May 2010
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Tech Talk Podcast: Car Viruses - NYTimes.com →
bits.blogs.nytimes.com
Bettina Edelstein speaks to John Markoff about how vulnerable automotive computer systems are to malicious attacks. Computer security experts were able to remotely take over car brakes and other critical controls.
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In 2022 World Cup Bid, Japan Offers to Broadcast Live, Full-Scale 3-D Holographic Games on Fields Worldwide →
popsci.com
When Germany hosted the 2006 World Cup, people flocked to public parks, arenas, and sporting stadiums worldwide to watch the games on massive screens at public viewing events. If Japan lands its bid for the 2022 Cup, you may be able to go to your local soccer stadium and view real-time 3-D hologram displays of tournament games projected full-size on the pitch.
Japan’s bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup includes an initiative called Universal Fan Fest, a $6 billion plan to treat fans around the world to live 3-D telecasts of tournament matches. Four hundred stadiums in 208 countries would provide some 360 million people with live 3-D feeds of games played in Japan, where each game would be captured from 360 degrees by 200 HD cameras.
via azspot
Infinite Harvest
These are some pretty sexy looking conceptual illustrations for Infinite Harvest, a Colorado based organic farming venture. With ambitious plans that include vertical farming techniques and renewable energy sources, Denver design studio Legwork helped create a futuristic vision of sustainable agriculture.
(via modernevolution)
Stem Cell Companies Looking more Legit?
Since Regenocyte began offering treatments in the Dominican Republic in February 2008, its doctors have performed 75 of what it calls myocardial cellular regeneration procedures, at a cost of $64,500 a pop — not a penny of which is covered by insurance. The process kicks off in Naples, Florida, with a blood draw; the blood is then immediately whisked by courier to the lab of Regenocyte’s affiliate, TheraVitae, in Tel Aviv, Israel, for centrifuging and culturing.
After a 5-day incubation period, which increases the stem cells’ numbers a thousandfold, a TheraVitae representative boards a flight with the stem cells in a temperature-controlled tissue container, and arrives in Santo Domingo on the morning of the procedure. Shuttling cells back and forth across six time zones and performing the procedure outside the United States allows the company to operate without interference from U.S. authorities. The FDA’s jurisdiction extends only to products manufactured within the United States; as it is, the only step of the process the company carries out on American soil is a needle stick to the arm.
