Can’t read the fine print on important documents? Have trouble catching traffic signs due to failing vision? Get your telescopic contacts today, and never worry about seeing distant things up close again! This certainly sounds like something out of a sci-fi infomercial spoof, but a group of scientists from UC San Deigo, EPFL (Switzerland’s Polytechnical…
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Phantom phone vibrations are more common than you would think. According to a new study “Phantom Vibration Syndrome is a type of hallucination reported among mobile phone users in the general population. Another similar perception, phantom ringing syndrome, has not been previously described in the medical literature.” Around 80% of us have imagined a phone vibrating…
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Futurologist James Martin has been found dead at the age of 79 in the waters of the Great Sound near his Agar’s Island home. The Royal Gazette reports : “The Bermuda Police Service said this morning that Dr. Martin’s lifeless body had been found floating in the waters of the Great Sound near his Agar’s…
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(Read Part One and Part Two of ‘Methods for Futuring’) Six Supertrends Shaping the Future Technological growth is one of the six super-trends; however it is not just a super-trend, it is a super-force that creates accelerating changes with massive effects and disruptive power. One of the more obvious super-trends produced by technological advancements is economic growth.…
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Soon, there will be an app that will collect all of your digital exhaust. This will include everything that you have searched for, tweeted about or liked, every YouTube video watched, every Reddit upvote, and all the StumbleUpon rabbit holes that make up your digital persona. With algorithms like Watson coming online, where natural language…
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This article is the second piece in the weekly series ‘Methods for Futuring’. Read Part One here. Technological Change and Exponential Growth To understand how technological change and exponential growth and lead directly into the 6 super trends, the reader needs an understanding of the technological laws that drive our modern world. These laws have…
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Have you ever thought of an object or toy so incredible and singular that you wish you could just make it out of thin air? This concept may have seemed impossible – and perhaps a little childishly amusing – up until May 8th , when George Laskowsky Ziguilinsky of Thinker Thing placed on an Emotiv Epoc…
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Voyager [easyazon-link asin=”B003TNO1AA” locale=”us”] Treadmill [/easyazon-link] allows you to create an immersive social running experience as well as play games while you run. The design by II-Seop Yoon is a futuristic utopia for dedicated runners and includes voice control, huge touchscreen technology, and a motion-controlled remote. The Voyager allows the runner to chose between three basic…
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It’s Saturday morning. You’ve just slept in two hours past your regular wake-up time, and are feeling rather fresh as you amble through the house towards the kitchen. Reaching into the refrigerator, you grab the milk, and then go over to the dish drain and pull out a fresh bowl and spoon. You can almost taste the…
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Looking for a new vehicle? Got around $100,000 to spare? How about a self-driving car? According to the New York Times, you could find yourself in one that not only has great gas mileage and a plush interior; but drives itself as well. Enter the 2014 S-Class Sedan, a brand new, top-of-the-line vehicle…
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Vimbly: A Better Way To Find Your Next Experience Living in New York City can be extraordinarily tough. Time is the ultimate commodity and with monthly rents as high as a used car, a real New Yorker does not appreciate wasted time and will literally hold a grudge over a bad experience. [easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”0804831904″…
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A new group at Cambridge University has been founded to investigate the risk of a technological singularity in the future, among other things. The Center For the Study of Existential Risk was founded by professor Huw Price, cosmology and astrophysics professor Martin Rees and Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn. The group will look into a number…
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