Full Body Transplants are Near

Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero is stirring up some controversy in the medical world by proposing that successful full-body transplants are only two years away. The operation itself is mind-boggling as it consists of grafting a living person’s head onto a dead person’s body, jolting the body back to life and then re-training the brain to work with its new limbs. Canavero insists the technology to …

Introducing the Runcible Heirloom Electronic

A next generation mobile phone and wearable tech hybrid inspired by a pocket watch and built to last

Even today’s most beautifully designed smartphones will be disposed of in time. As the technology within becomes outdated, the whole device is discarded or donated and the collective conscious grabs hold of something shiny and new. Not only does SF design firm Monohm rethink that behavior with their new creation Runcible, they also challenge us to consider our patterns of mobile phone and wearable tech …

Japan’s Booming Robot Population

Japan’s population is currently booming, but not because of its citizens; it’s due to the rapidly increasing amount of humanoid robots. In some Japanese suburbs, next-level androids outnumber their human co-workers, and one industry leader proposes a nation-wide investment in 30 million more by 2020. With the addition of robots, countries are hoping to regionalize manufacturing by keeping labor-costs down, avoiding the need to outsource …