Geek Out

AT&T Thought Future Cooking Would Look Like This Circa 1993

More dispatches from At&T’s eerily prescient vision of the future, all the way from the 90s. Here, the simple problem of needing an ingredient for a meal is solved with some cool retrofuturistic tech, replete with cheesy bleeps and boops.


April 30, 2011
Gadgets

The Shape-Shifting Couch

Welcome to the future! It’s an exciting place. We’ve got plexiglass chairs, faucets with chipsets, and this innocent-looking couch from designer Matali Crasset. What’s so futuristic about a piece of furniture, pray tell?


April 10, 2011
Cars

Cessna Begins Research On "Magic Skin" Condom For Future Aeroplanes

Sometime in the future, perhaps 2030-2035, you or your spawn will be spirited across the skies in aeroplanes that are wrapped in a magic, protective condom.


February 28, 2011
Gadgets

Bendable Graphene Batteries Take A Page From Gumby

Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) may be on the cusp of creating something special: Bendable batteries that could have better performance than their stiff, inflexible cousins.


January 17, 2011
Cars

Taxi Of Tomorrow Design Contest Results In Elaborate Cycling Death Trap

Drivers need to be better about seeing cyclists and sharing the road, and vice versa. This is undeniable. The Tunnel Taxi, however, is not the solution to this problem.


January 5, 2011
Science

Prototype Toothpaste Changes Flavours According To The Weather

The toothpaste industry is in need of a shakeup! Whitening strips isn’t enough. MIT’s Media Lab has developed a prototype toothpaste that spits out different flavours according to the weather and temperature outside.


November 28, 2010
Science

Predicting The Future With Porn?

An upcoming study claims that test subjects were able to accurately predict future events—and that pornography was one of the tools used in research for the project. Crazy, right?


October 22, 2010
Gaming

Vote For Your Favourite Game Of 2010 In The Golden Joystick Awards

Gizmodo AU

If you’re looking for a community driven awards ceremony for video games, it doesn’t get much bigger than the Golden Joystick Awards. Now Future Publishing in Australia is about to unleash the second year of the Australian version of the awards, and they want your vote.


September 2, 2010
Uncategorized

Microsoft’s Home Of The Future Is Suspiciously Clean And Shiny

Gizmodo AU

In the future, there will only be artistically designed dust and massive smartphones.


August 30, 2010
Computing

What Mysterious Device Is The CTO Of HP Playing With ?

One’s big, one’s small and the other’s a wristwatch? That’s what Phil McKinney, CTO of HP’s Personal Systems Group, seems to be holding in his hand. Could it be a legit webOS tablet? Pre 2? Or a *gasp* webOSwatch?