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This Microsoft vision of the future of healthcare systems might be an old one (dated somewhere around March 08, actually), but I’m actually researching the topic and a bit of extra info/touchscreen surfaces cannot hurt us. On a sad sidenote: just been to the Klikk 4.0 press conf in the Millenaire and if you’ve seen a good and socially responsible exhibition fucked up mile-long in the ass, it’s that one. Did you really think that making kids read long pages of text will make them more health-conscious? Or even interested? Making them play Wii is a way better idea but then again please don’t feed it to the press that this is one of the most interactive and technically advanced etape of the exhibition series. Even Bodies had a hard time driving the point home about the adverse effects of drinking and/or smoking.

Storming off for a rewarding Tom Yum Khai experience with a friend, so I’m brief on this one: interactive bar surface by Alex Haw, as aptly summarized by grinding.be: the more activity a person generates on the bar, the more images are created, along with an increase in movement. (link)

Sexy Hacking is creating a series of online videos where sexy girls teach hacking techniques, tips, how-to’s, tools, social engineering, security industry news and spoofs. Why read some boring news article or lame documentation when you can get the goods demonstrated by a sexy hacker girl? This is real information security - just sexier.

Jeremy Mayer collects antique typewriters, but he doesn’t display them in a curio cabinet. Instead, he tears them apart, then turns the components into sleek, sci-fi-inspired bugs, skeletons and anatomically correct human figures. Mayer, who describes his work as a cross between Leonardo da Vinci’s mechanical drawings and the gritty futures imagined by sci-fi maestros William Gibson and Philip K. Dick, assembles his artwork without welding, soldering or gluing. (full gallery at wired)

A gorgeous piece of thewant - a photovoltaic charger bonsai with 54 leaves, designed by Vivian Muller. The leaves channel electricity into a battery that charges your zonerun gear, from mp3players to iPhones Androids. (via tuvie)

Modern Mechanix on a German firefighter suit from Feb, 1931: The outfit, which looks like a deep sea diver’s uniform is equipped with a sprinkler helmet which operates off a connection attached to the nozzle of the hose. The fireman can control the spray by a simple movement of a hand lever. (via)

Last time I had this Hungarian blogpost with a question, like, would RIAA copyright The Black Plague, if they could? Well, I didn’t exactly approach the press guys with that, but I didn’t really need to, as the next day Open the Future wrote a thought-provoking post about viropiracy or viral sovereignty in connection with the Indonesian H5N1-case, namely, quote, the Indonesian argument — now set to be ratified by the Non-Aligned Movement general gathering in November — is that the information derived from viruses found in a particular country should be the property of that country to control as it sees fit, unquote. Although that’s because the Jakarta government believes the WHO-affiliated US Medical Naval Research unit is the metaphorical equivalent of a devilish electric urethra catheter in the Islamic land, this basically means, pandemic info is not fed in the infostream directly. (link)

Chinese elite anti-terror police officers are wheeling into action ahead of next month’s Beijing Olympics on two-wheeled scooters. Members of the country’s armed police unit practised on the Segway models that have been re-named ‘Anti-Terror Assault Vehicles’ in the eastern province of Shandong. Officials have bought 100 Segways and painted some in military camouflage to patrol airports and sporting venues during the Games. (more on Mail Online)

Lamperd Less Lethal’s T3 Mobile Defender (…) comes equipped with a powerful air gun that is considered non-lethal in a body shot, but could potentially kill someone if they were to take a synthetic bullet to the head. That is why the gun utilizes a holographic sight system to ensure accuracy. (link)

When the BuzzBall moves about and the operator starts to turn, the seat begins to rotate against the direction of travel. If you haven’t figured it out already, that means you get a series of spins and barrel rolls—while you’re moving. How one stops this thing we haven’t a clue, but it probably involves passing out. (link)

Called the HUVO, this diminutive electric car forgoes features like “well-being” and “sanity” for “lightweight” (330 lbs.) and “Jesus Christ watch out for that MINI Cooper!” To save weight and development costs, the HUVO is made out of materials that would make any contemporary golf cart proud; mainly plastic, ceramic, more plastic, and a bit of high-tensile steel plate. (link)