Category: Living in the Future

The key to activating your sense of self-awareness has been found and can now be turned off and on light a lightswtich.  Read the full article below in New Scientist.   Consciousness on-off switch discovered deep in brain – life – 02 July 2014 – New Scientist.

A NASA Space Act company is planning to build a pod-based personal rapid transit system in Tel Aviv.    Plan is to have the system completed by the end of Q4 2016. Read more at Engadget here: Israel is building a futuristic ‘hover-monorail’ that could come to the US. Check out the Press Release here and see…… Continue reading Israel is building a futuristic 'hover-monorail' that could come to the US

Finally – you can quickly find a free restroom while at a major sporting event or large facility – complete with an app!  Check out how tech is being used to save you time when you really need it.Read more at Engadget here – Public restrooms reduce waits by learning from parking garages.Check out the company, aptly…… Continue reading Public restrooms reduce waits by learning from parking garages

The wetware used to bridge brains with hardware and software continues to evolve.  A quadriplegic patient is now able to control their handle via their brain by bridging across the affected neurons with the assistance of mind-reading software. A chip reads the patients mind then translates that thought to a stimulation sleeve sitting on their arm allowing them…… Continue reading Brain implant restores control of paralyzed muscles

Check out the first publicly available motorized exoskeleton, designed to help paralyzed people walk again. It just earned U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval. It is the first such device to do so via First Exoskeleton Gets FDA Approval For U.S. Sales | Popular Science.