Future Friday

Much of what we do is dictated by where we go on the Internet. We go to Yelp for restaurant information, Fandango for movie listings and Angie’s List for washers and dryers. So what if all this information came to us as we were walking down the street? Brooklyn-based creative agency BREAKFAST NY has harnessed …

Sure they showcase some of the world’s best athletes, most interesting sporting events and titillating concerts, but stadiums often stand on their own as points of interest; especially the stadiums of the future. Moats Lusail Iconic Stadium is a proposed football stadium that will be built in Lusail, Qatar, in time for the opening and …

Keyboards of the future: Say goodbye to click, click, click When we think of the future we imagine flying cars, teleportation and floating cities — all high-level advancements that will make everyday life easier. But did H.G. Wells ever predict we would need to relearn how to type? http://youtu.be/RPNlZwLCLLs A growing population believes in 10 …

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in 2008 plastics amounted to about 12 % of the country’s municipal solid waste stream — up from less than 1 % 50 years ago. That’s about 30 million tons (27 million metric tons), close to half of it in the form of containers and other types of …

Make your bike wheels look like Tron. Gone are the analog days of getting noticed on your bike. Today’s riders know that getting noticed on your bike takes more than putting baseball cards between the spokes. That’s why a variety of companies have created LED light systems for your bike wheels. Companies like Nite Ize, …

Is Bitcoin the future of international currency? Ever since Diners Club International became the first independent credit card company in 1950, banks have continued to dream of different ways of paying for goods and services. But maybe the future of transactions isn’t in the hands of the banks. Maybe it’s in the hands of software …

Google Glass looks toward the future – for better or worse Like the interactive glass from Tom Cruise’s blockbuster “Minority Report,” the newest product from Google – Google Glass – offers customers information presented right before their eyes on a pair of glasses. The future is here. Or is it? Google Glass could be as …

Humanity pines for flying cars. Science fiction has inundated us with the prospect of automobile technology taking us from driving down the street one minute and flying off to grandma’s house the next. But we’re failing to realize that we’re skipping a huge, more practical step in car technology – the self-driving car. “Cars that …

Beyond being actors, can you determine what Haley Joel Osment, Robin Williams and Brent Spiner all have in common? If you guessed that they all played androids, then you are right and most likely walked out of at least one movie theatre in your life. The idea that robots could help out around the house …

Americans have been patiently waiting for personal jetpacks since the first Super Bowl — when in 1967 during half time two pilots astonished the crowd in attendance and millions more at home watching television, as they took to the skies over Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum with their rocket belts, created by Bell Labs. It’s been …