What does the future hold? Sweethearts, the heart-shaped candies with phrases printed on them, have been redesigned in time for Valentine's Day 2010. For the first time in 145 years changed the recipe Necco. To get rid of the chalky taste of course, banana and wintergreen flavors have been replaced by green apple and blue raspberry. The candy colors have also been cleared, and the words of new entrants to a competition of consumption, with tweet ME "and" sms "among the ten words chosen. Sweethearts are the # 1-selling non-chocolate candy Valentine made six billion a year. That's a lot of "bullshit".
Looking a little further into the future of Barbie, the doll of the fashion world's most popular, will have a new career. Over the past 50 + years since it was created by Mattel in 1959, she has had many careers, but 2009 was the first year the public voted on them. With more than 500,000 votes cast in 2010, # 125 will engineer career computer - with binary-code-patterns T-shirt, framed glasses pink, laptop pink Bluetooth headset. Career News Anchor # 126 will be - with the pink outfit, the new file, camera and microphone. previous jobs have included Princess, dancer, McDonald's cashier, parachutist, astronaut and President of the United States. Did not anyone, but votes for Ken Barbie mother?
GlowCaps are pill bottle caps that remind people to take their medication. Caps orange flashes when it is time for a pill. If a pill is not taken within one hour, the CAP plays a melody. Anyone still forget to take their medications receive a call or text message a few hours. Although these caps are sold online for $ 99, the manufacturer expects in the future they will be free add-ons for pills distributed by pharmacies. Because the World Health Organization considers adherence to treatment is only 50% among chronically ill, GlowCaps literally encapsulate the hope of wireless technology.
Finally, in the future is AirCruiser, Seymourpowell a concept for a vertical floating hotel. Ten luxury apartments, dining room, bar and lounge would accommodate up to 100 person crew. The giant airship filled with hydrogen would be about 265 meters high, with large hydrogen fuel cells on board providing power and drinking water. The cruising speed is likely to be between 100 and 150 km / h, enabling the hotel, for example, for a cruise from London to New York in 37 hours. Because different world views will be seen by thousands of feet above the ground, vacations AirCruiser will undoubtedly be a high price.
Posted on May 25, 2010.
