Google’s Chairman Eric Schmidt shares Tech Will Revolutionize The Future
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Google’s Chairman Eric Schmidt Gives His Views on How Tech Will Revolutionize the Future
Watch This Guy Control A Flying Drone With Just His Brain
A drone specialist in Portugal demonstrates a flight controlled by human brainwaves, and suggests a future of large-scale unmanned flying.
Source: BBC News
Is This Look Into the Future of Military Robots the Beginning of the Apocalyptic End the Movies Have Predicted?
Warfare is going through its most significant change in human history. This is an in-depth look at how robotics is increasingly preventing soldiers from rich nations from dying in battle.
Source: The Daily Conversation
The BMW i8 Is the Future of Cars, and It’s Very Bright
The i8 is BMW’s latest supercar, able to go 0 to 60 in about 4.4 seconds with its hybrid electric/gas powertrain. The i8 looks like a Hot Wheels car, handles like a supercar and is as expensive as a high-end Porsche. With a starting price of $135,000, this isn’t the car for everyone. It’s actually a gateway into BMW’s other hybrid, the cute and cheap BMW i3, a shorter, sporty runaround that BMW is touting as their answer to crunchy hybrids from Honda, Nissan and Chevy. TechCrunch senior editor Matt Burns reviews the 2015 BMW i8.
Source: Tech Crunch
Is 3-D-Printed Food Really the Way of the Future?
Source: IGN
This Innovative Technology Will Make Sure You’ll Never Kill Another Plant in Your Home Again
Parrot’s Pot and H2O are two new wireless sensors that track your plants’ health and let you water them remotely.
Source: The Verge
Bill Gates Details How the Internet Will Revolutionize Education by 2030
Bill Gates believes that by 2030, online courses can bring wildly better education to anyone with a smartphone or tablet. As our February guest editor, he narrates this episode of the Big Future to explain how it works — and why it could actually increase inequity if the gender gap is not addressed.
Source: The Verge
SkyTran’s Levitating Pods Look Like Something From the Future, But They Could Be a Reality Very Soon
A magnetically powered, levitating system of transportation is slated to become a reality in Tel Aviv, Israel. Basically, the air vehicles are two-seater pods will that take travelers directly to their intended destination.
Source: GeoBeats News
Watch How This Company Is Connecting Tech and Babies in the Most Interesting Way
Rest Devices makes a smart onesie called the Mimo that tracks your baby’s activity and streams all the data to your smartphone.
Source: Reviewed.com
Could These Humanoid Robots Kick Off the Next Industrial Revolution?
Researchers in UMIACS are investigating autonomy in robotics that includes action recognition. At the heart of this technique lies a novel active tracking and segmentation method that monitors the changes in appearance and topological structure of manipulated objects.
Source: UMIACS