Further Portendings

Friday Frivolity With Lube In The Bedroom

Check out KY’s new viral ad campaign: Are You British in Bed? Discover your lovemaking nationality:

Earth Day 2008: Five Easy Steps To Save The World

22 Apr 08 Climate Burn | Duelling Realities | Farming the Future | Jump the Shark

In celebration of Earth Day 2008 (W00t! We survived another year!), here is the Portension guide for green living this year:
Step 1) Do Whatever Al Gore Tells You

Yes, …

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Your Cyborg Destiny Awaits

14 Apr 08 Future-Stuff-That-Goes-Ping | Robot Revolt

The guys over at Popular Science have taken an exoskeleton for a test drive:

While audiences flood theaters this month to see the comic-book-inspired Iron Man, a real-life mad genius toils in a secret mountain lab to make the mechanical superhuman more than just a fantasy with the XOS Exoskeleton…

It recognizes that Jameson wants to bring his hands down and calculates what each artificial muscle …
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The Popular Future

Half-Man / Half-Robo-Killing-Machine: The Exoskeleton Soldier / Office Worker of The Future

The army of one just got a bit stronger thanks to Sarcos, who’s won a contract to deliver an exoskeleton to the military next year. Here’s a recent demo video that’s making the rounds (as seen on Engadget, Communist Robot, Wired …

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World AIDS Day: Sharing Your PC Will Save Humanity

With the recent media overkill concerning a remotely possible birdflu pandemic, it’s easy to lose sight of the real pandemic–HIV/AIDS. While the immune-system disease will continue to claim many lives, international disagreement over how to fight the global HIV/Aids pandemic has persisted on World Aids Day. So …

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Friday Frivolity With Topless Power Rangers (NSFW)

Because Japanese pr0n is just so wierdly futuristic — it doesn’t matter that this video is ancient and has been making the viral rounds longer than the Bird Flu. Warning: bare breasts! Not safe for work.

Are you at home? Good. Enjoy Topless Power Rangers.

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The World Outside Your Window Will Be Artificial

Don’t like the view, simply wave your hand and select something more pleasing, chose the time of day, or even adjust the color tone to help alleviate your jet lag. In a densely populated city like Hong Kong, where most people have a view of only the building …

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News From The Future

Unlike Travel -- First we take Berlin, then we take the world 2 Jun 08
Mobile maps taken to the next level. Build your own excursion to happening places, clubs, bars, food, culture, art, welness and other thrills. Leave Lonely Planet in the bin.
Britain Releases Secret Files on UFO Sightings -- SPACE.com 15 May 08
What they saw has never been explained. And they were so worried about losing their jobs that they demanded their names be kept off the official reports.
All You Need to Know About Giant Monsters in 5 Minutes » SlideShare 15 May 08
Thanks to the nice people at Slideshare, you can now get my 5-minute introduction to giant monster appreciation, which I performed live at the Ignite show in San Francisco a couple weeks ago.
Clever Uses: Cure Poison Ivy and Jellyfish Stings with Vodka 14 May 08
In fact, the article offers a total of 10 unusual uses for the popular beverage, from flower preservation and insect repellent to toothache reliever and jellyfish-sting soother.
Meet the Spacecraft That Could Save NASA a Fortune | Wired Science from Wired.com 14 May 08
Reusable spacecraft architecture is a bit of a novelty for NASA, which has traditionally built spacecraft from the ground up for each new mission -- at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. No lo. […]
Megaquake set to strike within a decade | New Scientist Environment 2 May 08
Sometime in the next 10 years we can expect an earthquake of a similar magnitude to the 2004 Sumatra quake that triggered the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami.