The NewYork Times reports on a planned road that would glow at night after light-sensitive material stores energy during the day.
If cars, traffic and navigation can be “smart,” is there any reason for roads to remain as dumb as bricks? Not according to the unlikely combination of Daan Roosegaarde, a Dutch art-school .Read more...
The Best and Worst Airports according to Freakonomics
At the top of the list of best airports, by a long way, was Amsterdam’s Schiphol. I have not flown into Schiphol myself, but I’m not at all surprised by this ranking, as the Dutch are genius urban planners. Schiphol has a branch of .Read more...
The New York Times looks at a strange computer that promises great speed.
Our digital age is all about bits, those precise ones and zeros that are the stuff of modern computer code.But a powerful new type of computer that is about to be commercially deployed by a major American military contractor .Read more...
Wired reports on plans to launch shuttles from airliner.
A Swiss company plans to blend a design used for decades by NASA’s space shuttle program with another employed by an American launch company in a bid to “democratize” the launching of small satellites into orbit. Swiss Space Systems, or S3, plans .Read more...
Wired reports on the plan to make computers that can teach themselves.
Machine learning is how a computer (yellow) carries out a new task (red). The program adds its prior training (green), makes predictions, and completes the task. The result: the machine gets smarter.
The Pentagon’s blue-sky research agency is readying a .Read more...
Mashable looks at the new Philips 3D TV.
Philips has launched a new line of TVs called DesignLine, and they’re definitely very different from most other TVs on the market.
Aiming to create an “object of desire” rather than just another TV, Philips’ designers have created a TV that looks like a seamless .Read more...
Fast company looks at why your car is now a giant smartphone on wheels.
There was a time when the automotive industry was the pride of America, when consumers eagerly awaited each new model, when Wall Street happily buzzed about each upcoming earnings report. Today, the excitement we once reserved for .Read more...
Mashable reports on the evolution of Energy efficient lighting.
Here’s a bright idea: light bulbs that use 75% to 80% less energy.
Compact fluorescent bulbs (CFL) and light-emitting diode bulbs (LED) are quickly becoming the new norm. These newer bulbs have a bright future since the U.S. Government passed the Energy Independence .Read more...
Gizmodo reports on the futuristic touchscreen subway maps.
New York City has hired a company called Control Group to install 90 47-inch touchscreen subway maps around the city. It looks like real life world-of-tomorrow type stuff.
The maps will show you how to get from one station to another. All you do is tap where you .Read more...
Gizmodo looks at the new google Glass
If you’re a tech junkie like me, you might have noticed that Google is attempting to become our own personal Q in its efforts to promote Glass, the futuristic/super-nerdy looking eyewear that present a user with a heads up display and an always-on camera.
Just like .Read more...
Wired magazine reviews an innovative boat-plane hybrid built for speed.
Floating behind the zodiac is the boat that has brought Larsen to Speed Spot for the tenth time in as many years in pursuit of sailing’s speed record: the Vestas SailRocket Mark 2. Its aeronautical DNA is obvious at a glance. There’s .Read more...
