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US ARMY SMART EXOSKELETON. "The requirement is a comprehensive family of systems in a combat armour suit where we bring together an exoskeleton with innovative armour, displays for power monitoring, health monitoring, and integrating a weapon into that (armor)." The goal is to be in the field in 3 years. " " http://www.bbc.co./news/technology-24474336 View in LinkedIn

EXOCORTEX describes cybernetically enhanced brain functions in the future in a Cyborg or Transhuman construct. Stephen Hawkins already connects his brain to computers to overcome his debilitating ALS. "An individual's exocortex would be composed of external memory modules, processors, IO devices and software systems that would interact with, and augment, a person's biological brain. Typically this interaction is described as being conducted through a direct brain-computer interface, making these extensions functionally part of the individual's mind."" " http://lnkd.in/bKNQGbv View in LinkedIn

IS THE INTERNET A BRAIN? "BREAKPOINT, book review: Jeff Stibel: the overgrown internet will eventually collapse to an efficient configuration and develop intelligence. Stibel suggests, therefore, that in future we won't do anything so clunky as type search terms into a box when we want to know something: we will think, and the information will find us."" " http://lnkd.in/bCrXvg2 View in LinkedIn

UPCOMING BIOBASH DATES" "" "Please note; BioBash dates, 7 pm, at location to be announced. mark your calendars and please come to join in the FUN! We will also announce a speaker for each event. " "" "Nov 5" "Dec 3 View in LinkedIn

MAN-MACHINE CO-EVOLUTION is gathering momentum. "The Internet of Things is creeping into healthcare, almost unnoticed. Both in hospitals and at home, the possibilities are endless. Although we are early in the maturity of this technology as noted by the Wired article, we will soon connected devices become ubiquitous, a programmable platform, with medical devices talking to each other while improving care provision and our personal health."" " http://lnkd.in/bpqX9bH View in LinkedIn

ANIMATED WORLD. “Awake: Welcome to the Programmable World.” The article begins, “When the objects around us can talk to each other, the elements of our physical universe converge and spring to life.” (Wired, June 2013 )." " http://lnkd.in/bpqX9bH View in LinkedIn

TRULY DISRUPTIVE. "The IoE broadens the economic impact of the “Information Revolution” because it stands to transform “physical” activities such as manufacturing, energy, transportation, health care, and the public sector."" " http://lnkd.in/bxWwwtH View in LinkedIn

IoT TO BOOST GDP. "Mandel looked at projections from the McKinsey Global Institute that predicted that the U.S. would get one-third of the $2.7 to $6.2 trillion in global gains from the IoE and that two-thirds of the gains would show up in the gross domestic product (GDP). Then he looked at long-term projections from the Congressional Budget Office and estimates that this could lead to a 2 percent to 5 percent gain in GDP in 2025, with a GDP of $28 trillion."" " http://lnkd.in/bxWwwtH View in LinkedIn

SINCE 1950, the IoT has been in development but was only coined in " "1999: "Kevin Ashton, cofounder and executive director of the Auto-ID Center at MIT, first mentioned the Internet of Things in a presentation he made to Procter & Gamble."" " http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/Internet-of-Things View in LinkedIn

THE IoT: " Nearly all of the roughly 50 petabytes (a petabyte is 1,024 terabytes) of data available on the Internet were first captured and created by human beings by typing, pressing a record button, taking a digital picture or scanning a bar code. If we had computers that knew everything there was to know about things -- using data they gathered without any help from us -- we would be able to track and count everything."" " http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/Internet-of-Things View in LinkedIn