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futurescope: Why Talking Cars Will Be Good for Buses via The...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:04:54 +0800

Why Talking Cars Will Be Good for Buses

via The Atlantic Cities:

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is expected at some point later this year to make a milestone decision on whether future cars in America will be required to come with “connected vehicle” technology. In layman’s terms, this refers to the capacity of vehicles to communicate wirelessly with one another and with fixed infrastructure (“I’m changing lanes,” “an accident just happened,” “I just slammed on my brakes”).

The concept conjures a futuristic world of chatty cars in which our vehicles might do a better job of interacting with each other than we do as drivers. But the prospect is not so far in the future. And some of the biggest beneficiaries may not be cars at all, but riders of public transit. […]

“As the bus moves through the network,” Head explains, “it broadcasts a message that says, ‘Here I am, I’m a bus. Here I am, I’m a bus. Get out of my lane.’”

[read more] [Video by Head & Wu]

Making Humans More Resilient Through Meaningful Innovation

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:04:10 +0800

Making Humans More Resilient Through Meaningful Innovation:

Frans van Houten, huffingtonpost.com

What if just 20 buildings dedicated to urban farming could provide the entire city of New York with fruits and vegetables year round? It sounds like a fantasy of the future dreamed up on a Hollywood film set. But with breakthrough…

futurescope: Print your own Android via techcrunch: Gael...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:03:49 +0800

futurescope:

Print your own Android

via techcrunch:

Gael Langevin wants to give you a robot. The French artist is posting 3D printer files for a humanoid robot he’s building as he completes the various parts, allowing us all to create our very own plastic helper/lover with some ABS plastic, a few Arduino boards, and some motors.

The plans for the hands are available on Thingiverse and Langevin will release more parts over the next few months. […] The robot is completely open source and all the plans will be available for download. You should be able to print most of the pieces on a home 3D printer […].

[read more] [Gael Langevin] [Thingiverse]

emergentfutures: Who is Africa’s youngest billionaire? 31...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:22:13 +0800

emergentfutures:

Who is Africa’s youngest billionaire?

31 year old Ashish Thakkar is Africa’s youngest billionaire. Born in Uganda, the young billionaire was just 13 when he and his family had to flee the continent to escape the Rwandan genocide. He started his entrepreneurial journey at age 15 after taking a $6,000 loan to start his first company.

The journey led him to found Mara Group which has become one of the largest information technology companies in Africa.

Full Story: CP-Africa

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Make Google Reader your Powerhouse sharing system

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:04:48 +0800

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Make Google Reader your Powerhouse sharing system

futuramb: 3ders.org - Dutch architect to build “endless” house...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:04:13 +0800

futuramb:

3ders.org - Dutch architect to build “endless” house with 3D printer | 3D Printer News & 3D Printing News

Dutch architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars (39) from Universe Architecture in Amsterdam designed a one-piece building which will be built on a 3D printer. He hopes the so-called Landscape House can be printed out latest in year 2014.

This is another 3D project that suggests that this technology is not about just spare parts and tools, but that even architecture and construction will be in for a quantum leap.

emergentfutures: World’s 100 richest earned enough in 2012 to...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:03:48 +0800

emergentfutures:

World’s 100 richest earned enough in 2012 to end global poverty 4 times over

“The richest 1 percent has increased its income by 60 percent in the last 20 years with the financial crisis accelerating rather than slowing the process,” while the income of the top 0.01 percent has seen even greater growth, a new Oxfam report said.

Full Story: RT

There's a tumblr run by an astronaut living in space. Srsly? Srsly!

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 01:02:48 +0800

There's a tumblr run by an astronaut living in space. Srsly? Srsly!:

climateadaptation:

Colonel Chris Hadfield currently lives on the International Space Station. He posts pictures of his work and the earth and your wee brain will explode. colchrishadfield.tumblr.com

Canadian Astronaut, currently living in space aboard ISS as Flight Engineer on Expedition 34, to be Commander of Expedition 35.

"Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but..."

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:23:49 +0800

“Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.”

- Rick Warren (via thearistocatic)

kbkonnected: Free download! Brain-Based Learning...

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 04:03:48 +0800

kbkonnected:

Free download! Brain-Based Learning Guide

from-student-to-teacher:

Download our Brain-Based Learning Guide to help students think critically about how they learn:http://edut.to/V4kpmh.

dessler: I want <3

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:23:12 +0800

dessler:

I want <3

"And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there..."

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:12:09 +0800

“And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.”

- Tiffanie DeBartolo (via kari-shma)

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it..."

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 16:43:47 +0800

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”

- Henri J.M. Nouwen (via kari-shma)

"I can never say what I want to say… It’s been like this for a while now. I try to say something, but..."

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:24:31 +0800

“I can never say what I want to say… It’s been like this for a while now. I try to say something, but all I get are the wrong words - the wrong words or the exact opposite words from what I mean. I try to correct myself, and that only makes it worse. I lose track of what I was trying to say to begin with. It’s like I’m split in two and playing tag with myself. One half is chasing the other half around this big, fat post. The other me has the right words, but this me can’t catch her.”

- Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami (via fragment-ed)
Hilarious, but true…

"Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have."

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 22:06:04 +0800

““Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.””

- Doris Mortman

emergentfutures: Google Translate can now read images of...

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:00:00 +0800

emergentfutures:

Google Translate can now read images of text

Indecipherable foreign road signs, consider yourselves thwarted.

Full Story: Arstechnica

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:59:48 +0800

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

- Aristotle

"To pick the likeliest winners in this vast category, Jim O’Neill of Goldman Sachs has given us the..."

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:56:40 +0800

“To pick the likeliest winners in this vast category, Jim O’Neill of Goldman Sachs has given us the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and now South Africa), the “Next 11” (Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Turkey, South Korea, and Vietnam) and, more recently, MIST (Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, and Turkey). Robert Ward of the Economist Intelligence Unit has added the CIVETS (Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey, and South Africa.)”

- Which Countries Will Rise to the Top in a Leaderless World? - Ian Bremmer - Harvard Business Review (via futuristgerd)

"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his..."

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:55:58 +0800

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

- Henry David Thoreau (via kari-shma)

"Some people never say the words ‘I love you’. It’s not their style to be so bold. Some people never..."

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 01:34:48 +0800

“Some people never say the words ‘I love you’. It’s not their style to be so bold. Some people never say those words: ‘I love you’, but, like a child, they’re longing to be told.”

- Paul Simon, Something So Right (via imfantasyparade)