Dutch design studio DRIFT designed a pretty futuristic “ghost chair”. If you are planning a trip to Italy, the chair will be on display at the Salone del Mobile in Milan from 16th – 21st April 2008. [yanko design] via Gizmodo

Share on Facebook

Bookmark this article:

                                                

Earth has issues, so Richard Branson and Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page think it’s time humanity got started on a Plan B.

Their plan B consist into leading hundreds of users on one of the “grandest adventures in human history: the first permanent human colony on Mars.”

Read Richard Branson’s post on the Google Blog

Share on Facebook

Bookmark this article:

                                                

Star Trek fictional VISOR worn by Geordi LaForge might become reality soon, researchers say. The Star Trek Visor is a device used by the blind to artificially provide them with a sense of sight. The device scans the electromagnetic spectrum, creating visual input, and transmits it into the brain of the wearer via the optic nerves.

“Researchers have proposed a brain impant for the blind, whereby visual signals could be wirelessly beamed directly into the brain. The idea behind this is that a blind person would wear a special pair of glasses that could record video images using two digital video cameras. This video would then be wirelessly beamed into an implant that would translate that video into electrical signals to stimulate a specific area of the brain. This area of the brain is called the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) and is a part of the brain’s processing system for sight. By electrically stimulating this area of the brain, it can give a blind person the impression that they are actually seeing something visually. Scientists have already electrically stimulated this area of the brain in primates and found it had induced sight perception.” via [Brain Stimulant]

Share on Facebook

Bookmark this article:

                                                

Cool futuristic device allows its users to do more than taking pictures.

Hardgeek says,

“The idea behind this concept is exploit the internet ability in a mobile device. Touch screen, built in camera, scanner, WiFi, google map (hopefully google earth), google search, image search all in one slim device.”[HARDGEEK]

Share on Facebook

Bookmark this article:

                                                

 
For those who like to spend time cooking here is a an all in one kitchen concept where you as the cooker and your guests can feel the experience of cooking together.

[tuvie.com]

Share on Facebook

Bookmark this article:

                                                

Here is a funny video about American fashion designers from the 1930s trying to predict what men and women would be wearing in the year 2000. We probably do the same today, when we attempt to predict our future.

Share on Facebook

Bookmark this article:

                                                

With all the budgets cuts made in our health care system, it might take 200 years before we see those in Canadian hospitals.

“The aim of ICU Bed is to assist in improving the quality of intensive care of patients in very critical condition thanks to its innovative design solution for Intensive Care Units and Anesthesiology and Resuscitation Units.” thanks to: [TUVIE.COM]

Share on Facebook

Bookmark this article:

                                                

A week ago we talked about how cell phones would be in 2015. Now we found a post on HardGeek about a futuristic cell phone design that is hypoallergenic and has recyclable titanium parts, and its environmental friendly organic battery which is free from heavy metals will please our ecologist friends. [Chocolate] via HardGeek

Technorati Tags: futuristic, e-paper

Share on Facebook

Bookmark this article:

                                                

Freshome posted pics of the new futuristic Schimmel Pegasus piano. The post says that the piano looks like a spacecraft. We would say that it has the shape of a razor for women.

“At a first glance the Schimmel Pegasus Piano doesn’t look like a piano. With those beautifully sculpted curves this piano looks more like a futuristic spaceship. The Piano has over 200 strings with a key assembly of 10000 pieces with a fully adjustable hydraulic lid. Now you can have your own Schimmel Pegasus Piano because there’s one for sale until March 15th, only 14 were made ten years ago for people like Eddie Murphy, Lenny Kravitz, and Prince.”[Freshome]

Technorati Tags: futuristic, piano

Share on Facebook

Bookmark this article:

                                                

Here is an architectural design that would fit into “Space 1999″ 1970s science fiction TV show. The new six-star Hotel Hingarae is a development to be built on the western slopes of Lake Taupo in New Zealand. [The Cool Hunter] via freshome

Technorati Tags: futurism, architecture, six-stars

Share on Facebook

Bookmark this article: