Intelligent Materials

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.

On the AR vs VR Debate

As I see the AR and VR markets growing, and different bigger vendors and venture capital goes into creating the evolution into this new (but as some see it, old) potential of changing what we see,

there is an importance of seeing past what people have thought AR and VR to be in the past. Particularly how currently, even if innovative in game-markets and consumerist markets, they are a bit caught up in just extending the current trends in mobile app style GUIs, and overlay / help interfaces, coloring of what is seen, outlining, and adding information in a 2D or 3D fashion, yet very rudimentary compared to where it could be going in the time ahead.

What if one could imagine AR as a filter, not an overlay engine but a filter of actual reality perceived?

 What is needed is the computing power to real time observe one's surroundings by depthmeasuring and camera technologies, sensor technologies, to construct a 3D model on the fly, which would require more than what current cellphones are capable of delivering of computing power, and also would need to far supersede today's somewhat quirky bulky big glasses, and frankly, even if many like it, many do not fancy walking around with their cellphone attached in front of their eyes, we need something far less intrusive for daily outdoor operation in AR space.

The real time 2much2process model which represent "reality" as perceived, would be as a surface, think today's HTML5 for web, tomorrow actual reality in it's full set of depth and color, material detection, heat detection, sensory inputs as wind, humidity, weather, every possible sensory input, it would be as a canvas that could be modified and / or extended in any thinkable way, to make it out throught the filtering and reconstruction into the wearers / users perception. Innovation on implants and other ways of programming the visual cortex directly are also going on, but there has to be a far greater detail of real time reconstruction for the real "magic" of AR and VR will be understood and seen, my 2 cents.

Key thoughts for innovation: Reality as a canvas, modification of reality (edit in/out), nontangible objects, hence easily disposable. You can add to that the potential of controlling possibility to sense, like limitation of movement of physical bodyparts, in a way to near a possible way of being able to actually touch virtual objects, too.

Just another idea rant from just another visionary. 

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