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One man's dream to build a real, space-worthy Starship Enterprise

One man's dream to build a real, space-worthy Starship Enterprise

We're talking NCC-1701, a Constitution-class starship, more than 200 years ahead of schedule. A brilliant (we hope) engineer, identified only as "BTE Dan," has worked out not only how to build us the pinnacle of our geekiest Trek dreams, he has worked out how to pay for a space-worthy USS Enterprise, too. MORE
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Rumor: 2013 could bring iPhones with flexible displays

Rumor: 2013 could bring iPhones with flexible displays

We're in a bit of a rut right now when it comes to exciting hardware innovations in smartphones. When the iPhone hit the scene in 2007, it was the touchscreen that saw it revolutionize the cellular landscape. Now, the next disruptive feature appears to be just around the corner, as flexible displays are getting mass produced in a big way. MORE
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Scientists experiment with gene-modded viruses to power tech

Scientists experiment with gene-modded viruses to power tech

It's common for high-end watchmakers to include piezoelectric elements in watches, using your swinging wrist, rather than a battery, to keep it powered. New research hints that future gadgets could include something similar by way of genetically engineered viruses. MORE
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Scientists to build $1 billion city where no one will live

Scientists to build $1 billion city where no one will live

The coolest town of all time is about to be built, and no one will live in it. A scientific ghost town that cost a billion dollars will soon be built in New Mexico as a testing ground for futuristic technologies. It won't only look futuristic like this accidental ghost town, it actually will be. MORE
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Nanotubes could soon double, eventually quintuple battery life

Nanotubes could soon double, eventually quintuple battery life

Carbon nanotubes have promised some incredible advances in power efficiency, but one of the most promising (and most realistic) is boosting the capacity of lithium-ion batteries by a factor of two in the near term, and eventually by five. Suddenly, your electronics that last all day will be lasting all week instead. MORE
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Surfaces concept turns TV into wallpaper, wallpaper into TV

Surfaces concept turns TV into wallpaper, wallpaper into TV

In the future, everybody has wallpaper that doubles as TVs, offering gigantic expanses of real estate to project overpoweringly large images of whatever floats your boat, like calming ocean scenes. NDS, a DVR security company, has created this proof-of-concept display system which will turn your walls into TVs for only $30,000. MORE
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Softbank launching earthquake-proof floating cellphone base stations

Softbank launching earthquake-proof floating cellphone base stations

Seismologists predict that a major earthquake to rival last year's 9.0 magnitude event will strike Tokyo between now and 2016. During the last quake local cell phone service abruptly disappeared. Now Softbank has a solution in hopes of avoiding a repeat of that technology breakdown. MORE
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Palm-sized USB fuel cell packs lots of juice, on sale this year

Palm-sized USB fuel cell packs lots of juice, on sale this year

Lilliputian Systems is not a big name in portable power, but they have some big ideas, and this year, they've promised a big product: a fuel cell generator the size of a smartphone that will be able to generate enough power on one cartridge of butane to charge an iPhone up to 14 times. Goodbye batteries, hello liquid electricity. MORE
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Which of these 5 disruptive tech predictions will get real this decade?

Which of these 5 disruptive tech predictions will get real this decade?

Remember 1997? That's the year when the Star Wars special editions began our long national breakup with George Lucas; the world was first introduced to the musical stylings of Limp Bizkit; and AOL unleashed an unyielding torrent of CDs on the world, promising ever-increasing amounts of free hours on the "world wide web." Crazy times.

Now think back: what would 1997-You's reaction be if someone told them that in 10 years, they would be able to access a robust, video-laden internet via a buttonless, mouseless device the size of a calculator (oh, and it had a camera and you could make phone calls with it)? You would have thought this soothsayer got a little too much O2 at their neighborhood oxygen bar before watching an episode of seaQuest on VHS, amiright?

However, looking back, there were many surprisingly accurate predictions of today's sci-fitastic tech (along with some notable misfires). Here we collected forecasts from top tech thinkers about how our electronic lives will evolve over the decade to come. We're sure there will be a mix of bullseyes and bulls%!t, so be sure to check back in every few years to see how we're doing.

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James Cameron wants everybody to shoot movies in '5D'

James Cameron wants everybody to shoot movies in '5D'

3D filmmaker and deep ocean diver James Cameron has an idea that he thinks will convince more "A-list" directors to put out 3D content. MORE
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Quantum simulator can outperform a universe-sized computer

Quantum simulator can outperform a universe-sized computer

We always knew that one day, quantum computers would be powerful enough to blow traditional processors out of the water. A new quantum simulator from the University of Sydney has, and we're quoting here, "the potential to perform calculations that would require a supercomputer larger than the size of the known universe." Mind = blown. MORE
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Pixel Qi has a 2048x1536 resolution screen that works in sunlight

Pixel Qi has a 2048x1536 resolution screen that works in sunlight

Fancy the new iPad's whopping 2048x1536 Retina display, but wish it could be readable in direct sunlight, like those Pixel Qi netbook displays? Pixel Qi says it has a display that can one-up Apple's. MORE
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Forget your Snuggie, the smart blanket is stylish and self aware

Forget your Snuggie, the smart blanket is stylish and self aware

This is one wild blanket. It's all embroidered up with sensors, conductive tassels and resistors that enable it to gather enough information to create a 3D model of itself no matter how it is folded or laid out.

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IBM invents a battery that breathes oxygen

IBM invents a battery that breathes oxygen

If you were given the Jeopardy! category "things that breathe," chances are your answer might be, "What are living creatures?" Chances are also high that your answer would not be, "What is a battery?" You'd now be wrong. MORE
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Your next cellphone might have a cam that can see through walls

Your next cellphone might have a cam that can see through walls

Have you ever wanted the power to see through things? Maybe sneak a peak at that neighbor you've been crushing on? Researchers at UT Dallas might have figured out how to tap the terahertz spectrum with a special microchip that'll grant you Superman's X-ray-like vision (only it's T-ray vision). MORE
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Oakley will challenge Project Glass with its own HUD eyewear

Oakley will challenge Project Glass with its own HUD eyewear

The battle to dominate your eyes is about to get ugly. Eyewear experts Oakley announced that it's working on glasses with built-in smartphone features. Sounds like ploy to turn attention away from Google's Project Glass AR glasses to us. MORE
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DARPA getting AR contact lenses, expect yours by 2014

DARPA getting AR contact lenses, expect yours by 2014

Back at CES, we met a company called Innovega, who was busy working on some special contact lenses that could enable previously impossible virtual and augmented reality devices. The BBC is reporting that DARPA has just placed an order for prototypes, and Innovega says you'll be able to buy yours by the end of 2014. MORE
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MIT scientists explain when we'll have fusion power

MIT scientists explain when we'll have fusion power

Back in March, we posted about how this could be the year where the National Ignition Facility breaks even with laser fusion, reaching the point where as much power is generated as is input. This doesn't mean we've got a fusion power plant around the corner, though, and researchers have come clean about what the hold-up is. MORE
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NASA tries for cheap biofuel from floating bags of algae

NASA tries for cheap biofuel from floating bags of algae

Normally, when you find plastic bags full of waste with green stuff growing inside, you don't open them up hoping that something good will come out. NASA, though, is trying to be a bit more optimistic, and the agency thinks that it can float a bunch algae bags out in disused bays, pump in waste water and pump out jet fuel. Good luck with that. MORE
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Flawed diamond used as a sparkly quantum computer

Flawed diamond used as a sparkly quantum computer

Diamonds, well known for being utterly useless piles of carbon atoms, may in fact be good for something: flaws inside them have been turned into an operational quantum computer. MORE
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