It’s always been man’s fascination to wonder what the future will look like. And now that we live in an age where never before there has been so much and rapid change in everyday life through invention and technology, this age old question makes you wonder even more. As did the French creator of these posters in 1910. These were his predictions of the year 2000, made more than a hundred years ago. The main themes of the posters seem to be robotics and personal flight. It looks like a dangerous world (...) read more
In the future robots will clean our houses. Well, that day is already here. And not by some big talking tin man, the iRobot Roomba is a small intelligent vacuum cleaner that's meant to do it's work as quietly as possible. Yesterday iRobot announced the latest versions of the Rombaa; the 560 and 530. There are some improvements but the basics remain the same. The Roomba comes with a docking station you connect to a wall socket on a place where you won't notice it (for instance underneath (...) read more
