In this classic picture from a 1954 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine, scientists from the RAND corporation displayed their model vision of the home computer in the year 2004. According to the caption, due to advances like the teletype interface and the Fortran language, “the computer will be easy to use”. Hindsight is 20/20, and […]

I subscribe to a weekly email from Wired magazine. Included was a link to a Gizmodo blog entry about what sounds like an interesting technology for use in digital cameras. Bizarrely, I immediately recognized the picture accompanying the entry:

Not only have I seen that picture before, I’m in it. You may recognize me as the […]

I imagine their conversation went something like this:

Albert Hubo: (synthesized robot voice) Nice to meet you, Mr. President
Dubya: Well it sure is nice to meet you, too, Einstein, Einey… Can I call you “Einey”? We sure do appreciate you inventing gravity for us. Keep up the good work.

[Yahoo! News Photo]

With the wonders of galvanic vestibular stimulation at our fingertips, soon we’ll be able to pop a headset on someone and control their movements with a remote control…[CNN.com - Japan developing remote control for humans - Oct 25, 2005]