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Old 09-03-2007, 06:28 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Top 5 Future Techs

5. HAL-5 Robot Suit

This robot suit allows anyone who wears it, the potential to lift up to 10-times the weight they normally could. Production will be limited to just 20-units next year and 400-500 units in 2008.




4. The Incredible Dishmaker

Created by MIT student Leonardo Bonanni, this incredible device “can actually replace cabinets worth of dishes by storing them as flat disks.”




3. Partial Invisibility Cloak

According to LiveScience, scientists “have created a cloaking device that can reroute certain wavelengths of light, forcing them around objects like water flowing around boulders in a stream.”




2. MIT’s Assist Sketch Understanding System

MIT’s amazing “Assist Sketch Understanding System” basically “allows an engineer to sketch a mechanical system as you would on paper, and then enables them to interact with the design as a mechanical system.”




1. Diamond Touch Hardware Toolkit

Rob Diaz-Marino shows off work that he’s completed to simplify the development of applications on Mitsubishi’s Diamond Touch hardware.




Honorable Mention - Transparent Concrete Display

Two engineering/architecture students have created the world’s first display made of transparent concrete



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