How will we play tennis in 2083? From the looks of things, Lacoste believes we will be in a virtual room with collapsible rackets and cool looking robotic suits. Although, I have to admit that the video after the break portrays it as more like a futuristic version of racquetball to me—but either way, it is a sport I could definitely get into.
The Lodge Chair plays on the idea that you will be sitting on your sound, as it comes with an iPod built right into it – with subwoofer and volume controls built into the side table. Guess this does away with all notions of a portable media player. The Lodge Chair itself doesn’t look like it will do any favors for your back, but on the bright side each purchase comes with an embedded iPod.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation is a process in which you run an electromagnet over parts of the brain, which essentially turns them off. This brain altering technology is no joke. While effects don’t appear to be permanent or long-standing, doctors and researchers think it could show how the brain recovers from traumas such as stroke. Though the technology might run a teensy-weensy risk of causing epilepsy, that’s all. The video below shows grown men reciting nursery rhymes and turning into stuttering messes.
The shoes feature a pattern print with “neon green light-up lateral sides that either blink or glow.” The lighting on each shoe gets powered by a single AAA cell, and you’ll even get a free “custom box” with your order. And considering the $400 price tag and two to three week wait time, we wouldn’t expect anything less.
While this might look like an ordinary baseball hat, a closer look reveals that it has a bunch of electronics jammed into the back and a wire connecting it behind the ear of the wearer. That’s your first tip-off that this hat will do more than shield your eyes from the sun and give you hat head. It’s a hat that can actually read the EEG signals from your brain, able to tell when you’re too sleepy to drive or, with a bit more work, allow you to do things like turn the TV on and off. It’s much like other EEG readers that claim to allow you to control things with your brain, but this one is wireless and portable.