Rapunzel Descending Device by Sin Sun Ho & Yanko Design Escape Route Number 2 You can easily mistake the Rapunzel for a canister, instead its an easy-to-use safety-descending device. Designed by SADI student Sin Sun Ho, this safety line can be used in highrise buildings. You more or less have to glide down the side of a wall (Batman style), holding onto its secure wrist capsule design. Designer: Sin Sun Ho
Hot Wheel: Ultra-Minimalist Electric Single-Wheeled Vehicle | Gadgets, Scie... In our greener future, it looks like we will all need to opt for smaller, more energy-efficient transportation. Most designers have been rising to that call by thinking up tiny electric cars – but some are going in a different direction. The Solowheel is an almost-ridiculously tiny single wheel urban transport gadget that acts like a self-righting unicycle without pedals. A rider has simply to step on and stand up while the Solowheel moves toward a destination. Like the Segway, the Solowheel is operated largely by the distribution of the rider’s body weight. Lean forward to go faster, lean back to slow down and lean left or right to turn. The tiny unicycle is totally battery-operated and can run for about two hours on a charge. While it’s a bit troubling to see people riding around on a single wheel with no safety gear, we’re guessing it doesn’t go fast enough to make it a truly dangerous activity.
LED Lights Make Augmented Vision a Reality | Elemental LEDucation LED Lights Make Augmented Vision a Reality Okay, this is just freaky. We know LED lights are versatile enough to be used for practically anything, but LED contact lenses? Really?! Once miniature green LEDs are developed (and they’re in the works, as of now), full color displays will be possible. Lead researcher Babak Parvis comments “You won’t necessarily have to shift your focus to see the image generated by the contact lens,” it would just appear in front of you and your view of the real world will be completely unobstructed when the display is turned off. Ah, the real world. Thanks to Extreme Tech for the quote and Trendhunter for the images. By the way, these freaky LED contact lenses may still be a product of the future, but a lot of cool LED products are of the present!
Sony Nextep Computer Concept for 2020 by Hiromi Kiriki & Yanko Design In 2020 We Can Wear Sony Computers On Our Wrist Our present need for internet connectivity is so profound that secondary devices like the Nextep Computer are bound to happen. Developed to be worn as a bracelet, this computer concept is constructed out of a flexible OLED touchscreen. mental_floss Blog & The Straw that Saves Lives Providing money, roads, education, electricity, and employment to needy people of the world is a noble idea, but it's like putting the cart before the horse when a billion people don't have a reliable source of safe drinking water. They are in danger of ingesting typhoid, dysentery, salmonella, diphtheria, E. coli, or cholera. Water treatment plants and long distance pipes are terribly expensive for Third World nations, and even purified water can become contaminated with disease before consumption. A possible solution: a personal water filter for each person. Danish water purification company Vestergaard Frandsen has developed the LifeStraw® Personal, a small filter that requires no power and can be worn on a string around the neck. Vestergaard Frandsen also offers the LifeStraw® Family, which can be used to clean a household water supply. LifeStraw® won the Saatchi & Saatchi Award for World Changing Ideas earlier this year, among a growing list of awards and accolades.
Is the Universe a Holographic Reality? The Universe as a Hologram by Michael Talbot Does Objective Reality Exist, or is the Universe a Phantasm? In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century. Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. University of London physicist David Bohm, for example, believes Aspect's findings imply that objective reality does not exist, that despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram. To understand why Bohm makes this startling assertion, one must first understand a little about holograms. The three-dimensionality of such images is not the only remarkable characteristic of holograms. Courtey of Michael Talbot
Hydra's Solar-Hydrogen Power Makes Clean Water From Dirty at 20,000... For the one in every eight souls around the world lacking access to pure drinking water, how about this: A solar-powered water purification system that spits out pure water, hydrogen and, just for kicks, electricity too. Could it get any better than that? The device is called Hydra, and like its many-headed mythological namesake it truly serves a multitude of purposes: As its press release notes, "imagine a single trailer-mounted device that turns scum into over 20,000 gallons of pure water a day, stores electricity better than a battery, makes medical-grade oxygen, and runs on the sun." That's quite enough benefits from one device, thankyouverymuch. It works on a very simple, long-understood principle: electrolysis. The products are exactly what you may expect: Oxygen to help with medical problems, electricity for any number of purposes, and pure water at a phenomenal rate. But how does Hydra compare with other systems out there that offer some of the same benefits?
