It’s time to meet three of the most exciting new digital doppelgängers, including your own personal tech twin!
Explore the Titanic
The most famous shipwreck in history now has its own digital twin! The team working on the project used advanced scanning tech, including 700,000 images and other data collected by underwater robots. Then, computer-generated imagery (CGI) brought the twin to life.
You can check it out for yourself on Disney+ in the Nat Geo doco Titanic: The Digital Resurrection.
A bushfire takes a spark
Climate change is increasing the frequency of bushfires, so CSIRO has developed Spark, a digital twin for fire prediction and analysis. Spark combines geographic information – such as land slope, vegetation and the locations of rivers and roads – with weather data to create simulations, giving emergency services the info they need to predict and visualise bushfire spread in real time.
Your personal digital twin
Wish you had a biological twin? Your digital twin is the next best thing. Patient twinning is predicted to be part of the future of healthcare.
A digital twin of a person can be created with thousands of their health data points, from blood test results and blood pressure, to sleep stats and activity data. It could even draw on data already being collected via wearables like Fitbits and Apple Watches. Check out Siemens Healthineers’ vision of the possibilities.
Did you know?
Google Maps is a digital twin of Earth’s surface that updates in real time, especially when it comes to traffic and transport. This twin is already making your daily commute easier!
This originally appeared in Careers with STEM: Technology 2025.
