Category: FutureTech

Low Orbit Server Stations

Post author By Release_Candidate
Post date March 20, 2012
No Comments on Low Orbit Server Stations

With the development of GPS controlled drones, far-reaching cheap radio equipment and tiny new computers like the Raspberry Pi, we’re going to experiment with sending out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air. This way our machines will have to be shut down with aeroplanes in order to shut down the system. A real act of war.

We’re just starting so we haven’t figured everything out yet. But we can’t limit ourselves to hosting things just on land anymore. These Low Orbit Server Stations (LOSS) are just the first attempt. With modern radio transmitters we can get over 100Mbps per node up to 50km away. For the proxy system we’re building, that’s more than enough.

The Pirate Bay – The galaxy’s most resilient bittorrent site.

Tags drones, piratebay, Release_Candidate, servers

Drones FutureTech Release_Candidate

Flying Swarm Of Robots Gives Protesters And Activists Free Wi-Fi, On The Go

Post author By Release_Candidate
Post date March 7, 2012
No Comments on Flying Swarm Of Robots Gives Protesters And Activists Free Wi-Fi, On The Go

Electronic Countermeasures is a project by Liam Young of think tank Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today, working with design studio Unknown Fields Division, and Eleanor Saitta and Oliviu Lugojan-Ghenciu of Superflux. The project is essentially an autonomous, roaming Internet swarm, constructed from repurposed UAVs.

via Flying Swarm Of Robots Gives Protesters And Activists Free Wi-Fi, On The Go | Co.Design: business + innovation + design.

Tags Release_Candidate

FutureTech Media Release_Candidate

TV Is Broken

I turn to that, Beatrix approves, and we watch. Then, a few minutes later, a commercial comes on. The volume difference is jarring to say the least. I would safely guess it is fifty percent louder than the show. I hurriedly reach for the remote and turn it down…

“Why did you turn the movie off, Daddy?”, Beatrix worriedly asks, as if she has done something wrong and is being punished by having her entertainment interrupted. She thinks that’s what I was doing by rushing for the remote.

“I didn’t turn it off, honey. This is just a commercial. I was turning the volume down because it was so loud. Shrek will come back on in a few minutes” I say.

“Did it break?”, she asks. It does sometimes happen at home that Flash or Silverlight implode, interrupt her show, and I have to fix it.

“No. It’s just a commercial.”

“What’s a commercial?”, she asks.

”It is like little shows where they tell you about other shows and toys and snacks.”, I explain.

“Why?”

“Well the TV people think you might like to know about this stuff.”

“This is boring! I want to watch Shrek.”

via Minimal Mac | TV Is Broken.

Tags Media, Release_Candidate, television

3D Printing FutureTech Release_Candidate

Printing Muscle

In a small clean room tucked into the back of San Diego–based startup Organovo, Chirag Khatiwala is building a thin layer of human skeletal muscle. He inserts a cartridge of specially prepared muscle cells into a 3-D printer, which then deposits them in uniform, closely spaced lines in a petri dish. This arrangement allows the cells to grow and interact until they form working muscle tissue that is nearly indistinguishable from something removed from a human subject.

via Printing Muscle – Technology Review.

Tags 3Dprinting, medicine, Release_Candidate

Drones FutureTech Release_Candidate

Why Drones May Bring a Renaissance, Not Erosion, of Privacy

Post author By Release_Candidate
Post date February 22, 2012
No Comments on Why Drones May Bring a Renaissance, Not Erosion, of Privacy

But these little flying video and audio recorders, paired with powerful data analysis tools, make previously unthinkable levels of surveillance possible, even easy. Before the Internet, tracking someones reading and shopping activities would have been nearly impossible without a private detective.

via Why Drones May Bring a Renaissance, Not Erosion, of Privacy – Alexis Madrigal – Technology – The Atlantic.

Tags cameras, drones, privacy, Release_Candidate

FutureTech Release_Candidate Wearable computing

Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End – NYTimes.com

Post author By Release_Candidate
Post date February 22, 2012
No Comments on Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End – NYTimes.com

We’re inching one step closer to Rainbows End every day. I’ll admit, even though I’m a certified Apple guy, I’d buy these in a hot minute.

Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End

People who constantly reach into a pocket to check a smartphone for bits of information will soon have another option: a pair of Google-made glasses that will be able to stream information to the wearer’s eyeballs in real time.

According to several Google employees familiar with the project who asked not to be named, the glasses will go on sale to the public by the end of the year.