Ninebot ~ Nextgen Personal Transport Vehicles...

NextBigFuture reports that startup Ninebot with smartphone giant Xiaomi backing buys Segway for alternative transportation unification. They're already shipping the One... (Of course, anyone paying attention would have seen this coming for the last six years or more)

Hendo ~ Magneto Hoverboard Kickstarting!

Check out Hendo hoverboards Kickstarting now! Thanks to Next Big Future for spotting!

Phoenix Towers ~ Wuhan China's 1-Klick Ultratalls

NextBigFuture spotlights the Phoenix Towers...

"Designed by London-based Chetwoods Architects in partnership with HuaYan Group. The project will consist of two buildings, representing the male and female dualistic aspects of Chinese culture. The taller tower, Feng will have about 100 floors for residential living, offices and retail space. The slightly smaller Huang tower will contain "the World's tallest garden". The towers will be constructed on an island in a lake, covering a 7-hectare (17-acre) site. The buildings will be constructed on a steel superstructure with concrete cores and buttresses. The exterior will be covered in photovoltaic panels. The towers will incorporate green energy technologies including wind, solar, thermal, biomass boilers and hydrogen fuel cells [and] the world’s tallest garden."

FastCoDesign has in-depth piece looking Inside China's Plans For The World's Tallest (And Pinkest) Towers...

"In China there’s a lot of competition between cities trying to out-‘spectactularize’ the next city,” [...] Chetwood and his team embraced the mandate to design something grand while layering in symbols that speak to China’s cultural heritage and future aspirations. "They were looking to put Wuhan on the map," he says, and the original design for the mixed-use commercial and tourist hub "wasn't spectacular enough."

Persistent Surveillance ~ Pre-Crime Panopticon...

NextBigFuture spotlights WashPo piece on Persistent Surveillance...

Spike ~ 3D Measuring & Modeling via Mobiles

NBF spots Spike, laser accurate 3D object and building measurement & modeling via mobile with clip-on. See Kickstarter campaign vid... Especially check out this quick'n'dirty 3D building modeling element! This reminds me of Mok3 crossed with Viztu with a touch of C3 Technologies;-)

Planetary Resources ~ Mining Asteroids & More...

Brian Wang at NextBigFuture spots Planetary Resources infovideo...

Non-Intervention ~ Ron Paul on Libertarianism...

NBF spots Ron Paul on Charlie Rose defining Libertarianism as Non-Intervention...

Printing Buildings ~ MIT's Oxman on CNN Next

Great to see MIT Media Lab colleague Neri Oxman on CNN Next...

"A new model of the world has emerged over the past few decades: the World-as- Organism. This new model inspires a desire to instill intelligence into objects, buildings and cities. It is a model that stands in contrast to the paradigm of the Industrial Revolution, or the World-as-Machine. [...] the future lies in questioning what an inhabitable structure is. When we consider printing concrete with variable density as in bones, we do not mean to do this simply to reproduce the same old buildings. These technologies will enable us to create buildings that are entirely different than the ones that we inhabit today."

BROAD Factory Towers ~ Chinese Fab Buildings

Thanks to Next Big Future for spotting Chinese BROAD Group's factory-built, rapid fabrication skyscraper -- e.g. 30 storys in 15 days...

Zebra Holographics ~ Full-Color Flat-but-3D Pix!

Thanks to NextBigFuture for spotting Zebra Imaging's holographics... And coming next are their ZScape holographic motion displays!