Collaborate Disseminate
If you only watch the first 60 seconds of 1967’s “At Home, 2001,” you’ll be forgiven for thinking that the film is riddled with missed predictions. And to be sure, …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: A 1960s Look at the 21st Century Home
We’re guessing that among Hackaday’s readership are plenty of futurists, and while the past might be the wrong direction in which to look when considering futurism, we wouldn’t blame any …read more Continue reading Buy the Right to Build a Nakagin Tower Anywhere
Futurism is dead. At least, the wildly optimistic technology-based futurism of the middle years of the 20th century has been replaced in our version of their future by a much …read more Continue reading Weren’t We supposed To Live In Plastic Houses In The Future?
Astronomy is undoubtedly one of the most exciting subjects in physics. Especially the search for exoplanets has been a thriving field in the last decades. While the first exoplanet was only discovered in 1992, there are now 4,144 confirmed exoplanets (as of 2nd April 2020). Naturally, we Sci-Fi lovers are …read more
Continue reading Searching for Alien Life with the Sun as Gravitational Telescope
High resolution digital cameras are built into half of the devices we own (whether we want them or not), so why is it still so hard to find good pictures of all the incredible projects our readers are working on? In the recently concluded Beautiful Hardware Contest, we challenged you …read more
Continue reading The Gorgeous Hardware We Can’t Take Our Eyes Away From
Climate change, extremism, and artificial intelligence were among the top fears, and young people, technology, and equality were among the top hopes. Continue reading We Asked 105 Experts What Scares and Inspires Them Most About the Future
All the strength of a body builder, with none of the body oil. We test out the latest bionic enhancements in the first episode of FLUX. Continue reading Will Exoskeletons Give Us Superpowers?
‘There’s nothing on Earth like a genuine, bona fide, electrified, six-car monorail!’ Continue reading We Are Never, Ever, Ever Getting a Monorail
If tech is surveilling us constantly, we need the ability to use it to watch the watchers. Continue reading Liberty Might Be Better Served by Doing Away with Privacy
The war of the currents was fairly decisively won by AC. After all, whether you’ve got 110 V or 230 V coming out of your wall sockets, 50 Hz or 60 Hz, the whole world agrees that the frequency of oscillation should be strictly greater than zero. Technically, AC won out because of three intertwined facts. It was more economical to have a few big power plants rather than hundreds of thousands of tiny ones. This meant that power had to be transmitted over relatively long distances, which calls for higher voltages. And at the time, the AC transformer was …read more
