Probably a strange and stray thought, but a cyborg body might work better with a holographic head instead of a physical one, assuming it's not going to be 100% humanoid to start with ( Read more... )

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This makes me feel all giggly. As soon as we get better fine control of magnetic fields, ideally making them directionally projectable, and room-temperature superconductors are available at every warehouse, this technology will come into its own in a massive way.

http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15268879

What I find interesting is not the metal punch application, but the metal shaping option mentioned halfway into the article. Being able to shove a metal sheet or ( Read more... )

In thinking what it would be really nice to invent, I've been stuck for a while on the potential advantages of commercial teleportation. Imagine something like Stargates at every airport and sea port, then at every railway station and bus interchange, then on every street corner, and eventually, in every garage and lobby ( Read more... )

My guess - industrial-grade medical data crunching ( Read more... )

Back in 2000, we looked back over the previous century and said "This century changed the world so much more than any other."

I wonder if there had ever been a turn-of-the-century retrospective which didn't come to that conclusion ( Read more... )

If you were a child of the 80s, or even the 70s, you grew up with pop culture which featured cyborgs. From Darth Vader to Steve Austin, Robocop to Cybermen to Inspector Gadget and Doctor Octopus, we were deluged with characters who were at least updates of Lewis Carroll's Tin Man. Everyone thought we'd see a future where people got bits of ( Read more... )

Cancer cured.

Multiple Sclerosis cured.

Burns cured.

Old age cured deferred.

Free limitless energy.

*checks watch*

Yup, it's the 21st century.

I think we all have some form of this list, even if it's just vague "pay off the debts, nice house, nice car, world cruise" thoughts which occasionally drift by when we pay the bills ( Read more... )

Six-millimetre-thick credit card sized phone:

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