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Las Vegas City Center, Largest Environmentally Sustainable Urban Communities

TheFuture — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:02:48 +0000

City Center, a green development project coming up in Las Vegas, is the largest privately financed development in North America. It’s an $8 billion venture between MGM MIRAGE and Dubai World, the first building is scheduled to be opened at the end of 2009. On completion of the entire City Center project, it includes a resort casino, two non-gaming resort hotels, and almost 500,000 square foot retail and entertainment space and also will feature a $40 million public fine art program.

The sustainable buzz around CityCenter starts with the team. At the core of the design are some of our favorite green-minded architects including Pelli Clarke Pelli, Foster + Partners, and Rafael Vinoly. The developers have also employed hundreds of sustainability consultants to bring a whole systems approach to the project, and the tradesmen carrying out construction are educated in green building practice. MGM MIRAGE has trained over 10,000 construction trade and craftsmen on green building techniques that are already being forged into the site.

CityCenter is making some pretty big efforts to tout itself as a model of sustainability. Green building practices like recycling construction waste, using eco-friendly materials, boosting natural lighting, and incorporating an onsite co-generation power plant are just a few of the ways that the project is earning its eco-credentials. Materials from the imploded Boardwalk Hotel (cleared for the site of CityCenter) are being recycled into the project, crushed to be recycled into material going into the project, and bathroom fixtures are being shipped to other countries wrapped in the old drapes and carpeting from the original hotel to be used again.

via Inhabitat

FootLume for Your Futuristic Floor

TheFuture — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:46:08 +0000

Do you think this would be the “Next Big Thing” in interior design ? Well, seeing the recent buzz of this product prototype, I believe so. FootLume basically is a rug that lights up when you step on it, pretty futuristic. The co-inventor Leona Dean said that the glow that the rug emits was very soft. “It can provide ambient mood lighting or flash in time to music as talking point at a party”, Leona Added. Footlume, powered by rechargeable batteries, works by responding to the weight applied when a person walks across the carpet.

Electroluminescence relies on an electric field to generate visible light. Other light producers include photoluminescence, which is used in many glow-in-the-dark toys; and chemoluminescence, which involves light-producing chemical reactions (as in the body of a firefly).

Source : LiveScience

Wireless Optimus Mini 3 3.0

TheFuture — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:26:09 +0000

Since the Maximus keyboard last year create a real buzz, they have developed Optimus Mini 3 version 2.0, smaller, three-buttoned version of the Maximus keyboard. Following the success of Optimus Mini 3 v 2.0, Art Lebedev is in the process of making the next generation of Optimus Mini 3, which is wireless, possibly Bluetooth and AC-powered. The picture below is the version 2.0 of Optimus Mini 3 since they still don’t have the picture of version 3.0. Really looking forward to see the prototypes.

From : Art Lebedev via Gizmodo

Meet Air Poo, Your iPod and Macbook Air Companion

TheFuture — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:00:25 +0000

I know that people are crazy about Apple’s products, especially iPod and the recent buzz Macbook Air, but I would never have thought of creating a toilet ready for iPod and Macbook Air. This guys from LOLZ LLC decided that people should still enjoy the ultimate experience of iPod and Macbook Air even when they are in the bathroom, that’s why they launched Air Poo. Multitouch flusher, heated seat for your comfort, iPod and Macbook Air dock. If you are Apple’s product maniac, get ready to get Air Poo this summer 2008.

From : LOLZ LLC

iPod companion software: Convert DVD to iPod using PQ DVD to iPod Converter Free download of PQ DVD to iPod Video Converter Suite. Transfer DVD movies, TV shows, Youtube videos to iPod and iPhone for your entertainment.

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TheFuture — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

This website is dedicated to talk about techs and gadgets in the future, some of them might still even a concept. Because I think it’s gonna be fun and full of surprise to see what the future might bring to us. And someday we can take a look again at this blog archives and see if it’s come true ? Any new buzz and would like to tell us ? Please feel free to contact us, we will be very happy to hear it.