On the banality of our deepfake future
Plus: Space luggage, screen overkill, PC bikes and more!
What's real? What's fake? Can you tell the difference? If you can today, you won't be able to tomorrow.
We're on the brink of a new phase of human technology in which anything can and will be faked so well that no human will be able to tell the difference.
This will be a catastrophe, some say. Others claims that it will be a huge boon. Both are true. But the most shocking emergent fact is that deepfake technology is becoming… a banality.
Mike’s List of Brilliantly Bad Ideas
1. Space luggage
Space is getting crowded with billionaire tourists like Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson and Elon Musk. So JooHyung Park and Sunjin Baek designed a luggage concept called Astroneer. The bags are designed for zero Gs, fast acceleration, modular expansion and big wheels for rolling over the lunar surface.
2. 6-screen portable PCs
Some Raspberry Pi enthusiast named Sören Gebbert created this 6-screen “cyberdeck” using three Raspberry Pis. The orange cases are custom 3D printed, and the rig sports a huge battery pack and cooling fan. It’s “portable” because the whole thing folds up and fits into a metal box. Or you could just buy a laptop.
3. Rideable mobile PC
Apple founder Steve Jobs once said that a computer is like a bicycle for your mind. A Russian shop called Yolenzo took that literally and created a rideable PC bike called the Yolenzo Exo Giga Bike. Specifically, they built all the PC components into a BMW Rocker bicycle.
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