April 2021

The son of a biscuit factory worker, growing up in a poor part of Blackpool, from an early age Newns had a goal to be financially independent. Now 36, Newns has founded and helmed two companies in the e-cigarette sector which sold for a combined £150m to FTSE 100 companies. He was one of the youngest-ever FTSE 100 executives in the UK, and, with his business partner he has registered more than 800 patents in the harm reduction and tech sectors – they are the 11^th most prolific intellectual property filers in the UK. He is now spearheading a venture in wearable AI sports tech, as well as investing and advising promising tech start-ups from all over the world, while he splits his time between homes in Verbier, Ibiza and Cheshire. 

According to the World Health Organisation, 95 million people worldwide are affected by blindness or severe visual impairment due to cataracts.  Cataracts are disproportionately prevalent in low-and-middle-income countries, where they account for 50% of blindness, compared to just 5% of blindness within developed countries.

Modern software methodologies have some catching up to do to accommodate data science practitioners. It was the early 2000s when The Agile Manifesto marked a step toward a more humane direction for software engineering by placing an emphasis on stakeholder collaboration and rapid feedback.

The impact of the high-octane fuel of growing investor interest is culminating into a veritable green-hued field of opportunity from something that has, for over a century, been grown, bought, sold and consumed from within a highly-concealed international black market.

Have you noticed that your bank statements are now a succession of Netflix, Uber, Spotify, Deliveroo, Apple, and Amazon payments? All of them offer us all types of services at our fingertips. No more wasting time sourcing or waiting to access the best way to get an amazing selection of food, music, films, transport, or products. Everything is now just one click away, curated for us and AI-matched to our deepest desires in exchange for money. Click and pay and almost anything can become yours to enjoy!

Artificial intelligence (AI) has already been attracting the attention of deep tech investors for some years. The reasons why are clear. In its ‘Sizing The Prize’ analysis of artificial intelligence (AI), PwC forecast that AI will contribute $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030, with the ‘AI boost’ available to most national economies being approximately 26%. But what investors often overlook is that AI is not singular. Many individual components must work together to create AI.

“The only thing worse than losing money on an investment is having to watch the value of something that you didn’t back grow beyond all expectations” says London-based technologist and investor Tej Kohli. Kohli is talking into a laptop with the team of experts that he has assembled to spearhead a new initiative for his Kohli Ventures investment vehicle. Staring back at Kohli are the faces of a crack team of PhD and MBA holders from the worlds of biotechnology and genetic engineering.

Before becoming a reality, many of our craziest dreams had first been imagined in comics, movies, and television shows. Being passionate about robotics and AI and also being a movie lover, I have devoured a large number of Sci-Fi movies, with Gattaca being one of my favorites.

In a very short time, the digital world has become dominated by visual data. Cameras are everywhere, pumping zettabytes of data into phones, cars, tablets, and robots. However, this data is not all created equal. We can categorise digital visual data in the following ways:

Roll forward six years and at BionicsForEveryone.com we now list 14 bionic hands from 13 companies on our website, with another 5 devices likely to be added before the end of 2021. The lowest-priced hand on that list is currently $8,000. There are three more that sell for less than $18,000, and that includes a forearm socket and also prosthetist fees.