We wrote about this robotic horse (LS3 model) a year ago (cyborg 2, b&g page 59) mocking (what else?) the American soldiers who, in case of malfunction, would have to …
paper reality
Early November 2015, 1.2 million subscribers of the print edition of the New York Times received, along with their newspaper, the cardboard construction shown in the image. Some of them …
thalidomide
Thalidomide was introduced in 1957, first in West Germany, as a harmless tranquilizer by the pharmaceutical company Chemie – Grünenthal. The sedative was specifically advertised (among other things) to pregnant …
digital skin
It is unknown what boost the technology / industry of digital sexual intermediaries will receive from the “digital skin” that some technicians are preparing, but it is reasonable that such …
Solu
We don’t do advertisements, so the mention of Solu has nothing to do with the certainty that it’s the next popular gadget on the market, but rather the opposite: it …
eagle vs drone
“The ribs eat first”: the saying is about something else, but however it is reversed (for the moment…) at the point of the new example: the first eat the ribs! …
the tendencies
It is probably not one of the burning issues in our (digital) lives, but it is certainly a topic: which technological research and applications will be launched in 2016? The …
algorithmic predictions
“Big data” are not (more precisely: must not be allowed to be) merely vast piles of data that clever machines will dig through each time, on demand, now extracting one …
scientific “truths”
“Researchers lie” (not always!). If you make this kind of observation in front of even one researcher, from any field, you’ll get seriously bashed. It’s the fate of the “unskilled”: …
robot-games
“The children are playing.” Not only with tablets (on the left) but also with small-scale robots (in the middle). Children’s play will undoubtedly be a process of familiarization with domestic …
Ehang 184
Our opinion (for years now!) that land-based transportation is obsolete, since it is limited to the two dimensions of the ground while there is an (capitalistically) untapped 3rd dimension (the …
biometric cinema
DiCaprio as Hugh Glass in “The Revenant” by Alejandro Inarritu. Before you saw the film (if you did), others had already seen it. The production company, 20th Century Fox, held …