Vacuum Tube Train
Despite a 5 hour time difference you could have lunch in Manhattan and still get to London in time for the theater with the help of a 4,000 mph magnetically levitated train.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: It’s amazing how a single newscast can set the world on fire.
The very second Standard & Poor’s announced they had downgraded the U.S. Credit rating, communications systems around the world began to boil. Reaction time was critical and those who could react the quickest were able to position the negative news into something less negative, perhaps even a positive.
The sensor is so thin it can be worn comfortably on the skin without the patient noticing it.
Monitoring a patient’s vital signs could soon be a simple as sticking on a tiny, wireless patch similar to a temporary tattoo. (Pic and video)
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Artist’s rendition showing the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2).
DARPA has launched an experimental unmanned hypersonic glider from an air base on the central California coast.
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Scientists have come up with a brand new drug called DRACO that seems to be able to hunt down and destroy any and all viruses.
Antibiotics, such as penicillin, can treat most bacterial infections. But when it comes to viral infections, including influenza, the common cold, and deadly hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola, antibiotics are useless.
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Students love technology.
It’s a fact that college students are obsessed with technology. Key surveys were performed recently to gauge students’ tech use scientifically. And OnlineEducation.net has made an infographic based on results from the student/technology study. (Infographic)
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Our technological world has plenty of pitfalls.
If you feel like you’re scrambling to keep up with technology, you’ve got plenty of company as technology has been moving forward in leaps and bounds. There’s not a gadget on the market that doesn’t aim to make our lives easier, but now we’re tangled up in a strange new world. It’s a complex web of tweets and roaming charges in which we we hunt for open power outlets with the urgency of our ancestors foraging for their next meal.
A salesman at a Nordstrom store rings up a sale using a custom iPod Touch.
Fabienne Michel was shoppng for a pair of khaki shorts the other day at an Old Navy store in Manhattan. But she left the store without something equally routine: her receipt.
Shauna Mullin and Zara Dampney encourage spectators to photograph their behinds in a deal with Betfair to advertise a Quick Response (QR) code on their bikini bottoms.
Female beach volleyball champions in Britain are renting out their bikinis in an advertising deal that encourages spectators to photograph their behinds. Zara Dampney, 24, and Shauna Mullin, 26, have turned their bottoms into their bottom line by advertising a Quick Response (QR) code on their behinds.
Internet bullying is far more intense because it is harder to escape from the 24-hour online world.
Victims of cyber-bullying suffer more than victims of ‘traditional’ bullying, according to research.
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BiPod
Burt Rutan, a general aviation design legend, may have announced his retirement, but he’s continuing his innovative work. Rutan expanded on his latest work: a hybrid-powered flying car, at a forum presented on July 27th.
Country living can be a pain. And we’re not talking about the hardships of life in a rural community, we’re talking about the difficulties of living in a country. For all the services and security the social compact buys us, we are forced to pay a price in compromises — something made all the more poignant by what’s going on in the White House right now. But unless you want to drop out of the modern, law-abiding world altogether, this is the deal we’re stuck with.
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