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British designer Phil Pauley has developed a concept for a sea habitat comprising interconnected spherical modules that could submerge during storms

Now, archaeologists around the world are beginning to embrace the same technique, flying aircraft over everything from Stonehenge to patches of scrub

from gauging distances between cars in adaptive cruise control to mapping forest canopies and detecting the amount of aerosols in the atmosphere.

   At a spot in an ancient road that previous surveys had marked down as little more than a widening of the carriageway,

It seemed that the wide spot in the road was in reality a surprisingly large pre-Hispanic capital.

The more buildings, roads, wells, agricultural terraces and residential complexes are found, the higher the number of people that lived there.

Both the Chases and Fisher teams admit that cruising over the tree-tops in a plane does not totally supplant the need to get up close and personal with a site.

For example, the Chases calculate the cost of Lidar per square kilometer is vanishingly small in comparison with the cost of travel

as with all developments in computing, Fisher expects to see that cost continue to fall and its use to sky rocket."

'He now has a pilot up and running in Western Uganda and continues to tweak the chiller's size and design.

they achieved a 20%increase in tobacco plants after adding a single cyanobacteria gene called inorganic carbon transporter B (Ictb.

including oereckless Road, which describes the early days of heavy metal band Guns n roses. oereckless Road weaves in dozens of videos of the L a. bands early performances and interviews with band members and groupies.

The videos and other digital features are designed to oeproject the emotion of the book without getting in the way of the story,

Trip Adler, a 26-year-old entrepreneur who started developing the site as a Harvard undergraduate,

On Scribd, Black found a 1957 tourist map of Bemidji Minn.,, where shed gone to summer camp as a girl.

oemeat sugar) and the 1894 diary of a woman traveling east from Oregon by wagon.

He stopped taking Baltic cruises. And he stopped buying his wife pricey jewelry. But last year,

500 for an outdoor artisan pizza oven. oewe dont need the Jaguar or cruises to the Baltic,

expensive jewelry and fancy cars. For some, it still does. But for many consumers, the new luxury is something seriously different.

Bargain in the bag Its no accident that Coach, whose handbags used to start at about $250 and

Beyond that, Coach has added more bags at lower price points and made them more function for women carrying devices from iphones to ipads,

president of Coachs North american retail division. oethe last thing I want you to get from this is that Coach got cheaper.

Coach sales are up 8%for first nine months of its fiscal 2010 Value, of course, is in the eye of the purchaser.

if its been added to your basket or to someone elses cart. In two years, Gilt Groupe has amassed more than two million members,

the rangers can then marshal reinforcements from the nearby fire station to put out the fire. DEVICE WORKS ON SOLAR POWER The system is suitable in areas where there is no electricity supply

The entire production area in these silos will be managed with a robotic arm that travels up and down a central shaft performing all necessary tasks of planting,

His talks on futurist topics have captivated people ranging from high level of government officials to executives in Fortune 500 companies including NASA, IBM, AT&T, Hewlett-packard

Unilever, GE, Blackmont Capital, Lucent Technologies, First Data, Boeing, Ford motor Company, Qwest, Allied Signal, Hunter Douglas, Direct TV, Capital One

which can be turned into biofuel for transportation and other needs. Commercial Synergies The Sahara Forest Project team tell us that the innovative interaction between the two technologies helps each to function more efficiently:

even though like a medieval toll road it is long and bumpy and full of intermediaries eager to take their cut.

Amazon com and Google are both distributing their shopping cart technologies across the Internet, letting even the lowliest etailers process credit cards for less than the old price cutting out middlemen,

even though like a medieval toll road it is long and bumpy and full of intermediaries eager to take their cut.

So in late 2007, he started on a road trip to meet with the people who were already building on Paypals limited open code.

Bedier hired executives from the banking and airline industries to help him design the platform.

Amazon com and Google are both distributing their shopping cart technologies across the Internet, letting even the lowliest etailers process credit cards for less than the old price cutting out middlemen,

Many public transit cards are contactless smart cards: a passenger can touch or wave the card over the turnstile to gain entry.

