Researchers Call For ‘Physical Internet’ To Ferry Freight Through a Series of Tubes
Posted by admin in Future on 05. Dec, 2010 | 0 Comments
Foodtube Stop A series of tubes could connect grocery stores to homes and businesses, providing a food and freight pipeline modeled after water, sewer and oil pipelines. Hungry? Better turn on your linear induction motor and send a metal capsule through an underground polyethylene tube to retrieve some groceries. That’s the vision of Foodtubes, a [...]
Swarms of Robot Soldiers Could Make Better Decisions Than Human Leaders on Data-Strewn Battlefields
Posted by admin in Future, Robots on 01. Dec, 2010 | 0 Comments
Robot Troops of the Future Robo-Soldier wants to execute (an efficient, well-calculated plan). Modern warfare relies increasingly on robotics for intelligence gathering and increasingly for strike capabilities, but the decision-making capacity still rests solely in the hands of human commanders. But British defense company BAE systems is testing a way to turn over battlefield decisions [...]
How Modified Worms and Goats Can Mass-Produce Nature’s Toughest Fiber
Posted by admin in Future, Science on 07. Oct, 2010 | 0 Comments
Spidergoat This baby goat will produce milk that contains spider silk proteins. Mutant silkworms can produce miles of super-strong silk, in a new breakthrough that could lead to mass production of tough, flexible spider-silk material. Thanks to the efforts of these genetically modified spider-worms, along with spidergoats and spider-alfalfa, spider clothes may soon be upon [...]
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 [...]
