What Comes Next?

First, there was just cash. Then we invented cheques, credit cards, chip and pin, and eventually, contactless. But just when we thought spending money couldn’t get any easier, a brand new piece of tech has appeared on the scene: the smart ring. On this episode, we’re speaking to Dan Blondell from McLEAR about the magical future of payments, and how contactless tech can do much more than let us buy lunch.

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McLEAR website: https://mclear.com/

The world needs more doctors. Two-thirds of the global population don't have access to safe and affordable surgery. And in the UK, we simply aren’t training enough surgeons to replace the ones that will soon retire. Could VR training be the solution? We talk to Steve Dann, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of immersive medical training company, Medical Realities, about the hopes for VR throughout the medical field.

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Medical Realities: medicalrealities.com

360 Surgical Training Video: youtube.com/watch?v=n7ALZkPoTYQ

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Vision - the complex skill of determining what is and is not a cat. While most of us take it for granted, it’s an ability that has long eluded even our most sophisticated machine learning algorithms...until now. We talk to Alberto Rizzoli, Co-Founder and CEO of V7 Labs, a deep learning company that is well on its way to "making machines see like humans".

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v7labs.com

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Handles, twisty-tops, fiddly buttons. The whole world is built for human hands, so why don't we give robots hands, too? Well, that's exactly what Shadow Robot Company are doing. The ingenious company has developed the world's most lifelike robotic hand. It's so realistic, it even has fingernails! We talk to Managing Director, Rich Walker, about the captivating creation, and explore what its digital digits mean for automation, telepresence, and telerobotics.

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Shadow Robot Company: shadowrobot.com

Awesome videos of robot hands: youtube.com/user/srcteam

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Cities are getting larger, denser, and much, much hungrier. So, why don’t we move food production a little closer to home? We talk to Steve Dring, Co-Founder and CEO of Growing Underground, owners of the world’s first underground farm. Their luminous pink facility sits 33 metres under the streets of London, and grows microgreens and salad leaves much more efficiently than traditional methods. Could this be a blueprint for the farms of the future?

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Growing Underground: growing-underground.com

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