The Long Now Foundation has purchased a high desert mountain top property in eastern Nevada as the site for their planned public 10,000 Year Clock. Inventor and Long Now co-founder Danny Hillis designed the 8 foot prototype pictured above, and is now designing the mechanisms that would be used in a large scale version that will tick [...]
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Picture(s) of the Week: The Lilypad Floating Ecopolis
Belgian designer Vincent Callebaut calls the auto-sufficient amphibious city Lilypad a “floating ecopolis for climate refugees”. The floating structure is “directly inspired by the highly ribbed leaf of the great lilypad of Amazonia Victoria Regia increased 250 times.”
You can read all about it and view an astonishing gallery of the city’s design right here.
Pulp Science: Robot Suit Hal Elicits Tears of Joy from Geeks Everywhere
Cyberdyne’s Robot Suit HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) is “a cyborg-type robot that can expand and improve physical capability.” Cool. Guess what else it improves? My chances at being a superhero!
Can any comic book nerd look at this suit without thinking of all those times (s)he cried himself to sleep, wishing (s)he was Iron Man? Dude, [...]
The Touchless Remote: Turning Couch Potatoes into Wizards
While Apple and every other gadget producing company on the planet is busy developing and incorporating touchscreens into their products, Bang & Olufsen are leap frogging to the next sci-fi inspired innovation: touchless gadgets!
The Touchless is a prototype remote that will not only control the television, stereo, and dvd player — but all the appliances in [...]
Picture of the Week: San Francisco in 2108?
Maybe Robert Anton Wilson’s predictions regarding life longevity pills will come true in time for us to be around for another 100 years. If so, I’d like to see if the city by the bay will in fact look like this…
From Dvice:
The History Channel sponsored a City of the Future contest for architects to show [...]
