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Thomas Frey - Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute

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Potato Chip Chocolate

January 18th, 2009 at 5:45 pm » Comments (0)

Low fat not likely but oh so yummy
Remember those old Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup TV commercials? You know, the ones where someone holding a chocolate bar bumps into a person holding a jar of peanut butter, thus creating a new taste sensation?



Most Hated Toy

January 18th, 2009 at 5:40 pm » Comments (0)

Don’t you just love it
I sort of recall seeing a commercial for this stuff while in a drunken haze at about three in the morning.  Other than that, I had no experience with it.



Black Tissues

January 18th, 2009 at 5:34 pm » Comments (0)

 
Perfect for funerals
While napkins, notepaper, even toilet tissue has been known to come in a variety of pastel and primary shades, facial tissue has remained steadfastly white. Until now, that is – introducing Black Tissues from Daishowa!



Yamaha AvantGrand Digital Piano

January 18th, 2009 at 5:29 pm » Comments (0)

 
Sweet Sound
Plenty of digital pianos can deliver a sound that’s amazingly close to the real thing, but ask any professional pianist, and they will tell you that the those ones and zeros skip a key part of the analog piano experience. With an acoustic piano, when the hammers strike the strings they create vibrations in [...]



Solar Panels To Help Light Up Building

January 18th, 2009 at 5:13 pm » Comments (0)

 
The John Molson School of Business, Montreal, shows – for the first time – how solar heat panels integrated with power technology on its top two floors will help the building light up itself.



Scientists Use Own Children As Test Subjects

January 18th, 2009 at 10:59 am » Comments (0)

 
Even before his son was born, Pawan Sinha saw unique potential.  At a birthing class, Dr. Sinha, a neuroscience professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, stunned everyone, including his wife, by saying he was excited about the baby’s birth “because I really want to study him and do experiments with him.” He did, too, [...]



Golf Ball Technology May Improve Your Car’s Gas Mileage

January 18th, 2009 at 10:21 am » Comments (2)

 
 FastSkinz
I get really skeptical whenever I hear about some gizmo that supposedly saves lots of gas, but this dimpled car wrap kind of makes sense. Long ago, golf ball manufacturers discovered that a dimpled surface would help a ball to fly farther through the air with less drag, so why not apply the same thinking [...]



The Rise Of The Robots

January 18th, 2009 at 10:14 am » Comments (0)

 
There are now 1 million industrial robots toiling around the world, and Japan is where they’re the thickest on the ground. It has 295 of these electromechanical marvels for every 10 000 manufacturing workers-a robot density almost 10 times the world average and nearly twice that of Singapore (169), South Korea (164), and Germany (163).



Volitan: A Solar/Wind Powered Concept Boat

January 18th, 2009 at 9:58 am » Comments (2)

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Might the Volitan presage a new generation of lightweight, fully sustainable boats? It certainly sounds good on paper: the futuristic vessel would use solid sails – equipped with double layer solar cell panels – to harness both wind and solar energy and would have an incredibly light, stiff body structure, courtesy of its carbon fiber [...]



Top 10 Photos of the Week

January 18th, 2009 at 9:40 am » Comments (2)

The Rock Mouth People are a great novelty item. When you unzipped their mouths,
and its cold enough, the teeth will begin to chatter
This week is a bit silly because none of the planets are aligned, cosmic energy is totally out of phase, and none of the captions match the photos. But that never stopped us [...]