Goodbye Remote Control, Hello Voice, Touch and Gesture Control

One of the biggest emerging trends in TV has nothing to do with content or hardware specs, but rather how we interact with it. In particularly, those interactions are set to become much more natural than pointing a remote at the screen and pressing buttons. Instead, our television sets, which will recognize our faces, will be controlled by our voices and hand gestures. Think Kinect and Siri, but built directly into smart TVs built by companies other than Microsoft and Apple.

A Bolt Of Lightining Can Power A City

Could you power a city with lightning?

In Back to the Future, Doc Brown uses lightning to power the De Lorean sports car time machine so that Marty can return to 1985. But could lightning ever be harnessed as a useable power source in the future?

5 fascinating cars of the future

It’s 2012. And many of us no doubt imagined that flying cars would be all the rage by now. While that hasn’t happened yet, some major driving innovations are on their way down the pipeline.

In a new TEDTalk, Chris Gerdes of the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (awesomely abbreviated as CARS) explains that he and his team are busy at work developing the motor vehicles of the future. One of their starting points? Studying the brainwaves of the best motorists in the world — professional race car drivers. The idea is to combine computer technology with human intuition and skill behind the wheel.

In honor of Gerdes’ work, here is a look at five cars we may be seeing a lot more of in the future. Sure, they don’t fly. But, hey, many allow you to sit back and enjoy the ride without having to do a thing.

MB&F Thunderbolt Watch

MB&F Thunderbolt Watch

Maximilian Büsser could be considered the Steve Jobs of horology.  That intends no disrespect to the latter man’s passing, and we feel Jobs would be well-honored by the comparison.  Büsser and friends have worked to revolutionize the world of luxury watch craft by exploring out-of-this world designs and precision execution.  The MB&F Thunderbolt Watch is one of their greatest, a marvelous complication inspired by its namesake’s childhood interest in model airplane construction.  A pair of twin conical cylinders recalls the double-engine designs of mid-century aircraft, one of which displays time and the other shows the watch’s power reserve.  It is a watch like this that reflects MB&F’s willingness to fracture the rules, to try something different and do so in unparalleled form.

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More Like an Art Studio than a Classroom...whatcha say?

Modern designs of these pictures are  design of future classroom designed by Chang Architects. Comes from dreams of the future, which applied in the classroom. This design a lot using curved and rounded shapes with the appropriate colors and use lighting effects that made these rooms truly alive, if you come into this room,like to be in the future. The furniture also used contemporary design theme or have not thought of before.Please visit Chang Architects for more information about this future classroom design.

Supersonic Superman

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A trans-Atlantic journey of just sixty minutes has been promised since the dawn of supersonic flight, but is it now closer to reality?

Ultrasound In Africa

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A new smartphone app aims to provide a cheaper alternative to ultrasound in Africa by bringing an old technique into the 21st century.

Stunning: Charge and Drive!

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Researchers are close to developing a system that allows electric cars to recharge while they are moving… via Road works. Inconsiderate drivers. Congestion. Today’s drivers have their fair share of stress already. But now there is a new malaise for the modern motorist: range anxiety. That is the term given to drivers of electric cars that are struck by the sudden fear that their vehicle does not have enough charge to reach its destination. Most of us have experienced that sinking feeling when the little orange indicator light comes on to tell us we are low on petrol, but there is not a gas station in sight. Imagine that, combined with the feeling that you get when your cellphone starts beeping because the battery is low, and you are nowhere near a plug. That gets you close to the feeling of range anxiety.

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Cars On The Internet

It won’t stay that way. In the very near future, your dashboard may soon become as versatile as your laptop. Ford’s Sync, an option starting at $395, is an already available, multifaceted platform made by Ford and Microsoft. And Kia is currently rolling out a similar, Microsoft-developed system in the 2011 Sorento and Sportage called Uvo. The next iteration of Sync grows into an integrated media hub called MyFord Touch, while in-car Wi-Fi (WiFi adapter via USB shown below, left) lets drivers take the Internet along with them. In the future, cars may not only entertain us but could improve driver awareness and reduce distractions, and the advent of electric vehicles will forever change how automobiles connect with infrastructure.

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From Tube To Tablets

The Future of Computers: From Tubes to Tablets

Recent innovations such as the iPad provide an exciting glimpse into the future of computers. Before looking forward toward future computer trends, let's take a quick look back to gain a better appreciation of the evolution thus far. Do you remember when the first primitive computing machines occupied entire buildings? The massive machines from the mid-20th century consisted of row upon row of vacuum tubes and wires. You had to use stacks of punch cards to program these beasts.

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