Touché: Enhancing Touch Interaction on Humans, Screens, Liquids, and Everyday Objects. 5 Floating Utopia and Ocean City Projects: From Seafaring Condos to Oceanic Micronations. Who hasn’t imagined living on their very own floating paradise ? For those aboard ResidenSea, a permanent ocean-going residence, this dream is at least a partial reality. Freedom Ship (upon its completion) will take floating cities to a new level and if the Living Universe Foundation has its way the oceans will just be a first stop on the humanity’s path to the stars. This collection is roughly sequenced from most practical (but also most mundane) to most extraordinary (but also least plausible)! ResidenSea is a (perhaps unsurprisingly) Florida-based company that manages the world’s only mobile and full-time floating luxury community called The World .
Think of this as a cruise ship – but on serious steroids. While this project doesn’t claim micronational status it is essentially completely independent of any location. The Freedom Ship project is a serious step up from ResidenSea but also unbuilt as of yet, though 1/5 of the on-board living units have already been sold. Life 2.0 - Video Arts. Hong Kong architect turns shoebox apartment into 24 rooms. 10 Futuristic Materials.
Lifeboat Foundation Safeguarding Humanity Skip to content Switch to White Special Report 10 Futuristic Materials by Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board member Michael Anissimov. 1. Aerogel protecting crayons from a blowtorch. This tiny block of transparent aerogel is supporting a brick weighing 2.5 kg. Aerogel holds 15 entries in the Guinness Book of Records, more than any other material.
Carbon nanotubes are long chains of carbon held together by the strongest bond in all chemistry, the sacred sp2 bond, even stronger than the sp3 bonds that hold together diamond. “Metamaterial” refers to any material that gains its properties from structure rather than composition. We’re starting to lay down thick layers of diamond in CVD machines, hinting towards a future of bulk diamond machinery. Diamonds may be strong, but aggregated diamond nanorods (what I call amorphous fullerene) are stronger.
Transparent alumina is three times stronger than steel and transparent. InShare28 Materials. FUTURE FARMS: High-Rise, Beach Pod, and Pyramid Pictures. Future cities. Future suburbs.