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Forty years ago today, humans stepped foot on an astral body that was not Earth. Neil Armstrong,Michael Collins, Edwin A. “Buzz” Aldrin landed on the lunar surface and took a stroll. This event is still influencing the future since the number of technological advances that came about because of the Space Program are too many to [...]

Yoshiyuki Tomino
Gear School is opening up new frontiers. Here you have Yoshiyuki Tomino with a copy of the comic in an event that took place some days ago in Tokyo. It is an honor for us to see one of the fathers of modern sci-fi/anime robots posing with our book.

Yoshiyuki Tomino (Odawara, 1941) is one [...]

So it turns out that there’s an Army mechanic in Alaska who’s tired of waiting for the future and he’s decided to do something about it. Carlos Owens spent the last four years building a semi-functional piece of mech. The thing is 18-feet tall and weighs a ton. It also has a hydraulic system that [...]

After more than a month’s absence (during which I was reveling in the arrival of my son), I am now back and writing. Writing the script for Gear School, Mark II, and back writing this blog.
One of the more interesting things I’ve seen on the Internet in the last little while: Warren Ellis points out [...]

For some reason, I’m not able to paste the video I want to directly into this post, which is a shame, but here is a link to the video on youtube. Make with the clicky.
This isn’t strictly relevant to the proceedings here because I am avoiding the whole subject of nanotechnology in Gear School. Nonetheless, [...]

Via Geekologie:
A Utah company called Sarcos has developed a functional exo-skeleton. This accompanying video is pretty sweet. I especially like that the guy narrating/reporting sounds like he’s doing his best Charles Kuralt impersonation (does anyone remember who Charles Kuralt is?).
You can see the video on Liveleak.

Via Warrenellis.com (warning: not always work-safe): News that the British Army is trying to develop a tank that uses cameras and projectors that would render them “invisible.” The future just got one step closer.

From Mr. Ben Templesmith comes news that “villagers in southern Peru have been struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area.”
Okay. Now raise your hands if you’re really nervous.

This is a really cool bit of futurisma. Ganked from geekologie: Researchers at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) along with their collaborators have devised a reproducible, low-cost 3D display system that requires no special glasses, and is viewable from all angles by multiple users.

Via sfscope: In 1964, the Rand Corporation produced a document estimating how many habitable planets might exist in our universe and how one might go about finding them. This document has just been released as a down-loadable pdf. This is the kind of stuff that has fueled hard sf geeks since forever. Go here to [...]

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