Dungeons & Dragons in the future

A walk-through of the current build of our proof of concept for a Dungeons & Dragons experience on the Microsoft Surface. Created by the Surfacescapes team at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University:

The future of the laptop?

Meet the Rolltop, a possible candidate for the future laptop. Created by Orkin Design:

Warsow – free fast-paced 3D FPS game

Warsow  is set in a futuristic cartoon-like world where rocketlauncher-wielding pigs and lasergun-carrying cyberpunks roam the streets. Warsow is a completely free fast-paced first-person shooter (FPS) for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

PLAY: Warsow!

10 failed predictions about the future

Like… “Ours has been the first [expedition], and doubtless to be the last, to visit this profitless locality.” — Lt. Joseph Ives, after visiting the Grand Canyon in 1861. Click to read the full list:

10 failed predictions about the future

Just imagine… 1980

How people from 1930 imagined about 1980:

Pod cars over Abu Dhabi

A future transportation is coming to Abu Dhabi - electric, elevated podcars that can carry a few passengers at a time around the city.

Click to learn more: Pod cars over Abu Dhabi

Project Natal - Play games without a controller

Get off the couch and into the game with Natal using the best controller available...yourself! A concept video by Microsoft of what should be possible in the future:

The future of eating out

Crave UK recently went for dinner at Inamo restaurant in London, where interactive touch-sensitive tables take your order. Each table has an overhead projector and a mouse trackpad, so your dining surface is effectively a PC monitor. You can customize your “tablecloth,” play a video game against your companion, and order a taxi to get you home.

The restaurant's founders say the concept evolved from the simple idea of 'Wouldn't it be cool if you could just hit a button and a waiter brought you another beer?'

Microsoft - Vision of the future

We have seen many predictions of the near future, here is one by Microsoft. Or by Apple?

Runhello - Jumpman Game

A video for “Jumpman”, a beautiful retro-futuristic platformer game created by Runhello. That's a new game free for download for Mac and PC at: http://runhello.com/:

New Nokia Phone - A small laptop?

The N97 isn't a device that will trigger knee-jerk hysteria, but instead it should breed cool-headed excitement at the prospect of a new era of mobile experience.
Story to continue in http://conversations.nokia.com/home/2...

Rinspeed sQuba Underwater Concept Car

Rinspeed sQuba: A concept of the future, which can dive 10m underwater. And it is even… a cabrio (convertible):

Seven Green Wonders of the World

These are ideal architectural designs of the future, which let us to take a new look at the big step forward in ecological renovation. The photo below is the Lilypad Project with a series of floating self-sufficient ocean-going eco-city islands. It was suggested as the most fantastical one of these green wonders. I wonder how it looks like inside...:

New Generation of 3D

A short clip about how the future of 3D cinemas would be. Beowulf already uses this feature:

Future weapons: Dragon Skin - Amazing body Amour!

Dragon Skin is the most amazing body armour. Even a grenade can't go through it! Check out the following movie:

Fentix Cube - Rubik’s Cube 2.0

Multi-touch sensor system, with gestures sensing like Wii controllers - this is the future of the Rubik’s Cube, developed by Andrew Fentem. Head to his homepage for more information.

Loading.Ready.Run - Halo 3

The recent hyped release of Halo 3 surely made alot of noises and caused the guys from Loading.Ready.Run to make this short about the future of gaming. Personally, I think Halo 3 is way too overhyped and there are much better games for 360, but check out yourself:

Hereafter mirror

Cool art (video) installation, located in 19th century Belsay Hall, UK. What appears to be a mirror, in fact is a display and a high-speed camera, capturing visitors passing by and displaying back the slow-motion and blurred version of the images. Something like time-wrap mirror to look back in the past.

City in a Pyramid, the future...

The Shimizu TRY 2004 Mega-City Pyramid is a proposed project for construction of a massive pyramid over Tokyo Bay in Japan. The structure would be 12 times higher than the Great Pyramid at Giza, and would house 750,000 people! More info...

The proposed structure is so large that it cannot be built with currently available materials, due to their weight. The design relies on the future availability of super-strong lightweight materials based on carbon nanotubes.

The Year 2057 - Our lives in 50 Years...

Three-parts series documentary by Discovery Channel about how our world would look like in 50 years. What would be the car, the computer, the wars then? The whole documentary is pretty long, but some parts are really interesting: