and make recommendation with diets, exercise, or other lifestyle changes based on the information collected. Assisted living is another area where Iot is helping our elderly.
and automatically place an order to a home delivery grocery service. Each week the person would have delivered their groceries to them
and their refrigerator would make sure that they are receiving the right products at the right time.
and weight of livestock and uses the data to optimize the feeding and caring process for pork and beef farmers.
By measuring certain attributes of the livestock each day, farmers can issue the appropriate amount of food
#New LED light technology sheds light on the future of food LED growing lights, delivering sunlight whatever the weather.
This century, the challenges of growing enough food to feed the world have grown more severe.
We need to feed more people with limited agricultural land and resources. We need to make better use of land, light and logistics for an increasingly urban population.
And we need to incorporate zero-waste and low-energy technologies into the task of food production.
Video) What can achieve the intensification of food supply we require, but in a way that is also sustainable and less harmful to the environment?
There is an urgent need to develop new methods for sustainable food production. This includes a greater emphasis on urban agriculture such as vertical farming which,
properly designed and planned, could provide the sustainable means to improve food supply we need.
There is potential for these multifunctional techno-greenhouses built around LED grow lights to increase the quality of the food we eat
Perhaps we would want flavored water like cherry water, tea water, coffee water, or chocolate water.
so here are some examples of starting points designed to begin the conversational thread of situational futuring. 1. 3d Ice Printers A 3d printer designed to work exclusively with ice could be used to make ice sculptures, ice containers, ice cubes with your favorite liquor inside
How long before the marijuana is as prevalent as alcohol in nightclubs around the U s. and around the world?
Perpetual Self-Filling Canteen In a world where people continually die from lack of hydration,
one of the most-needed devices is a handheld canteen that is constantly extracting moisture from the air.
and the perfect amount of salt so you can t help but have just one more.
I Lyfted everywhere, got groceries delivered, etc. My phone just made it too convenient to be active.
##Veruca Salt Decreased recall & critical thinking. Remember the glory days when you would spend an entire afternoon playfully arguing with a spouse, sibling,
Brunches and sunsets happen every day. No need to miss the actual experience by snapping 5, 000 pictures of it.
Never Uber/Lyft/Sidecar if your destination is<1mile. If weather and conditions permit, you can walk.
Walk to the corner store for groceries. Get out of your house and and enjoy the fresh air (10 bonus points
They re skipping the pet food aisle altogether in favor of cooking up big batches of Fido s meals.
or they're vegetarians, and want to feed their pets the same way, says Sean Delaney,
a board-certified veterinary nutritionist who co-authored a textbook on pet nutrition. Delaney founded Balanceit, a website with tips on preparing pet food and other finer points of pet nutrition, in 2005.
Interest in homemade pet food really took off in 2007 after the melamine pet food scare, he says,
D c.,says he started cooking food for Toffee, his 10-year old mixed Boykin spaniel,
The vet told him she was allergic to something in the environment, her food or their home.
The dish is basically a hamburger and rice casserole, with a few extra nutrients thrown in, like brewer s yeast for minerals like chromium and selenium.
I am an advocate of whole organic foods that are biologically appropriate for the species. Food for Dogs is different from Dog food it s human food quality,
but with less grains, Fox writes on his website, where he offers the dog food recipe, plus organic and GMO-free prepared pet food products.
Many people assume that the mostbiologically appropriate food for dogs is meat, but it s more complicated than that.
they became omnivores. As people began to settle down and farm dogs came along for the free food.
And it was rarely meat it was scraps of grains and vegetable waste on the dump heaps.
Dogs that developed the ability to digest starch had an advantage, researchers say. Cats are another story they are dedicated carnivores,
Yet grains how much and what kind have become a controversial issue in recent years in both human and pet diets.
These days, most complete and balanced pet-food products contain grains according to Marion Nestle, who authored a book on pet food in 2010.
But as humans have become increasingly concerned that grain-based carbs are the reason we re fat,
and some $322 million for cat food. Yet it s a small drop in the food bowl.
Pet food is a $21 billion a year market. Some pet owners are even putting pets on raw food diets,
which makes Joni Scheftel, state public health veterinarian at the Minnesota Department of health in St paul, nervous because it may increase human exposure to salmonella and other foodborne illnesses.
Cooking your own food for Fido is fine, vet nutritionist Delaney says, as long as you learn the dos and dont s. First of all,
dog food can t contain ingredients pets can t tolerate, like garlic and onions, raisins, grapes and kabocha squash,
There have also been broken reports of bones from inadequately balanced homemade diets as reported in a review published in the Journal for American Veterinary Medical Association in 2012.
