News from the Future

NEWS FROM THE FUTURE – Customer Service Holograms At Airports… NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — She smiles, answers questions and can guide you to the nearest restroom or to your connecting flight. But don’t try to shake her hand. That’s because “she” is an avatar, the latest high-tech venture at the three major airports in the […]

http://www.fastcoexist.com/embed/89099ca915d05 NEWS FROM THE FUTURE – Ketchup That Doesn’t Get Stuck In The Bottle… When it comes to those last globs of ketchup inevitably stuck to every bottle of Heinz, most people either violently shake the container in hopes of eking out another drop or two, or perform the “secret” trick: smacking the “57” logo […]

NEWS FROM THE FUTURE – ToDo.IT’s Kitchen Interfaces via Beyond the Beyond. Every thing with a touch screen.

NEWS FROM THE FUTURE – The End of Cash, “Don’t show me the money: Why eliminating cash may be the secret to prosperity” By Dominic Basulto at The Washington Post… Sweden’s push to become the first-ever nation to phase out physical bills and coins marks the next major evolution in the creation of the cashless […]

Researchers create brain-computer interface that bypasses spinal cord injury paralysis @ ExtremeTech: Scientists at Northwestern University in Chicago, with funding from the National Institutes of Health, have successfully bypassed the spinal cord and restored fine motor control to paralyzed limbs using a brain-computer interface. The researchers have created a neuroprosthesis that combines a brain-computer interface […]

NEWS FROM THE FUTURE – Car Makers Create Engine Sounds for Electric Cars: Audi is adding sound to its silent, electric car models with a synthetic solution called Audi e-sound. Sounds like a TRON cycle. I wonder if they’ll eventually make download-able and purchase-able “engine tones”…

A $20 Trillion Rock Could Turn a Startup Into Earth’s Richest Company… Meet Amun 3554. Doesn’t look like much, right? Little more than a mile wide, it’s one of the smallest M-class (metal-bearing) asteroids yet discovered. Unless it ever decides to smash into us – a theoretical possibility, but extremely unlikely over the next few […]