John Koetsier, Senior Contributor

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Apple Watch Ultra IRL: Should You Buy One?

The Apple Watch Ultra is big, bright, smart, capable, brawny, and new. But should you lay out $800 to get one?

Maybe.

But whatever you do, stay away from the new Alpine Loop strap.

Health Via Drone: Zipline Now Delivering Medicine Via Fixed-Wing Drones In North Carolina

Zipline’s drones launch like fighter jets off aircraft carriers, drop packages like paratroopers gliding down on customers’ homes, and “land” by running into an aerial arrestor hook.

Mojo Vision’s Smart Contact Lens: Ready For Real-World Testing

“Basically, it’s all about giving you super powers. We’re building the world’s first, true augmented reality smart contact lens. So, something that you could put on your eye, see content when you want to see it, have it disappear when you’re not using …

1000X More Sensitive Than Apple Watch: COR Is A ‘Fitbit For Your Blood’

While Apple Watch can sense your pulse and blood oxygenation level from outside your skin, COR can get about 1,000 times more data by getting just that one drop of blood.

Fully Robotic Surgery May Depend On Elon Musk’s Mission To Mars

Fully robotic surgery may be a couple of decades away. But one thing could speed it up: billionaire engineer Elon Musk’s very public mission to Mars.

Thought-To-Text Typing Hits 90 Characters/Minute With 94% Accuracy

The brain-computer interface can even allow brain-computer interface pioneers to feel the warmth of their loved one’s hands in a handshake.

When Punching A Bag Kicks Your Butt: Testing Fight Camp’s Smart Boxing Fitness System

Fight Camp’s punch trackers fit in a little pouch by your wrist and track your hand’s motion in three-dimensional space, a thousand times per second, the company says. The result is that you can track how many punches you throw, what kinds, what speed,…

Star Trek Tricorders? New Tech Puts Spectrometers Into Smartphones

Ever wish you could just point a device at an object, take a reading, and get details on what it is and what it’s made of at a molecular level?

The Odd Story Of How A Massive Meditation App Is Growing In Spite Of Disavowing Normal Growth Methods

Two roads diverged in a wood …

Elon Musk Tests Positive For Covid-19 (And Negative)

Elon Musk has tested positive for Covid-19, he tweeted today.