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Why Wi-Fi-only won't cut it any more
3G SIMs are moving beyond just phones – are multi-SIM contracts on the way?
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Next Big Thing – interactive kitchen
We've seen the future of culinary creation, and it involves cat videos for breakfast
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Next Big Thing – breathing batteries
Want a car that runs on oxygen? IBM might have just the battery for your future motor
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Next Big Thing – invoked computing
Soon you'll be able to access your computer via everyday objects - just don't burn yourself typing on your Meat Feast
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Fusion phone concept fuses analogue and digital
Sometimes we fall in love with a smartphone that's more than just a screen – like this rubber trimmed design concept
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Next Big Thing: palm-reading ATMs
A Japanese bank has installed palm scanners at its ATMs – doing away with the need for a bank card
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Next Big Thing – e-sound for electric cars
Audi is throwing itself into creating a unique sound on electric models that are required, for pedestrian safety, to make noise
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Just because they could – tongue controlled Kinect
One step too far for gesture controlled Kinect hacks? No such thing. Especially where Japanese researchers are concerned
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Next Big Thing – transparent flexible memory
Flash memory is just that, a flash in the pan, the future is reserved for memory built into screens
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Next Big Thing – smart fabric
The army's set to do away with cables, replacing them with electro-conducting yarn woven into clothes – imagine charging your iPhone just by putting it into your pocket
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Next Big Thing – LG flexible ereader displays
Plastic ebook displays that bend, can bounce back from drops and even survive hammer blows are the future – and it’s coming this month
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Next Big Thing – Swipe “human search” for Wikipedia
Wish you could ask Wikipedia really useful questions (and get really useful answers)? Your prayers are about to be answered
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Next Big Thing – finger framed photography
The ubicamera doesn't need an optical viewfinder or LCD display. Just do your best James Cameron impression and it'll take the shot.
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Next Big Thing – Microsoft transparent 3D screens
Yes it’s like Minority report, yes it’s real, and yes we want one too
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Next Big Thing – moving touchscreens
Vibrating haptic feedback looks set to be a thing of the past, thanks to some fancy moveable screen tech from the land of the rising sun
