Here are 10 examples of futuristic fashion for women.

1. From The Cosmic Puppets editorial of S magazine, modeled by Sigrid Agren. [Source]

2. A cocktail dress, literally. When triggered, this dress by Dutch fashion designer Anouk Wipprecht dispenses cocktail from the wearer’s chest. [Source]

3. This ensemble, modeled by Gintare, is from the Ray of Light editorial in the magazine Grazia. [Source]

4. From Dazed’s Woman Machine set. [Source]

5. Featured in Harper’s Bazaar Russia February 2012 issue. [Source]

6. This dress is part of the Spring Couture 2013 collection of Iris van Herpen. The collection explores how light and electricity affect states and bodies. [Source]

7. From the “Back to the Future” editorial of Interview Magazine. The collection mixes futuristic fashion with ’60s silhouettes. [Source]

8. From the Full Moon collection of Morfium Couture. [Source]

9. From the Junya Watanabe Spring 2013 collection. [Source]

10. From the Pam Hogg Spring/Summer 2013 collection. [Source]

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As modeled by Toby Leonard for SID Magazine’s New World Order story.
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From the Fall/Winter 2012 collection named ‘EGAL’ by Starstyling. Modeled by Buck Schlegel.
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Who says you can’t be fashionable in a military state? The Mugler 2013 Fall/Winter men’s collection combines futuristic fashion and military themes.
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From the Yuima Nakazato Fall 2012 men’s collection.
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From the Raun Larose Spring/Summer 2012 men’s ready to wear collection. The set features paneled designs paired with robot-inspired make-up.
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Due to the interest the upcoming game Cyberpunk 2077 has generated, R. Talsorian Games, publisher of Cyberpunk 2020, has reissued the Cyberpunk 2020 P&P RPG.

In the year 2013. Fancy that!

You can get your paws on the rule book for $22 at the R. Talsorian store.

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Need a random name for your cyberpunk character? Have a go with this:

http://donjon.bin.sh/scifi/name/#cyberpunk

You can choose male and female names; Chinese, Japanese, Russian or Western names; as well as netrunner handles, corporation names, and location names.

If you want a name that is based on your true name (somehow), you can check out:

http://www.matazone.co.uk/animpages/cyberpunknames.html

http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/toys/namegen/8000/#.UYOR0zfiVkg

The last two links output corny and over-the-top names, but if you’re into that, who am I to judge?

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Deep freezing dead bodies so that they can be revived in the future when the cure has been found for the cause of death. It is the stuff of many sci-fi movies and books. It is not just fiction, either. When 23-year-old Kim Suozzi learned that she was dying from brain cancer, she opted to have her dead body frozen, hoping to come back to life someday.

Cryogenics? Close, but no cigar. They are related, but the correct term is cryonics.

What is the difference between cryogenics and cryonics?

Cryogenics is the scientific study or the production of extremely low temperatures (below −150 °C, −238 °F or 123 K) and how materials (such as metals, food, liquids) behave at those temperatures. Cryonics, meanwhile, is the application of cryogenics to preserve human bodies soon after death, in an anticipation of future revival and healing of the death-causing disease or injury as well as injuries suffered (if any) during the cryonic process.

Photo courtesy of Alcor Life Extension Foundation

To prevent the water inside the body from freezing and damaging the cells of the deceased individual, a process called vitrification is done. Here, water is removed from the cells and replaced with a glycerol-based chemical mixture called a cryoprotectant. This mixture protects the organs and tissues from forming ice crystals even at very low temperatures. The body is then placed upside down into a container that is then placed into a large metal tank filled with liquid nitrogen. The body is stored head down to ensure that the brain remains frozen in case a leak in the tank occurs.

Cryonics is not cheap. In Alcor Life Extension Foundation, for example, the minimum cryopreservation cost is $200,000 for a whole body cryopreservation and $80,000 for neurosuspension. In neurosuspension, only the brain is preserved, with the hope that future technology will enable a way to regenerate the rest of the body.

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Cyborg Camp 2013 will be held in MAKe’s warehouse in Vancouver BC, Canada. CyborgCamp is a not-for-profit conference about technology and how it affects humanity. Topics such as the the Internet of Things, future of communication, anthropology, cyborg technology, psychology, and social media will be discussed in the event. There will also be an art gallery and interactive installations/wearable computing.

Amber Case – Director, Esri R&D
Shane Luke, VP of Product, Recon Instruments
Michael Smit, CEO Invoke Media / Invoke labs
Ben Bashord, Experience Architect
Alex Beim, Founder of Tangible Interaction
Kharis O’Connell, Director of User Experience, Global Mechanic
Ryan Betts, Director of User Experience at Bazinga

Click here for more details about the speakers and their subjects of expertise. A map of the venue can be found here.

Cyborg Camp YVR 2013 is organized by The Holon Group in association with MAKe. Tickets are sold for CA$ 75 at Eventbrite.

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Why give out ordinary business cards and wedding invitations when you can impress people with cards that showcase your circuitry skills?

Electrical engineer Jay Kickliter thought of creating an interactive business card for an upcoming job fair. His card lights up whenever it’s touched and has a low-power mode that prolongs battery life. Design and implementation took two weeks. Pretty cool and attention grabbing.

