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Mithos Electromagnetic Concept Car Looks Cool, Will Probably Never Exist
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Concept cars are a strange breed when we see them at major car shows. Sometimes they can be pure flights of fancy, and other times they can be clear hints at what future vehicles will look like. A new concept car that isn’t from any of the major automakers has… |
February 15th, 2012
Freaky Robot Hides in Walls Only to Punch Through When Necessary
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Hollywood leaves little to the imagination, especially when it comes to the future of the human race. Artificial intelligence, mechanical extraterrestrial creatures, and even man-made robots that eventually “grow” a brain and decide to go against their human creators.… |
October 6th, 2011
Woman Wants to Have Prosthetic Eye-Camera: the Fifteen Thousand Dollar Woman
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I’m sure some of you still remember Rob Spence and his Eyeborg project, which aims to develop a video camera that fits in a prosthetic eye, effectively substituting for the one Spence lost when he was a kid. Now, a woman named Tanya Marie Vlach wants the exact same thing… |
July 14th, 2011
MacBook 2020: Flexible Nanomaterials, Holographic Display, Shape-shifting, What Else Could You Want?
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How’d you like to fast-forward to the year 2020, and get a sneak peek at the MacBook of the future. Well, industrial designer Tommaso Gecchelin has already done the hard work for you, with his concept MacBook 2020.… |
June 21st, 2011
10,000 Year Clock Will Tell Time Til Your Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandkids are a Distant Memory
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This has to be one of the strangest and coolest projects I have ever heard of. Way out in the desert wilds of West Texas, workers are starting the process of digging out the side of a mountain in the Sierra Diablo mountain range to install a clock that will… |
June 21st, 2011
Corning’s Vision of the Future is Filled With Glass (and Computers)
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Videos that depict the future of computers crop up every now and then, and although they are fun to watch, most of them are more flash than substance. This clip from Corning Inc. – the glass and ceramics company that gave us Gorilla Glass, among other things – is no… |
February 21st, 2011
Gamers: Digital Downloads Are Here to Stay, for Better or for Worse
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I’m sure this fact is painfully obvious for a lot of gamers, but in case you’re one of the people who look down on DLC and digital downloads, here’s a very convincing, albeit long-winded argument from former Rock Band 3… lead designer Dan Teasdale. To sum it up, Teasdale says |
September 20th, 2010
Fossils of the Mechazoic Era: the What Now?
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Poor dead bird. Wait what the – It’s a dead robo-bird! Artist/illustrator/futurechologist Justin Chase Black, more respectfully addressed as Mr. ThrowingChicken, recently finished the awesome looking Creatures of the Mechazoic Era, a series of sculptures that look like fossilized remains from a time yet to come. |
June 7th, 2010
Augmented Hyper(Reality): Pop-Up Ads Take Over Your Walls
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When I first watched Keiichi Matsuda’s Augmented (hyper)Reality… video, I wasn’t sure if I should be awed or frightened by his vision of the world that lies in front of us. Matsuda’s stunning video clip was created as part of his Masters’ program at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and |
January 26th, 2010
Nec Batteryless Remote Control: We Don’T Need No Stinkin’ Batteries
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How many times have you had to get your lazy ass off of the couch to get up and change the channel because the batteries in your remote died. Well thanks to some fine high-tech minds, someday you may never need to worry about changing the batteries in your remote… |
November 17th, 2009
