Apple and Google Are Ready to Drive the Future of Cars—If Only the Automakers Will Give Them the Keys
Automakers and tech companies are racing to bring safer and more useful smartphone-style interfaces to cars. Can any of them go further and reprogram vehicles completely?
July 2, 2015 at 07:09PM
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So, You’re Thinking About Flying Your Drone Through Fireworks
Drones and fireworks: It’s like they were made for each other. What better way to celebrate America than by flying a piece of controversial technology through an explosion?
July 2, 2015 at 05:54PM
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What ‘Star Trek’ technology is possible?
A lot of it might be possible, but would require huge breakthroughs.
July 2, 2015 at 04:13PM
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Welcome to the Dystopian Future: Bubble Wrap No Longer Pops
For all the jokes out there about sentient robots subjugating the human race, we do a pretty good job ruining things for ourselves. Sealed Air Corp., the original creator of bubble wrap and modern joy, is introducing a new packing material design called iBubble Wrap. And the bubbles don’t pop.
July 2, 2015 at 01:42PM
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Apple’s Bizarre Attempt To Predict It’s Own Future, From 1987
This bizarre video was Apple’s attempt to predict the future (1997) back in the late 80s. While they envision creating a Google Glass-type product, their actual fate was having their company rapidly approach bankruptcy.
July 2, 2015 at 12:28PM
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How Buildings Turned Into Instant Rainbows for Gay Marriage
Cheap LED lighting is fueling the meme-ification of public architecture.
July 2, 2015 at 12:02PM
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Solar Impulse sets flight record, aims for Hawaii landing tomorrow
André Borschberg set the record for the longest solo flight as he piloted Solar Impulse across the Pacific as part of that team’s effort at circumnavigating the globe in a solar-powered craft. The previous record had been set in an around-the-world flight by Steve Fossett in a conventionally powered aircraft.
July 2, 2015 at 10:59AM
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“VR is going to yield this staggering orgasm of the new”
Unity CEO John Riccitiello on the company’s role in building a market for VR software, and why he’s no fan of the “sour grapes” offered by the cynics.
July 2, 2015 at 10:59AM
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Love MS Paint? Here’s VR Paint
Microsoft Research Labs has invented a virtual crayon that allows you to color in the real world.
July 1, 2015 at 11:19PM
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The Rube Goldberg Machine That Mastered Keynesian Economics
WINNIE, he called her, for Water Initiated Nonchalant Number Integrating Engine (or some such).
July 1, 2015 at 03:23PM
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