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"In the Fablab Low Cost Prosthesis programme we develop the technology to produce a 'lower knee' prosthesis in line with the open innovation principles, so that end users, designers, researchers and manufacturers can arrive at product innovations by joint effort. The Fablab prosthesis programme has emerged as possible business case for the HONFablab in Jogyakarta, Indonesia. Fablab Yogyakarta could provide prostheses for two people per day. By doing so, it would empower the locals by creating new jobs and spread the orthopaedic knowledge."

"Toujours plus vite, toujours moins cher. L'entreprise américaine Illumina a franchi deux seuils très symboliques pour la génomique en dévoilant mi-janvier son nouvel appareil, HiSeq X Ten. Ce supercalculateur est capable de séquencer un génome humain en vingt-quatre heures pour seulement 1.000 dollars. En 2007, l'opération qui avait mis à nu le matériel moléculaire de James Watson, codécouvreur de la structure en double hélice de l'adn , avait coûté 1 million de dollars. Avant cela, il avait fallu treize ans et 2,7 milliards de dollars à un consortium réunissant les seize plus grands instituts de biotechnologie de la planète pour déchiffrer les 3,4 milliards de paires de nucléotides contenant les informations nécessaires au fonctionnement de notre organisme. Dans les minutes qui ont suivi la présentation de cette machine de la taille d'un gros photocopieur, la valorisation boursière d'Illumina a gagné 7 milliards de dollars. L'entreprise, créée en 1998 à San Diego ­(Californie), vaut aujourd'hui 22 milliards sur le Nasdaq et sa cote ne fait qu'augmenter depuis que le Massachusetts Institute of Technology l'a classée cette année en tête de son palmarès annuel des 50 sociétés les plus intelligentes du monde, devant Tesla, Google et Samsung..."

"Tools are supposed to help us. And yet, as I discovered, that might not always be the case. Field research revealed that the instruments diabetic patients use to measure blood sugar levels add stress. Stress releases more sugar into the bloodstream, thus creating a vicious circle. There is apparently too much focus on numbers, instead of meaning. The new device we are working on is more intuitive, subtle and visual. Instead of displaying numerical values, the position of a LED reveals simply whether the blood sugar level is high, low or balanced. "

TellSpec brings together laser spectroscopy, nanophotonics, and a unique mathematical algorithm in a revolutionary hand-held consumer device that can analyze the chemical composition of any food in less than 20 seconds. The TellSpec handheld device beams a low-powered laser at the food you wish to analyze, measures the reflected light with a spectrometer, and sends the data via your smart phone, computer, or tablet to TellSpec's servers in the cloud. Those servers use this data to deduce information about your food that is of interest to you. This information is then displayed on your computer, tablet or smart phone so you can intelligently decide if you want to buy or eat the food.

"OpenBCI is a low-cost, programmable, open-source EEG platform that gives anybody with a computer access to their brainwaves. Our vision is to realize the potential of the open-source movement to accelerate innovation in brain science through collaborative hardware and software development. Behind the many lines of code and circuit diagrams, OpenBCI has a growing community of scientists, engineers, designers, makers, and a whole bunch of other people who are interested in furthering our understanding of the brain. We feel that the biggest challenges in understanding what makes us who we are cannot be solved by a company, an institution, or even an entire field of science. Rather, we believe these discoveries will be made through an open forum of shared knowledge and concerted effort by people from many different disciplines. "