Nike is finally releasing the shoe that every kid in the 80s dreamed of owning. Unfortunately the auto-laces feature doesn’t come out until 2015. With a limited run of 1,500 shoes, Nike is auctioning them off on eBay to benefit the Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. There is only 10 hours to go on some of the first shoes being auctioned, and the bids are already hitting $6,000.
It’s fun to imagine the future. Every few months, someone takes a stab with a concept video, providing a glimpse into human-computer interaction and data visualization in a decade or two. What will it really look like? It’s anyone’s guess. But if people’s imaginations are any indication, the future will be filled of data displays and 3D holographic objects projected into physical space.
If there’s anything uniform across all the ideas, it’s ubiquity. In the future, data will intertwine with your day-to-day like threads in a fabric.
Microsoft has a boatload of concept videos for what they’ve envisioned for 2019. The rest are variations of this, but for specific application areas like construction or medicine.
Freeband Communication envisions an embedded life too - with a dash of drama.
Designer Timo Arnall has something similar in mind for maps in his concept video, Map/Territory. Somehow the map displays itself to scale, below your feet.
How about taking it all the way to the extreme, where, uh, no man has gone before? Create an entire world virtually with holograms you can manipulate, but make it real in your mind - and someone else’s .
Are these ideas really that far fetched though? We already have visual related-image search, social networks are finding their way into the real world, and data collection has gotten super easy with advancing mobile technology. So how much of these concepts will actually come to fruition in the next decade? Like I said, it’s anyone’s guess. Whatever it is, it’s going to be fun.
(via Nathan Yau, @flowingdata)
