8 Bits of Future Tech That I Wish existed Right Now

8 Bits of Future Tech That I Wish existed Right Now

Invisibility cloaks

In lacking the magical touch of Lady Galadriel, humans have found the small matter of creating invisibility garments a little more challenging than the Elvish did. However, a group of students at Zhejiang University in China made the most recent breakthrough, using a process called topological optimisation.

Mission to Mars

As we continue to find new and interesting ways to destroy this perfectly good planet, attentions seem certain to turn to whether we can repeat the feat on some other poor landmass. Eric C. Anderson, co-founder and chairman of commercial space company Space Adventures reckons we'll be on our way to Mars within the "next 30 to 60 years" with "a few million" living there in a century. "That should be really exciting, to be alive during that stage of humanity's history," he said.

Total Immersion Virtual Reality

While the world is super excited for the Oculus Rift gaming headset to bring us a modicum closer to the Virtual Reality gaming environment we'd envisioned as kids, we're still hoping for the 'Better Than Life' game from Red Dwarf. You know the one, where Lister eats caviar vindaloo and Cat dates a reverse mermaid?

We will all travel in tubes

"Get the scientists working on the tube technology," decreed Jack Black while outlining his vision for a dystopian, government-free society in Tenacious D's City Hall. Space X founder and, real-life Tony Stark, Elon Musk has heeded the call with his solar powered Hyperloop train that would whiz commuters around the US at 800 miles per hour in an elevated, steel vacuum tubes. He wants San Diego to San Francisco by 2029 and reckons it'll only cost about $6 billion with tickets cheaper than an airfare.

Proper artificial intelligence

Cashless Society

The idea of giving up the almighty pound practically had millions of Brits belting out the Dad's Army the at the top of their lungs, a few years back. Can you imagine the reaction if we were forced to ditch it a unilateral 'Republican Credits' sort of currency like Bitcoin? Regardless of the multitude of ways companies like Google, Square, PayPal, Visa, Apple, Barclays and more are giving us ways to give up those scraggly bits of paper forever, our isn't going anywhere.

The Star Trek Warp Drive

Now this might sound like an obvious one, but believe it or not, there are some dudes at NASA who think they've uncovered a potential formula for travelling at faster-than-light Warp Speed.

The Biostamp tatt and the password pill

Ah the password; the lovely hackable, forgettable, confusable password. How you mock us with your identity-validating necessity. How we wish someone could come up with a decent idea to make you go away forever. Motorola, bless it, is trying its best with its recently-unveiled Biostamp electronic tattoos. These temporary stamps contain silicon circuits containing our digital identities and could be used to unlock our gadgets.

from techradar