Wired Danger Room: Exclusive Pics: The Navy’s Unmanned, Autonomous ‘UFO’
File this under #WTF and #IThoughtIToldja. Source: Wired; Danger Room Exclusive Pics: The Navy’s Unmanned, Autonomous ‘UFO’ By Spencer Ackerman NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER, Maryland — If you saw it in person, you’d probably think it was a UFO, too. That’s what happened when the Navy trucked its batwing-shaped drone of the future [...]
Your computer will soon be watching you… FUN!
Imagine a computer that will be able to recognize you. It will know what you like, what’s happening in your life, and how important you are. Put on a happy face! Steven Spielberg’s “Minority Report” painted a scary picture of the future in a number of ways. For privacy advocates, one of several [...]
Ready for the Ride of Your Life? Meet the Detonator
It’s almost the holidays again, and every good boy and girl will want to add The Detonator to their list this year. The folks at Parker Brothers Choppers want you to own their latest and best in electric motorcycles, and have built up from the world famous replica of the Tron Light Cycle and a [...]
How to get from NY to China in 2hrs
A magnetic levitation vacuum tube can transport you around the world in just six hours. Did a cartoon predict our future this whole time? The worst part of traveling is getting stuck on a massively lengthy flight, especially if you’re in a window seat next to a crying baby, a snorer, or that anxious passenger [...]
I like my commute scrambled…..
Oh, the quandaries of human life. Most of us have come to accept the limitations of our physical selves. I accept the fact that I can’t pull a Kitty Pryde, and my powers of flight never developed more than being able to jump really high on my bed, but there is one limitation that I [...]
Robot PackMule? Stomping with the AlphaDogs
AlphaDog can carry 400 pounds across rough terrain for 20 miles, and looks absolutely terrifying. If you’ve been following military-funded research and development over the last decade, you’ve likely heard of BigDog, the robot designed by researchers at Boston Dynamics to serve as a mobile packmule for soldiers in the field. Ideally, the robot would [...]
Becoming Borg, Beautifully: Part 1
I wake up, check my Blackberry, respond to an email and put it back onto the pillow. Return to sleep. It’s 5:23AM. 8:30AM, the boss calls to inquire if I were already awake when I responded to the email. No, I wasn’t. Knocked out as a matter of fact. Yes, I am completely aware [...]
Finally eyes for your toaster
Uh oh… its the birth of CYLONS!!! Cornell develops a lens-free, pinhead-size camera. Picture a camera that has no lens, no moving parts, costs fractions of a penny to make, and sees as dimly as a short-sighted worm. Doesn’t exactly sound like a game changer–but it is. Cornell scientists have achieved the breakthrough by producing [...]
Kate Bush – Deeper Understanding
Kate Bush – a prolific, avant garde, pop artist revisits ‘Deeper Understanding’ a track she release 21 years ago about a lonely soul in search for a deeper connection, and finds it with no one else other than his computer. 21 years later, it seems as though nothing as changed. With smartphones, kindles, IPads and [...]
Human Spaceflight-Happy 50th!
Human Spaceflight became a reality 50 years ago with the launch of a bell-shaped capsule called “Vostok 1” on April 12th, 1961. The capsule was carrying Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who took his place in history as the first human to leave the bounds of Earth and enter outer space. Exactly 20 years later, the [...]
SETI Employs First Ever Artist-In-Residence
The SETI Institute (short for “Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence”) has been around for 27 years, but now they’re branching out. Charles Lindsay, SETI’s first artist-in-residence, has created an epically innovative new art form called CARBON. According to the artist himself, “the CARBON project is an investigation of the unknown, combining my interest in the aesthetics [...]
Brain-Computer Implant Still Successful After 1,000 Days
The future is really, really here. Have you ever wanted to control the world with your brain? If you didn’t just whisper “yes” under your breath, you are probably lying to yourself and those around you. There’s good news for S3, the pseudonym for a paralyzed woman who was implanted with a computer chip 1,000 [...]
What if Kirk used AT&T ?
I remember watching a documentary on how the technology of “Star Trek” was being developed in the real world today. It showed the advancement of hand-held computers, medical beds, and – especially – cell phones. All that sounds cool. But the one thing AT&T can’t seem to copy from ‘Star Trek” is that, at least [...]
Pain-Beam Ignites Prison Break!
The behavior modification tool of the future, The Assault Intervention Device, backfired today as suspected murderer, Mo Jones, 28, escaped from the Penchess Detention Center in Los Angeles, CA this morning killing six guards and three inmates before commandeering an ambulance and escaping into the city of Los Angeles. Jones, a 2011 Iran War [...]
Our Extraterrestrial Origins : Water PT.1
According to an article in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Cornell University Library database, entitled : Origin of the Ocean on the Earth: Early Evolution of Water D/H in a Hydrogen-rich Atmosphere, http://arxiv.org/abs/0709.2025, states that “…The origin of the Earth’s ocean has been discussed on the basis of deuterium/hydrogen ratios (D/H) from several sources of water [...]
The Third and Seventh
The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo. Art and science has made a pact in Alex Roman’s The Third and Seventh.
How Exoskeleton’s Changed Cage Fighting by Jack Webb: Part -1
I was all washed up. Broken neck, broken pelvis…broken dream. And get this, my old lady of sixteen years, Agnes, left me for the guy what did it. Right…she hooked up with that Rebel Dillon, a real prick. But a killer. Before he got into the game you rarely had a guy die in the [...]
DateWare: My New Girlfriend Is A.I.
She’s hot. Not super-model hot, they got those but well…I wanted someone that looked like she’d actually go out with me. The FemBot lines look like strippers, you know…big boobs, pouty lips and “baby-waybe-pookie-poo” conversation chips. If I wanted a hooker I’d get one. I didn’t want sex. I wanted a girlfriend. So when I [...]
DIY Will: Jet Engine Paper Boy Resurrection – Part 1
My name is Will Brinklow III. And I am the paper boy. I’ve been in the business for well over 35 years here in Stockbridge, Mass. I do the paper business the real way. The only way. Hard leather at your butt, the wind in your face and the cold hard snap of a crisply [...]
Ray Guns Flood N.Y.C. Streets Part – 1
The first time I saw one I thought it was a fucking toy. Till the side of my face lit up like a goddamn grease fire. No sound. No beam of light…no ray. Just heat. Like my face was in a microwave. Burned like a motherfucker. The next time a perp pulled one, a little [...]
Imma Be A Robot
Today’s music videos have become like mini sci-fi movies, with robots and transhuman gear popping up everywhere your favorite group does. The popularization of new age technology in mainstream culture is a signal of things to come and new beings that we will soon become. Check out the full 10 minute-plus Black Eyed Peas video [...]
The evolution of Photo Tagging
Ever find yourself clicking around in a friend’s photo album on Facebook and see someone you know that you know, but can’t place them? Your friend didn’t bother to tag the photo so you spend the next few minutes clicking through, on a mission to place the face with another clue that will lead you [...]
Robots building robots
I wonder about the world that Ray Kurzweil is so excited about. He talks about the exponential growth of technology Its really happening and has been for some time. Take a look.
Save the Watches
I was with some friends the other day when I noticed the most peculiar thing. I hadn’t noticed it all day because he was wearing a jacket but once he took it off I noticed that there was something strange on his left arm. His left wrist to be more accurate. It was a small, [...]
