Thursday, February 14, 2013 - 3:38pm
10 innovations are waiting to be embraced by society as integral parts of our everyday digital life this year or next.
Future Tech stories
Monday, January 28, 2013 - 11:13am
The makers of your favorite autonomous vacuum cleaner want to create a machine that can 3D print products without the assistance of humans.
Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 6:59pm
A new material created by researchers at MIT performs a pretty handy trick: it turns small amounts of water vapor into energy.
Sunday, January 6, 2013 - 11:00am
What will happen in the future? BBC Future has decided to make some bold predictions for the next 150 years.
Wednesday, December 26, 2012 - 2:27pm
Although we have yet to perfect an artificial intelligence that can solidly pass the Turing Test, developers are nevertheless endeavoring to create humanoid robots that can mimic our physical attributes. A team from Switzerland aims to take this humanoid robot trend in an interesting new direction by creating a realistic robot boy.
Monday, December 17, 2012 - 8:49pm
In tech, five years is an eternity. Five years ago, it was 2007. You probably don't even remember 2007. I certainly don't: 2007 was 5,000 articles ago. IBM has a longer memory than us all, however, and based on its history, the company has five five-year predictions as to how technology will make our lives better within the next five years.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 12:25pm
Just days after we told you about an organization working to prevent robot drones from becoming autonomous death machines, a new organization has been announced along a similar theme: Ensuring the survival of humanity in the face or newly intelligent machines.
Monday, November 26, 2012 - 3:27pm
In the paranoid future of the genetically discriminatory security state, your life will be defined by your DNA, and access will be controlled by machines that instantly read samples of your genetic code to verify your identiy. When will this all kick in? It won't be long now, thanks to NEC's new DNA analyzer that can brand you as an in-valid in under 25 minutes.
Friday, November 16, 2012 - 1:34pm
The marriage of artificial and bio-materials to create cyborg insects and rats is still a bleeding-edge field with fascinating possibilities for human applications. That sometimes controversial vision of the future just took a dramatic turn towards blurring the man-versus-machine lines with the debut of a 3D-printed robot that uses heart cells to walk.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - 3:53pm
The Kinect has already shown us the beginnings of a new world of console gaming interfaces controlled by gestures, but a new development promises to bring that dynamic to tiny mobile devices using the world's first electrical field-based 3D gesture controller.
