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The future is now, but beyond that are some incredible concept technologies and designs that are much closer than most people realize. Here you will find some of the most exciting soon-to-be-innovations ready to make the leap from virtual to actual reality.

Sucking Smog: Electronic Vacuum Cleaner Clears City Skies

It sounds so preposterous and yet is sufficiently plausible that its designer is now talking to the mayor of Beijing about how to develop for urban use in this notoriously congested capital of ...

Tactile Technology: 13 Off-Screen Touch Input Inventions

Touch input has already almost entirely eliminated the need for physical keyboards and mouses, but soon, it won't even be confined to a screen. Researchers are developing systems that can ...

Glow in the Dark World: 12 Smart Illuminated Inventions

Glow in the dark tech doesn't have to be limited to novelties like glow sticks - it could be used to make the roads safer, provide illumination without the need for electricity, and allow surfers ...

Talking Windows: Trains Deliver Ads Directly into Your Head

Television, radio, the internet, billboards, newspapers, magazines, malls, supermarkets...wherever you are and whatever you're doing, it's highly likely that at least a few  companies are trying ...

House of Hemp and Blood: 16 Futuristic Building Materials

Future buildings could be made of artificial human bone, hemp, bacterial byproducts or concrete that absorbs greenhouse gas emissions and lasts thousands of years. Innovations in building ...

Ghost Food: A Conceptual Taste of the Future of Eating

Drive around any mid-size to large city and you're destined to find a number of food trucks. In recent years they've become almost as ubiquitous as traditional stationary restaurants. A truck ...

Will That Fly? 17 Imaginary Vehicle & Aircraft Concepts

Never mind the mechanics of these fantastical digital art renderings of alien spaceships, advanced military vehicles and futuristic aircraft. Whether or not they're compatible with the laws of ...

Clear Skies Ahead: Quest for a Complete Global Aerial Atlas

If you have ever zoomed out in Google Maps (or Mapquest, Yahoo or Bing), you may have been surprised find your field of view relatively unclouded by inclement weather patterns, yet marred by ...

Forest Pavilion is World’s First 3D-Printed Architecture

There has been a lot of competition to design and execute the first prototype of a 3D-printed architectural structure, including complex concepts for houses inspired by nests and möbius strips. ...

7 Crazy Theories About Life, The Universe & Everything

Our universe is located inside the black hole of another universe - or it's just a holographic projection - or it's all one big computer game being played by bored super-intelligent aliens. Or ...

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