Bionic Eyes
Blindness is unfortunately a common disease, but it may not be for long. Researchers are using new technology to fix the eyes of people affected with blindness by installing a new chip into the eye. Using a thin wire connected to the eye helps the damaged nerves process information. The patient also wear a pair of specialized glasses which send the images to the chip where the brain next registers it. The new technology is not perfect, as it can only help patients who possessed some type of sight in the past. The results aren’t perfect either, patients don’t fully regain their sight but they are able to see shapes and light. Perhaps sometime in the future the technology will be perfected and blindness will be a thing of the past.
Flexible T.V Screens
Tv’s have also changed a lot since their creation. The old bulky televisions look alien to nice thin LED screens of today. Sony and Samsung are coming up with a completely new kind of screen, that is flexible TV screens. Ultra-thin, Ultra-portable, and Ultra-Portable these new screens are the future. Imagine having your company’s commercial on your business card or a 32in TV in the back of you pocket. All you would have to do is take it out, unfold, and you have a TV in your hand. The flexible screen uses an AMOLED screen so you get vibrant colors and the possibility of touch screen too. As of now there is no set release date or price but look for it soon.
Virtual Keys
Maybe its just me but does anyone ever feel like they lose their keys on a daily basis? With this new technology from lockitron you may not even have to keep a set of keys anymore. Just point your phone at the door, turn on the app, and presto you have keyless entry. Although I can see security problems and situations where I have a dead battery outside a lock door, lockitron is looking to be really useful and the neat thing is that that it’s available right now.
Robots
OK so we saw all saw this one coming, but seriously who doesn’t want to have a personal robot who takes out the trash and does the dishes? New advances in robotics have made the dream possible. Just recently scientists have designed robots who walk like humans. The market is already teeming with robots who can mow your lawn and clean your house. Creepy robotic faces scare you? Well, research is ongoing in order to make robots seem more human. It seems we have all the components for a robot butler, we just have to put them together.
Hover Technology
Science geeks have been drooling for a hoverboard ever since they saw Back to the Future, and come on, who can blame them? The cool thing is we have a real working hoverboard right now! OK, so it’s still a prototype (it can’t take any weight) but the technology looks promising. It uses simple electromagnetism to hover and can switch back to position when flipped. Hover technology isn’t just limited to boards though cars and trains are also being fitted, and it’s looking to be the next big thing in transportation.
Force Fields
While force fields wouldn’t be particularly useful for the average man it would definitely shake up the space and transportation industry. Conventional space vehicles require tons of protective material in order to protect it from space debris, etc.. but with a force field that would be a thing of the past. Force fields would allow space vehicles (notice how I didn’t say shuttle) to travel farther and help protect conventional cars in case of a crash. The military has already made a working prototype. It uses electromagnetic technology in order to deflect incoming projectiles. Tanks are covered in a thin superconductor material which uses an electrical charge to make the “force field”. While it wont deflect asteroids any time soon it’s on it’s way to a space program near you!
Laser Information Transfer
It is no doubt that we live in a data age. Information can be transferred across the world in a minute. What if we could transfer information in the blink of an eye? Conventional internet uses wires to transfer data. As you can imagine there is a slight delay when the data travels. Using lasers to transfer information would be a hundred times faster than your internet right now. As of right now the technology is still in it’s infancy, so we’ll have to wait before we can receive the mega Internet.
Invisibility
We’ve all had a time in our life when we just wanted to pull a cloak over ourselves and just stay invisible. The technology may be closer than you think. Currently there are many forms of this technology. One way that researchers are achieving this goal is by using a special technology that takes a picture from behind the subject and displays it in front of the subject.The result is good but not great. Scientists at UK’s Birmingham University are using an object’s natural reflection in order to make the object invisible. This procedure is more impressive but requires much more power and bulky machinery. Perhaps one day the technology will have developed far enough to cloak entire aircrafts (although this would create problems in itself).
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