Inventions to remind you that the future is now. Here you have an overview from the best innovating technologies available for consumers.
Bendable screens
Flexible displays haven’t been usable as touch screens, or durable — those problems have now been solved. Soon this technology will be embedded in the new generation mobile phones and devices.
Eyeball cameras
Way cooler than Google Glass? lmost anything, really, but something that is both cooler and smaller and still eyeball-centric is a patent for a camera-containing contact lens, filed by Google in late 2012. The patent was published March 27.
Sensors on the contact lens would detect blinks and respond to commands based on those blinks.
The camera sits below the pupil on the contact, so it shouldn’t obstruct vision. Because the camera is on the eyeball, it follows the wearer’s gaze, potentially recording anything he or she sees, as he or she sees it.
Arm casts
In the near future, having a broken arm could look way cooler thanks to a new lightweight 3-D printed cast that’s patterned like latticework and which uses an ultrasound device to make bones heal more quickly.
Future refridgerators
The Bio Robot Refrigerator mounts on a wall mounted horizontally, vertically or even on the ceiling.
The fridge does not have a motor or other traditional technology like most refrigerators.
The gel does all the work so, 90% of the appliance is actual usable space.
To use the fridge you basically shove food into it’s biopolymer gel which has no odor, is not sticky and it is suspended and cooled until you need it again.
Self driving cars
The first cars will be self-driving on limited access roads such as interstate highways. They won’t be self-driving in urban areas though.
They may be autonomous on rural roads with crossing traffic and pedestrians, farm vehicles, and crossing cars.
At the least, they’ll help drivers with the monotony of long-distance trips.
Virtual stores
QR code-enabled virtual stores offer a lot of advantages.
The tunnel wall is wrapped with ads of grocery store shelves stocked with popular products and items.
The customers can scan and purchase the selected items by pointing their mobile phones at a bar code and add them to their virtual baskets.
The goods are then delivered to the home right after they get back from work.
3D printing
Imagine a world where you can make anything you want, just by pressing “print”.
3D printers have arrived and they promise a fascinating future, depending on what we make. What would you create?