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Shape-shifting tech will change work as we know it | Sean Follmer
What will the world look like when we move beyond the keyboard and mouse? Interaction designer Sean Follmer is building a future with machines that bring information to life under your fingers as you work with it. In this talk, check out prototypes for a 3D shape-shifting table, a phone that turns into a wristband, a deformable game controller and more that may change the way we live and work.
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In the Future You’ll Be a Superhero and Here’s How You’ll Get Your Superpowers
The knock on superheroes is that they’re unrealistic. This isn’t fair. Many superheroes have powers that we are close to or will be capable of engineering for ourselves. What’s unrealistic is the way those powers are doled out. Radioactive spiders aren’t going to make anyone strong any time soon.
Throw away those old origin stories and replace them with new scientific narratives and you’ve got something closer to the truth, which is this: We’re all going to have superpowers. Here’s the order in which we’re going to get them.
Superhuman Marksmanship
Superheroic Precedent: Hawkeye.
The Virtuali-Tee
Cool idea! About time someone made anatomy more fun. More details here: http://goo.gl/uqFvHF
Magic Dress
This Butterfly Dress will change the way people approach fashion. The butterflies can release en masse to react to external stimuli. #Intel
There’s a City in China That Was Built to Replicate Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Welcome to jackson hole WY in china.
You can very literally travel around the world without stepping a foot outside of China, thanks to the country’s ” One City, Nine Towns” initiative. The world’s most populous country has another replica to add to this list: Jackson Hole, China—complete with awe-inspiring mountain vistas, log cabins aplenty, and more mounted taxidermy than you’re likely to find anywhere else in the country. The biggest difference is that you won’t find any skiing opportunities at China’s take on the American destination.
You Haven’t Lived Until You’ve Seen Norway’s Fjords from This Incredible Platform
A new way to view the motherland of the Vikings.
All acrophobiacs aside, you shouldn’t go through life without taking in Norway’s fjords from the new spectacular platform that’s opening up to the public this summer. The platform itself is nestled right above a cliff, thousands of feet from the ground. If you’re looking for incredible views of the fjord- and forest-covered countryside, add this to your tourist attraction bucket list.
Code—a Norwegian architecture firm that won a competition to design this platform—added walkways running alongside and underneath the actual podium, which is located at Utsikten (one of the country main tourist routes).
Erika Owen is the Audience Engagement Editor at Travel + Leisure. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @erikaraeowen.
Solar Electric Propulsion: NASA’s engine to Mars and Beyond
NASA is hard at work developing Solar Electric Propulsion engines for future space missions to Mars and beyond.