11 Mind Blowing NEW TECHNOLOGIES that will changed the World

1. Artificial Intelligence

We promised, we'd give you robots and we don't like to disappoint the robots. We're talking about don't look like the ones from star wars lots of them like Alexa and Siri you can't even see because they're a computer program. What makes them robots is the fact they can take data to analyze it and learn from it and keep on getting more intelligent or the ones on Google and Facebook that figure out what ads they should make pop up on your screen and for when you leave your living room robots are already helping us build stuff in factories analyze financial reports act as virtual nurses for patients. In the future we could be talking about robots we have in our houses that will be able to cook for us do all kinds of boring jobs and outside of our houses doing dangerous ones like fighting fires or picking up radioactive waste and a whole load of other things. AI is already combining with pretty much every recent technology and it's only going to keep on doing that.

2. Brain-Computer Interfaces

Imagine being able to control a computer mouse and a keyboard or a drone with not a set of controls but just by thinking about it or hearing music, not from speakers but that's being streamed straight into your brain maybe that thought blows your mind or perhaps it even creeps you out, either way, it's already being developed and it's coming soon and leading the way is Elon Musk's company Neuralink, which is looking at ways to implant a chip into your brain that will be able to communicate with a computer and just in case you thought we made the thing up about streaming music directly to your brain that came from a tweet on Elon Musk's Twitter feed if the thought creeps you out a bit you're not alone but the idea behind it is to help humans compete with super-intelligent robots and it also aims to cure disorders like depression and addiction by rewiring brain patterns.

3. 3D Printing 

3D printing fashion accessories even car parts are kind of old school now more cutting edge are 3d printed organs that use patient cells which will mean they don't have to wait for an organ donor. In China, they've 3d printed an entire apartment block and the future of 3d printed buildings could bring down the price of housing and solve the problem of homelessness, 3d printed rockets could be on the way too. NASA's already made a 3d printed rocket injector and the California-based company relativity space aims to make the first fully 3d printed space rockets for a fraction of what they cost now and by throwing a bit of AI into the mix the technology will be able to detect faults in the design and improve on them but they're not there yet first they need to figure out how to 3d print something that's 100 feet tall and out of a material that can withstand the temperatures of takeoff.

4. Living Robots 

Next a completely different kind of robot no not one that's so cute it makes you think it's alive. If you remember Tamagotchis we're not talking about those, these so-called living robots are made of real living tissue and could revolutionize medicine. Scientists have taken stem cells from frogs and they've used computer programs to assemble them into blobs about a millimeter in diameter they're not robots as we know them and even though they come from living tissue they're not classed as animals either they're tiny programmable organisms that can move independently and can even work together as a team they might even be able to self-heal their wounds remove plaque from human arteries or take medicine into patients bodies it's fascinating stuff. 

5. Augmented Reality

If you've played pokemon go you've already used AR but chasing pokemon is just the tip of the iceberg with this exciting technology and the boundaries are just going to keep growing overlaying digital images onto real-life backgrounds could have all kinds of applications in the future like AR manuals think of the last time you had to fix a car engine but weren't sure what you had to do forget looking for a tutorial on youtube soon enough you might be able to put on a pair of ar glasses or contact lenses and then look at the engine with the help of a bit of AI, the software will analyze the problem and then show you exactly what you have to do and then give you feedback on whether you're doing it right. How about a city guide that doesn't just show you the best restaurants and nightlife on a map but we'll point it out to you in real-time with menus and reviews appearing next to them and instead of seeing advertising billboards in the city, your ar glasses will show you virtual adverts tailored for you which means it's got the big potential for advertising as well or what about doing some online shopping for clothes and see yourself wearing them even though you've never been anywhere near them getting a preview of how furniture will look in your room even though it's still in the warehouse or conference calling someone on the other side of the world and having them appear on your couch and these are just a few things AR could be bringing to us soon. 

6. Tactile Virtual Reality 

For any gamers out there, you'll know when you get hit in a game and you feel a dull thud from your control panel, that is this concept tactile or haptic feedback but it's about to be taken to a whole new level imagine the same idea but in a bodysuit, with sense transmitters all over it. It'll mean that your VR experience lets you feel the experience as well as see and hear it bodysuits like these that let you feel as well as see and hear virtual worlds are already on the market and they have used in sports training rehabilitation and gaming too. The technology is also being tested for training surgeons in simulation programs for practicing complicated surgery it helps to be able to feel the resistance of body tissues when they're being cut into or sewn programs that can do this make the training more realistic and are already in development.

