Nest
The smoke detector screams, people panic, arms and hands flail and someone with a towel furiously fans away smoke in the kitchen. Then you need a chair to reach the ceiling to hold down that impossibly tiny red button, which never seems to silence the wailing device. So you rip out the batteries–and maybe don’t put them back for days or weeks. (Video)
Continue reading… “Nest reinvents the smoke detector”
DeepFlight Super Falcon
The DeepFlight Super Falcon (DFSF) is a sleek vehicle that flies, but it’s not flying in the air, it’s flying through the water. It is shaped like a stout fighter jet with two stubby 8.8-feet wide “wings” at each side, with a super slim chassis and domed semicircle waterproof windows. The 20.11 feet DFSF soars through water instead of simply sinking like traditional submarines. (Video)
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At the Geneva Auto Show earlier this year, Toyota showed up with a three-wheeled escape pod of an electric vehicle called the i-Road. At the time Toyota declared the diminutive vehicle production-ready. Not many “production-ready” concept cars ever actually see the light of day, but as it turns out, in the case of the i-Road Toyota has already begun producing the slick little vehicles. (Photos)
Continue reading… “Toyota’s i-Road EV concept enters production”
Do you have Silicon Valley Syndrome?
Do you sit at a computer all day? Are you achy, your back hurts, you have trouble sleeping, and your head is pounding? You could have Silicon Valley syndrome.
Continue reading… “60% of Americans suffer from Silicon Valley Syndrome: Infographic”
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Ford’s European researchers could one day help you avoid collisions with its new technology. I could also help you squeeze into a tight parking space with the help of radar, ultrasound, and a digital camera.
Continue reading… “New Ford Focus parks itself and prevents collisions”
Google wants you to gesture when you drive.
Google wants to take advantage of our ability to make gestures. Google will be able to read and decipher any number of gesture commands by mounting a camera in your car’s ceiling and a laser in your dashboard. Swiping downward near your window will roll it down for you, while pointing to the radio will pump up the music.
Continue reading… “Google files patent for gesture-controlled car”
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. Some of these innovations already exist.
Continue reading… “The next frontier in cybercrime? Your body”
Some research shows that higher pay does not, on net, lead workers to do more.
The English philosopher, Bertrand Russell, was not a fan of work. In his 1932 essay, “In Praise of Idleness”, he reckoned that if society were better managed the average person would only need to work four hours a day. Such a small working day would “entitle a man to the necessities and elementary comforts of life.” The rest of the day could be devoted to the pursuit of science, painting and writing.
Continue reading… “Relationship between hours worked and productivity: Chart”
The annual Freedom on the Net report from Freedom House is out, and like in most such reports, the actual rankings are largely unsurprising. Iceland, the frozen whistleblower nirvana, ranked first, and second was Estonia, the tiny Baltic country that gave us Skype. China, Cuba, and Iran came in last, obviously.
Continue reading… “Internet freedom on the decline globally”
Is your office prepared for millennials?
It’s estimated that 46% of U.S. workers will be made up of millennials, by 2020, and that is projected to grow to 75% by 2025, which means companies of all sizes will be vying for this group of professionals.
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Where and how the world does business is changing. For the last thirty days,emerging markets have been a source of low-cost but increasingly skilled labor. Their fast-growing cities are filled with millions of new and increasingly prosperous consumers, who provide a new growth market for global corporations at a time when much of the developed world faces slower growth as a result of aging. But the number of large companies from the emerging world will rise, as well, according to a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI). This powerful wave of new companies could profoundly alter long-established competitive dynamics around the world.
Continue reading… “The shifting global business landscape”
Human organ-on-a-chip.
Academic collaborators and Army scientists at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) are conducting research on organoids (small swatches of human tissue) on microchips.
Continue reading… “Researchers develop human-on-a-chip for chemical testing”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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