Back To The Future 2 was the inspiration for the folks at Future Motion when they set out to build a new electric skateboard. Inventor Kyle Doerksen knew he didn’t have the Tony Stark-level genius it would take to actually whip up an actual hoverboard, but he still wanted to emulate the feeling the feel of riding one.
Continue reading… “Onewheel – an electric, self-balancing skateboard”
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The world’s tallest waterslide will be opening in the summer of 2014 in Kansas City. The Verrückt is taller than Niagra Falls and sounds absolutely unreal.
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The technology is known as Contour Crafting.
Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis, at The University of Southern California, has built a colossal 3D printer that can build a house in 24 hours. Khoshnevis’s robot comes equipped with a nozzle that spews out concrete and can build a home based on a set computer pattern. (Video)
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The ECLIPS system
Going out for an evening can be a lot of fun, but when you have to wait in a long line at the coat check to retrieve your garment it kind of loses it’s appeal. But now there is an electronic tagging system designed to speed that process up by making it much easier for the coat checker to find your garment. (Video)
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Self-cleaning dishes.
You would think that living in the 21st century would mean that we would no longer have to deal with mundane tasks like washing dishes. Even the best dishwashers have trouble getting the dirt off sometimes. But, the Swedish design studio, Tomorrow Machine, has a brilliant solution: dishes that clean themselves.
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Joerg Sprave’s slingshot fireworks launcher.
Bottle rockets are always fun to shoot off but they are often dangerous. You are going to need more power if you want to make it into a real macho guy thing or make it go into orbit. (Videos)
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3D printed chocolate sculpture.
A British company, Choc Edge, claims to be able to create a chocolate sculpture of your face using a 3D printer. The 3D image can be created by building up layers of dark, milk or white chocolate. (Video)
In 2013, the tech world gave us plenty talk about. We can build smarter robots. We can 3D-print pretty much anything. Tablet wars are still going strong, Snapchat is still a thing, and now we can binge-watch our favorite TV shows in more ways than ever before. (Videos)
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Fastest business jet on the planet.
Spike Aerospace, a Boston based aerospace company, is working on a new aircraft that it believes will be the fastest business jet in the world. The aircraft is called the S-512 and Spike says that the jet will be capable of cruising at Mach 1.6 and will have a max speed of Mach 1.8. (Video)
Continue reading… “Supersonic Jets being resurrected for the business elite”
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In France, A 75-year-old man has just been given the gift of life as a team of surgeons have successfully completed the transplant of the world’s first true artificial heart.
Continue reading… “A half-cow, half-electronic artificial heart has saved this Frenchman”
Andreas Raptopoulos, CEO of Matternet, a startup in Palo Alto, Calif., has introduced a new type of transportation system that will deliver medicine, food, goods and supplies wherever they are needed — with drones.
Continue reading… “Forget roads – drones are the future of transporting goods”
A robotic muscle 1,000 times more powerful than a human’s has been developed by American scientists. The robotic muscle uses a revolutionary material that fluidly changes its properties.
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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