I recently discovered the show Prototype This! on Discovery Channel. This week, they built a an awesome water slide simulator!
Two words: bad ass.
Beyond Tomorrow, which is on the Science Channel, is also a great show. Very reminiscent to my favorite 1980’s show Beyond 2000, which was also produced in Australia.
it’s 9.9 mm thick!
Interesting contrarian view that brand images can still have an impact, while viewers fast-forward through commercials. You do have to pay close attention, to stop the fast fowarding at the precise point a show starts up again.
60 Minutes is unquestionably the best news television show, in my view, and one of my favorite television shows (24, Prison Break, greek, and Mad Men are the others). Short highlight clip from a full feature on this week’s show about brain reading technology follows.
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An Australian PhD researcher from Queens University of Technology has created a jamming robot that can improvise musical rhythms and melodies it listens to. He will be commercializing the technology. Source article here, with more details.
Fred Barton Productions will make you a studio licensed robot replica!
There needs to a movie made, or a television series, which depicts and presents different possible futures of the world 25 years out. Scenarios could range from the doomsday, and catastrophic, to the peaceful and prosperous. Scenarios would be based on real, current trends. The script could be written by an open sourced wiki. I wonder if IFTF has thought about this?
Also, there should be an updated version of the Jetsons created, to inspire kids to think about what’s possible.
Do they still make Lifesavers?
[UPDATE: check out IFTF’s Superstruct…
Last night, I stumbled upon the premiere episode of Hole in the Wall on Fox, a Japanese game show import. It’s creative, high energy, and lots of fun. Fox video preview here.
the original Japanese show:
an interesting experiment in creating captivating advertisements that engage customers beyond passive visuals.
[thanks, adpunch]
