The physical world is connecting with the digital world. It's Steam Engine Time! Presentation given in Singapore in May 2017.

1. NEW TRENDS IN TANGIBLE TECHNOLOGIES
How smart devices, A.I., machine learning, health tech & robotics
might make us live longer and happier (or not)
www.hax.co
ben @ hax.co

2. Physical Computing
Or simply:
HARDWARE
TANGIBLETECHNOLOGIES?

3. MASSIVE IMPACT ON
THE PHYSICAL WORLD
AND
THE HUMAN BODY
WHYITMATTERS

4. INRECENTNEWS…

5. FitBit GoPro DJI

6. 2007 20062002
FitBit GoPro DJI

7. FIRSTGENERATIONIS“DONE”

8. SOSV DATA
$300M Under Management
#2 Global Seed Investor
#1 most active in hardware
#1 most active in life sciences
For details on our next fund: ben @ hax.co
WHY CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE?
We are long on some deep trends: IoT, robotics, Life sciences…
We invested in hundreds of startups
We built ecosystems and communities to support them

9. Founder: Sean O’Sullivan
Founder, MapInfo (IPO, 1994)
Coined “Cloud Computing ”
Super-angel (Harmonix, etc.)
Dragon’s Den (TV, Ireland)
Also:
Rock musician
Filmmaker
War correspondent (Iraq)
Humanitarian (Iraq)
TM

11. SEED GROWTH
O TO 1 1 TO N
SHENZHEN
PrototypetoLaunch
SANFRANCISCO
ProducttoScale

12. CHINA
>200STARTUPS
EUROPE
USA &
CANADA
REST OF
WORLD

13. CONSUMER
HEALTH
INDUSTRY ENTERPRISE

14. FINDINGEMERGINGTRENDS

15. “The future is already here.
It's just not very evenly distributed.”
William Gibson, Sci-Fi Writer
Coined “Cyberspace” in 1982

17. Robotics Medical assistant robot Electromagnetics
LasersNanotechnology( Funding )

20. “It’s great when someone gets it right,
but almost always it’s wrong.”
WIRED Interview, 2012

21. HOWLONG?

22. First R&D (Japan)
(not for sale)
1986
Segway (USA)
$5,000
2001
Ninebot (China)
$330
2016

23. FIRSTINDUSTRIALREVOLUTION

24. Steam condenser
(improved efficiency & power)
Rotary motion
(broadened its use)
STEAM ENGINE
James Watt, 1776

25. CLOUD
COMPUTING
LOW-COST
SENSORS
& CPUs SMART
PHONES
CHEAPER
PROTOTYPING
TOOLS
INHARDWARE
CROWD
FUNDING
LOW VOLUME
MANUFAC-
TURING
ONLINE
STORES

26. LABTOMARKETIN2YEARS?

27. IT’SSTEAMENGINETIME!

28. GENOMICS
MEDICINE
BIOMATERIALS
FOOD
INBIOLOGYTOO!

29. INBIOLOGY CostPerGenome

30. INBIOLOGY CostPerBio-Fermentation

31. Acceleration of biotech
is faster than Moore’s Law
or internet speed growth
Joi ITO
Director
MIT Media Lab

32. CONSUMER DEVICES
HEALTH TECH
ENTERPRISE
AGENDA
INDUSTRY
CHINA

33. WHYNOA.I.&MACHINELEARNING?

34. RE-INVENTINGCONSUMERDEVICES

35. EXAMPLE:HEADPHONES

36. FULL WIRELESS

37. DESIGN

39. ENTERDEEPTECH
PERSONALIZED
SPECIALIZED
INTELLIGENT

40. REVOLS: CUSTOM FIT

42. NURA: TUNED TO YOU

43. low tones mid tones high tones
sensitivity

45. KOKOON: FOR SLEEP

46. MINDSET: FOR WORK

47. $10 LINUX COMPUTER
1GHZ, BT, WIFI
NEXT: STARTUPS MAKING THEIR OWN CHIPS?
C.H.I.P.-A.I.inThings?

