Thursday, October 02, 2008

Wired NextFest

That's something like a "beat bot" or something. It feels like a spongey rubber, bounces to the beat of music and can record you with its video camera eyes. Wired magazine was hosting a "next fest" in a tent in Millenium Park in Chicago. It basically featured some next generation design on consumer goods, electronics, vehicles, games and city planning....


Some concept vehicle. Apparently in the future no one has any SO's or kids since all the cars are single person vehicles only....some didn't even have lids so 50% of the world can't use it 50% of the time due to weather concerns. I am most dissapointed by these as they are nothing more than glorified wheelchairs.
Again, a glorified wheelchair where you can't carry anything or run any errands on the way to and from work...all you can do is shuttle yourself and only yourself around.


Some game where the lack of brain waves will move the ball across the table. The lady who was running this station said to "empty your mind..." Forrest won this in about 2 seconds flat - ha!

The bean again - it is just so damn cool.

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