The 10 Coolest Technologies You’ve Never Heard Of

I believe that the following serves as a friendly reminder that there is other cool technology outside of our PCs.

Ever heard of bacterial photography—it’s not as gross as it sounds—or chaos computing? Neither had we. For this story, we set out to find the coolest technologies that are flying under the radar, and what we found impressed even us. We’ll tell you about a new technique for making silicon that can bend and stretch—and the promise it holds for a new generation of gadgets. We’ll update you on a groundbreaking research project for modeling the human brain and take a look inside a telepresencelab in California that has broadband connections 5,000 times as fast as what you can get today.

We also caught up with three of the smartest guys in the computer industry, who offer their predictions for the future. Get ready for mesh networks with millions of nodes blanketing the Earth—and our bodies—a robot revolution, a nation of super-learners, as well as some fantastically futuristic ideas…. Source: ExtremeTech