Two years after she started on a homemade diet, Toffee s stopped scratching, her coat is shiny,
and she make about 50 percent less poop that has to be scooped, Loper says. And she loves her food.
Loper says the reason more people like him are turning away from commercial dog food is that they are choosing fresher
more natural food ingredients for themselves these days. And they want to do the same for their companion animals.
If you re making better food for yourself, and cooking, why not cook dog food? he says.
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#Prescriptive planting technology is set to disrupt the farming industry Tractor-mounted computers help farmers make decisions about planting crops.
and be fresher and higher in nutrients than farm-grown vegetables. Toshiba will sell their produce to grocery stores
restaurants and convenience stores, focusing on cities where urban growth often prevents fresh vegetables from being readily available.
Not only do residents of cities benefit from this, but Toshiba benefits financially, with estimated yearly sales around $3 million.
It s certainly a good solution to providing nutrition in urban areas where fresh pesticide-free produce is almost nonexistent.
It could bring an end to astronauts on the space station subsisting largely on a diet of prepackaged dehydrated food.
which should make it possible for astronauts to grow their own food. We call it Veggie,
Sensors, Food, Automation and Engineering. Sensors help agriculture by enabling real-time traceability and diagnosis of crop, livestock and farm machine states.
Food may benefit directly from genetic tailoring and potentially from producing meat directly in a lab. Automation will help agriculture via large-scale robotic
and microrobots to check and maintain crops at the plant level. Engineering involves technologies that extend the reach of agriculture to new means, new places and new areas of the economy.
Of particular interest will be synthetic biology, which allows efficiently reprogramming unicellular life to make fuels, byproducts accessible from organic chemistry and smart devices.
Food Genetically designed food: The creation of entirely new strains of food animals and plants in order to better address biological and physiological needs.
A departure from genetically modified food, genetically designed food would be engineered from the ground up.
Scientifically viable in 2016; mainstream in 2021; and financially viable in 2022. In vitro meat: Also known as cultured meat or tubesteak, it is a flesh product that has never been part of a complete, living animal.
Several current research projects are growing in vitro meat experimentally, although no meat has yet been produced for public consumption.
Scientifically viable in 2017; mainstream in 2024; and financially viable in 2027. Automation Variable rate swath control:
Building on existing geolocation technologies, future swath control could save on seed, minerals, fertilizer and herbicides by reducing overlapping inputs.
By pre-computing the shape of the field where the inputs are to be used, and by understanding the relative productivity of different areas of the field,
food and water in order to support life-forms inhabiting the system. Such systems already exist in small scales,
produce energy, provide food, and maintain and enhance human health and our environment. Scientifically viable in 2013;
including year-round crop production, protection from weather, support urban food autonomy and reduced transport costs. Scientifically viable in 2023;
A booming tech start-up economy and a thriving arts and restaurant scene have helped this old Civil war tourist magnet do something that places across the USA have been trying to do for decades:
New bars and restaurants seem to open weekly. Average commute times hover around 10 minutes.
At the gas station on the way home, you can fill your growler with craft-brewed beer. This is a new kind of city
Providence 178,185 126 Albuquerque 545,083 124 Buffalo 261,955 124 Charlotte 740,931 124 Elizabeth N. J. 124,795 124 Fullerton, Calif. 135,419 124 Hampton, Va. 137,471 124 Huntsville, Ala. 179,855 124 Independence, Mo. 116,513 124
-and-a-half, says David Crowley, a co-owner of The Alley, a popular sports bar that boasts eight lanes of bowling.
Crowley and his partners built the venue from scratch inside an old liquor-distribution warehouse, and on a recent weekday evening a family with young children rented bowling shoes while a young couple,
both of them 31, held a wedding rehearsal dinner in an upstairs event space. In between, an early-evening crowd drank beer,
watched live golf on big-screen TVS and played retro coin-operated video games. They re in Charleston to live in Charleston
It s already dotted with small artists storefronts and independent restaurants. A small-batch distillery recently opened down the street
and Nevin, who bought the abandoned office building last June, has signed three-year leases with, among others, a glass sculptor, a potter, a photographer, a dressmaker, an art magazine and two interior design firms.
and Coke machines rigged to dispense drinks for 25 cents. One floor of their campus has been remodeled as asocial work space that resembles an open-floor loft or a high-end hotel lobby.
