The Knowledge Hunters

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Technion team develops medical glue to replace stitches in serious injuries Applied with a glue gun, the melted polymer works both externally and internally, and is nontoxic, flexible and biodegradable, researchers say

Impressive indeed, but be aware that privacy will be the subject of much debate

“Creepy . . . but impressive” facial recognition software is going to the next level Soon our faces will unlock doors and buy socks for us — and allow us to be tracked and ID'd with scary precision

Diversity, Social Sensitivity and High Quality Interaction. Sounds logical to us at TKH

If You Want To Create a World Class Team, Research Says to Focus On These 3 Things Working effectively in a team takes different skills than working alone.

"It is no longer far-fetched to think that the world is entering an era of clean, unlimited and cheap power. About time, too. "

Clean energy’s dirty secret: Wind and solar power are disrupting electricity systems | The Economist But that’s no reason for governments to stop supporting them

Fresh water theme, a clever adaptation

This self-filling water bottle harvests clean drinking water from the air An Austrian start-up has revealed plans to start selling a self-filling water bottle that extracts humidity from the air and condenses it into drinkable water at a rate of up to 0.5 litres per hour - provided it’s a really humid day. Developed by...

Robotic innovation from where else but one of the leaders in the field, Japan

First fully autonomous 'robot run' farm to open in Japan (Wired UK) It will be the world's first fully automated farm

Strikingly clever

Augmented Reality Becomes Useful, Real The state of augmented reality is terrible. Despite everyone having handheld, portable computers with high-resolution cameras, no one has yet built 'Minecraft with digital blocks in real life', and th...

The world according to a group of well known VC's, worth scanning even just for interest

The 53 startups that will be huge in 2016, according to venture capitalists 2016 is just around the corner and it's time to predict which startups will take the tech industry by storm. Who better to ask than startup experts, the VCs.