Flashy technology has always been a staple of science fiction films -and there’s not much flashier than the gesture-controlled computers seen in Minority Report. At the time the movie was released, those must have seemed positively outlandish. Now, though?
Now we’re rapidly approaching a point where such outlandish technology is becoming commonplace, and it’s got the potential to completely change how we compute.
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Was last week’s $1200 Hyetis Crossbow
too rich for your blood? You might
like Omate’s TrueSmart, then, which trades some of the Crossbow’s
more superfluous extras for Android support, the ability to be used
as a phone, and a much
lower price tag.
As any avid reader knows one bookmark is pretty much like another. You just pop it between the pages and come back later. The problem is that it only gets you so far. You have two full pages there. So where exactly did you leave off? It is so easy to find yourself rereading several paragraphs before you get right to where you left off. With a Sprout Bookmark you can change that.
In the aftermath of disasters, clean drinking water may be impossible to find. Now, a porous gel infused with silver nanoparticles is in development. The invention may change the way water purification happens. The gel sucks in contaminated water and squeezes out purified water in mere seconds.
If your umbrella succeeds in keeping you dry in the rain and/or shaded from the sun, then everything else is just gravy. Well, it must be raining gravy in Japan ’cause the country’s umbrellas take effective rain & sun protection as their starting point and run with it. Where they end up is anyone’s guess… but be sure to bring your umbrella with, just in case.
Here’s a fun toy for kids (and kids-at-heart!) to enjoy after Dad forces everyone to sit through another Rocky marathon:
With millions of baby boomers hurtling head long into their golden years and resources for seniors limited, the business of caring for the elderly is about to boom as much as all those babies did. Keeping older Americans healthy and able to live independently will be more important than ever. SeniorHomes.com has created the Best Senior Living Award to recognize the companies creating the best products for the coming wave of older people.
The world of art and business have been crossing paths and overlapping for hundreds of years, and from Parisian Absinthe Art to Wall Street Warhol crazes, there has been a powerful connection between art and marketing. Although this ad campaign by Guido Daniele is a few years old, it exemplifies the change in that relationship which has occurred in recent years. Our hyperconnected, light-speed generation, coupled with our throw away culture, might render certain forms of art as nothing more than a disposable tool to sell a product, rather than a lasting statement about the world at the moment of its conception.
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