Top 3 of lots of inspirations within the last view days

Following the most important trends of our time, wich will disrupt nearly any of our businesses and change the way we live

Stephan Kolb
Road to Singularity I by Stephan Kolb
3 min readJun 8, 2017

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1. Transportation: First autonomous and zero emissions container ship

YARA and KONGSBERG enter into partnership to build world’s first autonomous and zero emissions electric ship

Source: Yara.com

What? I was rubbing my eyes, too. Yes that’s right, an electric powered container ship wich runs autonomous will replace trucks. Road transports are increasing and so air pollution does. To bring the autonomous technology to the waterways was also just a matter of time.

Here is a short film about the vessel:

And also here is an animation of the cargo ship.

Full read of the article:

2. Smart Clothing/Health Tech: 18-Year-Old Mexican Student Designs Bra That Can Detect Breast Cancer

An 18-year-old student from Mexico has designed a bra that can help in the early detection of breast cancer and has won top prize at the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA).

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3. Transportation: EDIT by OSVehicle

A new modular self-driving car, in white-label.

Source: osvehicle.com

Here, I let the introductory video of EDIT speak for itself.

So then this is the OSVehicle Modular Platform.

And this is the OSV open source vision of the future of mobility. Such a great idea!

Impact:

In the next years we are going to see a huge impact of OSVehicle. Remember the impact of open source software or the open source internet browser №1 — Firefox. So, just imagine a public transport service running hundreds of OSVehicles wich are run fully autonomous or a sightseeing company offering a hop on hop off service through a fleet of autonomous cars more or less out of the box.

The automotive industry is reshaping because of abundant new technologies. The costs for those technologies (sensors, connectivity, batteries, …) are sinking dramatically so that cars are becoming really abundant. Self-driving cars are about to become abundant during this decade. And this open source care here is a real breakthrough and going to be game changer.

More information about OSVehicle you find here:

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