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Discussing Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology

Key Takeaway's

02:01 🌐 Energy harvesting breakthroughs for wearables focus on scavenging energy from human motion, thermal differentials, light exposure, and ambient sources.

03:39 🔄 Promising approaches include piezoelectric and triboelectric generators, with prototypes powering wearables through human sweat or casual hand motions.

05:32 ⚙️ Potential applications range from infrastructure monitoring to smart apparel and green charging for consumer electronics, offering diverse possibilities for energy harvesting technology.

09:56 🌐 3D-printed sensors for tracking health parameters like temperature, potentially expanding to personalized health monitoring.

11:36 🔍 Privacy concerns arise with the potential for misuse, such as unauthorized tracking using 3D-printed sensors. The balance between innovation and ethical considerations needs careful consideration.

15:16 🔋 Energy harvesting technology extends beyond biological beings, with applications on devices like cars and bicycles, creating possibilities for self-powered electronics.

17:52 🏋️‍♂️ Humorous exploration of using energy harvesting to encourage physical exercise as a means to charge devices, raising questions about the practicality of generating significant power.

18:36 📱 Possibility of charging smartphones using wearable energy harvesting devices discussed, highlighting the challenges and potential advancements required for widespread adoption.

22:01 🎤 Introduction of Humane's wearable AI device, Cloe, designed for conversational AI safety, prioritizing privacy and data security by avoiding uploading personal information to cloud servers.

23:52 🚫 Cloe incorporates on-device processing, privacy-focused training techniques, and oversight systems for monitoring interactions, aiming to establish safety-oriented design principles for conversational AI.

24:50 🤖 Privacy and security concerns raised about wearable technology, particularly in managing emails and interactions without clear details on privacy measures.

25:57 🛡️ Concerns about privacy and security with wearable technology, emphasizing the need for audits and transparency in handling user data.

26:54 💼 Questions about updating wearable devices from the cloud, potential data usage, and the process of syncing and sharing information, highlighting the need for user control.

28:16 🤖 Skepticism regarding the practicality of wearable technology assisting in composing and editing emails, raising doubts about the effectiveness of the interface.

30:34 🤖 Exploring the combination of wearable devices and wireless charging technology for increased productivity on the go, while expressing concerns about disconnection from real-life experiences.

36:54 🤖 Discussion on a wearable device aimed at reducing stress and anxiety, utilizing noninvasive nerve stimulation and guided meditations, with a focus on potential side effects and user experience.

39:05 🤖 Curiosity about potential side effects and security risks of a stress-reducing wearable device, including concerns about hacking and the long-term impact of electronic stimulation.

42:47 🤖 Uncertainty about the device's design and compatibility, questioning whether it can be worn with glasses or if it interferes with over-the-ear headphones.

48:47 🚀 Future live events announced, including the startup pitch battle, startup faceoff,

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Welcome to FutureTech Podcast with your hosts Jon Irwin and The Startup Coach. We’re your guides to the world of cutting-edge technology, innovation, and business trends. In this episode of Futuretech podcast we discuss:

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Carbon Nanotube Yields Soar!

Link: https://phys.org/news/2023-11-triple-carbon-nanotube-yield-solar.html

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Scientists build 3D DNA based Nanorobots

Link:  https://phys.org/news/2023-12-3d-dna-nanorobots.html

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Google releases their answer to ChatGPT called Gemini

Link: https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-ai-model-chatgpt/

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Welcome to FutureTech Podcast with your hosts Jon Irwin and The Startup Coach. We’re your guides to the world of cutting-edge technology, innovation, and business trends. In this episode of Futuretech podcast we discuss:

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Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain implant startup, set to begin human trials

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7 Brain-Computer Interface Companies You Need to Know

Link:  https://www.massdevice.com/brain-computer-interface-bci-companies/

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CANADIAN SAAS INVESTMENT REBOUNDED IN 2023, REACHING NEARLY $7 BILLION

Link: https://betakit.com/canadian-saas-investment-rebounded-in-2023-reaching-nearly-7-billion/

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Welcome to FutureTech Podcast with your hosts Jon Irwin and The Startup Coach. We’re your guides to the world of cutting-edge technology, innovation, and business trends. In this episode of Futuretech podcast we discuss:

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Transport of bound quasiparticle states in a two-dimensional boundary superfluid

Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16518

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Room-temperature addressing of single rare-earth atoms in optical fiber

Link:  https://journals.aps.org/prapplied/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.20.044038

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Where are we at with quantum computing?

Link: https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/quantum-computing-eniac-sycamore-google/

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Welcome to FutureTech Podcast with your hosts Jon Irwin and The Startup Coach. We’re your guides to the world of cutting-edge technology, innovation, and business trends.

In each episode, we explore the latest tech developments, share expert insights, and discuss how these innovations are shaping the future. Whether you’re a tech enthusiast, entrepreneur, or just curious about what’s on the horizon, join us on this exciting journey.

In this episode we discuss.

Article 1: World’s largest nuclear fusion reactor achieves first plasma

Article 2: Sulfur Selenium Solid-State Battery From NASA Breaks Energy Storage Boundaries

Article 3: EDC Report Says Canada is Struggling to Convert Startups to Scale Ups

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Automated Transcript of Fission, Batteries, and Scaleups FutureTech Podcast Episode 1

Startup Coach TorontoStarts (The Startup Coach): Welcome to FutureTech your weekly source for the latest in Tech Innovation and business. I'm the startup coach and as always I'm joined by my host Jon Irwin. How are you doing today? Jon?

Jonathan Irwin: Good. Thanks Craig. How are you?

Startup Coach TorontoStarts (The Startup Coach): I'm doing great. I'm excited to dive into some of these articles that you've been posting. And so let's just jump into some of this cool news. So the first one we're gonna be talking about and for anybody who wants to follow along the links are in the show notes. So take a look there. Japan's worlds largest nuclear fusion reactor achieves first plasma tell us a little bit about this JT 6 Osa reactor that no one can understand the name of What is it?

Jonathan Irwin: Yeah. Sure.

Startup Coach TorontoStarts (The Startup Coach): And what's the big deal?

Jonathan Irwin: Yeah, let me copy of this bike. I am by no means a nuclear expert and by no means an expert in any of this Tech that I'm talking about. I'm just a geek that loves to talk about or learn about new tech and new things that are going on. So this is about nuclear fusion So currently all of the reactors that are out there in the world are nuclear fission, which means they split particles in order to create So fusion is kind of what happens on the sun nuclear fusion holds immense promise as virtually in exhaustible source of clean energy, but achieving controlled Fusion on Earth remains one of science Grand challenges due to the extreme conditions required to fuse Atomic nuclei.

Jonathan Irwin: So after over 15 years of construction and testing Japan has made a significant step forward with a successful initiation of plasma in their reactor gts-0sa. Six zero essay. it's the world's largest and most advanced experimental Fusion reactor and it's located at the GAE NACA Fusion Institute. So the Tokamak reactor It's designed to heat hydrogen plasma to over 200 million degrees Celsius. And maintain it for around a hundred seconds. So that is far so path to capabilities first of proceeding large Fusion devices and I think there was one in France as well. Tha