The project’s creators say their “holograms” are more memorable than two dimensional slides.
Two London-based junior doctors have pioneered a system which uses an illusionary effect to help medical students master their subject.
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Masdar City will use solar energy and other renewables , and will be car-free.
Mankind is rethinking how we build the structures we live and work in which is changing the way our cities look and feel. According to architect Philip Beesley, our cities of smooth stone and steel may become more like floating forests – with buildings that can think and breathe and cool themselves.
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The project involves putting two power lines directly into the road.
The recent innovations in wireless charging for electric vehicles could mean losing the need for batteries altogether. A Swedish project being tested is a system designed to power EVs along the highway.
Continue reading… “Volvo tests road that will charge electric cars”
Apple’s WWDC 2013
The conference that Apple hosted in San Francisco last week for 6,000 developers was a face-off between CEO Tim Cook and Jony Ive, his Senior VP for design. (Infographic)
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Labor’s share of the world’s income is plunging, and the technology boom is to blame.
For the past thirty years, wages have evaporated as a share of the economy. Meanwhile, the proportion of national income consumed by profits, dividends, and capital gains has steadily grown. Capital 1, Labor 0.
Continue reading… “Robots are already stealing our paychecks”
AmazonFresh
Webvan, the online grocery start-up, may have been the single most expensive flame-out of the dot-com era, blowing through more than $800 million in venture capital and IPO proceeds in just over three years before shutting its doors in 2001.
Continue reading… “Webvan rising from the dead, Amazon builds a grocery business”
Flying robots are going to become a lot more common in the U.S.
Investors and entrepreneurs are betting on a future full of flying robots that can be programmed to do anything from survey crops or wildlife to delivering vaccines to remote villages in Africa.
Continue reading… “Entrepreneurs and investors bet on the future of the drone economy”
Google is working on fighting child porn on the web with new technology.
Google, the search and mobile superpower, is working on new technology that would effectively purge all images of child pornography and abuse from most of the Web.
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Dave Engledow is a great photographer, and a pretty awesome Dad. After his daughter Alice Bee was born he wanted to document her childhood in the most creative way he could. Dave is not a professional photographer (he works in progressive politics and worker’s rights), but the photos are well shot and thought out. (Photos and video)
Continue reading… “‘World’s Best Father’ – Dave Engledow’s funny father daughter portraits”
Vision of Transformation
Francis Fukuyama published his book, The End of History in 1992. He argued that, with the cold war over and liberal democracy triumphant, the major historical narrative dialectic of history was over.
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Machines for High Frequency Trading (HFT)
On April 23 at 1:07 pm, a hijacked AP Twitter account falsely reported an attack on the White House. Just seconds later, major US stock indexes started to fall. They were down 1 percent by the time the tweet was publicly identified as bogus three minutes later. And in another three minutes, the markets had recovered to pre-tweet levels.
Continue reading… “High-frequency trading faster than the speed of reality”
Men bring much more to the parenting enterprise than money, when many fathers are highly involved in childrearing.
Like many of her peers in Hollywood, Jennifer Aniston, not to mention scholars and writers opining on fatherhood these days, she has come to the conclusion that dads are dispensable: “Women are realizing it more and more knowing that they don’t have to settle with a man just to have that child,” she said at a press conference a few years ago.
Continue reading… “How good fathers contribute to their kids’ lives”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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