January 2010
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Jan 29th
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Should We Tell Our Children They Won't Die? →
extropism: by Hank Hyena As an Extropist parent, I feel comfortable telling my children that they will probably not die due to scientific advancement that will grant them immortality. This is, of course, a big relief to them. When they ask if I am going to expire, I tell them about cryonics and I remind them; “Hey, don’t forget to take my brain out of the freezer.” For the full story of my...
Jan 29th
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Jan 27th
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Stopping cars using EMP pulse cannon →
Can destroy onboard electronics and stop a car up to 200 meter. Now in suit-case size, pistol size within 5 years. Air force wants airborne version. This is the future. (via Global Guerillas)
Jan 27th
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The Wrath of the Killdozer →
A phenomenal true story about a man that takes revenge on the government - by adding armor and armaments to a bulldozer and going on a tour of destruction. Truly worth the reading! (via Global Guerrillas)
Jan 26th
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Military Outsources Rescue Ops, Secret Tagging to... →
Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 23rd
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Film: SPLICE →
oskarsundfeldt: “Two young scientists (Brody and Polley) achieve fame by splicing human DNA with the DNA of different animals to create a new creature[2]. In the process they ignore their society’s ethical and legal boundaries. The scientists name their creature Dren” -Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splice_%28film%29 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1017460/
Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
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Re-skinning the city – the dark side of augmented... →
A must read directly from Futurismic. This is why augmented reality is so important. Now it seem useless - but when usability is given, what is next? A truly different world with millions of parallel virtual universes.
Jan 22nd
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Robot and sensor networks deployed on more and... →
Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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The cheap space launcher →
Finally a reasonable space launcher design, in this case cannon tube placed in equatorial waters to launch objects into orbit using pressurized gas. It is fairly low tech, making it cheap, but not as cool as meglev based launchers…
Jan 19th
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Traversing the hidden spaces of the city (via... →
Bear with me on this fairly heavy reading, but it points out the very interesting topic of moving through urban environment without using the intended routes - roads, elevators, bridges etc. Instead, you find those spaces architects have created for other purposes. Parkour, John McClane (Die Hard), the Israeli Army all do it. And for any urban future, finding new paths through the concrete jungle...
Jan 17th
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X-Hawk - VTOL hovering aircraft going all sky car
Check out what Israeli company Urban Aeronautics have been up to - designing a cheesy sky car. Built on duct-fan technology (see those two big round things?). However, what they promise is an aircraft that can lift and land everywhere, even in crowds of people, skyscrapers, mountain-sides, etc. True - let’s see, but they have some videos to prove it. I am just wish we could get rid of...
Jan 17th
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Gestural UIs the next thing →
You can only get so far with touchscreens. Click through for Futurismic’s discussion on some of the advances in gestural user interfaces.
Jan 16th
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Reality TV looking for dying people who wants to... →
The next generation of reality TV! As Futurismic asks: “it does make you wonder where reality programming will run out of steam”.
Jan 16th
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“‘There are thousands of US citizens seeking a spouse, and just as many...”
– Angelo Gonzales, host of planned TV show “Who Wants to Marry a U.S. Citizen”. Any human misfortune can become a reality show. (The World’s Worst Dating Show Ideas)
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Jan 9th
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10 Sci-Fi Weapons That Actually Exist (via...
Wired’s Danger Room has an article that again reminds us that we are heading in to what used to be purely sci-fi territory. Most are known already, but when you add together things like machine gun equipped robots, non-lethal radiation guns, Taser Shockwave barriers and the air-defense laser, you start to think.
Jan 9th
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Israeli setting up sentry gun perimeter →
This is actually one year old news, but Israel is building a series of towers along the Gaza border, equipped with remote controlled 7.62 machine guns or precision guided missiles.
Jan 8th
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UAV flight school: No need to leave the ground →
Anyone thinks there will still be airborne pilots in 50 years?
Jan 8th
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Gul oil states to launch common currency and... →
The very same development in our cyberpunk game Neotech, and a very interesting first step to some kind of “United Arab Republic”. (via BoingBoing)
Jan 7th
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Bruce Sterling (@bruces) State of the World 2010
Bruce Sterling telling us the decidedly gloomy state of the world 2010: Too much of the civil population has been fenced off been short-circuited. There’s zero political will t entire planet and re-channel its currency flows, so happen. Basically, the political class is waiting population to come back to the church of the free the fact that its cardinals walk in public with no clothes on. ...
Jan 6th
Changed the design for the blog to something slightly more typographic. Let me know what you think on twitter !
Jan 6th