Well, it turns out that the future does have jet packs. It just also turns out that they’re horrifically expensive. The price? $250,000 (with YouTube clip!). And they run on jet fuel, which is also probably not to cheap. But it gets 19 minutes of flight per fueling, which is pretty impressive compared to the […]
Robots!
There’s something really fascinating about robots. There are a whole lot of people working on the problem of humanoid robots, and it won’t be that long before they become efficient enough to do some jobs currently done by flesh and blood people. It’s already happening in millions of factories, but when we see something that’s […]
Traffic Lights
The traffic lights in my town aren’t automated. They run on 80 second timers. For most of that time, they’re red. Thirty seconds green, three seconds yellow, forty-seven seconds red. Someone timed it out that way for optimal traffic flow. When an ambulance comes through, they’re surrounded by green lights, like a shaft of sunshine […]