What Will Technology Look Like in 2064?
Fifty-year time frames are interesting in that technology and living conditions change quite dramatically, but not too much. Looking back 50 years brings us to 1964 when a lot of groundwork was being laid for…
Google Purchases Maker of Smart Spoon Device… Helps Compensate For Tremors.
Google has purchased Lift Labs, the startup behind an electronic smart spoon. The Internet giant made the purchase in an effort to expand the Liftware product line. The main goal behind Liftware is to compensate…
New Amphibious Marine Corps Vehicle Can Carry 3 Tanks Up To 200 Nautical Miles
The Ultra Heavy-Lift Amphibious Connector (UHAC) is the latest innovation from the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab, in conjunction with the Office of Naval Research, which is essentially a monster amphibious assault vehicle. The UHAC began…
Construction Begins Within One of Beijing’s Largest Public Parks
Construction has begun on MAD’s Chaoyang Park Plaza, an extension of Ma Yansong’s “Shan-Shui City” concept, which focuses on adding more nature to the urban environment. As someone who has been to Beijing, I know…
Gravity Max: World’s First “Tilting Roller Coaster” Offers True 90° Drop Madness
The Gravity Max “tilt roller coaster” ride at Lihpao Land Discovery World in Houli, Taichung, Taiwan, may be the scariest roller coaster ride on the planet. Gravity Max hangs riders over a 13 story vertical…
GoPro Video Captures Cockpit View of USAF A-10 Thunderbolt Takeoff
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to takeoff in an A-10? Thanks to footage from a GoPro, you can get a POV look inside the cockpit of a U.S. Air Force A-10…
Microsoft To Acquire The Company Behind Minecraft For $2.5 Billion!
Microsoft is set to acquire Mojang AB, the company behind the popular video game Minecraft, for $2.5 billion. The acquisition comes in the midst of a major push by Microsoft to stimulate its Xbox business,…
How Vacant World Cup Stadiums Could Be Turned Into Housing
Brazil may be the soccer capital of the world, but surveys show 52% of Brazilians did not support hosting the World Cup in their own country. Thousands of Brazilians lost their homes for the construction…
SciCast: World’s Largest Crowdsourced Science and Technology Forecasting Site
Creating a “Social Process” to Answer Technology and Futurism Questions Dr. Robin Hanson and Dr. Charles Twardy of George Mason University lead the SciCast project, which has become the largest crowdsourced science and technology forecasting…
“Spiraling Into Control” of Quiet and Efficient Residential Wind Generation
In a “Eureka!” moment, Dutch company Archimedes, named for the renowned ancient mathematician, has designed a nautilus shaped silent wind turbine. The Liam F-1 promises to become the “next generation” of wind generation. Archimedes (c.287…
