Season 5, Episode 5 - E-tongues, Omnigel, mutant bacteria and magic carpet floors

This episode, Ben and I cover everything from hardware that can “taste”, gels that patch wounds or make computers, to mutant space bacteria, and magic carpet floors. Our utopias and dystopias range from redefining the ways we create food and understand flavor, to reinventing how an assembly line works, to targeted cancers, total ecosystem destruction, and more. Have a listen: what do you think will come from all of this frontier tech?

Sean’s links:

• Marques Brownlee at the Disney Imaginarium

• E-tongue tastes when wine goes bad

• New mutant bacteria on the space station

• Startup using AI to edit human DNA

Ben’s links:

• “Quantum memory”

• Revolutionary gel-based wound dressings

• Revolutionary gel-based PCBs

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