2013 is the year of the bendy smartphone
This year promises to bring flexible screens to smartphones, and you won’t be able to resist their bendy ways
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Next Big Thing – Leap Motion 3D motion control
Meet the tiny bit of kit that's 100 times more accurate than Kinect, at a price that won't break the bank
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Next Big Thing – super-clear glass
Meet the futuristic slab of glass that hates water, fog, dust and reflections as much as we hate low batteries
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Next Big Thing – iPavement
App-equipped paving slabs will turn the ground beneath your feet into a Wi-fi and Bluetooth hotspot
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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 – 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
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Next Big Thing – Unprinting
New process removes ink from paper, allowing it to be reused up to five times. Praise science
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Next Big Thing – personal cloud servers
Shake your PC out of its slumber and grab your files remotely with this nifty USB device
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Next Big Thing – Guiding Light indoor navigation app
Constantly getting lost in office mazes? Science has come to the rescue once again
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Next Big Thing – heartbeat data security
Forget all this soppy commercialised Valentine’s Day nonsense. In the future you'll be using your heartbeat as a password
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Next Big Thing – 4D virtual reality theme park
Forget Disney World, theme parks of the future will pack in more tech than a T-800 Terminator
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Next Big Thing – virtual reality contact lenses
Surrounding yourself with imaginary friends could soon be a reality, thanks to the wonders of ocular science
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Next Big Thing – touchscreen books
Wish you could fold your iPad up and stick it in your pocket? Touchscreen origami here we come
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Next big thing – Swap-O-Matic exchange machines
Fancy swapping your old tennis racquet for a pair of trainers? Thanks to the Swap-O-Matic vending machine, you can
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