The Shortest Route to The Future is a Straight Timeline

18 August 2005

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The Shortest Route to The Future is a Straight Timeline

From artificial brains to smelly TV, the BT Futurology department has released a timeline in fancy Flash animation that portends we had all better get used to experiencing massive change [via Trends].

The timeline encompasses all areas of life influenced by technology developments including artificial intelligence, health and medical, business and education, demographics, energy, robotics, space, telecommunications and transport and travel.It predicts by 2012, children could …
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The Oil Crisis Will Make The World a Better Place

20 July 2005

Jay Oatway

Climate Burn | Flying Car | Future-Stuff-That-Goes-Ping | Power Struggle

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The Oil Crisis Will Make The World a Better Place

Here’s an idea: compressed air + a little fuel–and I mean very little. According to a French inventor who spent 12 years perfecting the engine, the incorporation of bi-energy (compressed air + fuel) allows his vehicles to increase their driving range to close to 2000 km with zero pollution in cities and considerably reduced pollution outside urban areas.

Nice. If only they weren’t so damn ugly.

Compressed air is a new viable form of …
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Watch the Skies

25 May 2005

Jay Oatway

Climate Burn | Jump the Shark

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Could these ominous formations portend the end is nigh? Or are they just cool weather pictures.

[via Boing Boing]

The Future of Magazines

06 May 2005

Jay Oatway

Climate Burn | Future-Stuff-That-Goes-Ping | Jump the Shark | Rise of The Creative Class

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A brilliant portension by the Magazine Publishers Of America. They show future covers from a diverse range of publications, from Maxim magazine’s "Juicy Tomato!" to Parents "Cloning" cover story. All displayed in an elegant Flash presentation. Take some time to savour this site. The future will still set aside time each day for something real.

The Popular Future

The 7 Wonders of The Futuristic City in The Sand

Dubai is fast becoming the city of the future. Oddee has a round-up of some of the mind-blowing projects the city is building, or has already built. My favourite of the seven has to be The Burg Dubai, …

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Beer Robot Will Revolutionize the Keg Party

Because we know that you, dear reader, love beer as much as we do — here’s the robot of the month: [via UberReview]
From what information I could gather, this appears to be intended for commercial use, in bars and the like. …

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Rock Stars Will Blast Video From Their Guitars

Not since Jimmy Hendrix lit his guitar on fire at Monterey has the world seen such a visual display on the face of the trusty rock’n'roll axe — presenting The TV-Guitar <natch>. The invention of Ben Lewry of Lewry Guitars, builds a laptop -esque visualizer display …

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Techno-Doping Will Destroy the Olympics

The starting gun fires and all you hear is the snick snick snick snick of the cyborg legs scissoring down the track. Forget testing the limits of a natural athlete. We know that we’ve reached the pinnacle for meat and bones. But we are just getting started at testing the techno-doped athlete. …

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Meet the Spacecraft That Could Save NASA a Fortune | Wired Science from Wired.com 14 May 08
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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.