Jay is sharing the card’s source code, design files, and schematics over at his Web site.

Meanwhile, as part of Bill Porter and his fiancee Mara’s ultimate geek wedding, they made circuit board wedding invitations that light up and blink a Morse code message.

For the tutorial, check out Bill’s blog. Their wedding preparations and actual ceremony incorporate electronics.

Video credits: Jay Kickliter and Bill P | Youtube

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These celebrities caught my eye because of the futuristic dresses they wore recently.

1. Kim Kardashian

The reality star wore this sci-fi looking dress last November 29, 2012 in the opening of Millions of Milkshakes in The Avenues Mall in Kuwait City.

Source: Wetpaint

2. Rita Ora

The singer wore this silver ensemble in the Manchester leg of her Radioactive Tour 2013. The music video for her single Radioactive is also futuristic.

Source (lots more pictures here): Daily Mail

3. Dita Von Teese

This mesh dress is the first fully articulated 3D printed dress, made up of 17 parts and 3000 joints. It was made to perfectly fit the curvy burlesque star Dita von Teese. The design was a collaboration between Michael Schmidt and Francis Bitoni and the printing was done by Shapeways.

Source: Shapeways

4. Olga Kurylenko

For me, Olga Kurylenko is one of the most gorgeous women in Hollywood right now and she looked stunning in this bronze futuristic dress she wore in the premiere of Oblivion in Taipei, Taiwan.

Source: My Daily

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Red Thread Games successfully raised funding for the development of the game Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey through Kickstarter. Dreamfall Chapters is the sequel to the award-winning PC games The Longest Journey (1999) and Dreamfall: The Longest Journey (2006).

Dreamfall Chapters is a 3D adventure point-and-click game for Mac, Linux and Windows PC. It takes the player on an epic journey across Stark and Arcadia — two worlds that exist in parallel. Stark is a dystopian cyberpunk world of science and order while Arcadia is that of magic and chaos.

Some special people called Shifters can move freely between the two worlds. Some, called Dreamers, can dream themselves into other worlds, existing in two places at once. One such Dreamer is the game’s major character Zoe Castillo.

Stark suffered a mysterious collapse in 2209. Now, in the year 2220, the shady corporation WatiCorp has released Dreamer. Society is crumbling, with billions of people hooked up to the dangerous machines and hopelessly addicted to lucid dreams.

One of several free-roaming and fully explorable locations in Dreamfall Chapters is Europolis, a large city stretching over the remains of Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic. This alternate Europe is “a poverty-stricken and thoroughly corrupted wasteland”.

The first two games in the The Long Journey saga were made by Funcom. Red Thread Games has licensed the saga and is independently developing and producing the Dreamfall Chapters without the support of a publisher.

Estimated date for the game’s release is November 2014.

Video credits: Ragnar Tornquist | Youtube

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Google Glass is expected to arrive later this year for less than $1500. Not without controversy, though. Some experts, including the Canadian cyborg Steve Mann, believe the augmented reality eyewear will cause strain and damage to the eyes, especially to children. The heads-up display may also distract the user from what’s happening around him.

More importantly, there are big privacy concerns that we have to face with Google Glass. Wearers can take photos and record images of people, things, and places around them. The issue is not the user experience of the one wearing Google Glass but the user experience of the people around someone wearing the eyewear. Aside from the possible annoyance of talking to someone who is distracted by other things, it will be hard to know if that person is taking a picture or video of you.

Mark Hurst made a good explanation of why this new technology can trigger an Orwellian nightmare.

First, take the video feeds from every Google Glass headset, worn by users worldwide. Regardless of whether video is only recorded temporarily, as in the first version of Glass, or always-on, as is certainly possible in future versions, the video all streams into Google’s own cloud of servers. Now add in facial recognition and the identity database that Google is building within Google Plus (with an emphasis on people’s accurate, real-world names): Google’s servers can process video files, at their leisure, to attempt identification on every person appearing in every video…Finally, consider the speech-to-text software that Google already employs, both in its servers and on the Glass devices themselves. Any audio in a video could, technically speaking, be converted to text, tagged to the individual who spoke it, and made fully searchable within Google’s search index.

Cord Jefferson of Gizmodo, meanwhile, believes Google Glass will enable men to take creepshots of women’s body parts more surreptitiously.

Months before the release of Google Glass, The 5 Point cafe/dive bar has banned the use of Google Glass inside their premises. Similarly, West Virginia lawmakers have introduced a bill that will make the use of Google Glass during driving illegal, as an extension of the no-texting-while-driving law. Also, a site called “Stop the Cyborgs” aims to stop a future in which privacy is impossible. The group opposes Google Glass in particular.

At the other side of the fence, many people think Google Glass looks dorky. Some people have also expressed intense hatred for the device due to the privacy concerns, to the point of threatening violence to future users. Wearers can therefore expect a wide range of negative reaction, from being stereotyped as nerdy or douche (for invading privacy) to antagonism and discrimation in some establishments, to outright violence. That is, of course, until Google Glass becomes mainstream and competitors get in on the bandwagon.

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