Future
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VR Interface Allows You to ‘Touch’ Holograms!
Like an elaborate version of the famous Pepper’s Ghost effect where a projection appears to interact with a real world person, this incredible floating haptic interface will absolutely blow your mind… Because unlike Pepper’s Ghost? You’re...
Japan Unveils Disturbing Future of Newscasters
Meet Otonoroid (the more stately female android on the right) and Kodomoroid (the awkward android on the left). Unveiled in Japan as part of a future museum exhibit asking, “What is human?”, these two androids are accessing news stories in...
Drummer Rocks Amazing Drumming Prosthetic
As the mechanical components that make up robotic prosthetics shrink, they’re integrating more easily into the lives of those that need them. Drummer Jason Barnes built his own crude drumming hand but, after meeting an engineer who felt he...
Fanta Wants You To Taste Fanta – By Eating the Print Ad About How Fanta Tastes!
In another step toward getting our food like the Jetsons, Fanta has created a print ad to describe, in a lot of adjectives, what their orange-flavored soda tastes like… Then they offer you a chance to taste it. And not by giving you a...
Company Creates Robotic Toddler to Help Us Like Our Future Overlords
Across the globe from the uncanny valley that is Diego-san’s facial expressions, the University of Zurich’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory making another weird foray into the creation of a robot toddler. Roboy is being developing with...
DARPA Robot Navigates Obstacles – Strolls Into Your Nightmares!
Remember that weird and completely creepy mule-like, self-stablizing robot that’s been swimming around the internet for a while now called the BigDog from Boston Dynamics? Well BigDog just got out-weirded and out-creeped by DARPA’s newest...
Soft, Creepy Worm-Like Robot Gets Hammered…Keeps Going!
Robotics design is continually making all those creepy robot-takeover concepts part of our future reality. Check this thing out. It’s a ‘robot’ that imitates the actions of a worm but has the uncanny creepy factor of a maggot when you...
Minority Dissent: How Wired Missed the Precogged Future that Wasn’t
Wired magazine is celebrating the ten year anniversary of the Steven Spielberg film MINORITY REPORT in an article that talks about the secret summit where technologists were invited to imagine the world of 2080 (revised to 2050 for the...
Is Your Itchy DVR Fast Forward Finger A Box Office Oracle?
Interesting find on Deadline today suggesting that Box Office success can be directly predicted by your impatience while watching a DVR’d episode of Fringe. More specifically, commercials for movies that are fast forwarded more often tend...
Jules Verne Invented Podcasting & 3 Other Eerie References To Modern Tech In Victorian Sci Fi
Back in the Victorian era, steam engines were on the bleeding edge and electricity seemed magical and revolutionary. In those times it seemed that all could be solved by technology and in many ways this was true. Inventors like Edison,...