A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
Young consumers in Japan are opening their wallets to both prestigious brand-name imports and low-priced goods at the same time. Leading brand-name goods from overseas are enjoying booming sales.
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Maptech has developed a very creative full-functioning chartplotter program for your Pocket PC. This innovative new Pocket Navigator is a wireless GPS system for the Pocket PC that produces high resolution Aero, Marine, and Land maps for the entire world. So the next time you’re lost in the middle of North Dakota ….well, you’d just better ask for directions. Even true genius can’t explain North Dakota. More Here
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The Merlin Roadster is definitely a hot looking car. It comes equipped with a 88 cubic inch V-twin engine that pushes it past the 100 mph mark. It also get a cool 60 miles per gallon. This little sportscar will hit dealers this summer with a pricetag of $23,900.
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Useless yes, but it’s still a lot of fun. The site is intended to teach people about the dynamics of movement by making a skeleton move like humans do. Its all about kinematics – the science of movement. You’ll enjoy the experience. Here it is!
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Time magazine has called it the invention of the year. This outrageously expensive piece of furniture vibrates all to pieces of your body that need vibrating. The H.9 Shaiatsu massage chair will only set you back a cool $3,500. More Here
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In 1502 Leonardo da Vinci did a simple drawing of a graceful bridge with a huge span of 240 meters. It was a design commissioned by Sultan Bajazet II to span the Golden Horn, an inlet at the mouth of the Bosporus River in what is the modern nation of Turkey. It was never built. When Vebjørn Sand saw the design in an exhibition on da Vinci’s engineering genius in 1996, he was overwhelmed by the beauty of the design. His great gift to the people of Norway was his ability to communicate this vision to the public sector.
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For those who think there’s a future in playing air guitar, two companies have prototyped invisible keyboard technologies. Samsung’s Scurry and the Senseboard are both a couple virtual keyboards that use sensors on the back of your hands to track the movements of your fingers. However, they’ll never be real useful for those of us that have to look at the keys.
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Most analysts agree that satellite radio will be a big winner over the long run. Some estimates say the music-from-the-sky format will have 25 million subscribers by the end of the decade. But XM and Sirius have a long way to go to see numbers like that. Sirius has yet to launch. XM boasts 30,000 subscribers, but will need 4 million before it breaks even.
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The idea of making your home an extension of Bill Gate’s computer network is alive and well. Thinking that Windows XP and the XBox were just stepping stones to total world domination, Microsoft unveiled new initiatives designed to further the company’s vision of turning homes into digital media networks linked to its software, video game machine and Internet services. More Here
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In a recent beakthrough, SoloTrek has achieved about 27 hours of tethered-hover flight testing. By design, the maximum altitude has been limited to about 12 inches, and the longest ‘flight’ had an endurance of about 15 seconds. They are being very careful to walk before they run. More Here
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This is a far cry from the old deep sea diving bells. Deep Flight I is an experimental, one-person sub that was built to prove the concept of underwater flight and has broken through to an entirely new class of submersible craft which operate on the principles of dynamic wing forces and flight control rather than the static system of ballast adjustment and vectored thrust of conventional submersibles. More Here
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Since we already have powerlines running all over the country, why not just send data down them as well? Media Fusion claim to have a technology that does just this. The technology let you send data at GB/s, hundred of km’s over ordinary powerlines. It uses the magnetic fields generated by the power lines as a waveguide for a microwave signal. More Here
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