Further Portendings

Friday Frivolity With Lube In The Bedroom

Check out KY’s new viral ad campaign: Are You British in Bed? Discover your lovemaking nationality:

Earth Day 2008: Five Easy Steps To Save The World

22 Apr 08 Climate Burn | Duelling Realities | Farming the Future | Jump the Shark

In celebration of Earth Day 2008 (W00t! We survived another year!), here is the Portension guide for green living this year:
Step 1) Do Whatever Al Gore Tells You

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Your Cyborg Destiny Awaits

14 Apr 08 Future-Stuff-That-Goes-Ping | Robot Revolt

The guys over at Popular Science have taken an exoskeleton for a test drive:

While audiences flood theaters this month to see the comic-book-inspired Iron Man, a real-life mad genius toils in a secret mountain lab to make the mechanical superhuman more than just a fantasy with the XOS Exoskeleton…

It recognizes that Jameson wants to bring his hands down and calculates what each artificial muscle …
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The Popular Future

The World Outside Your Window Will Be Artificial

Don’t like the view, simply wave your hand and select something more pleasing, chose the time of day, or even adjust the color tone to help alleviate your jet lag. In a densely populated city like Hong Kong, where most people have a view of only the building …

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$TV Will Destory Your Mind (if it hasn\'t done so already)$

TV Will Destory Your Mind (if it hasn’t done so already)

It’s once again Web Wednesday in Hong Kong tonight. This week’s special guest is from television — no she’s not famous. She’s Ivy Wong, COO for TVB.com (one of Hong Kong’s local broadcasters — Warning: …

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Friday Frivolity With Topless Power Rangers (NSFW)

Because Japanese pr0n is just so wierdly futuristic — it doesn’t matter that this video is ancient and has been making the viral rounds longer than the Bird Flu. Warning: bare breasts! Not safe for work.

Are you at home? Good. Enjoy Topless Power Rangers.

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Top 5 Eco-friendly Bags for the New Year

A popular resolution for the 2008 New Year: use fewer disposable plastic bags. Here are some trendy alternatives that will have you looking good as you save the planet [via Trendhunter, Pink Tentacle ]:

The Bra Bag

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News From The Future

Britain Releases Secret Files on UFO Sightings -- SPACE.com 15 May 08
What they saw has never been explained. And they were so worried about losing their jobs that they demanded their names be kept off the official reports.
All You Need to Know About Giant Monsters in 5 Minutes » SlideShare 15 May 08
Thanks to the nice people at Slideshare, you can now get my 5-minute introduction to giant monster appreciation, which I performed live at the Ignite show in San Francisco a couple weeks ago.
Clever Uses: Cure Poison Ivy and Jellyfish Stings with Vodka 14 May 08
In fact, the article offers a total of 10 unusual uses for the popular beverage, from flower preservation and insect repellent to toothache reliever and jellyfish-sting soother.
Meet the Spacecraft That Could Save NASA a Fortune | Wired Science from Wired.com 14 May 08
Reusable spacecraft architecture is a bit of a novelty for NASA, which has traditionally built spacecraft from the ground up for each new mission -- at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. No lo. […]
Megaquake set to strike within a decade | New Scientist Environment 2 May 08
Sometime in the next 10 years we can expect an earthquake of a similar magnitude to the 2004 Sumatra quake that triggered the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami.
How To: Build Your Own Iron Man Armor | Danger Room from Wired.com 2 May 08
In fact, complete suits of bullet-proof armor have existed for centuries. It's a popular myth that gunpowder made armor obsolete; armor-makers just improved their product.