Futurist Thomas Frey: Anyone driving down a typical stretch of highway in the U.S. will encounter an endless barrage of traffic signs designed to dampen our aggressiveness, forcing drivers to drive slower.
Continue reading… “The Enormous Power of the Slow Link”
Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2011
Portavise is an unfastened vise which mounts vertical or horizontal in a non-skid base to hold delicate, odd-shapes and conventional items or can be used out of the base as a clamp. (Pics)
Continue reading… “Portavise – revolutionary new concept in clamping technology”
Sundial
Wall clocks are usually used to indicate time and at the very least to look pretty. What if we were to add laser beams, touchpad UI, WiFi, bluetooth and computer syncing? Now wouldn’t that be a fantastic concept! (Pics)
Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2011
Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies (ET3) ™ is a patented transportation technology (for people and goods) that is faster than jets, yet can provide 50 times more transportation per kWh than the most efficient electric car or train. (Pics)
Continue reading… “ET3 – space travel on Earth”
We are here with a world renowned futurist, Tom Frey at the DaVinci Institute Vault, actually sitting in the ‘vault’ at the Vault. Tom explains the Vault is a co-working space. There are more and more people working from home and they suffer from two problems, either isolation or distractions. If you have a lot of kids at home [or even one] you understand distraction, we’re sure. After working at home for a while, one begins to crave conversation with like minded people, and that’s what you get at the DaVinci Institute. “You’re around people doing similar type work…” Tom says the true value is in all the sidebar conversations that go on here.
Continue reading… “Inventors, entrepreneurs, and revolutionary thinkers”
Futurist Thomas Frey: Today, our best and brightest are drawn to elite colleges like Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, and Yale. As they attend these institutions they are surrounded by some of the most talented people in the world.
Continue reading… “Accomplishment-Based Education”
TapSense is an experimental touchscreen system, that is able to tell the difference between different parts of the user’s finger.
Devices with small touchscreens, such as smartphones, certainly have their attractions, but they also have one drawback – there isn’t much room on their little screens for touch-sensitive features. Users will sometimes have to go into sub-menus, or make do with jabbing their fingers at tiny controls. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute, however, are working on an alternative. Their prototype TapSense system can differentiate between screen taps from different parts of the finger, and will perform different tasks accordingly. (Pics and video)
Continue reading… “TapSense: New touchscreen technology recognizes different parts of the finger”
Settlement on the Moon
It’s been a dream for a long time to have a human settlement on the Moon, but in this age of budget cuts and indecisive plans for NASA’s future, a Moon base may seem too costly and beyond our reach. But a noted lunar scientist, Dr. Paul Spudis from the Lunar and Planetary Institute and a colleague, Tony Lavoie from the Marshall Space Flight Center, have come up with a plan for building a lunar settlement that is not only affordable but sustainable. It creates a Moon base along with a type of ‘transcontinental railroad’ in space which opens up cislunar space – the area between Earth and the Moon – for development.
Continue reading… “Lunar scientists’ plan for sustainable and affordable Moon base”
Global map showing major road and rail networks over land, along with transmission line and underwater cable data superimposed over satellite images of cities illuminated at night
The images show silvery threads stretching around the dark globe that create a dramatic spider’s web showing the patterns of our global sprawl. (Pics)
Continue reading… “Man-mad world – diagrams show how technology has taken over Earth”
Video screen time provides no educational benefits for children under age 2.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has warned that parents of infants and toddlers should limit the time their children spend in front of televisions, computers, self-described educational games and even grown-up shows playing in the background. Video screen time provides no educational benefits for children under age 2 and leaves less room for activities that do, like interacting with other people and playing, the group said.
Continue reading… “TV stunts babies’ development: American Academy of Pediatrics”
Ford’s voice-activated technology, Sync, will read text messages out loud.
A new feature will be installed in new Ford vehicles and many of Ford’s older ones as well. The feature will read text messages out loud.
Continue reading… “Ford’s Sync will now read your text messages out loud”
Electric DeLorean DMC-12 in the works
It comes as no surprise that the DeLorean DMC-12 is a popular car for DIY electric car conversions given the car’s iconic classic/futuristic status. And it’s official that DeLorean EV is coming from Humble, Texas’ reborn DeLorean Motor Company itself. Who else would build a time machine electric car and do it with some style?
Continue reading… “DeLorean Motor Company goes back to the future with all-electric DeLorean”
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