Emerging Technologies of the Future

Lab Grown Meat

If you're wondering what you're actually eating at McDonald's, those questions may increase within the next ten years. Lab grown meat is a process that is constantly being developed and perfected. Scientists have grown their own beef and eggs, reaching edible stages.

Professor Mark Post of the University of Maastricht, the scientist behind the first in-vitro burger, believes that test tube meat will be better for us. “We gain greater control over what the meat consists of, for example its fat content,” he says. “And the reduction in the number of farmed animals reduces the chance of zoonosis,“ or infectious diseases that spread from animals to people. So how exactly could meat grown in labs be better for our health than the meat that is grown in cows? and also what about the taste factor?

The Cuddlebot

Think Angry Cat is creepy? Try petting the Cuddlebot. Created to relieve stress, this piece of fur features the natural movements that we feel when petting an animal. Who knows when Cuddlebot will transform and go after our real pets.

These days, human-machine interaction is a pretty hot topic of academic study. Whether it's the psychological effect of drone warfare on pilots or the emotional toll of killing a pleading animatronic, the rise of a robots of all shapes and sizes in our everyday lives fascinates academics and merits research.

Cuddlebot looks a little like the fluffy creature Tribble from Star Trek, and is similarly covered in a shaggy coat of ultra-sensitive fur. Perhaps more precisely, the Cuddlebot is a well wired mat of fur. The fur and the piezoelectric sheath beneath lets the creature sense and differentiate between 9 kinds of touch gestures. It can tell if someone’s stroking it or tickling it or scratching it, and, after a while it can tell who those gestures were coming from.

Like A Fish Underwater Breathing System

Special technology dubbed as “Like a Fish” will allow humans to breathe in water, transfer the oxygen out and swim with the fishes. Once the technology is mastered, who knows how many underwater cities will develop and territorial ownership problems will begin.

Since Ancient times man has sought ways to go below the sea level. Aristotle describes the first depictions of underwater devices. The devices Aristotle described resembled a jar turned upside down, in which a diver thrust his head. During his descent to the sea floor, the diver breathed the air that remained inside the jar. In the last 60 years, the technologies for underwater breathing have progressed rapidly.

Several potential methods exist for the development of artificial gills. One proposed method is the use of liquid breathing with a membrane oxygenator to solve the problem of carbon dioxide retention, the major limiting factor in liquid breathing. It is thought that a system such as this would allow for diving without risk of decompression sickness.

They are generally thought to be unwieldy and bulky, because of the massive amount of water that would have to be processed to extract enough oxygen to supply an active diver, as an alternative to a scuba set.

To overcome the limitations in Underwater Breathing, an Israeli inventor, Alon Bodner, turned to fish. Fish do not perform chemical separation of oxygen from water; instead they use the dissolved air that exists in the water in order to breathe. In the ocean the wind, waves and underwater currents help spread small amounts of air inside the water. Studies have shown that in a depth of 200m below the sea there is still about 1.5% of dissolved air. This might not sound like much but it is enough to allow both small and large fish to breathe comfortably underwater. The system developed by Bodner uses a well known physical law called "Henry's Law

Exoskeletons

Iron Man can exist! Except that when the military starts implementing all of these exoskeletons into battle, the only victims will be innocent bystanders as the violence and attacks increase to try and destroy the machines.

Bionics designs, develops, and commercializes exoskeletons, or wearable robots, which have a variety of potential applications in the medical, military, industrial, and consumer markets. Exoskeletons are ready-to-wear, battery-powered robots that are strapped over the user's clothing, enabling individuals to achieve mobility, strength, or endurance not otherwise possible.

You might be surprised to learn that, someday soon, an only slightly less incredible version of Iron Man's suit may enable U.S. soldiers to run faster, carry heavier weapons and leap over obstacles on the battlefield. And at the same time, it'll shield them from the effects of bullets and bombs. The military has been working on the concept of the powered exoskeleton, a technology designed to augment the human body and its capabilities

Energy Spray

Spray tans were one thing, but now spray caffeine is starting to hit the market. Not only will people get quick energy boosts, but other things like spray alcohol will likely follow.

Sprayable Energy is a revolutionary spray-on caffeine applied to your skin for a smooth focused boost of energy, Sprayable is clear, unscented and effective, Sprayable enters your system at a steady rate - giving you the exact amount of energy you need for hours Sprayable Energy, it’s an unscented mix of caffeine, water and a derivative of tyrosine, which is one of 22 naturally occurring amino acids that cells in the body use to synthesize proteins. They say the spray usually takes about 15 to 30 minutes to take effect. While there haven’t been any long-term studies on how in-taking caffeine through the skin compares to ingesting it