A wireless subcutaneous implant that can be remotely activated to deliver medical treatment has just been developed. This remote-controlled contraceptive was developed by the MicroChips startup from the MIT research laboratory. The subcutaneous implant developed by the MicroChips company incorporates micro-reservoirs in which
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The night of the ESSEC, which brought together more than 6,000 participants in Cergy on Friday 20 January, had invited a rather discreet and very effective partner to the party: the Payin Tech electronic purse light bracelet. The Payin Tech company, which has become the leader in cashless since its launch in 2013,
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Here we are: light is no longer a transport of energy without transport of matter. From now on, they are no longer wavelengths in a vacuum but luminous matter! Lightpaper, created by an American company, from diodes and ink, Lightpaper. It is now
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On the fringe of the Biennial Sustainable Housing Exhibition (1), which is being held from 9 to 11 April, a team of Grenoble architects, Jean-Philippe Charon and Thierry Rampillon from the CR&ON agency, are imagining a new generation of collective housing; a novel concept of collective housing: the RUBIXHOME. When you look from
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Microalgae are a very promising source of alternative to oil, without competing with the food industry. For the first time, they have been used to make... bitumen! Are we moving towards the creation of bio-bitumens for green roads based on micro-algae? Researchers from the Chemistry and Interdisciplinary Laboratories
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Do you have an innovative social entrepreneurship project? You wish to be supported and join a rich community of social entrepreneurs? ESSEC's social incubator, Antropia, is recruiting its new class of social entrepreneurs. This new call for projects is aimed at innovative social projects around sight and hearing. Apply before
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Today, your fridge can order milk directly from your grocery store; your car warns you that you're about to pass a Thai restaurant that your friends were discussing on Facebook; and your insulin pump sends data directly to your doctor. The Internet of everything (the interconnection between objects,
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The 4th meeting of the Université populaire de la mairie du 2e arrondissement de Paris was held on 17 March 2015. It brought together Valérie Peugeot, a prospector at Orange Labs, President of Vecam and Vice-President of the National Digital Council; Jean-Michel Cornu, Scientific Director of the FING, Co-founder of the international network of the FING, and the President of Vecam.
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Jean-Michel Cornu is Scientific Director of the FING (1). Everybody knows him! In 2010 he founded with Franck Escoubès a collaborative platform "Innovation for people" whose principle is to federate a network of international community of citizens wishing to get involved in the launch of commercial projects.
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The World Forum for Sustainable Development (WSSD) held on Monday 16 March 2015, in partnership with France-Americas, its 13th annual session centred on the theme "The Fight against Global Warming: a divisive factor or driving force for a new world order". The meeting resulted in
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Radio Ndeke Luka, the most listened to radio station in the Central African Republic (CAR), celebrates its 15th anniversary this Friday, 27 March 2015. Created by Fondation Hirondelle (FH) and supported by the international community, Radio Ndeke Luka has gained over the years the confidence of Central Africans by sharing their realities and
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Two days of forum on 28 and 29 October 2015 for Project City 2015, the Forum on New Challenges and Needs of the City, in Lille, where 16 city projects will be previewed. The call for applications is launched today! Lille welcomes for the fourth time in
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Hugh Herr, head of the Biomechatronics Laboratory at the MIT Media Lab, has developed a leg prosthesis called "BIOM T2". These prostheses, with embedded artificial intelligence, now allow people to access movements that were previously impossible to perform, but more importantly, they adapt to
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In response to the challenges of employment in the IT sector, IONIS Education Group launches the Coding Academy by Epitech. While the shortage of IT professionals in companies continues to grow, job seekers in the sector are paradoxically increasing the ranks of Pôle Emploi. By launching the Coding
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Is a manhole cover beautiful? Why would it be? Who would know that it carries a secret intelligence, an invisible detail? In plain sight, in front of us, everything is hidden. Oscar Lhermitte's "No Randomness" exhibition at the Saint-Etienne International Design Biennial,
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Marketplaces seem to improve the offer and service also at the points of sale. In recent years, they have become an essential part of French people's online purchasing habits. The top five most visited e-commerce sites in France have or are marketplaces (Amazon, Cdiscount, Fnac.com, e-Bay, Priceminister). Between 2012
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The collaborative project "65 Million Observers" carried by the National Museum of Natural History will be officially launched on March 27th! The participatory science programmes carried by the National Museum of Natural History for more than 20 years are evolving through the "65 Million Observers" project. This
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The ninth edition of the Saint Etienne International Design Biennial opened its doors on 12 March at the Cité du design, with around sixty exhibitions on the theme "Les sens du beau". Designers came from the four corners of the world to question the public about
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The "Thursdays of the 46th" are on! Goodwill management, a specialist in responsible economic performance, offers, in five meetings, to assess the wealth of human capital in companies. This March 12, we are at 46 boulevard Sébastopol in Paris, at the headquarters of the structure, created in 2003 by Alain Fustec, and which
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Launch of a public consultation platform on the democratization of the environmental dialogue: Ségolène Royal launched this online platform for the general public to strengthen the environmental dialogue, following the installation on February 19 of the specialized commission of the National Council for Ecological Transition on
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