No pseudo-fakery here…AIST of Japan have developed the first true 3D projection device using the plasma emmission phenomenon of focused lasers. Very basic at the moment, but it’s the tip of the wedge.

If you don’t have a subscription, pick up a copy of the March 2006 Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. David Ira Cleary’s short story “The Kewlest Thing Of All,” is prime Futurismic material. Never thought I’d get jealous of Asimov’s (just the authors published therein) but I wish we’d gotten this story. Couldn’t find an author page, but here’s another of his stories.

A recent study shows that people are better at making complex decisions when they let the decision percolate unconsciously, instead of worrying at it in a conscious, analytical manner. One possible reason: the unconscious can simultaneously evaluate more factors than our rather pitiful conscious minds.

For its 40th anniversary HP labs is developing a coffee table with an embedded tablet PC, to allow a group of people to share pictures, play board games and so on. The geek in me boggles at what this could do for RPGs.

A year ago I remember writing here about Jason Kottke’s experimental effort to collect a year’s salary from patrons of his blog. It seemed then a sign of things to come. Well, the amount of money to be made from blogging as an industry has in my experience gone up, but Kottke’s giving up the experiment, although his reasons for doing so are less financial than personal.