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The 60-Ton Cargo Blimp

jheylin — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:59:14 +0000

The era of the blimp may soon be at hand...
Category: Transportation
Year: 2010
Tags: blimp, future, travel

150″ Panasonic Life Wall TV Learns Your Preferences

Field of Memes — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:47:08 +0000

An extremely thin 150″ TV that does amazing things. It has face recognition so that it recognizes the face(s) that watch it and adjusts the display or program to that person’s preferences automatically.
Category: Technology
Year: 2009
Tags: panasonic, walltv, preferences, interactive

Hydrogen cars | The car of the perpetual future

garrygolden — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:57:59 +0000

Economist.com update on hydrogen vehicles. Some nice insights on rethinking fueling infrastructure, but not well researched in framing real price/performance breakthroughs for fuel cells and storage. Source of skepticism is based on reporter's la...
Category: Energy
Year: General

Google Planning Offshore Data Barges

Alvis — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:21:08 +0000

In a startling new take on data center engineering, Google has filed a patent for a “water-based data center” that uses the ocean to provide power and cooling. The patent also confirms Google’s development of a container-based data center, descri...
Category: Information
Year: General
Tags: google, data, datacenter, offshore, ocean, international

Urban Surprise: More Bicyclists = Fewer Accidents

Christina — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:36:55 +0000

In a study that at first glance seems counterintuitive, researchers at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, reviewed safety studies from 17 countries and 68 cities in California and found that the more people bike in a community...
Category: Transportation
Year: 2008
Tags: bicycle, bike, transportation

Energy Ball - A Cheap And Efficient Wind Turbine | Device Daily

Christina — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:29:41 +0000

The new and futuristic wind turbine is called Energy Ball and when it rotates it looks like a sphere and it creates a wind flow which resembles the rapids of a river - this wind flow pattern is called the Venturi effect.
Category: Energy
Year: General
Tags: alternative, energy, wind, power, venturi, turbine

A Look At Some of The Worlds Smallest Gadgets

Christina — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:21:22 +0000

I know for a lot of things, bigger may be better. But when it comes to many gadgets, companies are always trying to make them smaller and smaller.
Category: Technology
Year: 2008
Tags: gadget, tv, mp3, camera, phone, computer, smallest, tiny

Kevin Kelly on The Wisdom of Public Prediction Markets

Alvis — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:12:25 +0000

Kevin Kelly of Wired fame reviews the effectiveness of prediction markets.
Category: Social Media
Year: General
Tags: kevinkelly, predict, prediction, predictionmarket, market, predictionmarkets

Killer Military Robots Pose Latest Threat To Humanity, Robotics Expert Warns

Joe Meme — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:53:19 +0000

A robotics expert at the University of Sheffield has issued stark warnings over the threat posed to humanity by new robot weapons being developed by powers worldwide.
Category: Technology
Year: General
Tags: robotics, threats, terrorists, military

Touching the future

AJ0111 — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:12:05 +0000

Computing: Touch screens are becoming an increasingly popular way to control mobile phones and other devices. How does the technology work, and where is it heading?
Category: Technology
Year: Beyond
Tags: touching, future, touch, screen

Laptop Pillow

AJ0111 — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:11:19 +0000

The Napbook is basically a laptop pillow that's "perfect for on-the-go people needing to catch a quick nap here or there." Click here for one more picture.
Category: Technology
Year: 2008
Tags: laptop, pillow

How much will sea level rise?

AJ0111 — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:10:47 +0000

… is the question people have been putting a lot of thought into since the IPCC AR4 report came out. We analysed what was in the report quite carefully at the time and pointed out that the allowance for dynamic ice sheet processes was very uncerta...
Category: Environment
Year: General
Tags: sea, level, global, warming, climate, change

Using Biomedicine To Enhance Ourselves

AJ0111 — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:10:07 +0000

Video
Category: Health & Medicine
Year: General
Tags: biomedicine, self, enhancement

Making the Visible Invisible

AJ0111 — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:09:03 +0000

The Metaverse Roadmap Overview, an exploration of imminent 3D technologies, posited a number of different scenarios of what a future “metaverse” could look like.
Category: Metaverse
Year: General
Tags: visible, invisible, metaverse, 3d, technology

solar-powered van good for you or the Pope

martymcfly — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:26:22 +0000

Probably the weirdest concept vehicle of the year.
Category: Transportation
Year: General
Tags: van, solar, concept, car, vehicle

Why Our Brains Do Not Intuitively Grasp Probabilities

AJ0111 — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:07:23 +0000

Part one of a series of articles on the neuroscience of chance
Category: Other
Year: General
Tags: neuroscience, brain, probability, chance

Cancer Redefined

AJ0111 — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:56:30 +0000

New studies paint an exhaustively detailed picture of two deadly cancers.
Category: Health & Medicine
Year: 2008
Tags: cancer, redefined

Robot builders seek a little help from sci-fi

AJ0111 — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:56:02 +0000

"Most people have never seen a robot before," Smart told New Scientist. "Their experiences – such as they are – all come from movies or literature."
Category: Technology
Year: General
Tags: robot, builders, scifi

Online demands changing offline publishing

AJ0111 — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:54:39 +0000

While the death knell is sounded several times a day for traditional publishing, including mainstream media, we have yet to see any actual industry sector keel over dead yet. Instead, there are signs that the changes in how people consume everythi...
Category: Business & Work
Year: General
Tags: online, offline, publishing

Most Powerful 10 Year Old: Google

AJ0111 — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:52:41 +0000

When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world.
Category: The Web
Year: General
Tags: google, powerful, 10, year, old