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Our friend Jason Silva – writer, filmmaker and founding host/producer of Current TV – is making a new documentary celebrating humans reaching their ultimate potential, the inexorable evolution that is turning us into gods. He’s quite optimistic about it. I’m not so sure – JD.
Human skin is apparently a very energy-efficient conduit for transmitting data. A recent experiment achieved a rate of 10Mbps, which may put my internet connection to shame. The experiment used small, flexible electrodes and took place at Korea University.
Katherine Hayles, author of How We Became Posthuman goes biological to remind us that machines aren’t the ones in charge. And neither are we. [WaPo]
This week, we’re celebrating the human body: the ultimate machine, four billion years in refinement.
newVideoPlayer("/uniqlorobot_giz.flv", 476, 286,""); If you couldn’t make it to Times Square this morning, the clip above shows what happens when humans become vending machines. Yes, it was a stunt put on by Uniqlo, and no, it didn’t ruin shopping forever. It’s actually pretty great; first you get your body scanned to reveal your hottest and coldest parts, then no matter the result, a human trapped inside a box delivers you a warm HeatTech shirt. Uniqlo has other demos planned in Paris, Shanghai and Seoul, but if you won’t be in any of those places, at least you can rest easy knowing that you’ll still have a job when the robots take over. [Uniqlo]