#New water desalination technology makes ocean water drinkable New method devised using a small electrical field that will remove the salt from seawater.
Chemists with the University of Texas and the University of Marburg have devised a method of using a small electrical field that will remove the salt from seawater.
Richard Cooks, chemistry professor at the University of Austin said: The availability of water for drinking
Cooks continued: Seawater desalination is one way to address this need, but most current methods for desalinating water rely on expensive and easily contaminated membranes.
This change in the electric field is sufficient to redirect salts into one branch, allowing desalinated water to pass through the other branch.
Securitization of Water, Food, Soil, Health, Energy and Migration explains how the UN plans to secure resources to use at their disposal.
#The grocery industry is ripe for disruption Amazon, Trader Joe s, and Wal-mart are, at least experimenting with grocery delivery.
From an economic prospective, the grocery business is loaded with friction. Once a week or more, shoppers must drive to stores,
traipse through aisles hunting for what they want, and stand in lines a gigantic, continual waste of time, patience, and gasoline.
Grocers, which stand between food producers and consumers, must maintain chains of stores dotted across a geographical region or across the country,
it should be the grocery business. But so far, it hasn happened t. Despite the fact that we now routinely order everything with a click, from books to beds,
most people still don t get their groceries that way. All thanks to a lack of capital.
at least experimenting with grocery delivery if not going at it full-bore. Meanwhile, venture capitalists are starting to shower money on various startups.
Online groceries generated more than $15 billion in sales last year which represented big growth, but also represented a tiny fraction of the $1 trillion grocery market,
according to Forrester research. There are several reasons that investors have shied away from grocery delivery even as they have financed happily innovations in other sectors of the retail economy.
The logistics are nightmarish. It s hard enough to deliver goods to the home in one day or less;
at least at first (and some people simply enjoy grocery shopping). That means that any business getting into delivering groceries must put quality at the top of its priority list.
One head of wilted lettuce can lose a customer forever. Further, the margins in the grocery business are vanishingly thin,
which means that economies of scale are needed before profits can even be hoped for. But the reason most often cited for the hesitation of investors is the implosion of Webvan at the end of the dotcom boom in the early 2000s.
turf-protecting grocers were using the Webvan example asproof that grocery delivery wasn t worth investing in for themselves or anybody else.
Theyadopted it almost as gospel says Bill Bishop of the consultancy Brick Meets Click. But Webvan didn t prove that online grocery-shopping can t work.
It proved only that capital must be patient. Webvan grew too big, too fast, trying in the heady days of the dotcom boom to behave like the information-technology startups that were its Silicon valley neighbors.
Now that grocery delivery seems potentially viable again all eyes are on Amazon. That company seems to be preparing for a major expansion of its current trials of Amazonfresh in three West Coast cities Seattle (where it s been operating for nearly seven years), Los angeles,
That s pricey (and Amazon isn t lowballing on food prices either), but it s helping the company pay for the experiment
Even if it doesn t make much on the groceries, that might be made up for by all the higher-margin goods customers might order along with their eggplant and endive.
and that s definitely the case here, according to Zach Buckner, founder and CEO of Relay Foods, based in Charlottesville,
Va. That Amazon is planning a major expansion of its grocery business isa secret that s no longer a secret,
which delivers groceries in several Mid-atlantic cities. Amazon, he believes, will finally prove that grocery delivery isn t just abouthipsters doing fun things on their phones,
but rather will appeal tothe soccer mom who shops at scale. Relay is one of a handful of startups that have gotten fairly substantial venture financing in recent years.
Relay offers both locally grown foods and traditional groceries a mix that the company believes increasingly appeals to mainstream shoppers.
For locally produced foods farmers get 65%of the revenue, with Relay getting the rest.
he says Relay isthe Whole Foods of the Internet. Except that Whole Foods (WFM) might soon become the Whole Foods of the Internet.
It s not yet known what that company s plans for delivery might be, but it s experimenting on a small scale.
he doesn t believe that food is going to bedisremediated to the degree that other retail categories have been.
might force Whole Foods and others into a business they d prefer to stay out of.
In 2000, it was purchased by the global grocery giant Royal Ahold, and it now mainly serves that company s U s. chains, Giant and Stop and Shop.
Good Eggs in San francisco and Greenling in Austin, Texas are similar. Good Eggs got $8. 5 million in venture money last September.
Greenling also has raised more than $8 million. Another startup, Instacart, has drawn massive attention lately for its unusual business model.
which recently added New york city to its markets, sends personal shoppers to grocery stores to fill orders.
