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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/872281861/final-frontier-designs-3g-space-suit/widget/video.html

heterochronia:

Our 3G suit is intended for IVA, or Intra Vehicular Activity, that is, launch and re-entry, for commercial space providers both suborbital and orbital.   Basically IVA suits are a safety backup in case of an emergency loss of cabin pressure, like the oxygen masks in commercial airliners. The future commercial space industry (SpaceX, Boeing, Sierra Nevada, Virgin, Armadillo, XCOR, etc) will need these suits for the basic safety of manned flights.  Current NASA suits cost well into the millions, while our 3G is intended to retail for a small fraction of this.  

We need your help to make this new suit!  While our costs are comparatively modest, space suits are expensive.  Every little bit helps us to pay for the materials, equipment and tooling required to make high technology safety garments.

(Source: https://www.kickstarter.com/)
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darklyeuphoric:

Vintage cars descend upon 115-year-old Velodrome

Detroit has the Thunderdrome – a velodrome abandoned for decades and recently restored to host friendly races for riders of all sorts of two wheeled machines.

Budapest has the Millenáris Velodrom, “a bicycle arena built in 1896 to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of when the Hungarians streamed across the Verecke Pass in the Carpathians to colonize an enlarged version of modern Hungary.”

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wildcat2030:

After decades of trial and error, artificial intelligence applications that aim to understand human language are slowly starting to lose some of their brittleness. Now, a simple mathematical model developed by two psychologists at Stanford University could lead to further improvements, helping transform computers that display the mere veneer of intelligence into machines that truly understand what we are saying. (via Research at Stanford may lead to computers that understand humans)

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Person of Interest: in scenes showing the world from The Machine’s point of view, there are lines of text and graphic boxes Color-Coded for Your Convenience. A real system wouldn’t need visual displays like these, but they help the viewer understand what The Machine is “thinking.”

Viewer-Friendly Interface – Television Tropes & Idioms (via iamdanw)
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