Archive for category The Future
The Future: ‘Condition One’ May Revolutionize Photo/Video Journalism, Reporting, & the Documentary/Indie Film Trade
Posted by mistergroonk in Apps, Movies, The Future, Trailers, Video, War on November 11, 2011
What is it: Condition One is an iPad app that will be newly launched by the time you read this post. What we’ve learned from the trailer(listed below) is that you turn your iPad into a portable video camera. When viewing what you have filmed, you can swipe to see different angles during playback. From what we can tell Condition One personalizes the viewing experience through portable film making. It’s as if you have become the intrepid reporter behind enemy lines seeking out the story within. It blends photo journalism and reporting in interesting ways. That’s how we see it anyway. One top of all that, it’s free!
This app has quickly become the second reason we’d spend money on an iPad.
Official sites
https://www.facebook.com/ConditionOne1
http://www.conditionone.com/
Condition ONE Demo from Danfung Dennis on Vimeo.
The Condition ONE app gives users the ability to look in any direction while viewing footage. By pivoting and tilting the iPad, one literally manipulates the corresponding field of view. The highly sensitive motion controls produce the illusion of looking through a window into another reality, giving a visceral sense of ‘being there’.
The Future: Japanese Scientists Create Spherical Flying Hover Drone, 26 years After REAL GENIUS
Posted by mistergroonk in Only in Japan, Robots, Technology, The Future on November 8, 2011
A few weeks ago Japan’s Ministry of Defense revealed a helicopter hover drone that can fly up to 40 MPH. It can also roll on the ground or up a wall under full control of the operator. This new thing has obvious uses in defense and security. Hell, pick any high technology dystopian future, evil genius base or shady multinational corporate entity in fiction and you’ll see a fleet of these suckers.
But a Google+ user pointed out what should have been obvious from the get go. This hover drone could revolutionize certain aspects of filmmaking. We’re embarrassed the creative idea didn’t come to us before the hard practical uses.
Another thing that struck us about this machine is that the 1980s movie REAL GENIUS prophesied it about 26 years prior.
Robot OMG: Geminoid Smiles for the First Time. Then We Smile and Secretly Cringe
Posted by mistergroonk in Robots, Technology, The Future on March 11, 2011
From the Geminoid DK You Tube comes the Geminoid robot smiling for the camera.
Associate Professor Henrik Scharfe’s plan is to build a robot that looks like him.
Future Concepts: Harvest City. The Floating Future of Haiti?
Posted by mistergroonk in Technology, The Future on January 12, 2011
Yanko Design shared an interesting idea for the future recovery of Haiti.
Tangram 3DS collaborating with Boston Architect / Designer E Kevin Schopfer together creating a floating agricultural / light industrial city right off the shores of Haiti. What’s it called? Harvest City. Behold a 2 miles in diameter complex of tethered floating modules.
Video of this under the cut.
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Good Morning, Einstein Approved Oncoming Human/Computer Singularity
Posted by mistergroonk in The Future on January 12, 2011
Friday Night Movie: “Science Saved My Soul…”
Posted by mistergroonk in Just Freaking Neat, Movies, Science, Space, The Future on November 19, 2010
Friday Night Movie: Professor Kevin Warrick is “The Cyborg”. The Human-Robot Hybrid Revolution is Coming.
Posted by mistergroonk in Books, Technology, The Future on October 22, 2010
In 1998, Kevin Warwick, a Professor of Cybernetics at Reading University, became the world’s first cyborg. Well, to be exact, he had a radio frequency ID implanted in his arm. As a result, he can turn on lights by snapping his fingers; once he let his wife’s brain waves take control of his body (she’s also cybernetic).
A Fine Ship: Student Creates Human-Powered Ornithopter, Flies Like a Bird
Posted by mistergroonk in Technology, The Future on October 21, 2010
HPO Flight from U of T Engineering on Vimeo.