You’re still mashing up watch faces? I’m on world faces, baby :-) — It’s been seven years for Mojo Vision to arrive where it is today: a feature-complete smart contact lens in an internal prototype that is now ready for real-world testing and is the company’s first real candidate for a releasable product. Apparently, inventing the future isn’t easy. The vision (groaner)…

Casinos and hotels? How about crypto and blockchain … There are over 500 casinos on Native American tribal lands in the United States, plus numerous other businesses that benefit from special regulation in special jurisdictions. …

BMW sells 2.5 million cars and 194,000 motorcycles annually, almost all in a traditional car dealership. But the 100-year-old car brand wants to sell cars online, just like Tesla. Watch here: So BMW is embarking on a major project with Adobe to get “phygital” … to be able to…

Doesn’t need a battery. Harvests energy from radio waves. Connects to the world with a no-code integration platform. Should be pennies each “soon.” We have billions of smart things. How can we create a true internet of things with trillions? We won’t … unless we have a super-cheap, super-small, super-efficient chip that doesn’t need a battery, has significant sensors and capability, and can be printed almost for free.

Digital retail giant Amazon has over 200,000 robots helping deliver more than 350 million different products in an unceasing flood of billions of deliveries. How will others compete? Amazon’s fulfillment machine with both free and fast shipping has become a key competitive moat against other retailers: free shipping and 1-day or 2-day shipping is why Amazon customers chose Amazon. So how can other retailers, whether giants like Walmart or smaller brands, compete? …

COR is an infrared spectrometer that measures blood health and how both food and exercise impacts it. Do you need a Fitbit for your blood? One of the key engineers behind Apple Watch and Apple Health has a new fitness product. It’s an infrared spectrometer that measures your blood health…

MIT scientists are building ElectroVoxels, small, smart, self-assembling robots designed for space. It’s programmable matter, infinitely recyclable large-scale 3D printing, if you will, and it could be the future of robotics and machinery in space. In this TechFirst, I chat with MIT CSAIL PhD student Martin Nisser about building swarms…

Is neuromorphic computing the only way we can actually achieve general artificial intelligence? Very likely yes, says Rain Neuromorphics, which is trying to recreate the human brain in hardware and “give machines all of the capabilities that we recognize in ourselves.” Rain Neuromorphics has built a neuromorphic chip that…

By the time farmers know their crops are too dry, or being attacked by pests, it’s often too late: huge chunks of their harvest are toast. But what if plants could talk? Well … we’d sort of have Google Translate for plants. Check it out: What if plants could…