Showing posts with label future tec. Show all posts
Showing posts with label future tec. Show all posts

20100603

U3-X Personal Mobility Prototype

First off, this is really cool.
My second thought was that us overfed Americans would need an industrial strength version capable of withstanding several hundred pounds.
Round that off with a third thought: do we really need to sit more than we already do?

Personally, I'd love it for an office chair.

20081219

Technology once again blazing the way for innovations that will be banned

Carbon Nanotube Loudspeaker

Pretty cool idea; the nanotubes are woven into a super thin fabric that is rapidly heated and cooled, thus causing sound to be emitted much like a little modulated thunderclap. This fabric can be stretched into a picture frame, or into a cylinder, or clothing.
How would you like your coat to be a loudspeaker? How would you like every teenager in 20 years to wear their favorite, most abrasive, sound.
As Andy McCasky says, "You have been warned".