This massive crashing wave is actually a anamorphic illusion created on a 265-foot wide screen that stands more than 65 feet tall.
This awesome crashing wave decorating the outside of a Seoul Aquarium is the World’s Largest Anamorphic Illusion.
Category: Futuristic Technology
ASIMO (the robot) has learned some new amazing tricks!
ASIMO is a remarkable humanoid robot built by Honda that looks a bit like a kid in a spacesuit. He is often shown off at trade shows in order to convince people that robots will not revolt and take over the world. So far, ASIMO can run (meaning he can chase you down!), climb stairs…
The Jetsons future has arrived – your home responds to commands with new Amazon/Vox technology
We just took a giant step closer to Jetsons-like futuristic living. With Amazon and Vox’s newly announced partnership partnership, if you run out of toothpaste, you simply stand in your bathroom, say “Vox, send me toothpaste”, and Amazon will make sure it’s on its way to your doorstep.
Department of Transportation moves to allow cars to communicate with each other on the road
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced today that it will begin taking steps to enable vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication technology for automobiles. This technology would improve safety by allowing vehicles to “talk” to each other and ultimately avoid many crashes altogether by exchanging basic safety data, such as speed…
Deliveries by unmanned aircraft (UAV’s or drones) – a reality in the making or head in the clouds idea?
When 60 Minutes broke the well-timed Cyber Monday story that Amazon intended to offer product deliveries with a 30-minute turnaround time using automated flying drones, people wondered, can this be true? Could drones be used to make personal deliveries to our homes? In short, yes, it can, and will be done – and the FAA…
Freaky zombie mind control – scientist uses brain to remotely control another guys hand over a computer network
We’re one step closer to mind-controlled zombies! University of Washington psychology professor Andrea Stocca told reporters in a news release yesterday, “The Internet was a way to connect computers, and now it can be a way to connect brains.” And he went on to demonstrate that it can be done today.
Largest building in the world opens and includes an indoor beach
The largest building in the world has opened in China this week. At 1.7 million square meters, the glass and steel-frame New Century Global Center took only a little more than a year to build. It stands 18 stories tall and sits above a new subway station in Chengdu, a Sichuan province city of more…
New child abuse sign shows special “invisible” message to children when viewed from height under 4 feet
The Spanish organization, ANAR Foundation (Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk), recently released a brilliant campaign that makes similarly powerful use of a special form of photography that takes advantage of the process of lenticular printing to send an offer of help to abused children without alerting their abusers, even if they’re walking together.…
Paris Marathon installs kinetic energy “rubber tiles” that generate electricity from runners’ footsteps
Brilliant Paris Marathon race organizers laid out 82-feet worth of rubber tiles along the route. These cushiony tiles weren’t meant to ease the pain on runners but rather are a special electricity-generating tile made by Pavegen Systems that convert kinetic energy from the runners’ footfalls into electricity. The manufacturer claims the tiles generate up to…
Check out this ultra-modern German house shaped like a dinosaur head
This newly constructed house, built near Stuttgart, German by German studio J. Mayer H., is shaped like a giant dinosaur head with glazing and railing designed to emulate teeth. The three-story home sits on a sloping site in a suburban area of Stuttgart facing a neighborhood of smaller, older homes, presumably in a bid to…
