Technology
SCIENCE: What Will Humans Be Like in a Thousand Years?
TechInsider tackled the question, and found that humans will probably incorporate more bionic parts, be taller, and may finally crack the secret to immortality. And after all that time, we will likely be even closer to our machines, if we don’t destroy the planet and ourselves first. By Rob Ludacer and Jessica Orwig – Full Story at SOURCE
SCIENCE: Sheep Grown in Artificial Wombs
Eight fetal lambs were successfully developed to term in artificial wombs at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute, in a study whose results were published last week in the journal Nature Communications. They were equivalent in human terms to 22 to 24 weeks of gestation at the start of the experiment, providing a potential template for the care of extremely premature infants, who represent about 6 percent of premature births in the United States, which make up about 10 percent of all births. The remarkable feat was accomplished through the use of “Biobags” that mimic the natural conditions of … Read more
U=(N/T)M*G: 410
Full disclosure: I’m a city girl. I’ve spent most of my life it cities, clocking the majority of it in San Diego. And even though I’m stuck in this one-horse town pretending to be a metropolis, that’s Tucson by the way, I still keep up with what’s going on in the big roiling cauldrons of humanity. It’s no secret that our world is in trouble because of CO2 overload caused by a huge amount of human activity. In fact, we just hit 410 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere. But it’s the reaction that got me thinking. An offhand comment … Read more
TECH: My Flying Car is Finally Here!!!
I ordered it back in the seventies while watching The Jetsons… As engineers tinker away at perfecting self-driving cars, Google co-founder Larry Page is preparing to release a personal flying vehicle. An ultralight aircraft called the Kitty Hawk Flyer has been unveiled in a YouTube video that shows it zipping over a lake while commandeered by a single rider. The electric, propeller-driven prototype is the work of Page’s Silicon Valley startup company, Kitty Hawk, which announced that the vehicle will go on sale later this year. By Nina Golgowski – Full Story at Huffpost
Where No Gay Has Gone Before: Fashionistas in Space!
When many of us hear the word ‘fabrics’, we immediately think of avant-garde, haute couture dresses, the latest fashions from Paris, or ‘who-is-wearing-who’ on the Red Carpet. In space exploration, however, fabrics have more applications than for just snazzy clothes, like antennas, spacesuits and shields for spacecraft. Raul Polit Casillas, a systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is the son of a fashion designer from Spain, so he grew up familiar with fabrics. Now he is applying his knowledge and skills to develop woven metal fabrics for applications in space. The fabrics that Polit Casillas and … Read more
TRENDS: Man Marries His Robot Bride
Building a relationship with the perfect partner takes time. Sometimes, you have to build the partner first. A 31-year-old artificial intelligence engineer in Hangzhou, China, claims to have married a female robot he created from scratch. Zheng Jiajia built the “fembot” late last year and named her “Yingying.” He “married” the lucky piece of electronics on Friday in an informal ceremony, according to the South China Morning Post. Yingying isn’t just a trophy-bot for Zheng: He says she can identify Chinese characters and images and even say a few simple words, according to the paper. But she can only communicate … Read more
TRENDS: Skyscrapers Suspended From Space
Skyscrapers are ambitious projects by nature, but one architecture studio is taking them to new heights. Clouds Architecture Office is a New York City architecture firm founded by Masayuki Sono and Ostap Rudakevych. They designed the Analemma Tower, which inverts the classical skyscraper by being suspended it from space, rather than standing on firm ground. Yes, you read that right. They essentially want to build a very tall tower dangling from space. Of course there’s more to it than that. The Analemma Tower would be suspended on a high-strength cable from an asteroid. It is also a proposal to build … Read more
TECH: My Flying Car is Almost Here V2
The flying car stories are flying thick and furious these days. ;) Flying taxis and other futuristic passenger vehicles are about to take a giant leap out of science fiction and into reality. It’s not exactly the vision of the “Back To The Future” film trilogy, which predicted that by 2015 we’d fill the skies with flying cars and get around on personal anti-gravity hoverboards. But it turns out the movies may have just been a few years off. Singapore plans to have airborne cabs taking flight by 2030, according to the island city-state’s Business Times daily newspaper. Singapore’s Ministry … Read more
SPACE: Virtual Flight Over Mars
Although Donald Trump has signed a bill authorizing money to fund future exploration of Mars,tourism to the Red Planet is still a long way away. Still, a person can dream, and one Finnish filmmaker is making that dream look like reality. Jan Fröjdman spent three years turning photos taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter into a four and a half minute travelogue of the planet’s surface. By David Moye – Full Story at The Huffington Post