A fun interview with Lego. How Lego helps the environment and its digital future.
Who doesn’t like spending a few hours designing what is in their imagination and creating models with LEGO bricks? Some may have also discovered LEGO’s endless opportunities in the virtual…
Nursing in the Age of Robotics
The development of automatic machines disrupts and improves our lives in unimaginative, innovative ways. Robotic hands categorising items at factories, kiosk machines taking orders at fast-food restaurants, writers powered by…
Wearable Devices to Become Your At-Home Therapist
It is not very unusual to feel down and energyless once in a while, as our emotions can be easily influenced by many factors around us. However, it could be…
New opportunities for start-ups at NovaUCD
Earlier this month we profiled one of Ireland’s incubator facilities for tech start-up, NovaUCD. They run many accelerator programmes to help early-stage start-ups to fine tune their ideas and grow…
Gaming Technology
Introduction When I was a kid the first contact with technology was with video games in some big boxes with screens. After that, the entertainment was transferred to the homes…
Dance Technology: Blurring the Border between Digital and Physical Worlds
In the world of dancing, there had been only one medium to deliver their concept – the physical body. For centuries, any genre of dance performances had heavily relied on…
A year of small screens and couch-borne escapism
The bar set for 2021 is extremely low — ankle-high. With a mysterious viral outbreak hitting China and fires sweeping the southern hemisphere, 2020 started off poorly. It ended with…
Can 3D Characters Become Next K-Pop Idols?
Since its introduction in the 1960s, computer animation has been widely used in films and television shows. Characters built with this technology, once considered as an experiment, is now even…
Next-Generation Romance: VR Girlfriends
A Japanese man in his early 20s gets dressed in a black and white tuxedo at a wedding chapel. A couple of staff members approach to measure the groom’s height…
Hacker attacks and data theft. Is decentralisation the solution?
We live in a time when data has become a valuable resource that is incredibly vulnerable. Evidence of this is what happened in Italy recently, where even facilities that theoretically…