- The Airbus Flying Car 'Pop.Up' Is Their Autonomous Concept Vehicle For The Megacities Of Tomorrow At the 2017 Geneva International Motor Show the Airbus flying car was unveiled. Called Pop.Up the concept vehicle is a collaboration the company have developed in partnership with engineering firm Ita...
- Interview With Sci-Fi Author Bruce Sterling About Enslaved Machines, Bob Dylan, And Cyberwarfare Bruce Sterling, if you don't know, is a sci-fi author. Along with William Gibson it's generally acknowledged that he invented the subgenre of sci-fi known as steampunk with the 1990 novel The Differen...
- BMW's 'Vision Next 100' Is A Cool Shape-Shifting Concept Car Which Predicts A Driver's Behaviour BMW is currently celebrating its centenary and as part of those celebrations it has revealed its concept car the Vision Next 100—and it's insane. It's a vision of a future that features fully autonomo...
- Peeqo Is A Voice-Activated Desktop Robot Assistant That Communicates Entirely In GIFs There's no shortage of personal assistants on the market, be it Siri, the Amazon Echo, a holographic anime character, or a home robot designed by a Pixar animator. But now there's a new bot in town, a...
- Stunning Music Video Imagines A Bleak Future Of Overpopulation & Post Mortem Social Networks The year is 2100 in this stunning animated music video for electronic musician Lorn's song "Anvil" taken from his album Vessel. The black and white animation from Geriko—filmmakers Hélène Jeudy and An...
- 'Hyper-Reality' - A Nightmarish Glimpse Into The Future Of Virtual Screens And Holographic Displays Six years ago filmmaker, designer, and artist Keiichi Matsuda made two films—Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop and Augmented City 3D—that each explore our technologically enhanced future. Rat...
- Hyperloop One's Supersonic Transportation System Demonstrates Its First Propulsion Open Air Test Hyperloop, the supersonic transport system proposed by Elon Musk, underwent its first public demonstration by company Hyperloop One recently in the Nevada desert, 10 miles north of Las Vegas. The 'pro...
- Microsoft's Holoportation Means You Can High Five Someone On The Other Side Of The World Microsoft has already introduced its Hololens mixed reality gaming system that lets you fight virtual zombies in your living room. And now they're introducing an additional feature of the hardware cal...
- 'Where We're Going, We Don't Need Roads'—The Flying Car Science Fiction Promised Us Is Here Nothing says THE FUTURE like a flying car. But so far science has failed to produce the goods. That could all change though, hopefully. Because one day you could be commuting to work on the the Terraf...
- London To Sydney In 4 hours? Skylon Spaceplane Could Revolutionize Commercial Space Travel Space travel is notoriously expensive, but British company Reaction Engines is hoping to change that. They've recently received investment from the British government of around $90 million and another...
- Take A Look Inside Japan's Crazy Robot Hotel Where The Staff Are Machines (And Dino-bots) Think of the future and you probably think of lots of different things. And one of those things is definitely going to be robots. Although we're living in the 21st century, robots still haven't been i...
- The World's First Hotel Staffed Almost Entirely By Hospitality Androids To Open In Japan #RobotHotel Depending on how you view creepy-looking robots stuck in the uncanny valley, then this will come as good news or bad news. Japan is set to open Henn-na Hotel, ("Strange" Hotel) on 17th July at the Hui...