E-cash: Digital money that emulates properties of physical cash such as anonymous exchange. Public transit smart cards, such as Suica (Tokyo), Octopus (Hong kong) and Oyster (London), can be used as e-cash

when anonymity is preserved by not registering the card with a central authority. Mobile banking, m-banking, m-payments:

Wireless point-of-sale terminals allow people with no access to brick -and-mortar banks to make deposits, withdrawals, payments, etc.

even though like a medieval toll road it is long and bumpy and full of intermediaries eager to take their cut.

and ideas travel more freely today than ever before. Peter Lindert is an economist at the University of California at Davis and one of the leaders of the deep history#school of economics,

If you re going to do the Netjet thing##his is a service offering fractional aircraft ownership#for those who do not wish to buy outright

and private planes. We are mesmerized by such extravagances as Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen s 414-foot yacht, the Octopus,

which is home to two helicopters, a submarine, and a swimming pool. But while their excesses seem familiar, even archaic,

The Road to Davos To grasp the difference between today s plutocrats and the hereditary elite,

One of the most recent gatherings was held last May at the Grove Hotel, a former provincial estate in The english countryside,

On a previous trip, he d dined with Caroline Kennedy at the Upper East side townhouse of HBO s Richard Plepler.

you stay in the same hotels. But most important, we are engaged as global citizens in crosscutting commercial, political,

he is ferried around town by a car and driver; the snowy Swiss hamlet, which is too small and awkward for limos,

We are the people who know airline flight attendants better than we know our own wives.#

when he d take the crosstown bus each day to the United nations International School. That evening, Elerian was catching a flight to London.

Later in the week, he was due in St petersburg. Indeed, there is a growing sense that American businesses that don t internationalize aggressively risk being left behind.

the distance food traveled from farm-to-table increased 25, %ranging from 1, 500 to 3, 000 miles.

as he attempts to rewrite the rules for major industries by pushing initiatives like driverless vehicles,

If you had to choose between starting your own company, traveling around the world, or owning your own home,

Driverless cars and Autonomous Vehicles The next revolution in transportation will be here soon, and it won t be streetcars, monorails, Segway s,

or electric vehicles. It will be self-driving cars, and the adoption of this technology will change virtually everything in the field of transportation planning.

The idea of jumping into a vehicle and having it shuttle you to your destination without anyone driving#it may sound like pure fantasy to some,

but it s far closer than most of us think. Google s self-driving car project has racked already up over 150

000 driverless miles on highways. In 2010 Vislab ran VIAC (Vislab Intercontinental Autonomous Challenge), a 13,000 km test run of autonomous vehicles.

In this competition, 4 driverless electric vans successfully drove from Italy to China, arriving at the Shanghai Expo on October 28, 2010.

This was the first intercontinental trip ever completed by an autonomous vehicle. Many car companies including General motors, Volkswagen, Audi, BMW,

and Volvo have begun early testing of driverless car systems. General motors has stated that they will have a driverless model ready for final testing by 2015,

going on sale officially in 2018. Even though car companies are making plans for the transition planning departments are not.

Most local and regional transportation departments are working with models that assume 20 years from now transportation systems will be basically the same, with only slight variations around the edges.

Driverless cars will be far safer. Human-based foibles like speeding, inattention, inexperience, impairment and fatigue all contribute to road accidents.

Driverless cars will remove the human variable from the system. Along with fewer accidents will come the eventual elimination of traffic cops, traffic courts, stoplights, and parking lots.

Look for rapid advancement in this area and for Google to make a play to design an Android-like operating system for all driverless cars. 22.)

The Drone Side of Life-Sometime over the coming months you can expect to see a version of the following help wanted ad:

Help Wanted: Full-time aerial drone pilots needed to help manager our growing fleet of surveillance, delivery,

and communication drones. We are also looking for drone repair techs, drone dispatchers, and drone salesmen.#

#In 2010 the U s. Military spent $4. 5 billion on drones, increasing to $4. 8 billion in 2011.

