Nationwide, vehicle thefts dropped by 3.3 percent in 2011 compared with the previous year.
It’s tough to be a car thief these days. The technology that makes cars harder to steal and that has armed police with better tools has reduced vehicle theft to its lowest level since Lyndon B. Johnson was president.
Colorado wildfire
Colorado wildfires that are still raging and have devastated tens of thousands of acres and destroyed hundreds of homes, bringing calls for the marshaling of local, state and federal resources to combat the infernos.
Continue reading… “FireWatch – wildfire early warning possible with space sensors”
“Younger Americans’ reading habits and library use are still anchored by the printed page.”
Younger Americans no longer visit public libraries and have all but abandoned paper books in favor of digital media has been the stereotype for a while. But in reality, young Americans are actually more likely than older Americans to have read a printed book in the past year and are more likely than their elders to use a library.
Continue reading… “Younger Americans are reading books and visiting libraries after all: Study”
How young people behave now is what’s going to be normal in a few years.
Just about everyone is carrying a smartphone these days and we wanted to look at how etiquette is going to evolve. Checking the phone at dinner time was total no-no for some of us. But since almost all of us carry phones around, is that still true?
Continue reading… “How 18 to 29 year olds use their phones totally differently from older people”
Pebble Smartwatch
The adoption of smartphone in the U.S. continues to grow. It now accounts for 57 percent of the mobile market according to comScore. Rollout of in-store mobile payments has been slow and fragmented. Some experts attribute it to infrastructure challenges or hesitancy on behalf of consumers due to security risks. Others suspect the market just isn’t ready.
Continue reading… “Smartwatches are the future of mobile payments”
The crew of Shenzhou 10.
In June, the successful landing of China’s latest manned space mission cast a spotlight on the country’s growing human spaceflight skills as it hones the capabilities needed to build a huge, permanently crewed space station.
Continue reading… “Success of China’s spaceflight sets stage for huge space station”
Circa
There has been a lot of talk in media circles about how the “story” needs to be disrupted, so that news can be rendered in a way that makes more sense for a real-time, digital and mobile age — but so far all we have is more listicles and slideshows, or streams of headlines that mimic a wire service. About the only company that is really trying hard to disrupt the idea of a news story from the inside out is Circa, the news startup co-founded (and funded) by Cheezburger founder Ben Huh, and it is doing so by thinking about news the way programmers think about code, or scientists think about atoms. (Video)
Continue reading… “Reinventing the News – What Will that Look Like?”
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Will high-speed tube travel become a reality? A cutting edge company known as ET3 believes the application of magnetic levitation high-speed tube travel will introduce society to an all new era of trade and tourism.
Continue reading… “High speed tube transport could take you from New York to Beijing in 2 hours”
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The overlap between fashion and technology is growing. A recent example comes from fashion designer Ying Gao, who made two dresses that glow and wiggle around when someone glances at them. Yes, the pair of “gaze-activated” dresses love to have an audience.
Continue reading… “Gaze-activated dresses light up and move when you stare at them”
Futurist Thomas Frey: A thousand years from now, what is it that the human race will need to have accomplished?
Yes, I realize that this is a huge question and many of you reading this are living paycheck-to-paycheck worrying about who’s going to win the big game this weekend. But if we don’t begin to frame our role of humanity inside a much bigger picture, we are likely to remain in sputter-mode until we eventually do.
Continue reading… “In Search of Humanity’s Prime Directive”
GrowUp’s Kickstarter-funded aquaponic farm is a circular ecosystem with 150 fish, all self-contained in a box.
At the Marlborough Playground in London this summer you’ll see a modified, upcycled shipping container with a greenhouse on top–dubbed the GrowUpBox. It is producing both fresh vegetables and fresh fish, all in one compact set-up.
Continue reading… “GrowUpBox: A shipping container farm that grows tilapia and salad greens”
Smart ingestibles
People on the cutting edge are swallowing ingestible smart pills containing minuscule sensors and transmitters to monitor a range of health data and wirelessly share this information with a doctor, according to the New York Times.
Continue reading… “Smart ingestible pills that monitor your health and replace passwords”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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