How will devices talk to each other?
Coders, vendors, and users are inching toward the smart-device-everywhere future known as the Internet of Things. They are starting to address a bunch of issues. One issue is just how will the various devices connected to the Internet of Things will talk to each other.
Social content is targeted and scrutinized during a divorce.
Social media has been purported to cause something that it doesn’t. Divorce is a perfect example of this. Because the divorce rate for people under 50 hasn’t demonstrably changed with the advent of social media, social media isn’t causing divorce.
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By now, most people know about 3D printing. It has has become huge, and more and more companies are creating 3D printers that can perform the most ridiculous prints. Recently people in Chicago took the chance to try out this technology, and they started 3D printing the Chicago cityscape using Google Maps as the base for their models. (Photos)
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The possibilities are endless when it comes to 3D printing, form spider robots to prosthetics for ducks. Researchers at North Carolina State University took the technology one step further with the discovery of a method for printing liquid metal.
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Atlas
Meet Atlas, a massive humanoid robot was unveiled by DARPA at the headquarters of Boston Dynamics, just outside Boston. Atlas was built by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), whose goal is to advance disaster response robotics. The hope is that Atlas is the first step towards the day when robots, not humans, will be sent to help mitigate major catastrophes, such as the Fukushima nuclear accident. (Photos and video)
People are shopping on their phones more so than ever before.
You won’t need to carry a wallet in the not-so-distant future. Smartphones are transforming the way we pay for things online and offline, but mobile payments still have a long way to go before they’re ubiquitous.
Futurist Thomas Frey: Fifteen years ago I found myself stranded in the small town of Faith, South Dakota. It was 3:00 am in the morning and my car was out of gas. To give you a better idea of my predicament, this tiny town of 400 people was located 100 miles away from any significant cities.
Continue reading… “Introducing the Fully-Automated 24-Hour City”
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University of Maryland engineers are currently working on a battery made of wood, an innovative, low-cost, environmentally friendly idea. The research team used tiny wood fibers from yellow pine trees to make test batteries — and we mean seriously tiny, the tree fibers are a thousand times thinner than a piece of paper. They use sodium rather than lithium, so the team imagines this battery working best in a large-scale environment, like for storing solar energy at a power plant.
Litecoin
In an attempt to launch Bitcoin, Winklevoss may have made investing in this virtual currency a little too mainstream for some people’s taste, there is no need to worry. The crypto community has it covered and is pumping up the next new thing: Litecoins.
“Where grown-ups go to unplug, getaway [sic] and be kids again.”
How much would you pay for a technology-free weekend? This past June, Digital Detox held its first three-day camp, the purpose of which is offering a technology-free weekend. It costs $350 and sold out.
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Mobileye is competing with Google in the space of driverless technology.
Mobileye, a self-driving car startup, announced the closing of a $400M financing round by firms BlackRock, Fidelity Management, Wellington Management, Sailing Capital and Enterprise Rent-A-Car. The round makes Mobileye the highest valued, privately held tech company in Israel with a total market value estimated at $1.5B.
How old is Barbie? Not in how many years she has existed but how old is she? She is a close to a 19-year-old girl, right? Everyone knows that a Barbie doll doesn’t look like a real person, but what you might not know is that in order for her proportions to be real; she would have to be an alien or some sort of half-human. Diane Adams wrote about this a few months ago in her article, Typical Barbie Body vs. Typical Real Woman Body. (Photos)
Continue reading… “3D printed Barbie doll redesigned to look like a real 19-year-old girl”