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Panasonic just unveiled a new invisible television

Posted by Shane Hinshaw in electronics, futurism

Oct 7
2016

Since the arrival of flat-screen TVs, there’s not been a whole lot to get excited about in the world of televisions — how many ways can you improve on a big slab of glass, after all? Well, how about by making it almost invisible when you’re not using it?

That’s the thinking behind a new prototype from Panasonic that’s just been shown off at the CEATEC electronics expo in Japan this week. When switched on, it’s just like a normal TV. When switched off, it’s as transparent as glass, meaning you can see the wall or shelving behind.

Panasonic describes it as the “future of display screens” — although as you might expect, the company’s staying tight-lipped about the technology behind its transparent TV, just in case its competitors have something similar in mind.

Bob the Hipster Knight

Posted by Jeremy Lichtman in futurism, robotics/AI

Oct 7
2016

Amazing Stories has resumed publishing original science fiction, and they just happened to have led with a story of mine. Amazing Stories was the first SF magazine, dating to 1926, and was edited by Hugo Gernsback (as in “Hugo Awards”). My story contains speculation about human-AI interaction, and the future of user interfaces (disguised as comedy).

Posting this with Eric Klien’s permission, as it’s self-promotional.

Never trust an app in the form of a woman you don’t know, even if you are a hipster knight. A Gernsback Contest winning short story.

The Robot That Cooks And Cleans For You

Posted by Elmar Arunov in futurism, robotics/AI

Oct 7
2016

This robot can cook for you – and clean up afterwards.

Shane Hinshaw — The future is here. Why not embrace it. Screw…

Posted by Shane Hinshaw in futurism, neuroscience

Oct 5
2016

The future is here. Why not embrace it. Screw weed, crack or an others that may fry your neurons. Out think out preform others who rot thier brains. No offense to those who do those things.

Russia develops incredible new ‘humanoid’ robot tank dubbed ‘The Specialist’ which can rescue injured soldiers from battlefield

Posted by Karen Hurst in futurism, robotics/AI

Oct 5
2016

The futuristic weapon could soon be unleashed on enemies of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

Nike’s self-lacing Mags are hot, won’t catch fire

Posted by Shane Hinshaw in futurism

Oct 5
2016

When syfy becomes sicence FACT!

Take a closer look at the Nike Mag, aka ‘Back to the Future’ shoes.

Food production in a world without meat — By Mbali Kgame | Design Indaba

Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in environmental, ethics, food, futurism

Oct 5
2016

“Meat production is detrimental to the environment and at the high rate at which it is consumed, it can also increase the risk of colorectal cancer by 18 per cent. This is according to a review of 800 studies conducted by the World Health Organisation (WHO).”

Earth’s Untapped Resources

Posted by Shailesh Prasad in futurism

Oct 4
2016

The Earth is rich and the untapped clean resources are abundant.

Color copying pen

Posted by Shailesh Prasad in futurism

Oct 4
2016

This pen copies the colors around you and lets you draw with them.

What does your skin say about you? Apparently, it says what you say

Posted by Karen Hurst in futurism

Oct 2
2016

Plain wild.

Your skin can say a lot about you — from your age to the last time you saw the sun. Now, an Israeli startup called VocalZoom wants to examine skin to make much more complicated analyses: comprehending what we say.

When we talk, the skin on our faces make subtle vibrations, too slight to be noticed with the human eye. While experimenting with an instrument known as an interferometer, VocalZoom CEO Tal Bakish and his team noticed it could detect peculiar measurements. “When it measures the face, we found out that the vibrations were caused only by the speaker’s voice and were not affected at all by any background voice,” he told Digital Trends. “At this point we realized that we have a disruptive technology to extract the voice of speaker in any noisy condition.”

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