Future, Frivolity & Folly — By Jay Oatway
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Future Files:
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
Yes, …
Cooking is so old fashioned. The family of the future relies on exothermic agents.
At least that’s what an environmental consulting firm and other developers in Japan have come up with to produce a non-perishable food pack that creates steaming hot rice with the simple addition of cold water.
By subjecting rice to 4,000 times normal atmospheric pressure, the developers were able to …
Everyone is moving to the city. Half the populations of Africa and Asia will be living in urban areas by 2025. The trick is how to get food (still grown in big fields out in the middle of nowhere) to where all the cool new urbanites are crammed together fighting over the last butter croissant at Starbucks.
Recently the Paris-based Agricultural Research Center …
Urbanization portends the world’s future population will mostly live in the cities, yet–and I know this seem somewhat paradoxical, with fewer people living in the country–we’ll need even more farm land to feed us (which has much to do with providing craft services for the burgeoning population growth that’s forecast). The solution [via Boing Boing]: Vertical Farm Designs.
Over the next 50 years, the human population is expected …
The new titans of mobile sports technology, Nike+, are once again teaming with their cohorts at apple — this time developing wifi and 3G tie-ins for the next-gen iPhone. Lace up your sneakers and tune to your power song — …
Virgin Galactic has unveiled their new space tourism vehicle: SpaceShipTwo. But this is more than an extravagant joy ride for wealthy space monkeys. According the Sir Richard Branson, it’s the ticket to humanity’s survival. [via PSFK]
“Our population is …
Are you feeling mighty chuffed about the new HDTV you got for Xmas? Sorry, but it’s already well on its way to the junk pile of obsolete technology — if the hype from this week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is to be …
The sleep pods of the future will take romance to a new level. Consider the red velour, the bottle of bubbling chilling, maybe even a virtual fireplace crackling on the 32-inch LCD — who wouldn’t be ready for love.
[via Gizmodo]
It’s also …
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