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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.

Robot Who ‘Wants to Destroy Humans’ Granted Citizenship by Saudi Arabia

Sophia, a semi-realistic humanoid robot with a range of uncanny facial expressions, has been granted citizenship by Saudi Arabia in a global first. Created by Hong Kong-based firm Hanson ...

It’s Alive! 14 Algae-Powered Inventions for Food, Light, Energy & Oxygen

If we could just get beyond pesky hiccups like catastrophic climate change and wanting to obliterate each other with nuclear weapons, we humans could learn from our mistakes and create a future ...

Houses to Human Hearts: 13 Recent Breakthroughs in 3D-Printed Designs

When 3D printers are widely accessible and affordable, will we see another industrial revolution, enabling us to manufacture just about everything we need on demand? Progress made in 3D printing ...

3D-Printed Muscle Straight Out of ‘Westworld’ Makes Robots More Realistic

If you watched HBO’s ‘Westworld’ earlier this year, you probably remember the scenes where the nascent humanoid robots were strung up on circular frames like Leonardo da Vinci’s ...

World’s First Interactive, Multi-View Hologram Table for Designers & Gamers

A new hologram table has its sights set on the ultimate prize: an interactive and immersive experience that can shared from multiple angles by different users, all without clunky ...

Gyroscopic Public Transit Concept Hovers Above Traffic at Varying Heights

In this strange vision of a city in the not-so-distant future, disc-shaped public transit, emergency vehicles and cargo vehicles rise up above traffic on vertical supports to zoom through the ...

Bold Boats: 15 Wild, Fantastical & Futuristic Nautical Designs

File these awesome boat and watercraft designs under 'things you'll wish you had access to this summer.' Who wouldn't want their very own personal submarine, or a house boat shaped like a UFO? ...

CityTree: High-Tech Green Wall Cleans as Much Pollution as a Forest

A 13-foot-tall high-tech green wall encased in a concrete frame is capable of cleaning as much polluted air as an entire forest, combining the Internet of Things and biotechnology to collect data ...

Recycling Rockets: Ixion Will Turn Orbital Space Junk into Spacious Habitats

As part of their NextSTEP program, NASA has contracted a space company to turn trash into treasure, converting used rocket sections already being sent into orbit into habitation units rather than ...

Flat-Pack Life Support: NASA’s Inflatable Hydroponic Space Greenhouse

A key development in the quest to create sustainable ecosystems in space, this expandable greenhouse prototype aims to generate essential food and oxygen for long-term astronaut ...

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