hAIghtened senses: how AI and technology are enhancing and expanding our human senses

Nicole Glaros is a community builder like few others: as arguably the very first employee at Techstars, Nicole helped scale the accelerator from one program to over 50 and, simply put, is a legend in…

When technology changes, society changes. When technology changes quickly, society changes quickly. And you might have noticed, technology is changing very quickly indeed. As a result, it's getting v…

These days, everyone has a satellite. No seriously, you do, they’re all up there just spinning around waiting for you to take advantage of their elevated viewpoints… it’s just that, traditionally, yo…

As we wave goodbye to 2024, our thoughts invariably turn to what we hope to achieve in 2025. But while goal setting is common, goal achieving tends to be somewhat rarer - I'll personally be entering …

The narrative about AI and human decision-makers often pits them against each other as foes. More often than not, though, AI's strength comes not from its ability to outperform a human expert in a si…

We hear about GenAI stealing artists' jobs, but, is this what the headline writers think or actually what artists think? Sarah Sculley is an Australian street artist & creative business mentor, and s…

Sorry we're late. And also, sorry, but with Brendan spending the last two weeks camping in England and then drinking in Belfast, we fell behind on the production of our full episode. However, we didn…

The larger eight-toothed European spruce bark beetle has a frightening name and an even more terrifying impact on northern forests, but does it have a weakness we can exploit? In today's episode, we …

We've talked about technology to heighten our senses, today we're heightening our minds.

Your first stop for more Satori content is https://satorimateu.com/ but you can also find him on LinkedIn, Inst…

Your favourite wearable tech has been counting each step of your run for the last decade and a bit. Your favourite headphones have been there, too, playing some high-tempo tunes. Maybe it's time we j…

In South Africa, the biggest manufacturer of glass bottles once ran an advert in which a university student, wanting to impress his new girlfriend who was arriving soon for a dinner date, decanted ch…

I'm not a great gardener, so I was really impressed when we first got an app that could look at the leaves on my trees and give me some insights into their health and needs. Turns out, that was nothi…

A good friend of mine has recently graduated MIT. From the business school, to be fair, but close enough to those hallowed labs that I knew she'd have some good ideas for guests, and the first name o…

We've chatted about drones before, and the ways they can give us a point of view we couldn't easily achieve on our own. Today we're looking at them giving us a point of view we couldn't safely achiev…

Image recognition has become so common that it almost fades into the background of any app or online experience, but how does it actually work? How can we train a model to distinguish between dogs an…

AI is going to change every industry, sure, but it's not going to change every industry evenly or at the same pace. To get a better handle on this, we're speaking to an aerial photographer who's seen…

We all face a number of hurdles in our life, some bigger than others, some more permanent than others, but one alone is constant - ourselves. In this episode, we're with Hariett Sloan, a self-develop…

How did a South African helicopter pilot become an AI entrepreneur? Why is he using drones to hunt beetles in Swedish forests? And why is his friend, a career banker, getting involved in all of this?…

Dive into the fascinating world where technology extends the capabilities of our human senses - in ways and into places that are beyond us.

From drones scanning the forests of Sweden looking for early…