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Technology Of The Future That Exists Today
The Truth Behind Your Favorite Reality Shows
Palmanova Is The World's Ideal Walled City

Technology Of The Future That Exists Today

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 10:55 AM PDT

Technology is advancing so quickly that it's almost a little scary. Ten years ago all you could do on your phone was call and text by now your phone is more powerful than the computer that was used to send Apollo 11 to the moon.

World's First Virtual Shopping Store opens in Korea. All the Shelves are infact LCD Screens. User Choose their desired items by touching the LCD screen and checkout at the counter in the end to have all their ordered stuff packed in Bags.

Raytheon XOS 2 – second generation exoskeleton prototype for US Army

Bendable cell phone screen

Man demonstrating a prosthetic eye with a camera installed inside it

Motion tracking morphing table surface

Prosthetic hand tying a shoelace

A linticular display used in a car

This camping stove grills your food and generates power from the heat to run its own light and charge or run any other USB device all on a handful of sticks.

Tesla Model S car's instrument panel

Refridgerator of the future

3d metal printing

Rubik's cube master solver

Dedicated tablet for ordering, games payment at restaurant table. Complete with receipt printer and card reader

E-INK technology

Cast Of The Future

Holographic sign projected onto falling water

3D print your souvenirs at your local museum

Camera Translator

Digital library in Bucharest Metro station

The Truth Behind Your Favorite Reality Shows

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 09:53 AM PDT

We all know that reality TV isn't always real. Find out which shows are fake.

Palmanova Is The World's Ideal Walled City

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 09:39 AM PDT

Italian architect Vincenzo Scamozzi designed this walled city and it's easily one of the coolest looking cities on the planet.

Why We Need to Modernize Our Power Plants

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Why We Need to Modernize Our Power Plants

This morning, the Environmental Protection Agency set the first-ever national carbon emissions limits for our country's existing power plants. Modernizing our power plants will help Americans live healthier lives, while reducing carbon pollution that contributes to climate change.

Find out how limiting carbon emissions from power plants will make our communities healthier:

Here’s what the proposed power plant rule means for you:

Power plants currently churn out about 40 percent of the carbon pollution in the air we breathe, and contribute to hundreds of thousands of asthma attacks and thousands of heart attacks.

And even though we limit the amount of toxic chemicals like mercury, sulfur, and arsenic that power plants can put in our air and water, there are no national limits on the carbon pollution they can release.

As President Obama said in his weekly address on Saturday, "It's not smart, it's not safe, and it doesn't make sense."

That's why today, at the President's direction, the EPA is taking steps to change that with a proposal that will set the first-ever national carbon pollution limits for our country's existing power plants.

These standards will cut down on the carbon pollution, smog, and soot in our air -- and as a result, Americans will live longer and breathe easier.

In the first year the new standards are implemented, they'll prevent up to 100,000 asthma attacks and 2,100 heart attacks. And the numbers will only go up from there.

That means Americans will be taking fewer trips to the emergency room, spending less time away from school or from work, and enjoying longer, healthier lives.

With such clear benefits, it's a no-brainer: Cutting the amount of carbon pollution from our power plants is the right thing to do.

Learn more about how the EPA's proposed standards will make our communities healthier -- then add your name to stay involved with President Obama's Climate Action Plan.

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Seth's Blog : Sharing and celebrating your favorite authors...

Sharing and celebrating your favorite authors...

One of the biggest benefits we've found in the way people use Hugdug is their ability to share the work of people they respect. Today more than ever, ideas spread horizontally, from person to person, not from the top down, not from an ad or from a talk show or from a promotion.

On a regular basis, I hand sell the work of Tom Peters, introducing his classics to people who didn't grow up with him. This one is my favorite.

The Hugdug team has hand-built some curation pages that make it easy for people to find a book they love and review and share it. Here are some authors who are doing amazing work... do you care enough to share it?

Ideas that spread, win. If you speak up about an idea or an artist you care about, the word spreads, the world changes. Find a favorite and tell someone...

The Freakonomics guys

Also, me. (and here are some musicians, too...)

Amanda Palmer

Bob Dylan

Bruce Springsteen

Also! Thanks for your early support of Hugdug. Last week, we sent a donation of $25,000 to charity: water to celebrate our launch. Find a book you love and tell someone about it!