fantasy and imagination, not limited to standard sets of "reinventing the wheel" by making something human like in the other end either.
Work could be done to achieve harvesting/mining at other planets if we could get faster travel to other planets back and forth.
We could have new condos in space like in some semirecent sci-fi movies.
New 3D Print Tech
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Using beams, lasers, frequency modulators, sound, particle blasters, whatever science can come up with, as "guns" shaping and creating molecules and atoms held in space with magnetism, hence you would have a new type of 3D manifester that "print" atoms, shaping materials that of course also could potentially be added, but in a whole new way than todays 3D printers.
3D printing sewing machines could make fabric as said in another post, the fabrics could have many qualities only possible through printing 3D as sheets, combined electronic, different materials, synthetic biomaterial and more.
Just a brief idea post this one.
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