Thought your subvocal mic was keeping your communications private? Think again….
Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK are developing a computerized lip-reading system, which they say may be used to fight crime.
Link to The Future of Things
Prototypes that will eventually lead to contact lenses with image link and vision enhancement upgrades are in the lab today. Another step towards augmented reality? You decide….
Engineers at the UW have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and […]
Dumpshocker User McUser (we’re sure it’s his real name, it’s a Shadowrun board *grin*) let us in on this story coming out of the Allied German States. Thanks, omae.
German scientists have found a way of transforming body heat into electricity using circuitry.
The discovery means that we may be able to operate our mobile phones […]
Okay, so my little title might be a bit of a stretch (*grin*), but this article does give us the rundown on some fascinating advances in synthetic muscle tissue, and it’s it looks like some of the first applications of this R&D will be things that our shared game world has had since day one.
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Researchers are looking at new ways to use old ideas by creating a nano-scale mechanical microchip. The military is already looking for potential applications of the tech. The article mentions the ability to survive in environments and situations, such as EMP, that would wreck traditional chips. Tell me these didn’t make their […]
Data storage and device capacities have always been somewhat nebulous in the Shadowrun rules. Sure, we had the “one minute of video takes up a megapulse” rule in SR3, but that has never stopped the debates over the exact “real life” size of the megapulse; how much text, how many pictures, and so on. […]
Think that gun you had whipped up that’s made of ceramic and plastic is going to get you through the front doors at SeaTac? Your GM probably has other things in mind. Like a chemsniffer cranked up to the point that it detects the perfume of that joytoy from last night that you […]
Michael Anissimov at Accelerating Future writes about what he considers to be the top 10 transhumanist technologies.
Transhumanists advocate the improvement of human capacities through advanced technology. Not just technology as in gadgets you get from Best Buy, but technology in the grander sense of strategies for eliminating disease, providing cheap but high-quality products to the […]
Nanotechnologists are beginning to find that they can deliver insulin to a diabetics blood stream using tiny, insulin filled nanocapsules. Soon, I’m sure that they (or the government - or any number of corporations) will realize that you can deliver any liquid you’d like to the body…which sounds a bit like something else I’ve […]
Neuronet, which is planned to be separate from the Internet, “will evolve into the world’s first public network capable of meeting the data transmission requirements of emerging cinematic and immersive virtual-reality technologies,” according to a Thursday announcement from the Vancouver-based International Association of Virtual Reality Technologies.
Well, it’ll either be the little brother to The Matrix […]