Because soon our backpacks won’t carry anything but video messages, this is a clip from Yihong Technology demonstrating their persistence of vision backpack, that uses a spinning 4-rotor fan with 510 rapidly blinking LEDs to display video. In this case, everyone’s favorite plumber, Mario. WHY he’s everyone’s favorite plumber is

This is ‘Bob Ross and his crazy AI painting’, a video created by Miha Mastnak with the help of artificial intelligence that imagines a series of canvases on Bob’s easel that gradually follow a river upstream. The future: it’s terrifying. I mean the past is pretty terrifying too, and the

This is a video demonstration of the Omnideck, a large omnidirectional motorized platform users can walk/run on to create a more immersive virtual reality experience without the risk of running into walls. The technology was originally developed in Sweden for military use, but Aaru Entertainment is developing video games based

This is a video of Gravity company founder Richard Browning ascending Helvellyn, a 3,100 foot English mountain in less than four minutes to demonstrate the jetpack’s capabilities in search-and-rescue applications. Pretty impressive. Granted, we’re still way behind schedule on having affordable jetpacks available to everyone, which is a shame because

This is a video of the all-electric Jetson ONE single-seat vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) flying machine (seen here previously) taking a flight through the woods. And by flight through the woods I mean along a straight cleared path through the woods, not like the speeder bike chase scene on

This is the launch trailer for the ~$92,000 Jetson ONE, a personal all-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft named for the cartoon family of the future. Now if it just folded up into a briefcase like George’s flying car we’d really be in business. Jetson ONE is an ultralight

This is a video just released by Google demonstrating its Project Starline, a fancy 3D video chat booth that’s supposed to make you feel like the person you’re talking to is actually sitting across from you through a window, jail visitation style. Some more info about the project while I

This is a video discussing and demonstrating a method for rendering a much more photorealistic version of Grand Theft Auto V using an artificial intelligence powered convolution network that produces images frame-by-frame at speeds fast enough to be run at interactive (read: playable) rates. Some more info that’s so far