What will the plugged-in fashionista of the next few years be wearing? Perhaps one of these cyberfashions, ranging from MP3-playing sunglasses to various “body area network” garments and wearable computers. (Via TechnologyReview.com.)
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A universal flu vaccine?
Vaccine developr Acambis says it believes it may be able to develop a universal influenza vaccine that would work on both the A and B strains and wouldn’t have to be changed every year…and might even provide protection against a pandemic strain. Let’s hope they’re right. (Via Futurepundit.)
A plethora of pulpy pleasure
Here’s a fantastic (literally) collection of posters for (almost) all of the movies featured on the late, lamentedMST3K, more properly known as Mystery Science Theater 3000. Were I a 10-year-old boy again, I’d be dying to see some of these. Actually, come to think of it, I still am! (Via Drawn.)
Quill Award finalists
The finalists for the populist Quill Awards have been announced. In the SF and fantasy category, the nominees are: The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower Stephen King, Michael Whelan (Illustrator) 1880418622 Scribner/Grant Going Postal Terry Pratchett 0060013133 HarperCollins Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel Susanna Clarke Bloomsbury 1582344167 Shadow of the Giant Orson …
First the pitching machine, now…
…the catching machine: a robot capable of tracking and grabbing a ball hurtling toward it at 300 kilometres per hour. (It can’t handle real baseballs yet, just soft balls, but it’s only a matter of time…)
Enhanced humans
Here’s an interesting interview with author Joel Garreau about his new book Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies—And What It Means to Be Human. I have to take issue with one statement: he says he wrote his book to “try to let the ordinary reader in on a conversation …
Ancient cultures, living in harmony with nature…
…wiped out the giant mammals of North America. Hey, nobody’s perfect. Although the IMAX film Sacred Planet (which we just saw over the weekend), which lauds that good old-fashioned lifestyle of living in shacks, spending all of your time trying to scrape together the basics of survival, and being old at 40, would want you …
Another review for Lost in Translation
SF site has posted Georges T. Dodds‘s review of my novel Lost in Translation. He had some problems with it (and his criticisms are fair ones, I think, so my nose isn’t at all out of joint), but even though I’d obviously prefer a rave, as the old saying goes, there ain’t no such thing …
Cat senses
It’s said there are cat people, and there are dog people. Personally, I like both, but if I had to state a preference, I’d probably give the edge to cats. It’s not very often I have an excuse to write about them in this column, but this week I do, because by some coincidence, two …
The quiet bike
A London-based company called Intelligent Energy is bringing to market itsfuel-cell-powered motorbike the ENV (pronounced “envy”). It’s silent, non-polluting, quick and cheap. It’s almost enough to make me by a motorcycle…except I find it almost impossible to buy a helmet to fit my oversized head. (No smart remarks, please.)
Keep your head down…
…and fire this ballistic camera into the air with a grenade launcher to get a bird’s-eye view of the battlefield. A brilliantly simple idea.
The sensory world of cats
It’s said there are cat people, and there are dog people. Personally, I like both, but if I had to state a preference, I’d probably give the edge to cats. It’s not very often I have an excuse to write about them in this column, but this week I do, because by some coincidence, two …
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