Welcome to the Inaugural Edition of The Strange Attractor!
In this podcast, we delve into the Co-Labs' origin story, exploring where we came from and how we managed to build Victroia's first co-working lab and transdisciplinary innovation hub.
We also discuss some of the fun projects that are happening in the lab. Links to the members we discussed can be found below:
- Radetec: Point of Care STI Diagnostics
- PuriflOH: air purification using plasma
- Vow: Alternative protein company working on meat products
- Magic Valley: Food company developing cultivated meat products
- Steribright: Autonomous smart sterilisation tech, using UVC and MERV/HEPA filtration
- Auskelp: Creating an environmentally friendly form of aquaculture, using ocean kelp
- Symex Labs: Developing a biosensor patch to track ovulation using hormone sensing
- Omega Quant: Offers fatty acid analytical services to help consumers and researchers monitor their nutritional status
- Cortical Labs: creating silicon-neuron interfaces to create organic-digital intelligence
If you're interested in some of the topics we covered, links can be found below to reference material:
- Designing Regenerative Cultures - Daniel Wahl
- The Systems View of Life - Fritjof Capra & Pier Luigi Luisi
- IP-NFTs and FRENS, IP-NFTs article 2
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