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The year is 2019. You’re in post-World War III Tokyo. There are some bad guys calling themselves The Clowns. You battle. You win. You leave on your highly-customized bike. You wake in 2009 and preorder a replica of that bike. It may be $374 and not out until the first quarter of 2010, but this…
Google already knows too much about me, yet Google Latitude’s Location History and Location Alerts features are still creepy. But they’re useful, because together they learn your usual hangouts and know when you don’t need notifications of who’s nearby. https://gizmodo.com/how-much-of-your-life-does-google-own-dashboard-tells-5398041 The Location History feature does just what you think it would by allowing you to…
There are implants which are purely aesthetic, and then there’s the Digital Tattoo Interface concept. It’s a blood-powered electronic interface which is embedded under skin to mimic a tattoo, display videos, or act as a phone or computer. https://gizmodo.com/cup-up-surgically-implanted-bras-wont-affect-lingerie-s-5401669 As great as it seems, this concept is seriously creepy because it powers itself by converting…
You would think that a 7 foot robot would be into basketball but, apparently, soccer is his game. He can also walk, turn, twist and take a bow. Hmmm…I think I have the perfect application for this technology: [Impress via Newlaunches Image via Giant Balloon Rental]
You know what’s awesome about living in the future? Not having to worry about crime of any kind. The March 17, 1907 Washington Post ran a piece from the Chicago Tribune titled “How Our Progeny Will Live One Hundred Years From Now.” An excerpt, which imagines a world where crime is extremely rare, appears below.…
This Product Tank concept employs an innovative solution to the problem of toastables that are oversized in either length or width. There are no slots, and the walls close in like your bread stumbled into a booby trap. Of course, instead of crushing or impaling, these walls toast your bread to death. The crumby lifeblood…
Photochromic lenses that allow you to walk from inside to outside without putting on UV-filtering lenses have been around for decades. But the technology is just making its way to contacts. Traditionally, these light-to-dark lenses have been constructed by coating a normal lens with a photochromic dye. When UV light hits the dye, the individual…
Think about your workspace and imagine if your furniture or your desk or cubicle could automatically reconfigure for different applications with a simple wave of the hand. Now check out the reality of Clemson’s Animated Work Environment (AWE). Essentially, AWE is a programmable wall with varied displays that can switch between six configurations just by…
If you go to Tokyo, you may want to check into 9h—Nainawasu in Japanese—a luxury capsule hotel that is 9 stories tall, storing 125 capsules that use Panasonic’s environmental and lighting control system. According to Panasonic, their system controls lighting to guarantee “good sleeping.” I don’t know about you but, to me, “good sleeping” means…
I cannot fathom why someone would surgically shove a silicon bra into her body. Sure, your breast will look perfectly shaped and perky even once clothes come off, but you’ll also have bra straps going through your muscles and ribs. https://gizmodo.com/surgically-implanted-bra-is-like-an-external-bra-but-w-289247 While according to studies done on pigs, the entire procedure was safe and caused…
Getting a virus that uses your computer to send itself, and spam, out without your knowledge is bad. Getting a virus that hides kiddie porn on your computer is much, much worse. Apparently, pedophiles have started using viruses to hide their vile stash on strangers computers. And guess what? Nobody believes that it was a…
The UC-2000 or “Wrist Information System” was one of Seiko’s attempts (circa 1984) to create a wearable, portable computer. Of course, you couldn’t do much more than input around 2K of data, tell the time, and perform calculator functions. https://gizmodo.com/wearable-wrist-computer-from-1984-185910 The picture above implies that the watch had a gigantic keyboard attached to it, which…
This can go something like this: “Hey, could you please tell me th*” “STOP SAYING WORDS.” Or maybe this: “Excuse me, do you know what tim*” “TALK TO THE WATCH.” Maybe not the best way to make friends. [Design Boom]
In 2003, we mapped the human genome, the 20,000-ish genes we all share. It cost $3 billion. Today, you can literally spit in a cup, place the saliva in the mail and get a peek at your own. Services like 23andMe (proponents of the above-mentioned “spit parties”) and Navigenics both examine specific snippets of your…
That tiny, plastic-looking black cube up there can absorb up to 180 times its own weight in toxic waste without absorbing any water. How? As with just about every amazing and/or inexplicable scientific breakthrough nowadays, the answer is spelled N-A-N-O. Researchers at the Peking and Tsinghua Universities have adapted carbon nanotubes into a sponge-like material…
Jerry Jalava was riding his motorcycle home from work one day, when a deer ran in front of him. Long story short, he lost half his index finger. So, of course, he replaced it with a USB flash drive. https://gizmodo.com/the-usb-finger-drive-is-real-and-as-gross-as-we-imagine-5167612 The USB drive isn’t permanently fused to his finger, unfortunately. Instead, it’s inside a rubber…
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My good friend Nick Bilton is going to the NYTimes Bits blog as their lead writer. Nick was Design Integration Editor in the NYT newsroom and a UI specialist in their R&D labs for quite awhile before that, but took a break to work on his book, I Live in the Future: & Here’s How…
At $150, Blue Microphone’s new THX certified Yeti might not be the best investment for something as simple as Skype, but if you are doing podcasts, music recordings, or old-timey variety shows, it might be worth the extra cash. Apparently, the Yeti is the first microphone to earn a THX certified distinction—something Blue Microphone views…
