Martian Environment Is Ideally Suited For Crop Farming, Study Says
Posted by admin in Future, Space on 19. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
If we ever decide to colonize Mars, it might be fairly simple to grow crops in that red soil, according to a new study. Mars’ reduced gravity could let us use less water and fertilizer than we do on Earth. Visions of future space farms usually involve greenery thriving inside hydroponic systems, but as bio-geo [...]
Dattoos would be the ultimate user/machine interface
Posted by admin in Future on 05. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Dattoos would be printed onto the user’s skin, and would identify the user via their DNA Five years ago, Frog Design founder Hartmut Esslinger envisioned a technology that “could influence notions of community, identity, and connectivity with minimal impact on the physical environment.” Using an online design portal, users would select and try out a [...]
BP oil leak could be world-killing scenario, scientists say
Posted by admin in Future on 13. Jul, 2010 | 1 Comment
251.4 million years ago, the Permian extinction event destroyed the atmosphere, wiped out almost all life on the planet, and was generally a bad time. This BP oil leak is reminding scientists of the conditions of that event just a bit too much. There was another mass extinction event 55 million years after that, referred [...]
Envisioning Your Future in 2020
Posted by admin in Future on 13. May, 2010 | 0 Comments
Our Second Brain or "ThingBook" In the future nearly every visible thing will be cataloged and indexed, ready to be instantly identified and described to us. Want to go shopping? In the future we won’t need big retail stores with aisles of objects on display. We’ll be able to shop out in the world (see [...]
A Reboot for the Immune System
Posted by admin in Future, Medicine on 16. Mar, 2010 | 1 Comment
The ability to reprogram the immune system is one of the most sought-after goals in medicine. Now researchers are closer than ever to pulling it off in patients with Type 1 diabetes. A sign rests on the windowsill in the office of Jeffrey Bluestone, director of the Immune Tolerance Network and the Diabetes Center at [...]
