Voomed - Futurism — Page 9

• 'Street Fighter II (Cats Edition) - Street Fighting Felines Take On Humans In This Hilarious Parody As any cat owner will know, you push a cat too far and it will turn very quickly. And when it does, the claws come out, the teeth lock onto your arm, and suddenly you're consumed by a feline viciousne...
• NASA Scientist Lucianne Walkowicz Explains Why Mars Shouldn't Be Considered A 'Backup Earth' It's casually assumed sometimes that if we destroy earth through climate change or some other human made catastrophe, we might be able to move to Mars. Of course we'd need to make Mars habitable first...
• 'For Your Eyes Only' - Take A Peek Inside The Secret Life Of Superheroes And Pop Culture Icons French artist Greg-Léon Guillemin likes to imagine what some of the popular characters from comics, video games, film, and TV might be doing when they're not saving the world or trying to destroy it. ...
• Elon Musk Thinks It's Possible That We Might All Be Living In A Video Game While at the Code Conference, an industry event for tech and media people, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was asked what he thinks about the idea that the human race and everything we experience is ac...
• Social Spy Network: Is Facebook Using People's Phones To Listen To Their Conversations? It's pretty much common knowledge that our activities online are tracked and shared amongst advertisers and marketers to target us with specific adverts. But now a professor posits that Facebook might...
• Disney Reimagine 'Finding Nemo As Told by Emoji' In This Adorable Animation People have a love-hate relationship with emojis, you are either someone who refuses to use them because you think it lessens the point you are trying to make, or you feel they add extra meaning you w...
• The U-Pet Backpak Bubble Window Carrier Turns Pets Into A Space-Traveling Astronauts If there's one thing cats hate doing it's being carried anywhere in a carrier cage. Anyone who's ever tried to get a cat to the vets in one will have the scars that attest to that. So, how about carti...
• Here's A Solution To The Time Travel Grandfather Paradox Neatly Wrapped Up In Under Three Minutes If time travel into the past were possible, which at the moment it isn't but let's say it was, there's a famous paradox which pretty much sums up the difficulty of going back in time. It deals with th...
• Floating Bonsai Trees Are Here To Wow You With Their Levitating Awesomeoness Bonsai trees are cool and everything but can they levitate? No they can't. Well, make that couldn't because they can now, thanks to a Japanese company called Hoshinchu. They've produced a range of lev...
• 'Hyper-Reality' - A Nightmarish Glimpse Into The Future Of Virtual Screens And Holographic Displays Six years ago filmmaker, designer, and artist Keiichi Matsuda made two films—Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop and Augmented City 3D—that each explore our technologically enhanced future. Rat...
• The Tempescope Displays The Weather Forecast Inside A Translucent Box That Sits On Your Desk It sounds like something out of a Terry Gilliam movie, but it's a real device created by software engineer and weather god Ken Kawamoto. Called the Tempescope it displays the weather forecast by creat...
• Celebrity Faces Become Hilarious Distortions When Made To Fit The Golden Ratio Some of the most recognizable faces on the planet get a mathematical makeover in designer Igor Kochmala's Fibonacci Sequence-inspired series Dr. Fibonazi's Plastic Surgery Clinic. The series uses the ...
• Hyperloop One's Supersonic Transportation System Demonstrates Its First Propulsion Open Air Test Hyperloop, the supersonic transport system proposed by Elon Musk, underwent its first public demonstration by company Hyperloop One recently in the Nevada desert, 10 miles north of Las Vegas. The 'pro...
• Dare You Play This? The 'Paranormal Activity VR' Game Looks Absolutely Terrifying Horror games look to be entering a whole new level of pant-soiling scares when it comes to virtual reality. Because that extra layer of immersion is enough to really get you creeped out. As you can se...
• 'Huggable' Is A Robotic Teddy Bear That Helps Children In Hospital Combat Fear And Anxiety As part of their documentary series called | Robotica | The New York Times looks at en experimental concept underway at Boston Children’s Hospital. The project involves a robotic teddy bear called Hug...
• Elon Musk Wants Iron Man And Captain America Themed Spacesuits For Space X Astronauts If you happen to be a billionaire and just happen to run a self-funded space program then i guess when it comes to the subject of spacesuit design for your astronauts you can pretty much have any desi...
• Catterbox—The World's First Talking Cat Collar Gives Your Feline Pet A Human Voice If you're the owner of a cat you've probably wondered what it might be saying if you could translate its meowing into human speech. Well now, finally, technology has delivered a device that can do jus...
• Jehovah's Witnesses' Laughable Anti-Gay Animation Mimics Pixar To Oppose Same-Sex Parenting Religious tolerance doesn't stretch to gay people if you're a Jehovah's Witness. In fact the religious evangelists are notorious for their anti-gay stance and now they're using animations, animations ...
• Using Siri To Pick Up Girls At College - Can It Help This Guy Out? Well, Yes And No Siri, Apple's AI personal assistant, is kind of useful for a few things, like when you can't be bothered to open a browser and Google something, you can get Siri to do it instead. But how useful is it...
• Take A Look Inside Japan’s Incredible Futuristic Robotic Underground Bike Parking System Of you've ever been to Tokyo then you'll be amazed at just how much modern civilization can be crammed into such a small space, the noise, volume and overwhelming sense of culture compression is overw...

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