2 | 16.8.2010 | 2 weeks agoIf you do not recognize this track, you are not worthy. This is THE cyberpunk game. And here is it’s bible: http://syndicate.lubie.org/
4282 | 12.8.2010 | 3 weeks ago
The best Hong Kong photo, ever. And all that green area (the old airport) is waiting for some skyscrapers… Click-through and zoom in for full effect. (via picapixels, theworldwelivein, photo © William Chu)
12 | 8.8.2010 | 3 weeks ago
Lupe, one of the future favela characters of our last neopunk story.
17 | 7.8.2010 | 3 weeks ago
Encounter in a staircase, gorgeous photo by Jaime Ibarra, via picapixels
3 | 4.8.2010 | 1 month agoAmazing parkour, short and very fast. Imagine giving these guys some help of technology and cybernetics - unbelievable stunts are to come. (via klaatu)
0 | 3.8.2010 | 1 month agoNews from the future: police robot running amok (a well crafted animation from Jamie Martin, who has a whole page dedicated to this concept robot design, via Gizmodo)
0 | 2.8.2010 | 1 month agoJohn Pavius at Dvice is making a list (of course) of reasons that uploading your mind to a digital version won’t work (via Futurismic).
Not that mind uploading would happen any time soon, but the reasons he is quoting can fairly easily be challenged. For example, he mentions software failure and what it would do to an uploaded mind. Bugs can never be completely eradicated (our human bodies have plenty of them), but the consequences of a bug can be controlled. Software can be coded so it only partially fails, and then gets itself back up.
Other reasons are lack of CPU, storage and the survivability of digital storage media. But the thing is, uploading of minds would certainly be done to a cloud structure, where the quality of individual components are irrelevant, and where CPU power can be shared between entities (when I am sleeping, there is more CPU over for my uploaded neighbour).
In the end, reasons against uploading is not a bad thing for sci fi. Technology is so much more interesting when it gives constraints and fails. An uploaded society where people are harassed by (mind)bugs, have to pay through their nose for CPU utilisation, etc contains all the drama I need for a good story.
3 | 2.8.2010 | 1 month ago
TAC 10i Crossbow
PSE • $1,600
It’s like the chocolate-and-peanut-butter combo of badass military gear. Archery firm PSE has taken the stock of an assault rifle and merged it with a compound crossbow to create a “tactical assault crossbow” that’s both easy to shoot and incredibly accurate. It takes less than 15 seconds to nock and cock an arrow. Once fired, arrows fly at 350 feet per second and can easily bull’s-eye a target up to 50 yards away. And it’s compact—just a foot across when cocke—making it easy to lug to the target range or store under your bed for home defense if you think guns are too girlie.
6 | 1.8.2010 | 1 month ago57 | 10.7.2010 | 1 month ago
“He SWAM, again and again, the LENGTH of his INFINITY POOL, pausing now and then to stare out at the CITY, with some vague HOPE: He had KILLED his SUMMER INTERNS for a SNUFF FILM already, and the NEXT SEMESTER was MONTHS AWAY.”
The Book Of Next, Managements 20:4
1 | 21.6.2010 | 2 months ago
Among Concrete and Glass, photo via the fantastic photo blog daily dose of imagery.
4 | 21.6.2010 | 2 months ago
I wonder if this striking combination raised many eyebrows in Manchester??.
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