Category Science/Tech

Mar 10 2012

The ‘augmented reality’ helmet that turns walk in the park into an encounter with alien creatures under a psychedelic sky

Most ‘virtual reality’ helmets plunge users into an unreal video-game world – but a new version mixes the unreal into the real world in a ‘living dream’.

The helmet only works in St Johann’s Park in Basel, Switzerland – but wearers explore a mixture of the ‘real’ park, seen via cameras, and 3D illusions created by computers, including ghostly, glowing grass, surreal insects and strange visions in the sky.

Lifeclipper is an entirely new kind of entertainment, plunging users into parallel worlds using a high-powered computer backpack.

Mar 8 2012

10 Ways The World Will Probably End

There’s no shortage of people who have an opinion on how the apocalypse could look. Here are the likeliest options, with descriptions of the horrors we’d have to endure.

Mar 4 2012

Japanese researchers build speech-jamming gun that stops you mid-sentence

You’re at a movie theatre and the kids behind you won’t stop babbling. Not a problem. You reach into your bag, whip out your trusty speech-jamming gun, whirl around in your seat and blast them. No more nattering.

Feb 24 2012

Miss Atomic Bomb: the A-Bomb in Popular Culture–Comics, Cakes and the Will of God

Miss Atomic Bomb is an icon of some sort for the relationship of the bomb with society, or, perhaps the bomb and Vegas, which is where this picture was taken. I guess there are reasons to put pretty women in front of computers (in the 1950’s/60’s), cigarettes and automobiles–why not with The Bomb?