There should be worlds out there so balmy they make Earth look stale, and there are signs of one just four light years away. That’s close enough to visit…
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Fusion Reactor Powers Futuristic Airliner
If today’s aviation advances aren’t moving fast enough for you — tray table technology hasn’t budged in decades — you’ll want to check out the futuristic visions of Spanish industrial designer Oscar Viñals.
The Flash Falcon is a future concept jetliner powered by portable fusion reactors. That technology isn’t here yet, of course, but Viñals kind of specializes in “what if?” scenarios.
One of Thailand’s most beautiful islands is closing before it’s ruined forever
This story originally appeared on Time.com.
An idyllic Thai island has been so despoiled by tourists that local authorities are being forced to close it to prevent further damage.
Koh Tachai in Thailand’s Ranong Province was rated last year by specialist website beachmeter.com as Thailand’s most beautiful island. However, according to the Bangkok Post, the tourist-ravaged beaches of Koh Tachai will have to close indefinitely from Oct. 15.
This smart earpiece translates languages as they are spoken
Definitely getting a pair. Now, I will know all the gossip in any language-lol.
VIDEO: So long, language barriers.
Microsoft’s Predictive Touch Screen
Here’s a mobile screen that knows what you want to do BEFORE you touch it.
Floating City
Meet the floating city of the future.
We’re about to see a mind-blowing demographic shift unprecedented in human history
The world is about to see a mind-blowing demographic situation that will be a first in human history: There are about to be more elderly people than young children.
For some time now, demographers and economists have observed that the proportion of elderly adults around the world is rising, while the proportion of younger children is falling.
But within a few years, just before 2020, adults aged 65 and over will begin to outnumber children under the age of 5 among the global population, according to a chart shared by a Bank of America Merrill Lynch team led by Beijia Ma, citing an earlier report from the US Census Bureau.
Chroma key compositing
or chroma keying, is a special effects / post-production technique for compositing (layering) two images or video streams together based on color hues (chroma range). The technique has been used heavily in many fields to remove a background from the subject of a photo or video – particularly the newscasting, motion picture and videogame industries.