Inventions Of The Future That Will Soon Be Available To Everyone

from Star Wars to Avatar the science fiction genre is known for showcasing unbelievable gadgets vehicles and cities that are completely out of this world these movies feel like Pure Fantasy however all their science fiction might not stay fictional for much longer scientists and engineers in the real world are work developing insane inventions that can rival the gadgets of the Silver Screen today we're going to hop into our Deloreans and zoom into the near future looking at Cyber chefs futuristic fashion and literal cyborgs as we take a sneak peek at some inventions of the future that will soon be available to everyone thank you zoom into the future when you watch Sci-Fi movies the future seems a long way away however time moves pretty fast and the world really can change in the blink of an eye sometimes quite literally in 2019 a group of scientists from the University of California San Diego invented an unbelievable accessory a set of contact lenses that zoom in when you blink twice when you look up down or blink your eyes give off unique electrical signals that correspond to each movement the contact lenses contain electrodes that track and respond to these electrical impulses and the lenses are crafted using polymers that expand when an electric current is applied when the lenses register a double blink the polymer lenses change shape slightly increasing their magnification making everything appear 32 percent larger for the wearer an early version of The lenses and other variations like them have already been built but the researchers are still trying to figure out how to make them out of gas permeable plastic the material that's used in regular contacts this thin plastic allows oxygen to reach the wearer's eye letting them safely wear contacts all day without damaging their eyesight there are a lot of applications for these lenses both cool and creepy alike but it's predicted to be a good few years before they're released publicly so for now your mother will need to continue squinting at her phone every time she gets a text message foreign suits as impressively strong as human bones can be the truth is we're all one tumble down the stairs away from breaking an arm or a leg thankfully we'll soon be able to reinforce our feeble bodies with exoskeletons giant mechanical suits that are designed to make us faster and stronger the guardian XO is a full body rechargeable battery-powered exoskeleton that can increase the wearer's strength allowing them to lift up to 200 pounds of weight without straining the guardian won't allow us to lift cars or jump over buildings that kind of stuff is still a way off however it will use its electrical motors and sophisticated array of 120 Ultra precise body sensors to allow a person to comfortably lift a refrigerator a small couch or say your mom this incredible piece of tech is available to buy now however it currently costs a hundred thousand dollars per year to rent making it far far too expensive for the average consumer plus it's better suited for moving house than saving the world however other exoskeletons were created for more altruistic purposes the re-walk is a lower body exoskeleton that's designed to allow people with paraplegia to stand upright walk and climb up stairs the exoskeleton has four powerful Motors at the hip and knee joints that are activated when the user tilts their upper body in different directions allowing significant Mobility while the device currently costs up to eighty five thousand dollars a unit the team behind the rewalk have started to make the tech available on certain medical insurance plans and are aiming to make it cheaper over time so with any luck the incredible device will soon become more widespread changing thousands of lives for the better foreign until we evolve to plug ourselves into an outlet for charging human beings will need to eat and drink however in the future we might not need to cook back in 2015 moly robotics had the culinary World shouting holy moly when they unveiled a robot that can use its two giant hands to cook your meals the gadget comes pre-programmed with thousands of recipes from award-winning chefs and it will pour stir and Sizzle its way to culinary Perfection while the robot can't prep ingredients just yet as its creators are reluctant to give it a knife it will recognize specialized ingredient containers and what they've been assigned to contain using this customizable recognition you can input your own recipes into the device's touch screen allowing the machine to perfectly recreate Grandma's famous spaghetti with robotic Precision though admittedly not quite the level of elegant Precision in these CGI render you're seeing here the real version isn't quite that pretty yet but the most expensive variant does cost an eye-watering 340 thousand dollars nonetheless still no one ever said living in the future was cheap and if futuristic food is what you crave this is as good as it gets a ray from Doc's DeLorean to Luke's X-Wing Sci-Fi movies are full of futuristic vehicles that put our cars to shame however with new Innovative Technologies real world vehicles are growing increasingly futuristic an augmented reality display for example is a gadget