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BIOTUD Application - Nervous system on Behance. Henrique Oliveira - Site do Artista Henrique Oliveira - www.HenriqueOliveira.com. MIT robot augments you with two extra arms. 2014 Aging Forward Series. Aging Forward is a series of online conversations with experts about the future of aging. Join the Health Horizons team as we explore a different aspect of the aging process—from caregiving technologies to the future of biological aging, dementia, workplace wellness, and disparities in aging populations. As we look out toward 2025, we can see demographic patterns that are at once unprecedented and seemingly unsustainable. Numbers like a global population of 1.2 billion people over the age of 60 suggest a stark future in which many of our traditional health institutions are overwhelmed by a gap between capacity and demand. But these numbers conceal a wave of new adaptations by the entire population that have the potential to transform the human experience of aging and how we pursue health, well-being, and joy in our lives.
The only way we see the future is by aging into it. These Cities Are Made For Watchin’ Watch Dogs, by Ubisoft, has finally come out. In this game, you play an urban hacker in Chicago, who can hack into the operating system of the city and turn the very built environment into a weapon. We have talked about the game earlier in the context of how data-driven urban infrastructures create new possibilities of looking at the city and acting in it — for governments, citizens and hackers. As part of the advertisement campaign for the game, Devin Graham has directed a short action sequence that brings together parkour running and urban hacking.
This amazing clip shows how we inhabit the city both physically and informationally — and can hack it by going beyond the designed circuits of physical movement, and access to information and data-driven control systems. Such concerns about the collapsing of physical and or informational dimensions of the city is not something that begins with the integration of computers into urban infrastructure. Planning Matters | Citizens Planning Institute. “Failing to plan is planning to fail.” — Alan Lakein We spend much of our lives planning– what to wear, who to spend time with, where to go on vacation, when to change careers… Without planning, we are unlikely to get what we want or what we need. Just as we plan on different levels in our personal lives, planning for our communities, cities and regions represents “place planning” done on different levels. Good planning helps create communities that offer better choices for where and how people work and live.
Plans created through the planning process help communities organize their ideas into a single document that can be shared with residents, potential community partners and investors. A plan is a road map that guides decision-making now and in the future, allowing us to meet goals and expectations. Change is inevitable. LLGA | Cities pilot the future. The Sound of The City. Le designer anglais Dominic Wilcox et le technologue créatif James Rutherford ont collaboré pour créer « Binaudios », un énorme casque audio qui permet d’entendre le bruit de la ville depuis le bâtiment The Sage Gateshead, en Angleterre. Une invention incroyable, à découvrir en vidéo et en images. EntityCube - Guanxi Map. Dear City is back! Tweet love letters to your city.
DEAR CITY: Co-Produced by PATTISON Onestop and Spacing Do you love your city? Or perhaps your feelings are more complex? True love or tough love, if you can fit it into 140 characters, we want to share it with the rest of Canada this summer in the 2nd annual Dear City Canada public art project. Your voice matters — join other city-lovers in a public dialogue about the issues affecting our daily lives in the cities we inhabit. Tweet a love letter to your city using @DearCityCanada by June 30th to take part Start your tweet by indicating your city.
Dear City Canada runs July 14 – August 10, 2014 in the following venues: The DEADLINE for tweeting your DEAR CITY CANADA urban love letter is JUNE 30TH, 2014. Only letters to the digital billboard location cities will have a chance of being seen in those cities. . * DISCLAIMER: We can’t include letters that violate the Canadian human rights act, are libelous or slanderous, give out personal information, or include profanity. The Oculus Rift Could Be The Key To Planning Future Cities. Oculus Rift continues to proves it’s worth outside of gaming, and Vrban is no exception, a tool that lets architects explore and manipulate urban environments in the virtual world. It was created at the TechCrunch Hackathon, held earlier this month in New York, by Angel Say, a software programmer and recent graduate of Columbia University. Built in just 24 hours, the tool could change the way urban planners work and collaborate on important projects.
As Say explained to TechCrunch in a backstage interview, the tool was inspired by an experience he had while attending college. “When I was a student at Columbia, a new science building was erected that currently obstructs about two-thirds of our campus observatory’s view of the night sky. I wanted to make something that would allow people to find these things out before concrete is laid down and it’s too late.” Vrban would allow people to immerse themselves in environments that are both real and simulated. Vrban Images by TechCrunch. How the Internet of Garbage Cans Will Remake Our Future Cities | Business.
