Five for the Future 8-4-10
Submitted by RobBoyle on
- The Fermi Paradox and Phase Changes
- Technology's impact on hindering spycraft
- Predicting the future via web monitoring
- Clothing as speakers and microphones
- The perils of oxytocin
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Five for the Future 07-26-10
Submitted by RobBoyle on
- Anti-deception technologies
- A new map of Mars
- Lunar space elevator feasible in 7 years
- Touchable holograms
- Should we clone neanderthals? (a response)
Five for the Future 07-13-10
Submitted by RobBoyle on
- Nanotech appliances
- Your posthumanism is boring me
- 7 wonders of the quantum world
- Terahertz detectors
- Tracking location based on water isotope ratios
Edited to add: Whoops, Brian didn't tell me he was posting one today too, so you get two 5ftFs!
Five for the Future 7-13-10
Submitted by kylleran on
It's been a while since we've done one so here's some neat links to hopefully inspire you!
And a bonus link to improving human-octopus relations: Octokiss!
- P2P cyptocurrency, experiments in new economic models Bitcoin.
- Taranis Britain's new robot stealth drone (TITAN-rific!)
- Clothing made out of cultured cells.
- Using antimatter to detect earthquakes.
- NASA images of Daphnis one of Saturn's moons inside the rings.
And a bonus link to improving human-octopus relations: Octokiss!
Five for the Future 5-19-10
Submitted by RobBoyle on
- Makeup patterns to foil facial recognition
- Using magnets to manipulate morality
- Measuring eye position to determine numbers we have in mind
- Fingerprinting materials with laser surfacing authentication
- Monocopter drones
Five for the Future 04-29-10
Submitted by RobBoyle on
- Octopi and the search for non-human intelligence
- Making the entire web social
- Facebook for scientists (RNA socnet anyone?)
- What to do in first contact scenarios
- Storing crypto keys with invisible tattoos
These and similar links can be found at http://delicious.com/infomorph
Five for the Future 03-16-10
Submitted by RobBoyle on
- The case against augmented reality
- Supplies the key to manned space exploration
- Removing dangerous radiation belts
- Microbe biometrics for forensics
- Seeing through opaque materials
Five for the Future 03-03-10
Submitted by RobBoyle on
- Games and advertising in a spime-networked world (video)
- Compressed sensing
- Augmented identity
- Ocean bacteria superorganism
- Botnet ecosystems
Five for the Future 02-25-10
Submitted by RobBoyle on
- Open source criminal networks
- A moral obligation to seed the universe with life?
- Flashlight submachine guns
- Genetically-modified flowers that can smell like anything
- A new Singularity FAQ
Five for the Future 02-08-10
Submitted by RobBoyle on
- Scanners that see inside bodies
- Bugnet eavesdroppers
- Liquid nanotech invisibility cloaks
- A breakthrough in broad-spectrum antivirals
- Does the uncanny valley exist?
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