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POPS7 Man-Made Substances That Laugh at the Laws of Physics >>>>>>>>>>To View Full Article>>>>> http://www.cracked.com/article_17476_p2.html Remember that scene in The Abyss, before you fell asleep, when Ed Harris was put in a diving suit that was filled with pink goo that he then breathed? It turns out James Cameron wasn't blowing pink goo-laced smoke up our ass; that stuff really exists. Perfluorocarbons are fluids that contain shitloads of oxygen, making it possible to breathe liquid. They originally tested it back in the 60s on mice, with a certain degree of success... sort of
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POPSImage Metrics - "Emily" This video shows how good facial animation has gotten. The blending of human and CGI blurs the line between real and virtual. I can imagine that people will put this to nasty uses.
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POPSSmart Desks A ten year prediction that all desks will be this. I don't think it will be necessary - students will have their own with ability to sync to a shared plasma / projector.
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POPSThe Nerd Girls: Smart, Techie and Feminine
"These girl geeks aren't social misfits; their identities don't hinge on outsider status. They may love all things sci-tech, but first and foremost they are girls—and they've made that part of their appeal...However they choose to geek out, they consciously tweak the two chief archetypes of geeks: that they're unattractive outcasts, and that they're male. " "Forty years ago women made up just 3 percent of science and engineering jobs; now they make up about 20 percent. That sounds promising, until you consider that women earn 56 percent of the degrees in those fields. A recent Center for Work-Life Policy study found that 52 percent of women leave those jobs, with 63 percent saying they experienced workplace harassment and more than half believing they needed to "act like a man" in order to succeed. In the past, women dealt with that reality in two ways: some buried their femininity, while others simply gave up their techie interests to appear more feminine." Go, girls!
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POPSTexting For Younger Toursist Dollars Even the quaint business of foliage season in New England is going high tech. The better to maximize tourism dollars tied to attraction with short shelf lives. - Tom Van Riper
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POPSNew Dial-a-Tour Service For DC Tourist At the Mobiletours Web site, users can also opt to download the tours as a podcast. This isn't the first tourguide-via-cellphone service out there, but Zielinski thinks that his is the first free one out there. The competition, called Talking Street, charges $5.95 for tours delivered via cell phone.Their Boston tour is read by Steven Tyler of Aerosmith. Talking Street's DC tour host: Larry King.
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