All Posts Tagged With: "the future"

The animated future of print is on the cover of the new Esquire magazine [I Heart Tech]

You remember that scene in Minority Report, where Tom Cruise’s character is strung out in his apartment and gets pissed off at his box of Rice Krispies when the Rice Krispies elves printed on the box won’t stop singing and dancing? Well, that future is here and now printed for the first time on [...]

10Sep2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued

A retro-futuristic Ray Bradbury sells prunes IN THE FUTURE! [Dept. of Advertising Nonsense]

In this ad for Sunsweet Prunes, Ray Bradbury becomes an unwitting spokesman for THE PRUNES OF THE FUTURE.

26Aug2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued

In the future, some Japanese girl is staring off into space at the same stars as you [Pic]

14Aug2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued

Movie scenes to remember: Achilles vs Alexander from Robot Jox [I Heart Movies]

In the first fight scene from the sort of obscure 1990 sci-fi masterpiece, the giant robots Achilles and Alexander do battle to the death. In the post WW3 world of Robot Jox, all war is outlawed and in its place, they have battle between men controlling gigantic robots. Great stuff if you can [...]

11Aug2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued

Meet Jorge Omega, our new blogger from the far future [IHC News]

In an attempt to give you the best up to date news, we’ve recently recruited a most special writer to IHC. His name is Jorge Omega and he’s a time-traveling blogger from the 43rd century. Not a single other news source has a man from the future, so we consider ourselves extremely lucky to have [...]

10Jul2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued

Meet GINA, BMW’s revolutionary shapeshifting car of the future [I Heart Tech]

BMW’s GINA isn’t covered in steel, aluminum or carbon fiber, but high tech cloth that stretches over the frame to give it its shape. This allows the car to do things and to change in ways you wouldn’t expect out of a car.

11Jun2008 | cranberryzero | 1 comment | Continued

What Jeopardy will look like in the far off future of 1999 [I Heart TV]

In this Saturday Night Live clip from 1979, we take a look at what Jeopardy will look like in the giant afro-spandex space suit-numerical surname future of 1999.

14May2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued

What may happen in the next 100 years [The More You Know]

A while back there was a scan of an article from the Ladies Home Journal from 1900 that predicted how people in the year 2000 would live. This has been bandied about on the Internet for some time and now IHC is getting into the retro-futuristic conversation, looking ahead to the year 2100 to [...]

4Mar2008 | cranberryzero | 6 comments | Continued

Your future commute [Pic]

With a little luck, your commute in the near future could look sort of like this.

17Feb2008 | cbz | 0 comments | Continued

Buddhist Kung Fu cops fighting crime in 2012 London [I Heart TV]

In the year 2012, buddhist kung-fu cops team up with teenage anarchist daughters of the establishment to fight supercrime! Or, at least, that’s the concept behind Phoo Action, a new BBC pilot adapted by Doctor Who director Euros Lyn (who has done the absolute best episodes of the new Doctor Who btw) from a semi-forgotten [...]

7Feb2008 | cbz | 0 comments | Continued