So last week the Burj Khalifa in Dubai was opened, the latest building to be qualified as the world’s tallest. It cost something like 1.5 billion dollars to construct and is basically a vertical…
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The year 3D Printing mainstreams
Over the holidays my Grandmother asked me to explain Twitter to her. To me, that marks the point at which Twitter has utterly and completely permeated society. From arguably being on the nerd-fringe…
The year 3D Printing mainstreams
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It’s not the new year without another State of the World Q’n’A with Chairman Bruce on The Well.
He kicks things off by dispensing some advice to his pal Cory Doctorow:
Okay,…
Bruce Sterling: State of the World, 2010
Read more "Bruce Sterling: State of the World, 2010"Parrot – an AR drone you can pilot from your iDevice
Meet Parrot – ‘a wifi helicopter with two cameras’, or basically your own personal UAV.
A fantastic piece of tech. However, as Chris…
Parrot – an AR drone you can pilot from your iDevice
Read more "Parrot – an AR drone you can pilot from your iDevice"Google Goggles – Google’s AR app for Android phones
Tech Crunch has all the gory details, but this video gives you the gist – the heavyweight that Google now is just entered the Augmented Reality world, with an Android only (for now) application,…
Google Goggles – Google’s AR app for Android phones
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I really wasn’t sure what I wanted for Christmas until now. In fact, this is just the sort of system a twenty-first century Santa needs.
From WIRED’s Danger Room:
…described as a…
Gryphon tactical wingsuits = covert death from above
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From Inhabitat comes another dose of future-pr0n, a truly epic vertical farm project:
Urban Forest is a commercial high-rise building that takes the form of an urban mountain…
Skyscraper vertical farm planned for China
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From The Telegraph:
Researchers in the Netherlands created what was described as soggy pork and are now investigating ways to improve the muscle tissue in the hope that people will one day…
Soggy Pork, it’s what vat-grown meat tastes like
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From Yahoo! News:
An Italian who lost his left forearm in a car crash was successfully linked to a robotic hand, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it…
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