The shoppers pay full price for groceries then deliver them to customers by bicycle. Instacart has raised more than $11 million in venture financing.
Bishop, of Brick Meets Click, says that in thenear term Instacart is proving that people really do want grocery delivery,
but the mere fact that it has attracted so much financing makes it clear that serious investors are getting serious about grocery delivery.
where locals come to picnic and children play in. According to Springwise, the company has plans to open up similar gardens at atop or near all their rail stations throughout Japan.
Lawmakers say they feel compelled to start working on the issue as a wave of drones are starting to be considered for purposes ranging from finding missing children to delivering pizzas,
#Color-changing smart tag indicates freshness of a perishable food The tag uses a simple color system to track the food s quality.
and can be programmed for many different foods. The tag uses a simple color system to track the food s quality.
The tag starts out as red, indicating that the food is fresh. The tag cycles through the colors of the rainbow,
changing from orange to yellow to green as the food goes through different stages of freshness.
Bright green means the product is spoiled. The researchers tested their product on milk using the E coli bacteria as a reference model,
but say the tags can be reconfigured to use for other refrigerated foods, like salad dressing or yogurt.
Each contest is a test of the human spirit, with good guys and bad guys pairing off, amidst great drama,
Cost Estimators 59. 3dimensionalists Those with an innate ability to think three dimensionally. 60. 3d Printerink Developers 61. 3d Food Printer Chef 62.
and the flavorings we add to food, the future will seem boring if our reality hasn t been augmented in some way. 71.
with some of the first inroads made by vehicles that deliver packages, groceries, and fast-mail envelopes. 104.
Bio-Meat Factory Engineers 131. Supply Chain Optimizers 132. Urban Agriculturalists Why ship food all the way around the world when it can be grown next door 133.
Biohacking Inspectors and Security 134. Swarmbot and Drone Operators and Managers 135. Plant Educators An intelligent plant will be capable of re-engineering itself to meet the demands of tomorrow s marketplace.
Once an avatar goes through the radical metamorphosis from an image that we see on a screen to a three dimensional being that joins us for dinner,
Think of the doomsday vault as the external hard drive backing up the genetic data of the world s plant-based food.
For a long-term settlement, there is probably no other option than growing food on Mars, says Angelo Vermeulen,
and experiment with ways to prepare foods on Mars. The HI-SEAS habitat was located in an abandoned quarry of the Mauna loa volcano in Hawaii.
when you eat the same foods over and over again, he tells Mashable. After a while you start eating less
While the HI-SEAS team s primary research goal was to compare prepackaged foods and meals astronauts could make with a limited supply of shelf-stable ingredients,
members were encouraged also to devise their own studies on the Mars mock-up. Vermeulen chose to research food growth and remote-operated, robotic farming.
Along with Simon Engler, a scientific programmer specializing in robotics, Vermeulen set out to grow crops in a distant location that could not be accessed readily by the crew.
The goal is to develop a system where robotics can take over part of the maintenance and food growing tasks,
and, as such, free up time for the astronautsthe goal is to develop a system where robotics can take over part of the maintenance and food growing tasks,
Vermeulen also experimented with growing sprouts to give the HI-SEAS team a change of pace from shelf food.
the sprouting project yielded alfalfa, broccoli, clover, radish and mung bean. He says the mung beans were used in a curry dish consumed by the astronauts,
and the alfalfa were added to a sushi recipe. The prospect of successful food growth on Mars is promising in part
because plant waste there could be composted and mixed with Martian soil to make more effective crops, a similar process to
what occurs in lava fields when plant species slowly colonize a basaltic landscape and lend their organic materials to it.
Martian soil Ecologist Dr. Wieger Wamelink of the Alterra Institute in The netherlands also recently studied the possibility of food growth on Mars. Wamelink planted seeds of 14 plants on artificial Martian
If astronauts are able to continually grow fresh food on Mars through reproduction, it would bode well for them both physically
and mentally growing and then sharing food is a source of psychological well-being. You enjoy little gestures.
and delivered instead by chewing gum or transdermal patchmay prove to be a weirdly, improbably effective cognitive enhancer and treatment for relieving
which they are approved by the Food and Drug Administration, sold by pharmacies over the counter,
In January 2012, a six-year follow-up study of 787 adults who had recently quit smoking found that those who used nicotine replacement therapy in the form of a patch, gum, inhaler,
and for most people more addictive than alcohol. But that s just wrong. Tobacco may well be as addictive as heroin, crack, alcohol,
and Cherry Garcia combined into one giant crazy sundae. But as laboratory scientists know, getting mice or other animals hooked on nicotine all by its lonesome is dauntingly difficult.
