One of my favorite things in life is traveling. I love to discover new places, see new sites and experience different cultures and perspectives.

Unfortunately, the problem with traveling is the time one has to invest. You have to look for a ticket, prepare your luggage, arrive to the airport at least one hour before your flight departs, eat plane food and sit next to someone for hours who takes your armrest!! And above all that, if you are lucky (which I often am) your flight connection is canceled, so you have to sleep in the airport and somehow it is always when this happens, your luggage is lost (yes I know, Murphy's Law)

But don’t worry…Facebook is working on a solution.

Last year, Facebook bought Oculus as max already talk about in this post

Oculus Rift connects a bunch of sensors to your head and you carry in your hands fancy remote controls all giving you connection to interact with your virtual environment.

I personally don’t like the idea of having something on my head, especially if it comes along with a bunch of cables and if the display doesn’t have embedded speakers. 

So why do you think Facebook bought last year Oculus, the leader in virtual reality for $2 billion?

Last week, I was very excited to see what Facebook’s CTO Mike Schroepfer revealed ahead of the Dublin Web Summit: A teleportationstation.

The web is now excited and speculating about the possible implication of the teleportation.

For this to work, it has to be a full body experience like capsule. It has to be something where all your 5 senses are immersed, where you can see, hear, feel, smell and touch what is around you all using Virtual Reality.

And then what is the next step? What if I could go for example on a business trip and also interact with the world surrounding me, not only feeling my environment but literally teleport my body and being able to physically interact with the world around me.

If Facebook is able to make teleportation work, I would say the 2-billion-dollar purchase of Oculus will be worth it.

In a previous post, I spoke about the recent progress in 3D printing of sternums and more generally about organs. 

What if I could print a body in the other part of the world, enter in the teleportation station and teleport my conscience inside of this empty body, exactly like in the movie avatar? Wouldn’t it solve transport frustration and also reduce greenhouse gas emission.

If you are also enthusiast and excited about this topic, please share your opinion in the comments, I would love to hear what you think. 

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Last night I went out for a drink with a couple of friend and it was supposed to be a one drink evening... After the first drink, we didn’t feel tired enough to go home so we just ordered another one. Once again, it end up to be a trap!!! Today I had so many things to do but I could get anything done because of my two friends: headache and hangover. Thanks to Google, in the near future, this is not going to happen anymore.

Google just revealed an amazing and disruptive innovation. Say goodbye to the google glasses and other unaesthetic accessories. The internet leader just posted a patent last Tuesday for a new contact lens. The lens is worn like any ordinary contact lens and is able to communicate with electronic devices.

The lenses provide a lot of information about the human body like body temperature, the amount of sugar one has consumed, information about the environment, analysis of objects you are seeing but most importantly, it can measure blood alcohol levels!!! Here we are! The lenses can be connected to any devices and can tell you if you should go home or not. An app on your phone could also book a cab to go back home before your wife starts to worry about you. One can also imagine some more radical solution like your credit card blocked in any bar for the rest of the night…All this by knowing your blood alcohol level.  It is a bit like the software “cold turkey” and knows what you need before you do…

Smart contact lenses will definitely be a part of our future.

So what is your opinion, would you put your finger in your eyes before going to a bar to make sure you get home okay and can function the next day? Do you see any other business opportunity this can start? Do you think Google will be able to use the lenses to show you and advanced reality?

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