Posted 04.30.2010 at 5:34 pm
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This Week in the Future, April 26 - 30, 2010
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A Japanese robot gets to go to the moon, American humans ride a beef-powered train to Texas, and the Dutch show it all on augmented TV.
Welcome to the future.
Here are some of our favorite stories this week:
- Video: Augmented Reality Billboard Installed in Amsterdam, to Educate and Shame Pssers-By
- Bipedal Japanese Robot Will Walk on the Moon by 2015
- Get on the Beef Train: Amtrak Unveils First Biodiesel Commuter Train, Powered By Animal By-Products
- A New Helmet Keeps Your Head On Straight
As always, leave a comment to win this drawing on a shirt. We'll announce our randomly chosen winner next week. If you can't wait, buy the shirt here. Have a good weekend everyone!
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Please give me that shirt!
Can I have the shirt, please?
the future looks fun.
It's either a 1950s horror flick "Return of the zombie Japanese robots from the moon" or the new red bull commercial
Being relatively new to popsci, at a glance I thought this was some sort of article about a terrifying new Dutch tv show where some Japanese are given cyborg modifications and taken to Texas to fight a train made of beef with Americans in it.
I think I should go to bed. (it's 0100 here)
down with the japanese robots!(and their singing sisters)
PLEASE ... do not cast spells inside. Thank you.
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Moon robots by 2015? Let's first get through 2012.
Great shirt- please enter me as contestant
2015 is not that far off.
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forget the shirt, i would never wear that, its dumb, it looks like he is fucking that bull train
forget the shirt, i would never wear that, its dumb, it looks like he is fucking that bull train
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I believe that aumented bill board is great they need to put one of them up in the us in los angelas man like in compton now that would be funny .but to be frank i believe all these new techs are great but what we really need to focus on is getting off this planet building a ship that cantravel space.we are running out of resources space and our polution to planet is cousing vital eco systems to fail.in 30yrs from now it may be un healthy just to walk ouside becouse of air polution.and a fact not many hear is
if this planet where to race just and i stress this JUST 3 degrees globaly all life will wither and die and each summer for the past 5 years keeps getting hotter and as the ice sheets melt at our polar ice caps our planet temperature sky rocket im talking 180 to 215 daily now does that sound like the future you want give a hand next time you have a chance to have influence on something relating to space please help or something it would be a waste to see our intire speacies to go down the draine couse where stuck here.and also dont polute that doesnt help either i am nonaturist or some conservative im a normal person stressing the concerned for our childrens children i am trying to develop a tech that will allow space travel but its still going to be awhile till i can say my tech is a viable solution so dont give up and even if your wernt start caring more thank you all for reading this and have a great day.
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@TrulyVisionary :
Well, I think you're too much pessimist. There are so much developments in ''green'' technology. A lot of these new techs that can literally change the world are hided, because of a few ''economical interests''. Do you really think we'll still be using gasoline, highly polluting facilities of all sorts and all? There are so much ways to produce clean energy while being much more profitable than gas or nuclear plants. Take the magmotor, when this thing will come out, lots of our problems will be over. Believe me, this thing works, and very well.
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Why couldn't it show the moaning artificial voice box?!
Love how those three exciting events of our future are all summed up in one explosive and thought-provoking image!