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City of the future
Not sure who created this so I can't cite a source. Oh well, enjoy.
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Here's How To Prank Autonomous Cars When They Come
Look, we all know its just a matter of time before self-driving robo-cars are everywhere. We can either piss and moan about how dehumanizing it'll be and how driving will be dead, or we can have some fun messing with them. I'm on the side of fun.
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Bionic fashion: Wearable tech that will turn man into machine by 2015
Google Glass, vacuum shoes, shark-proof wetsuits and more. We imagine a day in the life of a wearable technology user in the year 2015.
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World in 2000 as Predicted in 1910
Illustrations by French artist Villemard in 1910 of how he imagined the future to be in the year 2000.
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The Home Office of 2001 (prediction from 1967)
Short clip from the March 12, 1967 episode of the CBS show "The 21st Century". I always find old footage trying to predict the future fascinating.
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Machine language: how Siri found its voice
GM Voices is nestled on a rolling, leafy road in Alpharetta, Georgia, an affluent suburb of Atlanta. A recording studio specializing in voice-over work, it produces narration for corporate training videos, voicemail system prompts, and the like — not exactly sexy stuff, but steady, and for the best actors, lucrative. September Day is one such actor, and on a morning in 2011, she arrived to begin work on a special project.
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'Alien spaceship car' on sale on eBay
Michael Vetter is selling car his car on eBay for $100,000 (£62,500). Oh, and his car is a custom-built Extra Terrestrial Vehicle that is sure to turn heads wherever it ends up.
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Beyond Kinect: Is This Controller the Future of Gaming?
If the Oculus Rift is the future virtual reality, then the STEM motion controllers could be the key to making it an immersive playground.
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What Google Will Look Like In 10 Years
Google wants to wipe away disease and fill the roads with self-driving cars. Here's the product that will allow them to do that.
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This Pod Hotel of 1972 Offers a Glimpse at the Future That Never Was
When the Nakagin Capsule Tower was built in 1972, it was supposed to mark the Dawn of the Capsule Age. A group of architects from the so-called Metabolism school of architecture, championed by the tower’s architect Kisho Kurokawa, believed new structures should be made to grow and adapt organically with the society they served.
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How Human Do We Want Our Robots To Look?
Let's say you're getting a robot butler. (Congratulations on your purchase, future-dweller!) You can choose between three models for your new Jetsons-style Rosie robot: a clearly robotic machine, maybe even a cutesy one, like Wall-E; a more humanoid, personish 'bot, like the android from Metropolis; or a robot that looks just like a real human being. Which do you pick?
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How the helicopters of the future are shaping up
The Pentagon is looking ahead several decades toward future fleets of rotorcraft - and working now to lay the plans for getting there.
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Your body is the next frontier in cybercrime
If you think it’s enough of a chore trying to stop thieves stealing your credit card details and hacking your Facebook, imagine trying to stop them getting into your pancreas. Advances in healthcare mean that in-body devices to treat chronic conditions, or even just make you perform better as a human being, are not as far away as you might imagine.
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Humans 1, Robots 0 - Cashiers Trump Self-Checkout Machines
The human supermarket checker is superior to the self-checkout machine in almost every way. The human is faster. The human has a more pleasing, less buggy interface. The human doesn't expect me to remember or look up codes for produce, she bags my groceries, and unlike the machine, she isn't on hair-trigger alert for any sign that I might be trying to steal toilet paper.
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Neuro-enhanced super-soldiers: Far-fetched science fantasy or an inevitable future?
A fascinating new issue of Frontiers in Neuroscience includes a timely review on the various ways brain stimulation can enhance human thought and behaviour – with special consideration of applications in the security services and military.
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Bionic limbs will one day sense the grass under prosthetic feet
It sounds like something straight out of science fiction: artificial limbs that not only move, flex, and feel like their flesh counterparts, but also respond directly to one's thoughts and even translate sensory feedback - the feeling of grass beneath one's feet or the sensation of a limb floating in space - straight back to the brain.
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Google X Display Guru Says Wearable Computing Is Unstoppable
Mary Lou Jepsen, head of the display division for Google’s notoriously secret hardware innovation lab, Google X–which is building the Google Glass head-worn computer–took the stage at EmTech Thursday to talk about innovation, creativity, and, naturally, wearable computing.
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Connected Cars: How Long Must We Wait?
The advocates of an entirely different way of driving will tell you that we're within sight of the threshold, and connected cars are coming. But maybe not before manufacturers and developers agree on how different kinds of cars and apps will link together. Industry standards are buzzwords in the connected-car universe. Developer A wants to be able to code a great app once and then have what they design work in any manufacturer's in-vehicle system.
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Very Visible Cities: What To Expect From London, LA, And Moscow In 2040, 2070 and 2100
Giant Chinese pigeons, Scarlett Johansson's daughter, and deliberately un-green urban living: What to expect from London, Los Angeles, and Moscow in 2040, 2070, and 2100.
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IBM's Watson is better at diagnosing cancer than human doctors
Watson, IBM claims, is better at cancer diagnosis than human doctors, and its deployment could also reduce healthcare costs.
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