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Mar 30, 2016
Zoe, The Smart Home Hub That Protects Your Data
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: internet, security
Mar 30, 2016
Tired of all the same phones? This crazy dual-screen Android flip phone is here to break the mold
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: mobile phones
China is like the Wild West of smartphones: everyone seems to be doing whatever they please with no regards to the generally accepted rules.
And here is Chinese super-unknown Gionee, a company that is so obscure it might not be recognized even in Asia, but maybe this is the reason why Gionee is not afraid to experiment with some wild phones.
Mar 30, 2016
These Smart Wine Bottles are wine lover’s delight!
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: food, internet
Some people might throw enough parties, or have the capacity to kill entire bottles of wine in just a night, but for the others, the rest of the stored wine changes taste and appeal over the next few days to the point where it’s demoted to giving body to your stew.
The Kuvee wine bottle provides a possible solution of the latter problem. More like a smart wine sleeve, than a smart wine bottle, it solves the two biggest problems when it comes to storing wine: exposing them to air and light. It stops the sun by storing the wine in metal bottles and it stops the air by vacuum sealing the wine. No air in or out. As for the temperature part, you have to manage the rest.
You slip it over the bottle of wine you’d like to imbibe and it is wifi enabled, giving you all sorts of important details: how much wine is left, what kind of wine you’re drinking, and what vineyard it’s from.
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Mar 30, 2016
12 Ways Humanity Could Destroy The Entire Solar System
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: existential risks, space
We humans are doing a bang-up job of messing up our home planet. But who’s to say we can’t go on to screw things up elsewhere? Here, not listed in any particular order, are 12 unintentional ways we could do some serious damage to our Solar System, too.
Watch the video «BBC Horizon 2016 The Immortalist» uploaded by John Richards on Dailymotion.
Mar 30, 2016
20 Crucial Terms Every 21st-Century Futurist Should Know
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
We live in an era of accelerating change, when scientific and technological advancements are arriving rapidly. As a result, we are developing a new language to describe our civilisation as it evolves. Here are 20 terms and concepts that you’ll need to navigate our future.
Back in 2007 I put together a list of terms every self-respecting futurist should be familiar with. But now, some seven years later, it’s time for an update. I reached out to several futurists, asking them which terms or phrases have emerged or gained relevance since that time. These forward-looking thinkers provided me with some fascinating and provocative suggestions — some familiar to me, others completely new, and some a refinement of earlier conceptions. Here are their submissions, including a few of my own.
1. Co-veillance
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Mar 30, 2016
Scientists Can Now 3D Print Any Muscle
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: 3D printing, bioengineering
Mar 30, 2016
Reaching for the stars: How lasers could propel spacecraft to relativistic speeds
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: innovation, space travel
In a bold but scientifically sound proposal, NASA-funded research has laid out a roadmap toward spacecraft with relativistic speeds for the exploration of nearby stars (Credit: NASA). View gallery (8 images)
How do you send man-made probes to a nearby star? According to NASA-funded research at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), the answer is simple: assemble a laser array the size of Manhattan in low Earth orbit, and use it to push tiny probes to 26 percent the speed of light. Though the endeavour may raise a few eyebrows, it relies on well-established science – and recent technological breakthroughs have put it within our reach.