As a 2007 paper in the journal Neuropharmacology put it Tobacco use has one of the highest rates of addiction of any abused drug.
When your mother asks you to pick up a jar of pickles while you re at the grocery store,
They help the growing human to digest its food, and to keep harmful microbes away.
And her breast milk contains special sugars that seem to selectively nourish the gut bacteria that infants need.
Milk contains a vast cocktail of molecules, and immunoglobin A (Iga or SIGA) is one of them.
When the team added an inflammatory chemical called DSS into their drinking water, those that didn t get the antibody from their mothers reacted more vigorously.
and environmental factors like food-borne illnesses that can trigger inflammation. These mice had altered two sides of this triangle,
#Indiana Amish farm leads the way to local food security Greenhouse at Sunrise Hydroponics. There is an Amish farm in Topeka, Indiana that supplies all-natural,
and local restaurants. This groundbreaking, sustainable technology features live plants which are harvested daily. The USDA claims that up to 40%of nutrition is lost from fresh-cut produce
by the time it is purchased at a local grocery store. Living produce at Sunrise Hydroponics, harvested with the roots intact,
not only maintains amazing freshness, but also holds on to the extraordinary nutrition the plant had at the point of harvest!
Living lettuce in water pouch, with roots intact. Sunrise Hydroponics produces a wide range of crops,
including lettuces, herbs, tomatoes, cucumbers, and strawberries, year-round. When the farm started three years ago,
and aroma that came from the highly nutritious plants grown from Future Growing s proprietary aeroponic plant food.
Surprisingly, so did Marlin s chickens! Marlin began feeding his chickens waste plant material from the greenhouse
and immediately noticed that the chickens egg yolks changed from yellow to orange, the egg shells became thicker,
and the eggs had improved flavor. That is a real testament to the nutritional quality of aeroponic Tower Garden produce!
Leftover produce is used to supplement feed for chickens. This local farm will forever change the way folks in Indiana think about their food
and what is possible for their state with Future Growing technology. Strawberry Tower Garden In the coming decade, we look forward to helping Indiana heal the environment
and regain its food security and independence! Sunrise Hydroponics is located currently at the South Bend Farmers Market every Saturday morning.
Buy local produce, and speak with Marlin or Loretta to sign up for hydroponic class and a greenhouse tour.
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Others have pointed to everything from poor nutrition to stress to automotive exhaust. But none of those studies have involved tracking bees behavior in real time in the real world.
Future Diets, an analysis of public data about what the world eats, says there are almost twice as many obese people in poor countries as in rich ones.
the powerful influence of farming and food lobbies and a large gap in public awareness of what constitutes a healthy diet.
According to the report overweight and obesity rates since 1980 have doubled almost in China and Mexico,
which tend to lead to diets rich in animal produce, fat, salt and sugar; and the various influences of globalization, among them advertising and the media, on diets.
But the report cautions against jumping to conclusions that national diets are converging on a single international norm.
In China, for example, diets, are proportionally richer in animal products and vegetables than in the 1960s,
but sugar consumption remains low. In contrast, Thailand has experienced an increase in the per-head consumption of starchy roots and pulses as well as fruit,
which Thais consume more than animal products. This variety in diets carries certain implications, the report argues.
Globalization will not in the medium term place massive restrictions on the scope for policy action
there is scope to influence the evolution of diet to get better outcomes for health and agriculture, says the report.
Who wants to take on the food industry? he said. Then there is the moral and ethical dimension:
It contrasts government reluctance to act on diets with strong action to limit smoking. Although diet is a more diverse issue than smoking,
says the report, there may be scope for governments to take more incremental measures that could pave the way for the public to accept something needs to be done
Some governments have managed to change diets for the better. South korea has increased fruit and vegetable consumption through a publicity
social marketing and education campaign, including training of women to prepare traditional low-fat, high-vegetable meals.
which have made its Mcdonald s among the healthiest in the world. Further back, the introduction of rationing in the UK during the second world war ensured that the poorest people were able to eat a balanced diet.
But these are the exceptions. For the most part, diets are increasingly unhealthy with an increase in the consumption of sugar.
Sugar and sweetener consumption has risen worldwide by more than a fifth per person from 1961 to 2009.
Less than a third of countries are consuming less than the recommended top limit of 50g of sugar a day per person
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