48. DIGITAL

49. HEALTHTECHDEVICES
CONSUMER DIAGNOSTICS
DIGITAL THERAPEUTHICS
FUTURE OF HEALTH

50. BBB TECHNOLOGIES: BLOOD TESTING

51. AIRE: FOOD INTOLERANCE / IBS

52. ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION PREGNANCY

54. EXAMPLE:ACNE

58. +
ACQUIRED FOR OVER US$100M

59. TRIGGERING
TRACKING
IMPROVING
SOLVINGFORSLEEP

60. CIRCADIA: REMOTE SENSING + LIGHT THERAPY

61. SANA: SLEEP IN MINUTES

63. MOONA: THERMOTHERAPY

64. SOLVINGFORBACKPAIN
PREVENTION
REHAB
FIXING

65. PREVENTION

66. REHAB

67. FIXING

68. SOLVINGFORDEPRESSION
MANAGEMENT
TREATMENT

69. MANAGEMENT: EMOTIONS TRACKER

70. FLOW: DEPRESSION TREATMENT

71. LIEF: ANXIETY PATCH

72. PLENTYMORE!

73. FUTUREOFHEALTH
P4 MEDICINE
SCIENTIFIC WELLNESS
THE HEALTHIEST GENERATION
Predictive
Preventive
Personalized
Participatory
vs. Sick care
And optimal living

74. +
TOWARD“GENH”

75. ENTERPRISE
SERVICE ROBOTS
INDUSTRY

76. SERVICEROBOTS

77. Floors Windows Lawn

78. AMAZON: WAREHOUSE ROBOTS
ACQUIRED KIVA FOR US$775M IN 2012
45,000 ROBOTS IN JAN. 2017

79. “Roomba, go clean
the kitchen floor!”
TOOSIMPLE?

80. PLECOBOT: HIGH-RISE WINDOWS

81. DISPATCH: LAST-MILE DELIVERIES

82. ServiceRobotics AVIDBOTS: COMMERCIAL CLEANING

83. SIMBE: INVENTORY

84. 2011: US$400,000

85. 2017: US$400

86. INDUSTRY
DIGITAL FABRICATION
SMART FACTORIES
PRECISION PRODUCTION

87. DIGITALFABRICATION
PRINT
CUT
GROW
SMART & MICRO-FACTORY

88. SMART CO-BOT

89. CIRCUIT PRINTER

90. DIGITAL KNITTING

91. TIME: 5 HOURS

92. WAZER: WATERJET CUTTER

93. MYCELIUM LEATHER

94. FOOD
SMART KITCHEN
HOME FARMING

95. AVENA: PRECISION COOKER
ACQ. FOR US$250M BY ELECTROLUX

96. COLD-PRESS JUICE
JUICERO
COCKTAILS
BARTESIAN
PERSONAL BARISTA
ORENDA

97. HOME HYDROPONICS

98. LIVIN: HOME INSECTS FARM

99. GELATIN MEAT
EGG WHITES
CROPS
PLANT-BASED
SWEETENERS
US$43B TAKEOVER

100. CHINA

101. CHINA
FROM FOLLOWER TO EPICENTER
TECH LEADERS
NEXT CHINESE INNOVATION

102. SHENZHEN: THE SILICON VALLEY FOR HARDWARE

103. THE SILICON
HAS MOVED OUT
OF THE VALLEY

104. SHENZHENSUPERPOWERS
SKILLS
ANY SCALE
SPEED
SAVINGS

105. CAN YOU AFFORD
NOT WORKING
WITH CHINA?

106. DJI
NINEBOT
MAKEBLOCK
UBTECH
NEXT INNOVATORS

107. BUYING INNOVATION
MIDEA BOUGHT KUKA FOR US$5B

108. INCONCLUSION
HAPPINESS?
IMMORTALITY?
ROBOT APOCALYPSE?

109. OPPORTUNITIES
STILL UNDER-CAPITALIZED
STARTUPS GET FAST & FRUGAL
PERCEPTION LAGS REALITY

110. CAMBRIANORSTEAM?

111. THEIPOSOF2025AREBORNTODAY

112. THANKS! ben@hax.co
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