that's predicted to become widespread in cars over the next couple of decades and exists in limited forms even today this amazing Tech turns a car's windscreen into a holographic smart device by projecting a bunch of information straight onto the glass in front of the driver AR devices can use built-in cameras to scan the road in front of you building a digital image which it can interact with a laser and optical fiber system then projects images up onto the windscreen at an ideal angle to reach the driver's eyes these images appear to be overlaid onto reality allowing amazing things like overlaying an ideal racing line on onto the asphalt showing you where you should drive for maximum efficiency these cameras also constantly scan for any potential hazards on the road drawing your attention to pedestrians crossing the street or cars pulling out in front of you a tech company called way Ray has created an AR display that can turn your daily commute into a video game by scoring your driving as you go and letting you compete with your friends that might sound like a terrible idea but the way Ray will score you on how safely you drive giving you points for staying in your lane stopping at red lights and driving at safe speeds which is great but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little disappointed it doesn't give you points for stunt jumps foreign over the last decade it's become increasingly popular to turn yourself into a cyborg by implanting a tiny microchip into your hand these microchips are the same as the ones inside digital house keys bank cards and e-tickets so once your implant is linked to your online accounts you can buy your groceries open your front door and access public transport with the flick of a wrist unfortunately there are some serious privacy concerns about the microchips in theory the companies that produce the chips put measures in place to track you every time you use the device keeping a log of almost everything you do and your location at all times these privacy concerns have prompted lots of wannabe cyborgs to make their own cybernetic enhancements at home back in 2008 software engineer Jerry de lava lost the tip of his finger in a motorcycle accident Jerry was offered an ordinary prosthetic to replace the appendage however he decided to use one fitted with a USB stick instead using it to store photos and a few different computer programs similarly in 2007 a documentary filmmaker called Rob Spence had to have his eye removed due to an injury instead of replacing the eye with an ordinary prosthetic Rob decided to fit his empty socket with a working camera that he could use to shoot his documentaries he fit the camera with an on off switch a 30 minute battery and a glowing red light that turns on whenever he starts filming to prove that he can't secretly record anybody without their consent that's a nice sentiment Rob but you just inadvertently made your prosthetic 100 times creepier couldn't she have made the light green for most of us cybernetic enhancements might seem extreme and unnerving but if they become more legitimate and commercialized in the future it seems conceivable that they'll become a part of everyday life but what would you rather have a thumb drive in your index finger or a digital camera in your eyeball let me know in the comments below virtually reality today lots of people love the ever-evolving world of virtual reality but currently playing VR games still comes with a risk of motion sickness jumping face first into a wall and accidentally knocking out Grandma the platform is definitely still in its infancy however a ton of gaming companies are currently developing some insane new technologies that are leading virtual reality into an eventual new age of realism the emerge home is an incredible Gadget that allows you to physically feel the things you touch in VR with the emerge home you use your bare hands as the controller and when you grab something in the game the device's panel will send a series of ultrasonic waves meaning sound waves that are too high a frequency for humans to hear right up to hit your hand simulating the feeling of touch this technology allows users to physically feel it every time they pick up a weapon high five a teammate or hold hands with their virtual girlfriend making VR Games Far More immersive and realistic unfortunately the company has yet to release the product for public trials and the panel can only sense your hand if you hold it less than three feet away forcing Gamers to sit relatively still mother VR Tech is designed to give the player a bit more freedom though the Omni one treadmill is a device that allows users to walk Sprint Crouch and jump in VR while a harness keeps their body fixed in one place the user wears a pair of special slippery shoes allowing them to move on the Omni one without actually going anywhere the treadmill contains sensors that pick up on this movement before transferring it to the in-game character the technology is pretty incredible but unfortunately it's a bit too immersive for some people down to bed hey [Music] [Laughter] looks like one hell of a workout talk to the hand back in 2016 a group of scientists at the University of Tokyo developed a new invention that turns our skin into a