Future soda cans and crisp packets will have touchscreens
Would you play Angry Birds on a can of coke? The interactive future is approaching, and we're ready to embrace it with open arms
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Cannondale CERV says "fork off" to traditional bike design
This Continuously Ergonomic Race Vehicle, or CERV, is a fork-free reality and an innovation in cycling
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T-shirts may soon charge your gadgets
While you're wearing clothes, why not use them to carry some extra juice?
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Pixar trains robots in the art of etiquette
The creators of WALL-E are helping robot developers create a body language for robots, so that we fleshy ones can understand them
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Spray-on batteries will make your phone super thin
You can get everything in cans, from cheese to WD40 – so why not a battery?
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How to build furniture out of robotic sand
Drop a tiny model chair into a big pile of 'smart sand' and yank a full-size chair out. Easy when you work at MIT.
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Never leave the house with Google Plus YouTube parties
A new video-chat, video-creating, video-sharing app for Google's social network – we hope you like videos
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Next Big Thing – physiologically personalised movies
Sweat more, scare more – that's the formula for a new breed of apps and interactive films headed straight for your shiny mug
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Next Big Thing – underwater hotels
It looks like a Bond villain's headquarters, but you don't need a PhD in Evil to stay at this underwater hotel
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Next Big Thing – bio-photo-voltaic devices
A table made with moss sounds useless now but soon it could be powering your devices
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Next Big Thing – infrared bionic eyes
The scientists of Stanford University may soon be able to help the blind see, using infrared light
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Next Big Thing – non-stick ketchup bottles
Scientists turn their expertise to yet another real-world problem – getting ketchup out of the bottle
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Next Big Thing – gardening with lasers
There is literally nothing that can't be improved with lasers. Especially weeding
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Next Big Thing – super-efficient mini aircraft
An aeroplane with better fuel efficiency than a car? Take that, tiny inner city rollers
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Next Big Thing – super-fast terahertz Wi-Fi
Scientists have gone and done it again, with the new frontier of wireless data transfer looking to be in the gigabyte per second region
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