Agent Provocateur will be rolling out a new line this fall entitled “The New World Order” and will feature a sci-fi inspired photo shoot, with each mini-collection containing a back story complete with villains, superheros, and special powers.

Wired has a set of photographs of work by Jeremy Mayer, who collects antique typewriters and then rips them apart to create different works of art, mostly based on science fiction-inspired bugs, animals and human figures. Jenna Wortham writes:
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.
One of the comments on the photograph pictured here is particularly interesting: “I don’t find your figures to be creepy, rather, unsettling. I like that better. But [...]

The flying car is finally here. Earlier this month the Terrafugia Transition had its first short flight at the Plattsburgh Airport in upstate New York. The Transition holds two passengers, runs on regular unleaded gasoline, and can transform from car to plane in about 30 seconds. A team of engineers has been working on making this flying car a reality or over 4 years. But it will be a few more years till you can get one – 2011 is when they are expected to be available for sale. The Transition won’t be cheap, it’s expected to cost about $194,000, [...]

TruMedia Technologies and Studio IMC have developed technology that enables electronic advertisements to evaluate the age and gender of their audiences and track how long individuals are watching these ads. The technology utilizes small sensors or cameras that are embedded in or around video screens in combination with facial recognition software that manufacturers claim can accurately determine gender 85 to 90 percent of the time. Age is more difficult to predict and for the time being at least, falls into broader categorizations – child, teen, adult, senior – with a higher margin of error.
While the industry is still in its infancy, [...]