The department of motor vehicles seems to be the epitome of mind-numbingly long wait times and Johnson County,

In October 2011, Ford demonstrated three SYNC apps offering in-car health monitoring for drivers to track chronic conditions such as diabetes, asthma and hay fever.

Elevated Tube Transport Engineers The next big infrastructure project on planet earth will be a human and cargo transport system designed around a network of vacuum tubes with maglev tracks.

Operating at less than 2%of the cost of today s car, truck, jet, ship, and train systems, this emerging tube transport system will be a massive undertaking that demands talented new-age thinkers for decades to come.

More details here. The Dismantlers Over the coming years will see a number of industries dismantled requiring a skilled workforce of talented people who can perform this task in the least disruptive way.

Robotic Earthworm Drivers The most valuable land on the planet will soon be the landfills

it will create untold opportunity for non-surface based housing and transportation system, weather control, and other kinds of experimentation. 53.

which transfers the string s vibration to its own sound cell. 3d nylon printed bicycle designed by Andy Hawkins

this bike is constructed from a manufacturing process known as additive layer manufacturing (ALM), which is used also in the manufacturing of satellites.

The world s first fully 3d printed car called, The Urbee The Urbee is a hybrid vehicle that has its entire body

On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries#ithout the need to invest in new infrastructure and train

In todays cars, software runs the engines, controls safety features, entertains passengers, guides drivers to destinations and connects each car to mobile, satellite and GPS networks.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

The trend toward hybrid and electric vehicles will only accelerate the software shift#lectric cars are controlled completely computer.

And the creation of software-powered driverless cars is already under way at Google and the major car companies.

Todays leading real-world retailer, Wal-mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.

Likewise for Fedex which is thought best of as a software network that happens to have trucks, planes and distribution hubs attached.

And the success or failure of airlines today and in the future hinges on their ability to price tickets

and optimize routes and yields correctly#ith software. Oil and gas companies were early innovators in supercomputing and data visualization and analysis,

which are crucial to todays oil and gas exploration efforts. Agriculture is powered increasingly by software as well,

The modern combat soldier is embedded in a web of software that provides intelligence, communications, logistics and weapons guidance.

Software-powered drones launch airstrikes without putting human pilots at risk. Intelligence agencies do large-scale data mining with software to uncover

#â Wave and Payâ##Mobile phone Payment System Launched in the UK Samsungs new phone is the first to use Barclaycard and Oranges Quick Tap payment technology.

Orange and Samsung have teamed-up with Barclaycard to provide mobile phone payments with the new Quick Tap#payment technology.

Mobile phone carriers, banks, credit card issuers, payment networks and technology companies are all vying to control these wallets.

You have banks competing with carriers competing with Apple and Google, and its pretty much a goat rodeo until someone sorts it out.#

as well as Apple and the mobile carriers, which want to collect fees through their control of the phones themselves.

They have to install terminals that accept mobile payments. Consumer advocates meanwhile, said they were concerned that a mobile system would bring higher fees

#Visa and Mastercard now dominate the major tracks that shuttle credit card and debit payments between banks and retailers.

Mobile carriers may demand that the card issuers pay them something akin to rent, or reach some other agreement,

product manager for Wells fargos card services and consumer lending, adding that the banking industrys past conversations with mobile carriers had not been fruitful

The mobile carriers frustration with the banks some analysts said, was the impetus behind a joint venture by Verizon, AT&T,

and sees it as an opportunity to expand in the United states. Referring to the carriers 200 million customers, Amer Sajed,

#The banks and credit card issuers, meanwhile, have found a way to temporarily avoid working with the cellphone carriers.

And in Japan, people have been swiping phones at convenience stores and bus stations for several years. Other global markets may have a single dominant mobile carrier

or a small number of banks, or a strong central bank,#said Beth Robertson, director of payments research at Javelin Strategy and Research.

