Your face is already one of your most used passwords. Your phone’s camera turns on, looks at you for half a second and lets you in: without typing anything, without remembering anything. Facial ...
Imagine an armour that is not for war, but so that a person with difficulty walking can go for a stroll, or so that a worker can lift heavy loads without wrecking their back. That is a robotic exoskel...
You probably do it every day without thinking twice: you put on a series, press play and, in a couple of seconds, the music starts and the image appears. You neither download the whole episode nor wai...
Imagine turning on the television and seeing hundreds of small drones flying together, drawing the silhouette of an animal in the sky or forming giant letters. They don’t crash, they don’t...
Some time or other, when you open the maps on your phone and see that little blue dot marking exactly where you are, you’ve surely wondered: how does it know? There are no cables, nobody is trac...
Where are your photos? And that document you saved from work, your contacts, those notes you quickly typed on your phone? Almost certainly they’re not on your hard drive. They live in something ...
Can you imagine that, before opening a new hospital, an entire building, or even a whole factory, there were already an exact copy of it where you could test everything without risking anything? That ...
The question almost every electric car driver asks If you have an electric car, you’ve surely done the same calculation at some point. Will the battery get me to work? Where’s a charging p...
A video loads in an instant, your house responds to a gesture from your phone and a car warns of a danger before you even see it. Behind many of these little everyday pieces of magic there’s a t...
You type a sentence, press a key and, within seconds, an image that didn’t exist appears, a text that seems written by a person, or even a video with sound. That is generative artificial intelli...
Your electric car has run out of battery useful enough to drive, but that battery hasn’t died: it still has plenty of life ahead of it. What no longer serves to move a car can serve perfectly we...
When your doctor orders an X-ray or a CT scan, there’s a growing chance that right now, in addition to the human eye, a machine is also reviewing those images. Artificial intelligence applied to...
For decades, nuclear fusion seemed like a promise that always arrived «in thirty years». Well: 2026 is one of those years in which that phrase is starting to sound less like a joke. Several projects h...
When you hear “battery”, you probably think of your phone or your electric car. But storing energy for when it’s needed doesn’t have to involve chemicals. There’s a much ...
There are two ways of getting inside a screen and two ways of bringing the screen into the real world. Virtual reality envelops you completely, with goggles that block your field of view to immerse yo...
For decades, humanoid robots were a fairground attraction and a movie dream. Today, with far more capable artificial intelligence systems and more precise motors, more and more companies are taking th...
Cold weather arrives, and instead of getting home and shivering while the heating starts up, the temperature is already waiting for you ready. The blinds raise themselves at dawn, the lights turn on w...
When was the last time you changed the small card inside your phone? That tiny piece of plastic, the SIM card, has been the key connecting your phone to your operator for decades. Well: it’s abo...
Imagine ordering a pizza or a medicine and, instead of a delivery driver knocking on the door, you hear a buzz at the window. A small drone drops the order on your terrace and flies away. What a few y...
Imagine a surgeon operating not with their own hands, but with metal arms that move with a precision impossible for a human being. Although it sounds like science fiction, this already happens today i...
Can you imagine a computer capable of solving in seconds a problem that would take the world’s most powerful computers years? That is what quantum computing promises, a technology that has been ...
Imagine a burger that did not require raising, feeding or slaughtering any animal. It is not a magic trick or a decades-old novelty: it is lab-grown meat, also called cultivated meat or cellular meat....
You receive a call from your own child. Or from your boss. The voice sounds exactly the same: the tone, the pauses, even that way they have of ending sentences. They ask you to pay an urgent bill and,...
Imagine a garden that needs no soil, does not depend on rain and fits in the basement or on the rooftop of any city. It is no longer a movie idea: vertical farms are challenging traditional agricultur...
If in recent years you have had problems with your home wifi — dropouts, slowness when many people are connected or a video call that keeps freezing — good news: the solution is here and it is called ...
The watch on your wrist already knows more about you than the doctor More and more people wear a computer on their wrist. And that device, which started out counting steps, has evolved into a small gu...
Imagine being able to write a message without moving a finger. Or moving a robotic arm just by thinking about it. For decades, this was the stuff of futuristic movies. But brain-computer interfaces (B...
You carry an ever more powerful phone, but perhaps you have not stopped to think about the network through which your data travels. 5G has been with us for a few years, and now the industry is already...
Batteries are the Achilles’ heel of modern technology. Your phone, your laptop, your electric car: they all depend on them, and they all run out of power sooner than you would like. We have been...
For decades we have been hearing that the future will travel by air. That one day we will order a flying taxi like we order a normal one today, get in, and in a matter of minutes be on the other side ...