New hybrid Honda Insight 2010, $18500, 60 mpg (1)
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Honda Insight Hybrid 2010Honda has introduced a five-door, five-passenger compact hatchback, the new Insight will feature an innovative new platform in which the battery and control unit are located beneath the cargo space for exceptional utility and better handling. The Honda Insight 2010 will start selling on April 22, 2009 with starting prices of $18,500 and fuel efficiency of about 60mpg.Honda plans to introduce the production version of the all-new Insight to the markets in ...
Repeatable 100 Tesla Magnet under Construction (1)
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a 100 Tesla magnet is needed to test the properties of new high-temperature superconductors like iron oxyarsenide, which may improve the performance of MRI machines and high-voltage power lines while lowering their cost. A 100‑T magnet would also let you conduct certain zero-gravity experiments without traveling into space and let you develop magnetic propulsion systems that could eventually replace those that burn rocket fuel. The Magnet Lab is close to reaching the material tensile strength ...
Book Review | The Information Society as Post-Industrial Society (1)
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The Information Society as Post-Industrial Society, originally uploaded by caseorganic. In 1974, a society of Japanese futurists proposed a billion dollar digital society plan called “The Information Society” as post-industrial society. They believed that society could not continue to sustain itself if it relied on consumption and waste as top social and economic values. The project was tested in various households and included two-way communication systems that allowed users of the system to choose images ...
Melanie Swan : Human augmentation via bacterial biome (2)
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An excellent idea featured at Melanie Swan's blog: there are 1,000 trillion bacteria that are part of each human (10x the number of human cells) could be an ideal augmentation substrate.There are at least three ways for achieving human-electronic interfaces; physical implants, wearables and a third as yet unconsidered possibility, exploiting the human bacterial biome.There are 500 to 1000 classes of bacteria.Bacteria can be upgraded and functionalized for various augmentation purposes.1. Add computer memory to ...
Enerdel Technologies targets halving the cost of lithium ion batteries (2)
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Ener1 Inc's battery division Enerdel believes that they can reduce the cost of lithium ion batteries to half of their current cost when produced in high volume. This will mean a payback of two years instead of eight years for making a car a hybrid and having the fuel savings pay for the extra costs.Chemistry AdvantagesEnerDel believes longevity, safety and cost are the most important elements demanded by the automotive customers. To achieve these key ...
Blue world (1)
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Sweetlemon Jewell created Omega Point as a new futuristic world for you to explore. It’s still under construction, but impressive nonetheless. While it’s not as immersive as the newly-expanded Black Knight space station, you’ll get more than your share of Oh-My-God moments. Maybe I should rename the blog. SLOMG? Nah. Omega Point is big(ah, they know the way to my heart). Just when you think you’ve seen everything you realize that it goes up… and ...
Coke vs. Water (1)
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Water 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. This most likely applies to half the worlds population. Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers. Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer. Coke ...
Next Big Future: Unlimited blood supply company doubles stock price (2)
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Biotime the company that will have use of the unlimited disease free stem cell blood supply patent has had a stock price increase of over 100% since the blood supply news.Biotime is now worth over 41 million dollars BioTime is at $1.75 as of Aug 29, 2008 10AM PST.Michael West, BioTime's CEO, said the rise was likely due to delayed reaction to a patent agreement signed last week with Alameda-based Advanced Cell Technology."I've been talking ...
Connecting Ideas and People is Next (2)
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My friend David Armano asked a question I've asked here on several occasions: what is beyond the conversation? Mike Gotta talked about a similar question in a different format a year ago. He talks about it in terms of personas. When we talked about Potable Marketing in the future of advertising, we touched upon the concept of persona. I asked the question because I never for a moment thought it was about the conversation itself, ...
Next Big Future: Progress to exaflop computers and specialized supercomputers (2)
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Wehner, Oliker, and Shalf estimate that a general-purpose exaflop machine using today's technology would cost $1 billion to build and 200 megawatts to power—enough for a small city. By comparison, they estimate, a specialized exaflop machine would cost just $75 million and consume just 4 MW.Berkeley Labs and Tensilica are working together on a hardware mock-up as this site has covered before. IEEE Spectrum reports that the plan is to bench-test a single processor by ...
Inertial electrostatic confinement completes WB7 test, results are under review (2)
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The Bussard fusion design, also known as inertial electrostatic confinement or Polywell fusion, has completed the WB7 test which was a replication of the promising WB6 test which was showing a breakthrough in low-cost fusion power.The results of the first-phase test are now being reviewed by the funders and experts in the fusion energy field. The lead researcher Dr Nebel said “we have had some success" in the effort to reproduce the promising results reported ...