How far has traveled it? What are the growing practices?##Harvestmark is being used by more than 200 companies,

So what if you could sample that cashmere coat from your cell phone before adding it to your shopping cart?

Texture data fed into a machine s piezoelectric drivers can re-create vibrations and temperature on a touch screen can simulate that feel,

Some of this capability is available now in rudimentary form in computer games where the controller shakes to indicate an on-screen car collision. 2. Seeing the forest,

if a cell phone caller is in a car with an engine running at 2, 000 rpm,

if the driver is stuck in traffic or moving smoothly,#Meyerson said. By embedding sensors in flood prone areas,

but is better for them. 5. A nose that knows Breath analysis can do drunk more than keep drivers off the road.

riding bikes, from running water etc. There is early traction there. Los angeles is testing advanced flywheel technology as a way to reap wasted energy from braking trains

and re-apply it when trains accelerate. And Pavegen is building sidewalk tiles designed to capture energy from walking pedestrians.

As for mind-reading headsets that measure our brain activity and recognize our facial expressions: Um, no, don t think so.

IBM also predicted real-time speech translation now exemplified by products like Samsung s Galaxy speech translation.

Meyerson admits to some less successful calls#especially one about hydrogen-powered vehicles#but he s pretty happy overall with IBM s effort.

They sold one of their cars, gave some possessions to relatives and sold others in a yard sale, rented out their six-bedroom house

as varied as developers and U. P. S. drivers. That number rose 39 percent in less than a year.

A new wave of robots, far more adept than those now commonly used by automakers and other heavy manufacturers, are replacing workers around the world in both manufacturing and distribution.

even though rising labor and transportation costs in Asia and fears of intellectual property theft are now bringing some work back to the West.

For example, Boeing s wide-body commercial jets are riveted now automatically by giant machines that move rapidly and precisely over the skin of the planes.

the company said it struggles to find enough workers to make its new 787 aircraft. Rather, the machines offer significant increases in precision and are safer for workers.

#said Frans van Houten, Philips s chief executive. The window of opportunity to bring manufacturing back is before that happens.#

The next generation of robots for manufacturing will be more flexible and easier to train. Witness the factory of Tesla Motors,

which recently began manufacturing the Tesla S, a luxury sedan, in Fremont, Calif.,on the edge of Silicon valley.

#It still houses a dingy, unused Toyota corolla assembly line on which an army of workers once turned out half a million cars annually.

As many as eight robots perform a ballet around each vehicle as it stops at each station along the line for just five minutes.

Ultimately as many as 83 cars a day#roughly 20,000 are planned for the first year#will be produced at the factory.

When the company adds a sport utility vehicle next year, it will be built on the same assembly line,

Hyundai and Beijing Motors recently completed a mammoth factory outside Beijing that can produce a million vehicles a year using more robots

and darting electric vehicles as workers with headsets are directed to cases of food by a computer that speaks to them in four languages.

They watch over a four-story cage with different levels holding 168 rover#robots the size of go-carts.

Each rover is connected wirelessly to a central computer and on command will race along an aisle until it reaches its destination#a case of food to retrieve

or the spot to drop one off for storage. The robot gathers a box by extending two-foot-long metal fingers from its side

Then a forklift operator summoned by the computer moves the cube to a truck for shipment.

assembly work that requires tactile feedback like placing fiberglass panels inside airplanes, boats or cars;

and unload its trucks. The workers can move one box every six seconds on average. But each box can weigh more than 130 pounds,

repairmen and delivery drivers#that offer little of Silicon valley s riches or glamour. Much of the debate about American unemployment has focused on why companies have moved factories overseas,

and as foot traffic has increased, turnover rates in many stores have increased, too. Internal surveys at stores have also found surprising dissatisfaction levels, particularly among technicians,

And even those who used Apple as a launching pad described a gradual evolution, from team player to skeptic,

It often starts with an invitation to a seminar, held in a conference room at a hotel.

who attended his seminar in a hotel in Dedham, Mass.,in 2009. My dream my whole life was to work for Apple and suddenly,

And we all got two tacos from a taco truck. That was our surprise. Two tacos.#

And they installed electric streetcars lines in towns. All of these other gadgets gave us the light bulb.

