Future Tech
Part One
Floating farms, brain wave passwords, and coffee-powered cars are just some of the incredible inventions and innovations that will shape our future.
Every day, people around the world come up with new ways to make the future brighter. Over the next three months, we’ll put together a list of some of the most exciting advances in future technology that will change our world. Whether it’s improving health, solving food shortages or just making virtual reality even better, these innovative ideas are sure to amaze you.
Organisations like the Civil Aviation Authority are looking into the establishment of air corridors that might link a city centre with a local airport or distribution centre.
Drown forest fires in sound
Forest fires could one day be dealt with by drones that would direct loud noises at the trees below.
Airports for drones and flying taxis
With our congested cities in desperate need of a breather, plans for a different kind of transport hub - one for delivery drones and electric air-taxis - are becoming a reality, with the first Urban Air Port (pic, below) receiving funding from the UK government.
Since sound is made up of pressure waves, it can be used to disrupt the air surrounding a fire, essentially cutting off the supply of oxygen to the fuel. At the right frequency, the fire simply dies out.
Energy storing bricks Artificial eyes
Belgian scientists have developed an artificial iris fitted to smart contact lenses that correct a number of vision disorders. And scientists are even working on wireless brain implants that bypass the eyes altogether.
Scientists have found a way to store energy in the red bricks that are used to build houses. Researchers have developed a method that can turn the cheap and widely available building material into “smart bricks” (pic, below) that can store energy like a battery.
Powered completely off-grid Researchers at Monash University in Australia by a hydrogen generator, the are working on trials for a system whereby idea is to remove the users wear a pair of glasses fitted with a need for as many delivery Scientists claim that walls camera. This sends data directly to the implant, vans and personal cars on made of these bricks which sits on the surface of the brain and gives our roads, replacing them could store a substantial the user a rudimentary sense of sight. with a clean alternative in the amount of energy and can form of a new type of small be recharged hundreds of aircraft, with designs being thousands of times within an hour. developed by Huyundai and Airbus, amongst others.
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