Future Journeys Archives: April 2007
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26 April 2007
Jim Carroll's Top Ten Trends
i found these new trends interesting and here they are:
10 Long Term Trends of Real Substance
The level of hype right now with “social networking” and technology is getting a bit out of hand. It’s a little bit like 1999 all over again! While what’s happening right now is important, it’s more fun to think about [...]
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20 April 2007
Verizon's Innovative Teaching Techniques
The teacher may never have to fully leave the classroom again thanks to new technologies from Verizon. On April 3 this year Dr Tim Warren paused his trip up Mount Everest using these technologies to give a brief 15 minute lesson to primary school students across the US.
An estimated 400 students from all over the [...]
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20 April 2007
Apple TV – Revolutionising Your Digital Media Experience
Sick of downloading the newest movies from iTunes and then sitting around your computer watching it? Well… Apple have now developed Apple TV (released earlier this week), which allows you to download movies and shows from the net, sync them to your mac OR PC and then watch everything on your TV. From $299 you [...]
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20 April 2007
Microhands – Developments in Micro Surgery
Micro surgery has come to the forfront today with the unveiling of the new “microhand” from UCLA. Chang-Jin Kim developed this uninvasive surgical tool. Kim says “it’s the World’s smallest robotic hand, and could be used to perform microsurgery.” This small hand also is harmless for natural environments due to using gas pressure instead of [...]
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20 April 2007
The New Toy Who Knows Who You Are…
This is your first introduction to the Chapit a toy look alike robot. It has voice-recognition and understands an amazing 10,000 commands. Also, boasting an in-built camera for all your required video conferencing needs. Chapit also senses when people are near and shakes when asked. You can get one of these cuties for only $1700 [...]
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20 April 2007
100 Million Pixel VR Room
Imagine a room 10 feet by ten feet with 24 Sony projectors bosting twice the number lighting up anywhere else in the World. Iowa State University has just that. It produces VR at the World’s highest resolution. It’s six sides immerses anyone who plays with visuals and sounds imagine what this would mean for gaming [...]
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20 April 2007
Clothing Brands Challenging the Fronteir of In-Game Product Placement
Test Drive Unlimited is the new video game out for Atari, with a new twist in pervasive advertising techniques. From the usual in game placement of picking an actual car you now get to pick wheels (includes Lamborghini, Ferrari and Mercedes) and now their on-screen drivers’ wardrobe.
Companies like Ben Sherman have their clothing brand attiring [...]
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20 April 2007
Open Source Robot
With other robotic devices (like the Wii) hackers and modders alike found innovative ways to make this robot, do what they wanted. So i-robot invented i-robot create, it comes with limited specs and you create with it what you will.With the popularization of sites like you tube we have now seen the i-media (created by [...]
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13 April 2007
Has Foresight Gone to the Dogs?
What I have learnt about futures from living with two bookies:
Jumping from the one box is ACADEMIC FUTURES. In the two box we have ACCESSIBLE FUTURES. In the white we have a late scratching of CLIMATE CHANGE… this puppy has gone up a couple of divisions, its just too big for these maiden runners. From [...]
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13 April 2007
When Did We Learn How Insects Fly?
We only learned how insects fly in the late 1990s. And already researchers are working on tiny flying robobugs. The challenges are enormous, but why are these interesting projects so often funded by DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency? Why not PARPA (Peace)? It changes the focus of the projects [...]