Stephen Hawking Predicts the End of Humanity, Again
Posted by admin in Science, Space on 09. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Stephen Hawking, brilliant astrophysicist and nefarious alien doomsday prophet, is again atop his soapbox preaching the end of humanity should we not board spaceships and colonize the solar system and beyond. He’s made the "get your ass to Mars or anywhere else but earth, humanity or die" prophecy claim before, mind you, but this time [...]
The Future of Green Architecture: The Zero-Emissions Dice House
Posted by admin in Concept on 29. Jun, 2010 | 0 Comments
Roll the Dice The building’s designer, Sybarite, hopes to make its design the standard for zero-emissions homes. The Dice House looks like part of a Monopoly set, but the design has real-world ambitions. The 30-by-30-by-30-foot concept home, designed by the British architecture firm Sybarite, improves on standard building tech to erase its carbon footprint. The [...]
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 [...]
The Future of…the Hot Dog?
Posted by admin in Concept, Future on 03. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
RKS Redesigned Hot Dog, Rendered RKS According to both common sense and the American Academy of Pediatrics, there are two truths about hot dogs which neither science nor industry can afford to ignore: kids love hot dogs, and hot dogs are the perfect size and shape for a child to choke on. To wit: “If [...]
The Dizzying Future Of Augmented Reality, Envisioned
Posted by admin in Design, Future on 11. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
We are all RoboCop If you’re even slightly nauseated/hungover/susceptible to vertigo, this clip from a project at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London is not for you. Master’s student Keiichi Matsuda’s vision of a future mash-up of architecture, augmented reality and advertising is absolutely amazing, but viewer beware: it’s a bit frightening as well. [...]
