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REAL TIME WITH... IPC APEX EXPO 2022 SHOW & TELL MAGAZINE I I-CONNECT007 49 bodily functions and activi- ties by a non-invasive method known as "wrist actigraphy" that they were not far from literally "knowing what the brain was doing." Combin- ing all these data streams and applying some artificial intel- ligence could potentially pre- dict events such as attacks of atrial fibrillation, or even the onset of specific diseases, some time before any symp- toms were outwardly appar- ent. A hundred thousand people had already agreed to allow Fitbit to use their personal mea- surement data in a study to investigate these possibilities. Another huge range of opportunities for sensor applications was to be found in robot- ics technology. Pogue's video illustrations showed many examples: some quite amusing, some very serious, of the abilities of humanoid and animal-inspired robots to rapidly recover their balance and poise aer suffering physical disturbance or assault. "Self-driving cars: Why do we need them?" was a rhetorical question that gave Pogue an opportunity to list a whole lot of positives. Why own a car anyway? It had been calcu- lated that for 94% of its life the average car stands idle. So why not rent it out for the rest of the time? He discussed Tesla's devel- opment of robotaxis, which would detect your approach and personalise all their set- tings automatically by proximity to your smartphone. e technology was almost ready, but were people ready to accept the