DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Edward Kane, Journalist

DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF 

By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane


WORLD'S MOST FUTURISTIC CAR HAS NO WHEELS





Source:  Renault


  • The world's most futuristic car concept has just been unveiled by Renault.  It has no wheels.  Here are some key facts:
  • Called The Float, it's an engineering and innovation wonder, unlike any other car concept before
  • Has no wheels and literally floats over the road on its glass pods
  • Relies in Maglev technology - magnetic levitation - to travel
  • The autonomous hovering vehicle is based on the technology in Elon Musk's hyperloop
  • Composed of pods that can be magnetically belted together
  • Each pod can carry 1 or 2 people
  • Designed by 23-year-old Yuchin Cai for Renault
  • Very glossy, bubble-like structure with a transparent glass exterior and sliding glass doors
  • The Float is ready for a future of driving on roads with magnetic technology embedded in them.
MY PHYSICS PROFESSOR IS STEPHEN HAWKING

                          Late Stephen Hawkings Holograph

                                                Source:  Stock


  • A British University will be the first in Europe to explore use of Hologram Avatar Lecturer technology.  Here's what we know:
  • Loughborough University will be the first European university to bring in Hologram Avatars as guest lecturers
  • They're bringing in a sports scientist from MIT to teach fashion students how to create immersive shows
  • LU students consider holographic images more engaging and real
  • After a year of experimentation, the technology will be introduced into the curriculum in 2025
  • The importance of this technology could be huge
  • Proto, an LA-based company that sells the holographic units, says it could bring back some of the 20th century's greatest thinkers
  • Proto says it can project the image of almost anybody, make it look real and hook it up to books, lectures, etc.
  • Their AI Stephen Hawking would look, sound and interact just like him.
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