Culture Industry (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
[Edward Wadsworth, Street Singers, woodcut, ca. 1914] While I was busy introducing Barrett Watten, listening to his talk, & doing all the things one does when one has a visiting speaker Thursday night, J. was down in Miami Beach at the opening reception for this exhibit of British modernist prints at the Wolfsonian, Florida International U.'s museum of design. (Typical South Florida – nothing...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Videophones We may never get those hover cars we still dream about when we watch “The Jetsons’’ on Boomerang.
The Red Ferret Journal (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The XO2 Electric Scooter does what folks have dreamed about since we first saw the Jetsons cartoons – it [...] 224 words | permalink | No comments | digg this
Mr London Street (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Hello there, First things first: greetings from the future! I hope it’s not too much of a shock for you to get this. The future is nothing like you’d expect. It doesn’t look like The Jetsons , it doesn’t look like Star Wars , it doesn’t even look like Blade Runner . To be honest, it just looks like now (then') except that the majority of things are a lot newer and a few...
The Car Connection (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The Jetsons had them doing the dishes, the Matrix says they'll take over the world one day, and Audi wants to put one in your dashboard: robots. Why a robot in your car? In the case of Audi's AIDA--Affective Intelligent Driving Agent--it's to relay information in a way that's easier and safer to understand than a traditional screen display, ..
KillerStartups.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
There are virtually no barriers for musicians when it comes to doing what they have always done physically over the World Wide Web . The latest development is one that I find quite amazing: the ability to jam with others as if you were actually there. That is certainly impressive, but I think we all are getting accustomed to developments that would make the Jetsons proud by now. Read more Learn more...
i4U (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Since at least the days of the Jetsons, we've expected that video phones would someday be the standard method of communication. While several videophones have launched over the last decade-and-change, none of them have managed to gain any popularity. Skype...
The Red Ferret Journal (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The idea of letting your car drive itself has been around since the Jetsons. Now the European Union is testing [...] 139 words | permalink | No comments | digg this
IT-Analysis.com (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The 'Jetsons' and other more recent popular media paint a bright picture of digital home utopia, but the reality is that those advanced services have fragile underpinnings - where does the problem lie and how will it be taken care of? [Read More...]
CNNMoney.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Think Jetsons or 'The Minority Report.' These non-tech sectors are using touch technology to improve business, efficiency, and their bottom lines.
Suburban Scrawl (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
We had our fall event at the salon today, and a woman came in to approach my boss about doing some eyebrow threading and other services that we don't currently offer. She picked the wrong day and time to come in (and yes, she came in knowing that we were having an event). My boss spoke with her for a few minutes and then finally dragged herself away, at which time the woman gave her some business cards....
Furniture Fashion (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
"Satellite" was designed by Professor Stefan Heiliger. This leather recliner has a "space like" appeal to it resembling the seating featured in the cartoon movie, the Jetsons. Professor Heileger stresses a triangular shape for the backrest that readily becomes visible...
Chip Chick (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Ready to make your escape in 2012 if the Mayan calendar holds true about all the natural disasters that year? Well the Galactic Suite will be ready to take your reservation to their hotel in space. That’s if you got the cash that is. Back in 2007 the Barcelona based architects claimed they would be ready in 2012 but they were all poo poohed and ...
H O C K E Y D I N O (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I remember being a young kid back in the 1970's watching The Jetson's on TV. I remember talking in school, that we would have flying cars that would travel like the Jetsons did in the 21st Century. The year 2000 would change transportation as we then knew it. Well did it change? I guess planes are bigger and faster (sans Concord), but cars are still on the ground. I surely a bit disappointed, especially...
PerezHilton.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
That could happen as soon as 2012, if someone lights a fire under those Italians - and you have $4.4 million! No one said moving up like the Jeffersons Jetsons wouldn't be costly! A Barcelona-based architect company has begun production on the The Galactic Suite Space Resort, a multi-billion dollar hotel that will orbit the Earth. Included [...]
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