Volvo’s In-Dash Facial Recognition Stops Distracted Driving
[ Filed under Technology & in the Futuristic category ] There are far too many things capable of distracting drivers on the road, and most of them are inside the car itself. Self-driving cars will...
View ArticleWocket Digital Wallet Wants to Take Over Your Pocket
[ Filed under Technology & in the Futuristic category ] In the field of electronic wallets, it looks like Coin has a competitor. Wocket, from NXT-ID, can store up to 10,000 cards, including credit...
View ArticleSpace Smells: Wearable Band Brings Earth Scents to Space
[ Filed under Technology & in the Futuristic category ] It’s said that smell is the sense most closely related to memory, and if astronauts are any indication then that saying is true. Space...
View ArticleSuper-Slick Sunglasses That You’ll Never Be Able to Lose
[ Filed under Technology & in the Futuristic category ] Sunglasses always seem to mysteriously walk off on their own, leaving their owners to helplessly hold up a hand to shield the sun wherever...
View ArticleGenius Cup Knows + Tracks Exactly What You’re Drinking
[ Filed under Technology & in the Futuristic category ] Even if you’re adept at counting the calories in your food, tracking the nutritional information of beverages can be a little trickier. Mark...
View ArticleDigital Time Capsule Preserves Your Personality Forever
[ Filed under Technology & in the Futuristic category ] The desire to leave a legacy that persists long after our lives are over is encoded in our DNA. Some of us just have kids and call it good;...
View ArticlePlug + Play Nightlight Monitors Your Home for Emergencies
[ Filed under Technology & in the Futuristic category ] The home of the future has become the home of today. We can control so many household functions remotely via smartphone that we can now...
View ArticleLasers Ionize Mid-Air Molecules to Make Moving Holograms
[ Filed under Technology & in the Futuristic category ] The holograms we know and are a little creeped out by today are generally created by projecting images onto a medium. The infamous Michael...
View ArticleSmell Your TV Shows With a $2500 Aroma Emitting System
[ Filed under Technology & in the Futuristic category ] Have you ever wondered why Smell-O-Vision never really took off? It’s not because it would be too difficult technologically – it wouldn’t....
View ArticleFuturistic System Uses Eye Reflections to Identify Faces
[ Filed under Technology & in the Futuristic category ] In movies and TV, futuristic techniques are often used to identify and catch criminals – techniques that don’t yet exist because they’re...
View ArticleReal-Life Holodeck: 3D Holograms You Can Touch & Feel
[ Filed under Technology & in the Futuristic category ] The company behind a multi-point, midair haptic feedback system using ultrasound to add sensation to holographic representation has just...
View ArticleSpace Sounds: Send a Message In a Bottle Into Outer Space
[ Filed under Technology & in the Futuristic category ] Are you a romantic – the type of person who drops a message into a bottle and flings it into the ocean? Do you have dreamy visions of...
View ArticleTangible Holograms: Responsive Lasers Now Safe to Touch
[ Filed under Technology & in the Futuristic category ] Real-life holodecks are now one big step closer to reality, thanks to a Japanese laboratory that has successfully produced interactive...
View ArticlePhotonic Fence: Laser Network Zaps Mosquitoes in Midair
[ Filed under Technology & in the Futuristic category ] In much of the world, mosquitoes are considered annoying pests, but the reality is that they are one of the deadliest animals on the planet,...
View ArticleSound of the Fury? Radio Wave Gun Shoots Down Drones
[ Filed under Technology & in the Futuristic category ] As drones become more and more common among the military, regular folks, and bad guys alike, security fears about unmanned aircraft systems...
View ArticleDriverless Cars Set to Disrupt Airline & Hotel Industries
[ Filed under Technology & in the Futuristic category ] Autonomous vehicles are more than just a means of easier ground travel; they are poised to become huge disruptive for both lodging and air...
View ArticleHyper Reality: Augmented Future Taken to Virtual Extremes
[ Filed under Technology & in the Futuristic category ] The future generally looks so bright, shiny and utterly perfect when envisioned by futurists, or terrible, dark and depressing through the...
View ArticleUS Navy Develops Augmented Reality Display for Divers
[ Filed under Technology & in the Futuristic category ] Like something straight out of Iron Man, this new heads-up display (HUD) from the United States Navy turns diving helmets into dynamic...
View ArticleChina’s “Underwater Space Station” to be 10,000 Feet Deep
[ Filed under Technology & in the Futuristic category ] China is working to create a massive subsurface sea lab thousands of feet below the surface of the ocean, aiming to hunt for minerals in the...
View ArticleSound of the Fury? Radio Wave Gun Shoots Down Drones
[ Filed under Technology & in the Futuristic category ] As drones become more and more common among the military, regular folks, and bad guys alike, security fears about unmanned aircraft systems...
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