This is some serious industrial design/car pr0n. From Pink Tentacle:

In Mazda’s vision of the late 2050s, advances in molecular engineering have rendered metal-based manufacturing…

Mazda’s car for 2050

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Via Technology Review’s list of Cutting Edge Robots, this has to be one of the most unusual bots I’ve seen in quite some time.

Adelopod – the tumbling robot

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Re-blogging Warren Ellis’s posting of the trailer for Douglas Rushkoff’s new book: Life, Inc.

Life Inc. exposes why we see our homes as investments rather than places to live, our 401k…

Douglas Rushkoff’s ‘Life, Inc’

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This is a fantastic piece of design fiction:

A city with an abandoned underground train line, one that cuts beneath some of the nicest townhouses in the city, develops an unexpected new…

Geoff Manaugh’s “The Rentable Basement Maze”

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From Urban Prankster:

This past Saturday over 120 illegal billboards were white-washed and covered with art in New York City by a team of volunteers and artists. The guerrilla operation…

NY Activists reclaim illegal billboards

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From NewScientist:

The graceful robotic penguins in the video above were unveiled by German engineering firm Festo this week.

Using their flippers, the mechanical penguins can paddle…

robot penguins are coming to our seas and skies

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or as he subtitles this talk “the past and future of practical city magic”.

A fascinating look at how architects can be be considered software engineers and user interaction designers. And how…

Matt Jones on the future of the city

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From NewScientist:

Yeast cells feeding on the glucose in human blood might one day power implants such as pacemakers. A living source of power that is able to regenerate itself would…

two ways the gadgets of the future will be powered by your blood

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Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination…

tweenbots

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Quoting nearly the whole article here, because it’s fascinating. From The Guardian:

Natalia Morar, 25, a Moldovan who has already been banned from Russia for opposing the Kremlin, told the…

How six people in Moldova possibly saved an election

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