This quote is of course from a great 80's movie entitled "better off dead"
I preface this to break up a morbid subject, when pretty girls die. Like you, you might be thinking what I'm thinking. The selfish thought of "what a waste of a female body".
I'm of course talking about the recent death of model Reeva Steenkamp (allegedly murdered by her double amputee athlete boyfriend)
And Mindy McCready committing suicide.
So many cross dreamers wishing they could be pretty like that, and both of these beautiful ladies are gone from this earth for good.
In case you missed the grammy's, carrie underwood wore a silver dress and had 2 projectors essentially create movies onto her dress. It was more than cool technology, it was actually very pretty with the art they chose (especially with the graphics matching it in the background). They've been projecting onto buildings for years, I'm surprised this is the first time I've seen someone do it on clothing.
Thought this was interesting on FG last night. It followed the typical fictionmania storyline to a tee. Sexist man ends up becoming a girl to learn a lesson about what it's like to be a woman, though it ends with him having fun in the end.
I try to keep up with all technology, even bio (as most gadget blogs do too). I'm not sure if this is significant (tech writers often gloss over things and make them sound better than they really are). This gizmodo article talks about being able to control where the cells end up (not so much creating stem cells from scratch, they are taking pre-existing stem cells). Of course the whole issue is that unless we can grow our own stem cells, those in control of ethics say we can't play around with them (I.E. extract them from a body). That still doesn't discount this article. What it's saying is that they were able to take stem cells (something very generic like a "stem cell"), and forming it into any tissue type (and shape). It's sort of like taking a basic building block like carbon, and popping out a steel rod, and a diamond, and a length of super-strong graphene. http://gizmodo.com/5981800/scientists-have-3d-printed-embryonic-stem-cells
Why is this signifigant? Well, imagine if you had a stock of stem cells (let's say we figure out a way to grow our own). Now you stick that into a cartridge, and you 3d print (not only filling a specific very precisely controlled shape, but allowing those cells to become any cell the body produces). Well then you have the ability (in theory) to recreate anything in the body. Lost limbs, cancerous sections of the body, perhaps a new chunk of brain that has a tumor? If you had an adaptable printer (one that could scan the body and adjust as needed), you would be doing more than just printing out chunks of flesh. You could in theory print directly onto that part of the body. Heck, you could have a robotic surgeon slice that part out (tiny hunks on a molecular level), and print the new section as needed.
Of course you know where I'm going with this. You want boobs? Scan your chest, take that 3d data, mold the shape you want, let the robots figure out how much stem cell juice it needs and how to lay those cells down, and off it goes. You want a fully functioning vagina? No sweat, after some heavy sedatives, you'll fall asleep and wake up a day later with a new sex organ.
