How much attention do we pay to the wildlife or national park rangers? They are important posts for an individual, especially if you’re surveying many threatened and endangered species in South Africa. With these rangers in mind, South Korean designer Dong-woo Nam created the Incubator concept car. Winner of the Michelin Design Challenge, this concept…
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Greek philosopher Plato once devised a metaphysical thought construct known as the ‘Theory of Forms,’ or as others today like calling it, ‘Two Worlds’. This thought construct was meant as an attempt to explain both objective and subjective visualizations of reality – the material world and the world of forms. Strangely, however, according to Plato’s…
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Minority Report was obviously a huge inspiration to budding augmented reality designers. Another group has engineered a gesture-full viewing experience. SeeSpace is well on their way to raising enough money to produce InAiR, an augmented reality setup for 3d and 2d televisions. Although it can be used with basic HDTVs, InAiR is best experienced with…
DetailsOn January 27th, 2014, UrtheCast’s Ultra HD video camera, Iris, will be installed on the International Space Station by cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanksy. Tune in at 6:10 a.m. PST (2:10 p.m. GMT) to watch the spacewalk, LIVE. See what people were saying on Twitter: #URspacewalk Tweets about “#URspacewalk” UrtheCast’s two cameras will stream unprecedented…
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When you say “I think…” wouldn’t it be interesting to see what’s happening in your brain before you even think of saying “I think…”? When you listen to a song, would you like to see the data of your neural behavior while you’re listening? Currently, Electroencephalography (EEG) and fMRI equipment that report our neural data…
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There are so many allusions between sea and sky. With enough imagination, birds seem to swim and fish fly. So the name of Oscar Viñals’s “Sky Whale” concept plane shouldn’t make you laugh. But it will inspire awe. Officially called the AWWA Concept Plane, the Sky Whale is a massive futuristic flying vehicle full of…
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Swimming like spermatozoa, researchers and engineers at the University of Illinois breathed life into a synthetic bio-bot that self-propels through the contraction of cultured heart cells known as cardiomyocytes. Modeled after single-celled organisms, these bio-bots consist of a long flagella-like tail made up of flexible polymer, alongside a short head by its end that is…
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If you think innovation in public transportation has gotten static, look to Milton Keynes, a London suburb that sounds like a stuffy Economics professor. Arriva, the company with Milton Keynes’ public transit contract, will experiment with inductive charging on eight of their buses. Sometimes described as wireless charging, induction produces voltage across a conductor when…
Details[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”1449635962″ locale=”us” height=”160″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QXNwl9dTL._SL160_.jpg” width=”125″] We are headed towards a world where upon conceiving, parents will go to the doctor to ensure that the unborn child develops in such a way, that it is born without any congenital conditions, weaknesses or allergies. We are headed towards a world where no child will be born…
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CES2014 is like swimming in a psychological tsunami. Imagine crunching consumer and cultural behaviour down into one event and then tossing it into the madness that is Las Vegas. It is surreal. Pure humour noir. I keep expecting David Lynch to show up screaming “cut..cut….bring in the bloody bunny heads!” but he hasn’t, at least…
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Information security is one of the most important issues of our present and certainly of our future. But the habits of writing down dozens of passwords with random asterisks and underscores are antiquated. Our on-line information is distributed across social networks, blogs and banking systems, and our security isn’t any more sophisticated. Parisa Tabriz, Google’s…
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