Although the skintight shorts are being marketed to athletes and coaches, they could be useful for the deskbound.

you re done. 6. The Congestion Killer Traffic jams can form out of the simplest things.

One driver gets too close to another and has to brake, as does the driver behind,

as does the driver behind him#pretty soon, the first driver has sent a stop -and-go shock wave down the highway.

One driving-simulator study found that nearly half the time one vehicle passed another, the lead vehicle had a faster average speed.

All this leads to highway turbulence, which is why many traffic modelers see adaptive cruise control (A c. C.)#which automatically maintains a set distance behind a car and the vehicle in front of it#as the key to congestion relief.

Simulations have found that if some 20 percent of vehicles on a highway were equipped with advanced A c. C.,

certain jams could be avoided simply through harmonizing speeds and smoothing driver reactions. One study shows that even a highway that is running at peak capacity has only 4. 5 percent of its surface area occupied.

More sophisticated adaptive cruse control systems could presumably fit more cars on the road. When a quarter of the vehicles on a simulated highway had A c. C,

. cumulative travel time dropped by 37.5 percent. In another simulation, giving at least a quarter of the cars A c. C. cut traffic delays by up to 20 percent.

By 2017 an estimated 6. 9 million cars each year will come with A c. C. 7. Anti-theft Handlebars Here s an old idea

whose time has come again. The bearing system that allows the bike to turn can be locked

so that a thief can t steer his stolen bike. The lock is internal, meaning that he d have to destroy the bike to ride it away. 8. No more Greasy Chains An updated shaft drive

#which replaces the chain with a rod and internal gear system#would be perfect for urban riders.

They re popular in China right now but new versions will be lighter and have sophisticated more gearing. 9. One-piece Plastic

and Carbon-fiber Frames Plastic frames were tried back in the 90s, but they were too heavy.

The materials and technology have improved. Thermoplastics are cheap and practically impervious to the elements. 10.

Doctor On board Your car is already able to call for help when an accident occurs, but within a few years, it ll tip paramedics off to probable injuries too.

E. M. T s would know the likelihood of internal bleeding or traumatic head injury, for example,

Researchers at the University of Michigan International Center for Automotive Medicine have created the predictive models by cross-referencing the crash data provided by sensors on cars, like speed and location of impact, with 3-D

A Nice Little Cabin in the Sky The typical plane cabin is drier than the Arizona desert,

But there are already planes in the air#made mostly of carbon fiber#that solve this problem. Carbon fiber is markedly stronger by weight than the aluminum used for most existing planes,

which means that the interior air pressure can be adjusted to more comfortable levels without the risk of damaging the fuselage.

Airlines also keep humidity levels low now to prevent the plane s metal skin from corroding,

Japan airlines and Nippon Airlines bought the first crop of these new planes. They re currently in service between Tokyo and Boston. 12.

The Rolling Arcade The industrial designer Jiang Qian has conceived of a subway strap that s also a video game.

while the train is in motion is part of the challenge. And unlike Angry Birds on your phone, Strap Game (that s the official name) will alert you

Instead of plastic crawl tubes, there should be tall, steep slides. And balance beams. And rope swings.

human cyclists were pitted against a computer-generated opponent moving at, supposedly, the exact speed the cyclist had achieved in an earlier time trial.

In fact, the avatars were moving 2 percent faster, and the human cyclists matched them, reaching new levels of speed.

Lying is obviously not a long-term strategy#once you realize what s going on, the effects may evaporate.

Roller coasters with Wings On traditional roller coasters your weight is centered over the wheels, but two new coasters#the X Flight at Six Flags Great America and Dollywood s Wild Eagle#have you hanging off the side of the track, dangling in midair.

