Electronic Storytelling

Saws on my BoingBoing feed:

We Tell Stories, is an online site made for Penguin publishing in which 6 authors are telling 6 stories based on classic works through the digital medium of the internet and using non-traditional methods.

How non-traditional?  The first story The 21 Steps uses google maps while Fairy Tale uses a choose-your-own-adventure form model.  While I doubt any of these will taking over the publishing world anytime soon it is certainly an interesting experiment worth a look.

Military Exoskeleton!?

From BBC News (via Slashdot) comes this awesome-filled article on the development of exoskeletons for military use.  Current hopes are for initial use on the logistics (i.e. heavy lifting) side but hopes are for a combat applicable version somewhere down the line.

I also recommend checking out the Slashdot comments, if only for the argument of manned exoskeletons vs. full fledged autonomous robots.

When I see things like this it just all feels so surreal.  When aspects of Aliens and Starship Troopers (the book not the movie) start forcing their way into reality, even if only in early development I really have to just take a step back and goggle in wonder.  Between ship mounted lasers, large hadron colliders, and quantum communication things are looking mighty interesting for the future.