Here's some deep futuristic shit. This short, called True Skin was made to hopefully get attention from major movie studios and eventually be picked up, and made into a feature film. The movie is directed by Stephan Zlotescu a special effects guru that's worked on music videos for Kanye West, Lady Gaga and Nikki Minaj.

The film is set in the not-too distant future where everyone is augmenting their bodies. The story’s main character can't afford to augment in the United States so heads to the black market of Bangkok where he gets a hold of a mysterious chip that he discovers is not only slowly turning him robotic but is also a hot commodity wanted by government agencies, and other shady groups.

All I wanna know is if they could hurry this science up, so this can be available in my lifetime.

 

So you aren't ballin on T.I.'s level... or Jiggamans. But hey they pay people to fly them around (and at over $5,000 an hour for a G5 chartered flight). They also pay chauffeurs to drive them in their Maybachs and Bentleys. We drive ourselves, so why not fly yourself. To get a sports license in Florida is affordable, I mentioned it before to my brother.

The Icon A5 is being released in 2011, for a measly $135,000 (yeah I know). But I'd take one of these over an RV. *Imagines himself flying to Nassau, doing lil runs here and there around Florida*, anyway back to reality if I win a lotto, get injured on the job and get some payout. I want one of these!

Ever wanted to get paid for your services. Like example, on Menace 2 Society, when that crackhead offered homie 2 cheeseburgers and went on to offer the unimaginable and he ended up dead. Or when I'm trying to sell a pair of sneakers or some vixen on Craiglist is asking for 100 roses...


You know when you need that paper, but no paper is around (Paper = Cash Money). The inventor of Twitter has created a way to get paid easily. Everyone and their mama has a cell phone right? So they created a "New Mobile Payment System"


Quote - "Square will give anybody the ability to accept payment cards without having to go through a costly credit card processing service. Instead, Square will give its users the ability to use their mobile phones, laptops or desktop computers to accept payment cards and swipe them with the help of a small dongle that will plug into the computer's or phone's audio jack."


You heard that? Street corner dudes gon' be accepting Visa over their tracphones now. They need an episode 6 of The Wire for this shit.


Quote - "According to the information on Square's website, users won't have to sign any contracts and there won't be any monthly fees or hidden costs. Square is currently only working with a select group of companies but plans to expand widely in 2010. In its current iteration, Square works on the iPhone and iPod touch. It's not clear how much the dongle will cost, but chances are that it will be cheap....






....Thanks to Square, every stand at a local farmers' market and every small coffee cart or hot dog vendor on the street will soon be able to accept credit cards without having to go through one of the major credit card processing services."


Farmers market my ass! You know this gonna be big.... Seems Twitter owners found how to make some money this time around.

Some geeks figured out a way to create 3D for online video chat rooms, or voip conversations with webcams. This is awesome to me, but I have that inner geek in me... Could also imagine some of the chicks in tinychat or people that do ustream videos, integrating this into their stuff, which would be cool.



via Wired.com - "The best hacks are often the simplest. FourEyes3D is one of these, and it takes a pair of standard webcams and uses them to make a stereo video, letting you beam your ugly mug in three glorious dimensions to anyone who can be convinced to watch.


Hook up the cams and the software (Mac-only) combines the two feeds into one stereoscopic image. The trickiest part is the actual positioning of the cameras, as the developer tells us: “The finicky part is mounting your matched pair of generic USB webcams 90 millimeters apart (the same distance apart as your own eyes).”


Best of all, you don’t need any fancy displays to view the 3D video. All you need is to send mom a pair of red/cyan specs and she can peek at your z-axis over your next iChat video call. This is because the stereo images from the cameras are converted to the old 1950s-style, headache-inducing anaglyph method I think this would be a lot of fun, especially on my weekly family Skype calls. Just whether it would be $30 worth of fun is another matter, but there is a demo available."

If Florida doesn't get the high speed train going soon, this is also dope and should be considered.

In Europe they are testing "Road Trains" where cars line up and a lead car or bus, controls all of the other cars computers GPS and Cruise control remotely to drive em. You just pull up behind the bus on the highway, link up to the bus, and he will be doing the driving. That sounds sweet, also sounds like in the movies (Fifth Element, Star Wars, Minority Report, I Robot etc) when you see all the flying cars zipping around, I always wondered how'd they stay in a straight line.



The lead vehicle will be driven by an experienced motorist — it may even be a bus that regularly travels the route — while the functions of each following vehicle will be automatically controlled and tethered to the actions of the lead car so that individual drivers can hammer out e-mails or eat breakfast. Despite the project’s name, cars can exit at any time.

While the project,  sounds futuristic, all it requires are navigation systems that communicate with the lead vehicle and control acceleration and steering. The project’s lead agencies estimate that vehicles will begin testing in 2011 and say a full-scale rollout is likely within a decade.

"This type of autonomous driving actually doesn’t require any hocus-pocus technology, and no investment in infrastructure,” said Erik Coelingh of Volvo, one of the principal companies participating in the project. “Instead, the emphasis is on development and on adapting technology that is already in existence.”

How about a tattoo, that is actually on you, in the open. That you can control who sees it and when? Maybe when your neck is brushed by your lover it shows up due to electronic impulses? I don't know the science behind it, and actually as of right now, my skin is a virgin (which is rare these days). I do want sleeves like Craned on bodybuilding.com (no homo on the pic, but thats my motivation to get in shape). But imagine having sleeves that shift and colors turn on and off. This will be the future...

The title character of Ray Bradbury’s book The Illustrated Man is covered with moving, shifting tattoos. If you look at them, they will tell you a story.

This if for all my Flawda and Bahamas peoples (or anyone that live in HOT climate really)

Dyson (known for there high-end vacuum cleaners) creates a new, futuristic styling fan. I'm sure everyone knows or has heard of someone that hurt their hand on a fan blade (whats up Woody!). Watch this, then imagine a slim one hanging as a ceiling fan "I love it". Even more awesome if they can mount lights in the ring. That would be some futuristic bedroom lighting... sends my requests to Dyson. Expects my royalty checks soon.



“There’s a motor in the bottom that powers a turbo-charged impeller,” Dyson told Kalik, when asked to explain how his latest creation works. “It’s essentially a 3-D fan that gives a good combination of flow and pressure.” According to James Dyson, the air this powerful little fan creates is pushed up into that round thing at the top — also known as the ‘loop amplifier’ — which splits the flow in two and pushes it through the loop and out a 1.3 millimeter (about .05 inches) slit, or annulus, all along the back. This process creates a jet stream that sucks in air from the back and sides, creating a very powerful and smooth flow of air to cool kids, dogs and rooms alike, with no danger of injury.”

Trippy hippy, retro and futuristic. Just like the old can thing we had as a kid... but futuristic like in the most farout movies.

Give this a whirl. EYECANDY