By Tiberio Uricchio, Alberto Del Bimbo, Lorenzo Seidenari, Leonardo Galteri, Marco Bertini, Spinoff dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze. How often have you tried to watch a video online and were put off by the low quality? How many times have you decided to shut your video stream off during a…

by Francesco Toso, Silverio Bolognani, Piergiorgio Alotto, Milo De Soricellis, Riccardo Torchio from Hexadrive Engineering, Spin-off of University of Padua A digital twin is a real-time replica of a physical system based on a defined mathematical model. It is a soft-sensor tool for monitoring and predicting the behaviour of a…

by Rossella Dorati, Enrica Chiesa e Erika Maria Tottoli from Biofiber project of Università degli Studi di Pavia Hypertrophic scars are common complications of burn injury and other soft tissue injuries; they can result from complications like infection or inflammation of wounds. Depending on the wounding mechanism, the scarring wound…

by Francesca Vipiana, Marco Ricci, Giovanna Turvani, Mario Casu, Jorge Alberto Tobon Vasquez by from the Wavision project of Politecnico di Torino It probably happened to everyone to read news about food recall due to contamination issues, even causing a sense of loathing [1]. The continuous growth in mechanized processes…

by Ilaria Braschi, Enrico Buscaroli, Chiara Bisio, Stefano Marchesi, Leonardo Marchese from the Re-Paper project of Università di Bologna. In the digital era, paperless is the rule. Despite a steep worldwide decline in classic publishing and graphic paper, the global paper market has been growing steadily at 1% of Compound…

by Luca Daniele from Smartwear project of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna There is a lot of talk about smart wearables and in particular: smart clothes in recent years. What do we expect from a wearable such as a shirt? To ensure the shirt is widely used, it has to be comfortable…

by Patrizia Savi, Stefano Gabetti, Muhammad Yasir from RaFrBio project of Politecnico di Torino According to the World Health Organization, diabetes affects more than 400 million people worldwide, with alarming projections for the years to come. While in the past diabetes was considered a disease of rich countries, in the…

by Domenico Siracusa, Daniele Santoro from the FogAtlas project of Fondazione Bruno Kessler Cloud technologies have revolutionized how a large fraction of computer software is built, maintained, and used: a lot of services we interact with every day, such as e-commerce or mail servers, or even office software, are now…

Imagine a world without sounds. by Alessandra Farris from IntendiMe Imagine how your lifestyle would change. Your established habits, the ways you live your everyday life — if you were no longer able to hear the sounds around you. Imagine you are sleeping in your bed at night. Suddenly in…