Alpha Machine
Robots are taking over even the most ignobly esteemed jobs like flipping burgers. Alpha machine from Momentum Machines cooks up a tasty burger with all the fixings. And it does it with such quality and efficiency it’ll produce “gourmet quality burgers at fast food prices.”
Continue reading… “Alpha robot serves up 360 hamburgers an hour”
Stephen Hawking
There is the realistic potential for malicious artificial intelligence to wreak havoc on humanity’s way of life. Physicist Stephen Hawking agrees it’s worth worrying about.
A young woman celebrates after winning China’s first Miss Plastic Surgery pageant on December 18, 2004 in Beijing, China.
In South Korea, plastic surgery has become so crazy that some surgeons are now issuing out special certificates to prove that patients are who they say they are.
Mink printer
Grace Choi decided to disrupt the beauty industry when she was attending Harvard Business School. She did a little research and realized that beauty brands create and then majorly mark up their products by mixing lots of colors. (Video)
Continue reading… “Grace Choi figures out how to 3D print makeup from any home computer”
A plastic panel that can harvest light when it hangs off the edge of a rooftop, redirecting sunshine down into dark urban streets below.
Cities keep getting taller as they run out of buildable space. A record number of skyscrapers are planned in London, places like Bangkok and Panama City have dozens of new towers under construction, and Mumbai is building more skyscrapers than anywhere else in the world.
Continue reading… “Simple device designed to pull sunlight down to dark city streets”
Space-based solar
Some newer clean energy sources are becoming mainstream industries with low prices and established financing models like solar panels and wind turbines. But even in this era of emerging predictable clean energy, there are some pretty weird, experimental and ambitious energy projects under development. And they’re trying to move out of the lab and off of research papers, and into actual production.
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShip Two
NASA has lost the urgency of the space race years of the 1960’s, but today’s commercial space sector looks to be recapturing some of that fervor. On Friday, May 2nd at New York City’s historic Explorer’s Club the players in America’s private space race were out in force at this event, each one promising major breakthroughs that will arrive within the next year or two.
Continue reading… “Commercial space travel revs up”
Automation will help agriculture via large-scale robotic and microrobots.
Below are 15 emerging technologies related to agricultural and natural manufacturing under four key areas of accelerating change: Sensors, Food, Automation and Engineering.
Continue reading… “Top 15 emerging agriculture technologies that will change the world”
Find My iPhone has made it fundamentally easier to track down your phone after you’ve misplaced it following a night of responsible drinking. David Pogue, human dad-joke and Yahoo tech guy, even once used it to find his.
Larry Lessig, Creative Commons co-founder, believes the Internet masses can overcome political corruption in America. Lessig is crowdfunding political races in five congressional districts to elect representatives who will make campaign finance reform their political priority. His idea has already raked in $447,546 in 4 days.
Volvo’s Drive Me project
Volvo Car Group’s “Drive Me” project — featuring 100 self-driving Volvos on public roads in everyday driving conditions — is moving forward rapidly, with the first test cars now driving around the Swedish city of Gothenburg.
Continue reading… “Volvo testing self-driving cars on public roads in Sweden”
Cree T8 bulb
In the scramble to replace traditional forms of illumination with greener LED sources, Cree has just announced the release of a new type of tube light designed to tackle one of the biggest energy hogs in Corporate America: fluorescent overhead lights.
Continue reading… “Cree LED tubes will make fluorescent lights seem old fashioned”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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