When syfy becomes sicence FACT!
Take a closer look at the Nike Mag, aka ‘Back to the Future’ shoes.
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Category: futurism
“Meat production is detrimental to the environment and at the high rate at which it is consumed, it can also increase the risk of colorectal cancer by 18 per cent. This is according to a review of 800 studies conducted by the World Health Organisation (WHO).”
Plain wild.
Your skin can say a lot about you — from your age to the last time you saw the sun. Now, an Israeli startup called VocalZoom wants to examine skin to make much more complicated analyses: comprehending what we say.
When we talk, the skin on our faces make subtle vibrations, too slight to be noticed with the human eye. While experimenting with an instrument known as an interferometer, VocalZoom CEO Tal Bakish and his team noticed it could detect peculiar measurements. “When it measures the face, we found out that the vibrations were caused only by the speaker’s voice and were not affected at all by any background voice,” he told Digital Trends. “At this point we realized that we have a disruptive technology to extract the voice of speaker in any noisy condition.”
Related: Microsoft hits another milestone in speech-recognition software accuracy.
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A sauna in the living room; I want one.
London Design Festival 2016: Swiss company Küng has designed a series of saunas that can be installed in the living room to take advantage of limited living space.
Created as smaller versions of the company’s existing saunas, the collection features three different designs, each of which fit into two square metres of space.
They are designed to be inserted into living spaces or bedrooms, rather than hidden away in the basement, or relegated outside.
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Anyone who is, or will be, anywhere near these potentially severe earthquake damage zones, be safe!
A series of quakes under the Salton Sea may be a signal that the San Andreas Fault is on the verge of buckling. For the next few days, the risk of a major earthquake along the fault is as high as 1 in 100. Which, holy crap.
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