Our Technological Future: Singularity FAQ for Dummies To start out with, I am now posting a Singularity FAQ for dummies that I have written myself. I've dubbed it version 0.5 for now. I'm counting on lots of additional questions from all of you, which I will include so I can upgrade the version number. I'm sure there are spelling and grammar errors in here, but hey... it's only version 0.5, right? The reason I wrote this, is because when I'm reading posts on fora or in newsthreads that are related to artificial intelligence, I see lots of uninformed opinions. Uninformed opinions like that are mostly fueled by ignorance. From now on, ignorance on the topic of the Singularity will be a thing of the past, because there's a FAQ available now. ;) Enjoy. :) [update]0.5 Initial Version0.6 Questions added, answers expanded, spelling corrected. ========================================Singularity FAQ for Dummies, version 0.6by Jan-Willem Bats Last update: July 21st, 2005======================================== Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. 1. 2. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A.
How Google Glasses could change the world Despite some early scepticism and online lampooning, Google have the opportunity to open a whole new software market with their first solo foray into hardware. Google Glasses technology could give software developers an extra dimension in which to innovate. The short video released by Google last week shows how "head-up display" (HUD)-style visuals could add to the functionality of an Android phone. What is exciting is how much further this could be taken further into our lives. Here are some ideas around what we might expect if Google Glasses were to launch: Gaming The world's highest-grossing media format has been a lucrative part of the app market. Coming back down to earth a little, it is clear that the technology to deliver such advancements is a long way away.
WB-1010 Future Plane by Reindy Allendra The Spruce Whale A futuristic flying marvel the likes of which have never been seen! The WB-1010 is a concept plane made to make use of yet-to-be-invented materials and technology and aims to meet the demands the world 85 years from now will make. The WB-1010 (stands for Wright Brothers) is an official entry into the current KLM Indonesia aircraft design competition. It can seat more than 1500 people! It can reach speeds of nearly 1000 kmph! It has helium injected in the body to make the plane lighter! It’s windows are made of “Smart Glass!” It will be able to harvest wind energy in flight! It has a super jet that will allow the plane to land on a normal runway or completely vertically! Amazing super fantastic! Designer: Reindy Allendra
Six Ideas That Will Change the World The Next Plastic Plastic has changed little since its heyday in the 1960s. It's still ubiquitous, oil based, and dirty as hell for the environment. Makes you wonder what we've been doing all these years. For one thing, not listening enough to chemist Geoffrey Coates. In his lab at Cornell University, he's been reinventing plastic. The key is limonene, a citrusy-smelling chemical compound made from orange rinds that when oxidized and mixed with carbon dioxide and a catalyst can be turned into a solid plastic. Since 1999, when Coates and his colleagues first began experimenting with limonene, they've discovered a number of other natural materials, such as pine trees and soybeans, that can be manipulated into biodegradable polymers as well. While Coates's natural polymers are more expensive to produce than most current plastics, he stresses that this isn't just another radical innovation that will never make it out of the lab. --Doug Cantor
Bitcoin Decentralized digital currency Bitcoin (abbreviation: BTC[a] or XBT[b]; sign: ₿) is a protocol which implements a highly available, public, permanent, and decentralized ledger. In order to add to the ledger, a user must prove they control an entry in the ledger. The Library of Congress reports that, as of November 2021, nine countries have fully banned bitcoin use, and a further forty-two have implicitly banned it.[15] A few governments have used bitcoin in some capacity. Bitcoin has been described as an economic bubble by at least eight recipients of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.[17] Design Units and divisibility The unit of account of the bitcoin system is the bitcoin. Blockchain Data structure of blocks in the ledger Network nodes can validate transactions, add them to their copy of the ledger, and then broadcast these ledger additions to other nodes. Individual blocks, public addresses, and transactions within blocks can be examined using a blockchain explorer.[31] Mining