Paralyzed woman uses thoughts to sip coffee
Looks like 1,500 pairs of the “most famous shoes never made” are going up for auction to benefit Michael J. Fox’s Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. The bids are running a bit to steep for my blood at the moment, and here’s the most important question from the auction FAQ:
Q: DO THE 2011 NIKE MAG SHOES POWER-LACE?
No. For the power-lace feature you will have to wait until 2015.
That said, it’s a noble cause for sure. If you have the cash and the time, head on over to eBay and place your bid!
Deus Ex: The Cyborg Documentary
There is so much win in this video. Not only does it advertise a sequel for one of the best games ever made, but it so accurately shows that we are, in fact, living in the future.
Square Enix has commissioned filmmaker Rob Spence aka Eyeborg (a self proclaimed cyborg who lost an eye replaced it with a wireless video camera) to investigate prosthetics, cybernetics and human augmentation.
Warning: some images in this video are not for the squeamish.
MIT researchers create a solar-powered system that doesn’t require light.
Wait, what?
It uses a material with numerous, nano-sized pits that convert ambient energy, like heat or radioactivity, into electricity. I’m looking forward to the days of cell phones that never go dead since they’ll use your own body heat to charge their batteries.
