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.

Airports for drones and flying taxis Drown forest fires in sound

Forest fires could one day be dealt with by drones that would direct loud noises at the trees below. 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.

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. With our congested cities in desperate need of a breather, plans for a Energy storing bricks different kind of transport Scientists have found a way hub - one for delivery drones and electric air-taxis - are Artificial eyes to store energy in the red bricks that are used to build becoming a reality, with the Belgian scientists have developed an artificial houses. first Urban Air Port (pic, iris fitted to smart contact lenses that correct a Researchers have below) receiving funding number of vision disorders. And scientists are developed a method that from the UK government. even working on wireless brain implants that can turn the cheap and Powered completely off-grid by a hydrogen generator, the idea is to remove the need for as many delivery bypass the eyes altogether. Researchers at Monash University in Australia are working on trials for a system whereby users wear a pair of glasses fitted with a widely available building material into “smart bricks” (pic, below) that can store energy like a battery. vans and personal cars on camera. This sends data directly to the implant, Scientists claim that walls our roads, replacing them which sits on the surface of the brain and gives made of these bricks with a clean alternative in the the user a rudimentary sense of sight. could store a substantial form of a new type of small amount of energy and can aircraft, with designs being be recharged hundreds of developed by Huyundai and Airbus, amongst others. thousands of times within an hour.

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