3D printed reinforcement free bridge aces final tests
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today if water gets into reinforced concrete the steel rusts, expands, and wrecks the infrastructure costing the world hundreds of billions of dollars to fix,…
Carbon Jellyfish: Space Debris Mitigation Using Folded Graphene
Carbon Jellyfish: Advanced Space Debris Mitigation System Using Folded Graphene Reprise of my 2017 blog that covered this and numerous other folded carbon applications. Space debris is still worsening so…
Applying Chain-of-Thought to AI-enhanced human thinking
Among the most important recent innovations for improving the value and reliability of Large Language Models are Chain-of-Thought and its derivatives including Tree-of-Thought and Graph-of-Thought. These structures are also extremely…
The 10 Octave Circular Keyboard
Ten Octave Keyboard This design reimagines the traditional keyboard instrument in a way that seamlessly blends technology, aesthetics, and ergonomics. Instead of a straight keyboard whee you run out of…
Offshore Vertical Farms
A Vision of Sustainability In a world grappling with the challenges of sustainable living and efficient food production, one idea I can offer is the air-floating offshore vertical farm. The…
Revolutionizing Bridge Design: A Vision of the Future
Zero-weight bridges Imagine a world where bridges defy traditional engineering constraints, floating effortlessly above waterways without the need for supports or suspension cables. This is not a scene from a…
Curing cancer, heart disease, strokes, Alzheimer’s and many more. A totally new approach using TNCOs
Tethered Non-Cellular Organisms (TNCOs) I just uploaded a pre-print of my paper about my new idea: Tethered Non-Cellular Organisms (TNCOs). Pre-prints have not been peer reviewed yet, but you can…
The long quest for news discovery apps that don’t suck
Artifact, the news discovery app launched a year ago by the founders of Instagram, has just announced it is shutting down, saying “the market opportunity isn’t big enough to warrant continued…
Just launched: 2024 Ventures Map
Visual frameworks are invaluable to clarify the relationships between ideas. Among the many visual frameworks I have created are a number of visual representations of my business models, both to…
Boldest iPhone hack ever chains together Zero Day exploits to create Zero Click attack
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Zero day exploits are powerful, giving hackers access to the keys of the kingdom, but by chaining many ZDE’s together this was one of the…