7. Self-Driving Vehicles

Thanks to tesla self-driving vehicles are already on the market, but what's being done so far is only the tip of the iceberg for Tesla and other companies the goal is level 5 automation which means there's no steering wheel or pedals the passenger just inputs where they want to go and the car does all the work, that means we could be looking at a future where most people don't own a car instead there are just fleets of self-driving vehicles on the road which you just jump into and enjoy the ride not so great if you love being behind the wheel yourself but it promises to reduce congestion and pollution and it could make parking lots obsolete and free up that space for other uses and speaking of self-driving vehicles why stop at cars in Dubai the world's first autonomous drone taxis are in development. The company that's developing them volcopter aims to launch them by 2023 and they estimate that by 2030 a quarter of journeys in Dubai will be done by drone taxi.

8. Hyperloop 

When it comes to the transport of the future if drone taxis aren't exciting enough for you maybe this will be. Imagine doing long-distance journeys at a speed even faster than a jet plane but without having to be airborne and potentially with zero carbon impact, well that's something Elon Musk is working on it's a joint project between Tesla and SpaceX and it's called the hyperloop. It works by placing a pod inside a tunnel with low air pressure and as the air resistance and friction are low it can travel at hypersonic speeds in testing they've reached 460 kilometers per hour. They aim to get that up to 1200 kilometers per hour that are faster than a commercial jet and Elon tells us it'll work even better on mars where there'll be no need for a tunnel because there's almost no atmosphere there good to know.

9. Hydrogen Power 

The hunt is on for alternatives to fossil fuels and a carbon-neutral feature everybody with common sense knows it's the way forward apart from people working for oil companies or whose election campaigns are funded by them. We've all heard about electric cars but another option that doesn't pollute is hydrogen power. Hydrogen fuel cells to power engines have been around for a while, in 2015 Toyota produced a car that runs on hydrogen the Mirai and by the end of 2019, they'd only sold 10 000 of them, not a huge number that's because there are still problems to deal with before hydrogen takes off, first even if hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe it's still difficult to put it into pure the form that makes it expensive by the mile it's about four times as expensive as gasoline, second, it's highly flammable which makes it dangerous. Gasoline is also flammable but not as difficult or dangerous to store as hydrogen and this makes the technology more expensive and a hydrogen vehicle costs about twice as much as a comparable vehicle that runs on gas, but the search is on to make hydrogen more available safer and cheaper and if we can do all that hydrogen could be the power of the future.

10. Energy-Storing Bricks

If you think you've got too many wires in your house, this one could be for you because soon enough instead of having your electricity coming through wires, it could be stored in the bricks in your walls combine that with a few solar panels on your roof and we could be looking at steps toward carbon neutral living and we're talking about regular building bricks the world's most familiar building material just ones that have been modified by scientists. The fact they contain iron oxide that's also the chemical that makes them red allows them to do this they're rechargeable and there's also talk about them being able to directly turn the sun's heat into energy that would mean you wouldn't even need a solar panel on your roof. The science on this is still in its early stages but a proof-of-concept brick has been developed at the university of st Louis and Washington. 

11. Quantum Computing 

There's more to the future of computing than apple coming out with macs that are thinner and thinner and shinier and shinier. There's a completely different kind of computer which is still in its very early days but it does promise to revolutionize computers in a way that's still hard to fathom. We're talking about quantum computers basically they calculate stuff a lot faster than normal computers like 100 million times faster and they do it by using quantum mechanics, which means instead of regular bits they use quantum bits also known as qubits these things behave strangely and unlike regular bits can represent a zero and a one at the same time confused, well we are too a little bit, and we'll be honest quantum mechanics isn't, one of alux's areas of expertise but we will tell you what quantum computers could mean on a basic level super complicated calculations will be done in a fraction of a second. They'll be able to give us data encryption with near-perfect security give accurate weather predictions help scientists discover miracle materials and miracle cures for diseases and even revolutionize our understanding of many branches of science to say this one could be a game-changer is putting it lightly. Remember though quantum computers are still in their infancy there are signs of moving forward google already has a quantum computer and last year made a quantum leap forward when it took just 200 seconds to solve a problem that was considered virtually impossible. The world's most powerful computers the ones that aren't quantum would have taken 10000 years to finish it and that one did it in 200 seconds. Crazy.