Sitting inside DARPA’s missile-dodging buggy is just like a video game

Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne would feel at home inside DARPA’s GXV-T missile-dodging superbuggy. This video shows how the Pentagon’s research arm wants t he cockpit to be: Closed, with high-definition touch screens providing wide-angle visibility and displaying combat information in augmented reality . It’s really impressive. Read more…

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Sitting inside DARPA’s missile-dodging buggy is just like a video game

World’s first climate-controlled neighborhood to be built in Dubai

Dubai has unveiled plans for the world’s first indoor, climate-controlled neighborhood— a 450-hectare city area with a retractable glass roof and the world’s largest shopping center. This sounds to me like the hell on earth but I better get used to it: Every major city will probably be like this by the end of the century. Read more…

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You’ll be able to learn a whole language eating a pill in the future

When MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte says that humans will be able to learn an entire language by eating a pill, you better listen. In this new TED Talk, Negroponte shows all the times he was right predicting the future in the 1970s and 1980s even while people laughed at him. Here’s what he thinks that will happen next. Read more…

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