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Thomas Frey - Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute

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Pilot View that Put You in the Drivers Seat of Your Own RC Vehicle

May 11th, 2008 at 9:50 pm » Comments (0)

 

Goggle that allow you to become the driver
The Pilot View FPV 2400 is designed for use with radio-controlled aircraft and cars. Using a wireless camera in the cockpit that sends live first-person footage to the freaky goggles that you’re wearing.



Jay Leno’s Top 20 Headlines

May 11th, 2008 at 9:14 pm » Comments (0)

 
This is one of Leno’s classic pieces



HOW TO Detect Hidden Video Cameras

May 11th, 2008 at 7:47 pm » Comments (0)

Great way to spot these little privacy invaders
Instructables has just posted its latest installment in its collection of HOWTOs inspired by my new novel Little Brother, a young adult book about hacker kids who use technology to win back their civil liberties from the Department of Homeland Security.
This week, it’s instructions for building a simple [...]



Qubies: A Quick And Easy Way To Freeze Baby Food

May 11th, 2008 at 7:30 pm » Comments (0)

Qubies

There are so many amazing milestones that occur during baby’s first year, one of which is their graduation to eating solid food. However, fascination soon turns to contempt when you spend hours cooking and pureeing wonderful but weird-colored meals and you can’t manage to pour them into the individual sections of the ice-cube tray! Or [...]



LED Lightbulbs Coming in 2-3 Years

May 11th, 2008 at 7:17 pm » Comments (0)

Are LED Lights The Wave Of The Future?

Faiz Rahman, a nanoelectronics researcher at the University of Glasgow, predicts that LED light bulbs for the home will start appearing on store shelves in the next 2-3 years to compete with incandescent and fluorescent bulbs.
If so, the LED bulbs would provide a much greater efficiency (up to [...]



Octocube Will Keep Visitors To Your Home Guessing

May 11th, 2008 at 7:00 pm » Comments (0)

Look! It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane, It’s…It’s…What Is It Again?

We like devices where it’s hard to figure out what they actually do, and the Octocube from French designer Vivien Muller is a fine example. Built entirely from 90 degree copper tubing elbows, the Octocube is actually a radiator for a hot water heating system.



Motion-Capture Suits Will Spice Up Virtual Sex

May 11th, 2008 at 12:21 pm » Comments (0)

 
No matter how beautiful the sex animations are in your favorite virtual playground, they can’t compete with the movement of your own body.



The Sex Life of Slugs Hots Up the Internet

May 11th, 2008 at 12:20 pm » Comments (0)

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Rare footage of two slugs mating from a nature documentary
No, we’re not talking about software bugs (though those viruses can indeed still rear their heads), but good old insects. There are, naturally, numerous scientifically minded sites like bugbios.com throughout the Web, but insects are also finding staring roles in the online entertainment world.
As is true [...]



Top 10 Photos of the Week

May 11th, 2008 at 11:57 am » Comments (1)

The chair’s attractiveness was obvious, but its ability to snuggle intimately around
body parts needing attention was its most endearing feature
Your week cannot be complete without an insane dose of Impact Lab Top 10 Photos.



Japan Plans to Focus on Defense Use of Space

May 11th, 2008 at 6:06 am » Comments (0)

 
Japan’s rocket blasts off with land-observation satellite
Japan’s military is planning to launch its own surveillance satellites and an early-warning satellite as part of the missile defense system it is building in cooperation with the US.



Top Colleges Dig Deeper in Waiting Lists for Students

May 11th, 2008 at 5:55 am » Comments (0)

 Unusually large classes of graduating Seniors is changing the admission dynamics at most colleges
In what may be a happy surprise for thousands of high school seniors, Harvard plans to offer admission to 150 to 175 students on its waiting list, and Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania each expect to take 90, creating ripples that [...]