Thanks to Bruce Sterling’s twitterfeed we now a have a word for those things we see around us on a daily basis, but couldn’t concisely describe.
Thomasons: Stairs leading to nowhere….
Thomasons – the scars left on buildings by progress
Read more "Thomasons – the scars left on buildings by progress"Our planned module inside will not remind you of the ISS. A hotel should be comfortable inside, and it will be possible to look at the Earth through large portholes,“ he told RIA Novosti.
The hotel would be aimed at wealthy individuals and people working for private companies who want to do research in space, Mr Kostenko said.
It would follow the same orbit as the International Space Station.
The first module would have four cabins, designed for up to seven passengers, who would be packed into a space of 20 cubic metres (706 cubic feet).
BBC News – ‘Space hotel’ plan unveiled in Russia
This and Virgin Galactic. There are over 1000 billionaires now, happy to blow a few lazy million on a more ‘economic’ trip to space. Especially if it’s stylish.. and out of this world!
Read moreStar Trek’s Federation is propaganda from a communist dictatorship; they have no money and have replicators to provide everything
The London Futures project is a series of postcards from the future, an attempt to visualize the affects of climate change.
The Camel Guards Parade is just one of “14 arresting images..on…
Read more "Images from London’s Future"Taking the technology they created and licensed to Lockheed Martin to create the HULC, Berkeley Bionics have now developed a new product that lets paraplegics walk again.
Read more "eLEGS from Berkeley Bionics"From New Scientist:
Dutch research organisation IMEC, based in Eindhoven, this week demonstrated a new type of wireless body area network (BAN). Dubbed the Human++ BAN platform, the system…
Dutch researchers create new Body Area Network (BAN) for telehealth monitoring
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 