NTT DOCOMO Future Concept Videos (1)
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One of the interesting things about this concept video (which isn’t particularly earth-shattering in itself), is comparing it with IDEO’s concept piece they produced for Intel. It’s interesting how the DOCOMO piece feels, just, well, more human. “Mobile phones have evolved to become indispensable tools that have changed the way we lead our lives, and they are certain to continue to evolve and play an even greater role in both business and everyday life.” Link: ...
Caterpillar Inc. Funds Viterbi 'Print-a-House' Contour Crafting Technology (5)
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Caterpillar, the world's largest manufacturer of construction equipment, is starting to support research on the "Contour Crafting" automated construction system that its creator believes will one day be able to build full-scale houses in hours. This is concrete-jet instead of inkjet printing technology.Printing buildings to speed up the economy is one of the key technologies for this sites concept of a mundane technological singularityThe current state of the art is printing concrete walls.Printing buildings is ...
Concept Torment: Wearable Motorcycle (3)
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Things have been a bit slow around here - comrade Nadya is off gallivanting around the Nevada desert and comrade Mer’s traipsing about New York, where I was all weekend. Do pardon our regrouping and accept this small offering of oh my god it’s a wearable motorcycle. It really is. Jake Loniak, a student at Art Center College of Design, presents this wonderful invention. Basically an electric, lithium battery-run exoskeleton with three wheels, Deus Ex ...
Media History Through Gartner Hype Cycle Graphs: 1995-2008 (10)
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Gartner Hype Cycles are good for at least three things: identifying technologies that are still under the radar, taking a look back at stuff that was hyped up in the past but didn't go anywhere, and explaining to your parents what it is that you do as an emerging media strategist.Besides, they illustrate this wonderful quote from David Brooks's "Lord of the Meme" column in NYTimes: "In order to cement your status in the cultural ...
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Even Fake Holographic Interfaces are Inspiring (1)
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So that iHologram video from the end of last week turned out not to be real, and neither is this next one, but damn if they don't look cool.This is a design/art project using a technology dubbed "holographic shadow" using a "Ringo" interface.Just as with some of the ridiculous and the not-so-ridiculous Apple product mock-ups that make the rounds on the Internet, these types of things inspire people to think about the future of technology, ...
Live from inside the courtroom, via Twitter (3)
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A journalist is tweeting the closing arguments of a sentencing trial in Spokane — live. This is a capital murder case. The newspaper’s Twitter feed is here. WARNING: Some descriptions and references relate to extreme violence. More trial coverage from The Spokesman-Review appears on a special Web page. Journalists at The Wichita Eagle pioneered this kind of live online trial coverage a year ago. Earlier I wrote about a post by the editor of The ...
Nyálcsorgatás - 60 autó a jövőből (1)
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A Trendhunter összegyűjtötte a napjainkban frissnek mondható hatvan koncepcióautót, hogy legyen mire csorgatnia a nyálát annak is, aki már nagyon unja az uniformizált, viszont megvásárolható kínálatot. A többségében nagyon elszállt, még koncepciónak is erős járművek tervei között hivatalos gyári hallucinációk és az elmúlt időszak nyilvános pályázatainak eredményei egyaránt megtalálhatók. A koncepciók között szép számban szerepelnek az alternatív üzemanyagot használó, környezetbarát modellek, remélhetőleg ez a célkitűzés kevésbé futurisztikus, mint a formatervek többsége. A képre kattintva nyílik ...
浏览器的未来（已上传至优酷） (1)
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这一系列视频是由Mozilla Labs制作的，介绍的是其下一代浏览器AURORA，也许这将会成为今后火狐的替代品。不过技术的发展总是很难预测，我认为火狐现在的操作性已经非常强大了，用过Sfox的朋友肯定会同意我说的，不是吗？ 废话不多说，一起来欣赏下AURORA的独特之处： 看不见视频的请点此链接：http://v.youku.com/v_playlist/f2301826o1p0.html 标签：desgin, Firefox, web2.0, future, software 相关日志 我的Windows使用经验 (0) Sfox2.8发布 (0) Sfox Ver2.5发布(基于Firefox 3.0b5 便携版) (0) S60v3手机使用技巧 (2) 问道网——中文问卷调查平台 (0)
Breakthrough digital video camera to replace 35mm film (1)
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Hi-res digital camera can match 35 mm film at a fraction of the price.See the Red digital cinema camera company site for the Red One and other cameras.The new camera has 4,096(h) x 2,304(v) of resolution and will only cost $17,500. A Panavision Millennium XL-2 35 mm video camera costs $25,000 per month to rent. A Sony F23 digital video camera with 2000 X 1080 resolution costs $150,000.The camera can output in realtime like other ...