It s kind of like you re sitting on the wings of a plane. The swiss company Bolliger & Mabillard had to completely reimagine the seat design to handle the stress caused by the differently distributed weight. 20.

A World without Hangovers Researchers at Imperial College London are closing in on a formula for a new kind of booze#synthetic alcohol

The Mind-reading Shopping cart In February, Chaotic Moon Labs began testing a robotic shopping cart that acts a bit like a mind-reading butler.

To start it up you can text message the cart s built-in tablet computer. Now it knows who you are and

what you need for dinner. The cart uses Microsoft s Kinect motion-sensor technology to track

and follow you through the store, pointing you#in a synthy voice reminiscent of A g. P. S. navigator#toward products on your list.

The system will also warn you if you ve added something that violates your dietary restrictions.

Still only a prototype, the cart isn t nearly as nimble as its human-powered cousin,

Items you add to the cart can be scanned automatically and you can finalize your purchase from the device,

These canola plants, found along most major trucking routes, look harmless. But they are fueling a controversy:

and invisible cars and windmills will all be possible. Ford had its Evos concept car on display at CES 2012 turning heads with style and design,

but little true innovation Transportation At CES, Ford motor Company unveiled its first-ever zero emissions, electric passenger vehicle, following in the footsteps of Tesla and Nissan.

And they jumped on the cloud computing bandwagon with the new Evos Concept Car. But behind the flashy surfaces

chrome wheels, and tech trimming lies some far bigger opportunities. 5.)Driverless cars The next revolution in transportation will be self-driving cars,

and the adoption of this technology will change virtually everything in the field of transportation and urban planning.

The idea of jumping into a vehicle and having it shuttle you to your destination without anyone driving#it may sound like pure fantasy to some,

but it s far closer than most of us think. Google s self-driving car project has racked already up over 200,000 driverless miles on highways. 6.)Ground-Based Delivery Drones Before we have sold driverless passenger cars in any sizable quantities

we will see ground-based delivery drones hauling point-to-point cargo. Better to practice without passengers onboard to perfect the technology.

Railroads and trucking companies should be worried as this will displace much of their industry. Parrot officially unveiled the follow-up to its popular quadrocopter at CES AR Drone 2. 0 Flying Drones

I happen to be a big fan of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS) and already own an AR Drone.

Unveiled at CES, the new Drone 2. 0 features a 720p front-facing camera so that you can capture your flights in HD.

There s also a whole raft of new sensors including an onboard magnetometer so that it can always tell where the pilot is in relation to its flight path,

and a new air pressure sensor that allows it to be more stable when hovering. That said, these drones have very short battery life (10 min max),

and so far have little application outside of the hobbyist community. The world of flying drones will become infinitely more useful

when some of the following begin to appear: 7.)Flying-Hovering Monitor Drones Whenever an accident or disaster happens,

the initial first-step should be to get eyes on the scene.##Dispatching a flying drone with video cameras that transmits a live feed back to a central command center will give first responders critical information to formulate an action plan before they arrive. 8.)Video Projector Drones Once a video projector is added to a flying drone,

or even on the side of a moving vehicle. 9.)Lighting Drones We ve been trapped into thinking that lighting can only be managed from stationary positions,

Delivery Drones-Can you imagine a flying drone with UPS or Fedex on its side? Thinking beyond traditional delivery systems, flying drones could be used to deliver food, packages, water,

change out the batteries in your home, remove trash and sewage, and even vacuum the leaves from your front lawn.

Automatic Pothole Detector/Reporter The connected city of the future will see cars automatically reporting

No need to wait until serious damage occurs to your vehicle. 16. Body Scanner Complete with Instant Clothing Fabricator Scanners that can create a virtual framework for custom tailored clothing is already in use.

Powering electric cars, boats, and farm equipment may not be that far off. 19.)Plant Monitors-Urban agriculture is catching on like wildfire,

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