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Wired Wednesday: Flytrex, Electronic Skin & Microbot

ByJohn

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I spoke about these tech topics for Wired Wednesday with Ben Wilson:

  • Commercial drone delivery trial begins in Iceland (source)
  • Flexible ‘electronic skin’ patch provides wearable health monitoring anywhere on the body (source)
  • Microbot: make that dumb remote smart (source)

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