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Apr 29, 2017
The Winners Of 2017’s A’ Design Award & Competition Have Just Been Announced, And They’re Genius
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: innovation, materials
The A’ Design Award & Competition is a magnet for creativity, and every year the contest attracts thinkers and inventors from all over the globe. The winners of the 2016–2017 period have just been announced, and they’re so innovative they could change the world as we know it – or at least make it a little more functional.
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The awards were doled out to over 1200 projects spanning a wide spectrum of categories, including but not limited to furniture, packaging, graphics, and architecture. The designs share common themes of practicality, modernity, and efficient use of space and materials. A’ Design is a unique concept in the competitive world, offering winners the prize of mass publicity rather than cash, and giving the designers an arsenal of tools to forge success on their own terms.
Apr 29, 2017
The Flying Taxi That Saves People from Danger
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Apr 29, 2017
Cars will be lowered into the tunnel from the roads on a car “skate.”
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
Apr 29, 2017
#ymazing interview with Natasha Vita-More (Professor, University of Advancing Technology) about #AI and the future of humanity
Posted by Lily Graca in categories: biotech/medical, business, cyborgs, robotics/AI, transhumanism
Natasha is faculty and Program Lead of Graduate Studies at the University of Advancing Technology. Her book The Transhumanist Reader — Classical and Contemporary essays on the Science, Technology and Philosophy of the Human Future is the most read book on transhumanism. She designed the first whole body prosthetic and establishing groundbreaking science on long-term memory after vitrification of C. elegans. Her creative works have been featured in WIRED, The New York Times, The Observer, MIT Technology Review, U.S. News and World Report, YMAZING 
smile and in more than a dozen documentaries. She is Chair of Humanity Plus.
Natasha Vita-More World Business Dialogue #facingchange #20thwbdialogue #FutureOfHumanity #wow #ymazing Sam Dawkins
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Apr 29, 2017
Cell Aging Solved, Full Telomere Lengthening Solution Trial late 2017- w/Dr. Bill Andrews
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TFHppPkvsM&feature=share
Over 2 million for one human treatment. Late 2017 trial on thumb sized primates.
This is perhaps the most significant medical breakthrough in human history. Dr. Bill Andrews explains the primate trial starting late 2017 and the first human treatments that are planned to fully lengthen human telomeres. While the treatment is expensive, the money will go towards finding a less expensive option so more people can afford the treatments. This is a segment cut from the full episode recorded March 22nd, 2017.
Apr 29, 2017
Parkinson’s linked to gut bacteria
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, food, health, neuroscience
For the first time, researchers have found a functional link between the bacteria in the gut and the onset of Parkinson’s disease, one of the world’s most common debilitating brain disorders.
A team of scientists from several institutions in the United States and Europe showed how changing the bacteria in the guts of mice affected the manifestation of Parkinson’s symptoms — even including bacteria taken from the guts of humans with the disease.
The findings suggest a new way of treating the disease: The best target for treatment may be the gut, rather than the brain. The researchers hope the new information can be used to develop “next generation” probiotics, more sophisticated than the sort of probiotics found on the shelves of health food stores today.
Apr 29, 2017
Russian combat robot can shoot guns, train at the gym and drive a car
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: robotics/AI
Not sure why he’d want to go to the gym though;
Oh, and in seriousness, i hope the Russians actually deploy this thing in the field so that Google gets a well deserved kick in the ass for what they’ve done to Boston Dynamics.
Russian ‘combat robot’ can shoot guns, lift weights in training at the gym and even drive a car The Kremlin are planning on launching the robot into space and are working on technology that would allow even it to make its own decisions.
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Apr 28, 2017
This Skyscraper Concept Would Heal Icebergs and Eat Carbon Dioxide
Posted by Brett Gallie II in categories: climatology, food, sustainability
The “reverse climate change machine” is an honorable mention in the Evolo Skyscraper Design Competition.
A one-stop skyscraping shop for urbane living and fighting climate change called the HEAL-BERG is among the selected entries in eVolo’s annual Skyscraper Competition, which invites the world’s designers to “challenge the way we understand vertical architecture.” The mammoth pearlescent structure would simultaneously cool Antarctic ocean water, scrub carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and generate electricity with saltwater and wind turbines, creating what the designers call, a “reverse climate change machine.”
Luca Beltrame and Saba Nabavi Tafreshi created HEAL-BERG as a response to a potential future in which, “climate was changing at a rate exceeding most scientific forecasts; oceans warming, air pollution and climate change were caught in a discernible self-boosting loop. In the speculative world they’ve created, it’s 2039, 21.5 million people are being displaced annually due to climate change and, “the complex patterns representing the world were doomed to collapse.”
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