Image: Getty New Yorkers grumble about the daily wake-up call they get when the city’s garbage trucks arrive outside their windows. But it wasn’t just the noise that bothered Sam Saha. Sometimes, Saha says, the trucks would make all that racket even when there wasn’t much to pick up. The thought of all that inefficiency–the wasted fuel, time, and money–never left his mind. So he designed a solution. Saha–an inveterate tinkerer, IT guy, and software consultant–has created a sensor that tells you when a trash can is actually full. The idea is hardly the most glamorous extension of “the internet of things,” the sweeping effort to improve our lives through a new world of networked devices, from watches and glasses to thermostats and fire alarms.
This week, Saha has a small booth set up at O’Reilly’s Solid Conference in San Francisco, where the attractions include a huge robotic arm mounted with a disco ball. Image: Bluecity Photo: Marcus Wohlsen/WIRED. Floating City Project - The Seasteading Institute - Startup Cities. Smart Cities Market (Smart Home, Building Automation, Energy Management, Industrial Automation, Smart... -- NEW YORK, May 29, 2014. NEW YORK, May 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: The current statistics suggests a rapid growth rate of the global population.
The trend of urbanization is quickly taking pace with over 70% of the world population residing in urban and sub-urban regions. The major cities in the world have transformed into massive cosmopolitan regions with varied cultural diversities. The growing awareness about the devoured ecology and the evolving environmental compliances and regulations has made it difficult to govern these large cities. The research report also analyzes the restraints in the smart cities market. How Canada’s Smart Cities Can Reach Their Full Potential. Big data analysis and disruptive technologies are some of the keys to shaping how urban city dwellers will interact with each other and with their cities on a daily basis.
At the 2014 Mesh Conference held earlier this week in Toronto, a panel session led by Gigaom writer Mathew Ingram discussed how opportunities like data-driven city planning tools, machine-to-machine technologies and equal internet connectivity for all can help to build and enhance smart cities in Canada. Dr. Ed Manley from the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis-CASA, Nicolas Dinh, Vice President of Mobile Payments at MasterCard Canada and Kristina Verner, Waterfront Toronto’s Director of Intelligent Communities shared their insights on what is possible and how to make it happen. Verner explained how the Waterfront Toronto project is a “living lab” for the city and for other cities around the world to learn and share ideas about smart city revitalization strategies. Dr. Waterfront Toronto (WaterfrontTO)
NYC's Billboards Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties. Jilly Ballistic's genius street-art campaign to shame corporate products. These subway-advertisement defacements would probably steam the crabapples of marketing execs more than usual, as they often suggest that the products themselves are crap.
They're also highly likely to draw eyeballs, what with looking like annoying computer-error messages. The hands behind this subversive graffiti campaign belong to Jilly Ballistic, a pseudonym for what Jilly Ballistic calls "New York City's most well-known unknown street and subway artist. " I'm not sure how long she has been doing this digital-inspired trompe l'oeil, but examples on her Flickr page date back to at least February.
Among other amusing "errors" Jilly has inserted into ads is a notification that, "The following advertisement force quit unexpectedly. With permission of the artist, here are a few of Jilly's recent masterstrokes of street art: Imagining our sci-fi future through lucid dreams. Jump To up down Close Some people build sci-fi landscapes — John Harris dreams them. The iconic artist has been crafting his unique brand of science fiction imagery for decades, and it's all based on physical sensations he's experienced, whether through lucid dreaming or meditation. It's the feeling of weightlessness, of floating, in particular that gives way to his art, which has been collected into a new volume dubbed Beyond the Horizon. Born in London in 1948, Harris is less well known than contemporaries like Chris Foss or Roger Dean, but has carved out a space for himself with his surreal, vivid paintings of sci-fi scenes.
