Cambrian Night 37

A quarterly frontier-tech salon that has been running for years and deliberately refuses to stay in one lane: this edition puts an SF-prototyping novelist, the founder of care-tech company aba (whose Helppad sensor reads a diaper without opening it), RIKEN's hibernation-biology lead on inducing human torpor, and Aeterlink's over-the-air wireless power team on the same stage. It is the room where Japan's sensing, robotics, biotech and healthtech builders actually mix, and the ¥1,000 covers the drinks afterwards. Small, chaotic by design, and much higher signal than its size suggests.