Tech Buzz The latest promo clip from Ridley Scott's Prometheus is moving, in a very weird way. Who knew crying robots could be so emotional?
http://gammasquad.uproxx.com/2012/02/6-reasons-you-should...
The future you’re worried about has already happened, and been found lacking. After all, cyborgs will always be more expensive than human peons.
Science Buzz According to speculative zoologist Dougal Dixon, we’ll all look terrifying. Dixon submitted this hyper-human brain thing to the science fiction magazine OMNI’s 1982 November issue. (via io9.com)
http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/philips-biolig...
Shut up and take my money. A concept for lights that runs on not grid electricity, not solar power, not even wind power. Nope, it runs on bacteria.
Movie Buzz This post is full of spoilers and shenanigans. You've been warned. (via alexleo.tumblr.com)
Apparently everything will be a screen. Roads, cars, glasses, etc. All will be screens. For some reason this terrifies me. (via gizmodo.com)
If Freddie Wong is right about this one, then we're all gonna have to start working out.
The urinal needs a facelift. It's long past time. I think we can all agree this proposed version is better. So let's send this along to President Obama and he can make it happen. Because that's how laws and countries work. Right? (via reddit.com)
Culture Buzz I would say accurately too, but then the Journal says something stupid about the year 2000 like building cities will be illegal. In all fairness, the amount of things written here that have become a reality in some form or another is uncanny. I do think that someone should really work on making those massive vegetables happen. Giant food is awesome. (via howtobearetronaut.com)
“You'll be the pwince and I'll be the pwetty pwincess” Is it possible to actually die of cuteness? There are grown adults that have never had a relationship this rock solid.
Your donation will help this robot continue to travel back in time to stop the Jonas Brothers.
Culture Buzz Imagined periodicals from our bleak future. Another phun Photoshop exercise from Something Awful, of which there are plenty more.
Culture Buzz Harry Potter characters reimagined as sci-fi space warriors. Artist SpicyStewedDemon has hit the Venn diagram sweet spot of overlapping geekiness.
I whole heartedly agree with this. Uncle Fester is pretty lame.
Only in japan will you find a fully working 'menstruation machine'. The machine has a 'blood dispensing mechanism' as well as electronic stimuli to produce cramps. This video shows a boy who wants to know what being a female is really like. Apparently, he finds out.
With all the arguments over the last few days about dates in Back to the Future, I think we all need to take a step back. I'm fairly certain any fan of the movies is impatiently waiting for Self Lacing Shoes and they're almost here! Sure, they're not very practical but it's a start, 2015 is still 5 years away. Next up: hoverboards! Come on Mattel!
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/03/netflix-business/
When it comes to slideshow presentations, few do them as well as Netflix. Last year, they released one that was sent around internally about their culture. If you read it, you probably wished you worked for Netflix afterwards. And now they’ve released one about the future of their business — it’s also fascinating.
CBS is going to run an ad in Entertainment Weekly that will feature an embedded video player that starts automatically when the page is turned. Next we'll be eating whole meals packed into pills and our robot butlers will make our beds for us.
The world is a rapidly changing place and many people can be caught unawares by new dangers. Luckily these 3 short PSA's give us some helpful safety tips to deal with the technologies that will soon be part of our everyday lives.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/us/11biotech.html?partn...
Cities are gambling millions to promote an industry that has turned a profit only one year in the past four decades.
It's nice to see the Dow is up (56,023!) but where has the most-emailed sidebar gone? It's fun to think that the paper will still be around 31 years from now.