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Category: Conceptual & Futuristic

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.

Chain Mail for Space: NASA’s 4D-Printed Metal Fabric Deflects Debris

NASA's latest futuristic textile is made of metal but can fold and change shape, protecting a wearer (or covered craft) from dangerous collisions that could tear holes in people or ...

Taking Competition to New Heights: Skyscraper Dangles from an Asteroid

That tongue-in-cheek ‘world’s longest skyscraper’ design we highlighted last week seems totally reasonable compared to a new proposal taking the competition for the world’s tallest ...

CloudFisher: Low-Tech Net Turns Fog into Drinking Water for Morocco

In a semi-arid region of Morocco, where tap water is a luxury but fog is plentiful, a fog-harvesting net based on the structure of a spider’s web naturally collects moisture from the air. ...

Electroads: Wireless Vehicle-Charging Roads Rolling Out in Tel Aviv

A series of roads and public buses in Israel are being retrofitted to test an electromagnetic induction system designed to recharge vehicles on the go, eliminating the cost, time, emissions and ...

Facial Reconstruction: Police Use Found DNA to Create Suspect Profiles

An art project launched four years ago illustrated how scraps of DNA found in public could be turned into eerily lifelike composite sketches and three-dimensional models -- now the police appear ...

Sci-Fi to Reality: Giant Manned Robot Method-2 Has Taken Its First Steps

Looking and working remarkably like the robots in the 2009 movie Avatar, the 1.5-ton, 13-foot-tall ’METHOD-2’ by South Korean firm Hankook Mirae Technology has officially taken its first ...

Bike on the River: Cycle-Powered Gym Boat Glides Through Paris

Well, here’s one way to get some exercise and simultaneously enjoy views of a beautiful city without getting rained on or dealing with traffic.  Gliding along the surface of the Seine in ...

China’s Smog-Devouring Vacuum Tower Looks Crazy, But Actually Works

What sounded like a long shot attempt to literally suck some of the suffocating smog out of China’s sky is actually working, according to updates on the Smog Free Project, which installed an ...

Navigating the Future: 12 Forward-Thinking Urban Transit Systems

Integrating fairly seamlessly into existing city infrastructure, making use of renewable energy and solving the 'last mile' problem plaguing most public transit systems, these designs make some ...

Virtual Reality Nature: Helmet Lets Humans See the Forest Like Animals Do

Dragonflies experience their brief lives on this planet 10 times faster than humans, and in 12 color wavelengths as compared to our three, a viewpoint that’s been impossible to comprehend prior ...

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