"It always puzzles me when this issue of style comes up, because I don't consciously have a style," he explains. "After all this time, I still feel it. " Of course, he's also a product of his time, a generation where rock 'n' roll and drug culture influenced many artistic pursuits. "There's a future out there, unknowable, but thrilling. Betting on Your Future Self. Every day we wake up different. Moment by moment, our lives are changing. Much like a strobe light with flashes of memories jumping through our minds we randomly recall where we’ve been. It happens something like this: …and then I woke up…and then I was eating food…and then I was taking a shower…and then I was in the office…and then I was in a meeting…and then I was driving…and then I was staring at myself in a mirror…and then I was getting on a plane…and then I was speaking in front of a crowd of people…and then I was sleeping again Moments come and moments go.
The person we were as a baby is different than who we were as teenagers, and that person has morphed and changed a million times along the way. So when we think about ourselves in the future, we have to ask, “Is my future self going to be more valuable than my present self?” There are many things we can do today to improve our future self. We are all placing a bet. Communicating with Your Past Return on Investment Was it worth it? How Long Before I Can 3D Print a Replacement Body for Myself? A couple weeks ago I turned 60. I remember how old 60 was when I was a kid, and now I’m here.
As a person who spends a lot of time asking “what if” questions, constantly thinking about extreme possibilities, the notion of 3D printing a replacement body for myself became very intriguing. I remember seeing science fiction movies where cloned bodies were grown over long periods of time, and more recent ones with accelerated cloning technology, but the 3D printing of replacement bodies is a faster option, just now coming into view. Bioprinting is the process of using 3D printers to form human tissue. This process that has already been used to print replacement kidneys, bladders, livers, skin, bones, teeth, noses, and ears, as well as prosthetic arms and legs.
As incomprehensible as it may sound today, printing an entire replacement body for myself may only be a decade or two away. Once again, this is an area of science with a quickly escalating race to be first. 3D Printing Vs. Organ Printing. Here’s How People 100 Years Ago Thought We’d Be Living Today | Science. With the propeller churning and the spotlight on their destination, a group of travelers returns from the moon in the year 2012. Sure, we actually went to the moon in 1969, but this image suggests that lunar travel would become routine, Fries says.
"Just another weekend trip. " Courtesy of Ed Fries With the propeller churning and the spotlight on their destination, a group of travelers returns from the moon in the year 2012. Sure, we actually went to the moon in 1969, but this image suggests that lunar travel would become routine, Fries says. "Just another weekend trip. " Courtesy of Ed Fries This video phone let people talk across continents (notice the architecture in the projected image). This video phone let people talk across continents (notice the architecture in the projected image). The cab of this aerotaxi looks like it came from a horse-drawn carriage. The cab of this aerotaxi looks like it came from a horse-drawn carriage. What would people do if they could fly in machines? Smart Cities | Tianjin Eco-City: Urban Living for the Future | Built environment, Economic development, Examples and case studies. Essay: 'Designing Finnishness', for 'Out Of The Blue: The Essence and Ambition of Finnish Design' (Gestalten)
The Essential "Finland is what remains of something else: take away the Slavs, the Scandinavians, the Orthodox, the Catholics, the sea salt, the birch forests, scrape away a few hundred thousand tonnes of granite and what you are left with is Finland. " ('New Finnish Grammar', Diego Marani 2011) The essence of Finnishness sometimes appears to be essence itself, to be about the essential, as if wrought from the granite and gneiss that make up its huge landmass. Hard, opaque, taciturn, stubborn, resilient. Stepping out of the central railway station in Helsinki one is confronted by a largely barren, windswept square, unforgivably exposing the stooped overcoat-clad gures scurrying across it.
Welcome to Finland. It is often like this. In 'This Is Finland', one of the popular Finnish childrens' books featuring the maniacal characters Tatu and Patu, our heroes ‘bake Finland’ in a Finland-shaped baking tray full of bedrock, clay, peat, moraine, pine, spruce and birch, with lakes poured on top. Mellowcabs Shows That Taxis Can Be Free. How Online Media Become City-Making Tools. Social Design Lab voor Stadslandbouw. Turtle Taxi: Push The Button To Slow Down Your Ride. Forget Robots. We’ll Soon Be Fusing Technology With Living Matter | Business. Why Apple Wants to Make a Remote Control for Your Home | Business. FTC calls for Congress to regulate companies that mine your data. Microsoft's Skype Translator will translate voice calls on the fly.
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