Future, Frivolity & Folly — By Jay Oatway
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Living in a mobile society requires new ways to access information while on the move. The MIT Advertising Lab recently posted a excellent round-up of the hot new trend finally breaking out of Japan: QR codes. QR (which stands for Quick Response) codes are a new standard for barcodes that allow more information to be embedded.
Free software to enable your camera phone to read these QR …
Some call it the problem with Wikipedia. I think it’s the best thing about it: [via Futurismic]
However, not everyone is so sure about crowdsourced knowledge, according to a report at ZDnet:
The history professors at Middlebury College in Vermont voted this month to ban the use of Wikipedia as a source for student citations in academic …
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) currently under way in Las Vegas kicks off this year’s event calendar, offering a look at what’s to come in gadgets. But its easy to be distracted by the hype, as CNET News Michael Kanellos says:
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is more than a nearly week-long peek into the future …
Online games today have turned healthy young people into the equivelant of brains in vats hooked to cyberspace. But what if the virtual world of gaming could be overlayed on top of your neighbourhood, turning the streets into the new battlefield. While it might be disconcerting for those not equipped with the game-enabling headsets, it would certainly help gamers burn off a few more calories, according to The Sydney Morning Herald [via ...
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…
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 …
The army of one just got a bit stronger thanks to Sarcos, who’s won a contract to deliver an exoskeleton to the military next year. Here’s a recent demo video that’s making the rounds (as seen on Engadget, Communist Robot, Wired …
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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