Future, Frivolity & Folly — By Jay Oatway
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Future Files:
With a battle for the title of oldest person now pushing towards 120 years, and reports that with proper excercise and diet (meat and two neutrons), most of us in our 30s living in the developed world can expect to live to 100. With every day that passes, average life expectancy increases by five hours. The average age of our society is about …
Keeping an eye on aging parents can be challenging. Installing cameras to monitor them is, well, a bit too intrusive. Thankfully, the Japanese are creating subtle networked devices to monitor the little details that often portend of greater problems on the horizon, and allow dutiful sons and daughters, or even neighbours, to intervene before it’s too late [via engadget] :
But more and more Japanese these days are like Kijima: …
Stretchy, flexible future phones will transform from tablets into jewelry. But what if these nano-creatures begin to self-replicate and turn on their masters, gnawing away your DNA at the nanoscale level — mobile phones might truly become hazardous to your health! For now, it’s …
While still struggling to shake off the effects of the long-haul, Easter Break flight to the UK, I’ve come across a great round up of forth coming aviation technologies that promise to make air travel a bit more fun. Some of these I’ve posted about before, so consider this a recap for those of you …
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, …
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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