Exciting news! Matt Novak, founder and writer at Paleofuture, a blog about retro-futuristic stuff, has now joined the Gizmodo network! The support Gizmodo can offer can only mean bigger and better things for Matt and his amazing site! So happy for him!
Remember that short video of Samsung’s ONE DESIGN installation video? It was created by Factory Fifteen and I didn’t know it at the time, but this group creates a lot more interesting views of the future with robots in their other shorts as well. This CreatorsProject goes into how these guys are honing their skills [...]
Mike Luck - Cityscape from maxmana on Vimeo.
This video is described as a 6AM drive through a retro-future desert landscape. I really can’t explain it any better than that. It is just beautiful from beginning to end. The animation was done by Maxmana and the song is from Mike Luck.
Here’s the entire scanned PDF of what they thought today would be like. Some hits, some misses, and a shockingly clear look at how LA needed to stop building the city around the car. And yet, somehow, 25 years later, they still are. The article is worth reading if not for the laughs, but for [...]
An interesting graphic from Arup showing what they envision the urban skyscraper to be like in the year 2050. My hunch is that something along these lines will happen sooner than 2050, but it’s still worth looking at Arup’s take here on how the skyscraper will essentially serve as a sort of self-sustaining ecosystem for [...]
Katie Turner animates this video for Carla Diana’s article in The New York Times about how new technologies, some of which are already on the market, are going to change our daily lives very soon. Possibly making us lazier?
