E Ink Has Screens that Crumple Like Paper
A Kindle's one thing, but what about clear digital displays you could mash around like a plastic bag? Bendable screens have long been a tech prototype phantom, but E Ink's got the goods—and it could...
View ArticleIs This Is a Floating Car or a Low-Flying Plane?
This robot has been developed by Japanese researchers to take advantage of 'ground effects,' which allows the craft to hover off the ground at an extremely low height, thereby avoiding friction. More »
View ArticleLab-Grown Meat: It's What's For Dinner
In this week's New Yorker, Michael Specter takes a great look at the world of in-vitro meat—grown in a lab, outside an animal body. It's not a matter of if, but when. Will you eat it? More »
View ArticleThese New Video Basketball Cards Make Me Yearn for the Simpler Days of My Youth
I used to collect basketball cards as a kid and if I was still a kid, I'd probably go apeshit for these new cards that can play 20 minutes of video highlights. But are they even basketball cards...
View ArticleIn Japan, You Watch TV, but TV Also Watches You
Google has long dreamed of hardware that knows exactly who's watching TV, which would let them target content and ads towards the viewer. Japanese network NHK is now testing that technology in the...
View ArticleThe Hoverbike of My Dreams Is Almost Real
Chris Malloy is making a hoverbike. Yes, a hoverbike. It looks like half a quadrotor or Parrot AR Drone and when he's finished, he thinks it can go as high as 10,000 feet and as fast as 173mph. Holy...
View Article3M's Silicone Medical Tape Will Make Bandage Removal a Painless Process
Imagine taking off a band-aid or medical tape, not grimacing in pain as the bandage adhesive pulls hair and skin cells with it. That is what 3M is promising with their new silicone tape technology,...
View ArticleWhy Satellites are the New God for Farmers
Farmers have been using GPS-tracking to better organize their fields for a while but now they have a new god who watches them from space: Satellites that tell them exactly what they need to make...
View ArticleBlinged-Out Bacteria Put to Work in Fuel Cells
The boffins at Carnegie Mellon have done it again! This time they've devised a biological fuel cell that harvests the metabolic energy of bacteria using gold plates. More »
View ArticleThe World's Fastest SDXC Card Still Can't Compete With Compact Flash... Yet
Delkin's new 64GB SD card may well be the "fastest SDXC card in the world" and with respective read/write speeds of 95 MBps and 45 MBps, it's not hard to believe. But at $540, who's it for? More »
View ArticleRobots Will Soon Have the Sense of Touch
Hexagonal plate skin isn't soft and elastic like real skin, nor is it meant to protect against the elements. Instead, it's intended to instill a sense of touch in robots. More »
View ArticleBuy Groceries at a Virtual Supermarket Inside a Subway Station
I would never do my grocery shopping inside a subway station. The smells? The rats? The slime? Gross. But what about a virtual supermarket where you scan QR codes of items and have it delivered to you...
View ArticleLook Like a Jetson With These Retro-Futuristic iHome Headphones
You have to love the 60's. The conflict. The culture. The Jetsons. That what I think of when I see these. iHome's new SD63 Retro-Style headphones hold to the spirit of the time while grasping at a...
View ArticleThe World's First Flying Sphere Looks Like an Alien Death Bot
Looking more UFO than UAV, the Japanese Defense Ministry has created a spherical surveillance drone which they have deemed the world's first. Designed for use in urban areas, the menacing, all-black...
View ArticleThe Skylab I Never Knew
Remember the space age? It wasn't that long ago. This illustration from Peter Fairley's 1970 Space Annual is a great line drawing, but moreover reminds me of the wonder and awe we used to have for the...
View ArticleFuture LCDs Panels Will Use Its Own Light to Create Energy
Researchers at UCLA have a new idea on how to use LCD panels, and it has nothing to do with video. Instead, they've devised a technology allowing screens to absorb and convert various light sources...
View ArticleThe Closest Thing We Have to a Holodeck Is Used to Molest 3D Fairies
I dream of having a room full of interactive 3D holograms, much like those found in Star Trek and X-Men. This interactive holographic system, which combines a glassesless 3D parallax display with a...
View ArticleThe City, Airborne
Architizer is a blog dedicated to the past, present and future of architectural design. They scour the internet finding the best/coolest/weirdest structures people crawl around in. Their latest find...
View ArticleWhat Microsoft Thinks the Future Will Look Like
Two things. One, we're going to need a lot of hand sanitizer if Microsoft is right about the all-touch-everything future. Two, I'm surprised how much I like Microsoft's vision—it's futuristic, natural...
View ArticleBlackBerry's Leaked Vision of the Future Is Depressing as Hell
Surprise! RIM has a video forecast for the not too distant future, and it's a horrible corporate snooze fest. It's dull, derivative, and, worst of all, doesn't make you look forward to the future...
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