light up display the device is essentially an adhesive strip full of LEDs that can be used to display words numbers and emojis on your skin the lights can also connect to other smart devices wirelessly alerting you if someone is calling your phone or knocking on your front door the adhesive display will use a strip of conductive gold paste to connect a set of electrodes stuck to your skin these electrodes will be able to read your heart rate and blood pressure before passing that information along to the LEDs on your hand which are powered by a flexible battery if the device senses low blood pressure it can display an alert to prompt you to take medication potentially saving an elderly patient's life these medical functions could prove to be very valuable in the future however the device's social functions do currently seem a bit less useful we get it guy you're happy you don't have to tell us twice future face wear this device might look like a futuristic neck brace but it's actually a personal air purifier called the air ring the device is a portable face mask that sucks in air from the outside world and filters out the viruses and pollutants before blasting clean air back onto your face air pollution currently contributes to the deaths of 7 million people every year and as industrial cities continue to grow it's a problem that's not likely to go away without some serious action so in the meantime you may be best off wearing a futuristic air purifier like the air ring the device filters air through a set of particle absorbing foam then sterilizes it using a UV light before finally sending the air through a long carbon filter just before the outlet it can be fitted with a series of detachable masks ranging from partial face screens to a giant Hood depending on how safe or anti-social you want to be it might look a little goofy now but before long light up air purifiers like the air ring might well become the hottest fashion trend because even if the air is toxic it's important to look outrageously cool in a range of colors right sci-fi sneakers let's stay on the Cyber catwalk and check out another piece of futuristic fashion the Kryptonite sneaker from centratec is a fully 3D printed shoe that might just be the future of Footwear it's made out of just one material a special polymer called tpe elastomer the tpe is thicker and thinner in different places meaning that specific parts of the shoe are rigid While others are soft and flexible this means the shoe is both comfortable and Incredibly fast to manufacture as the whole thing can be printed out in one go without requiring any stitching or gluing the krypton's scaffolding style Soul means that the sneakers are incredibly comfortable however if you want to Star Trek through the snow you might need some Footwear that's a bit heavier Duty the flux Snowshoe is an incredibly Advanced set of kicks created by designer Eric brunt when you step down on the shoes they become flat spreading your surface area out to let you stand more comfortably on top of deep snow however when you lift your leg the shoes become flexible folding in on themselves to let the user walk with a natural gait the flux snowshoes make walking on icy terrain snow no problem at all and although the sneakers don't tie themselves or let you fly through the air they do give us a sneak peek at the future of fashion I've got to admit with VR glasses and displays light up masks and high-tech snowshoes our grandkids are going to be pretty stylish fresh in the future currently most of us store our perishable food inside normal fridges primitive appliances that can't tell us the time or what the weather's like outside luckily we won't have to put up with these pieces of junk for much longer as the world's biggest tech companies start to develop smart fridges with some unbelievable features currently LG Samsung and Amazon are all working on fridges that can scan their own contents keeping track of the food you place inside them these fridges will boast touch screen displays that can let you know when you're starting to run low on certain items lets you reorder the products and recommend you recipes based on the ingredients you have the technology will make sure you never run out of milk again but how does it work well the idea is that the food packaging you place in the fridge will be chipped with an RFID tag this is a scannable tag that's increasingly being used by food manufacturers to manage stock and shipping as they can be scanned using radio waves eliminating the need for the direct site of a barcode by scanning these RFID tags in your food packaging the fridge can constantly keep an accurate inventory of the food that sounds great but can they also identify the strange goo growing in my vegetable drawer no well then they're useless to me these smart fridges are pretty spectacular however they have competition this big box of slime is a refrigerator concept that doesn't use electricity or ice to keep your food cool instead relying on a gigantic blob of biopolymer gel to keep your produce in a space completely deprived of oxygen the fridge is silent odorless and lightweight however you do have to watch your dinner swim around in a vat of green slime all day which might ruin your appetite the fridge looks awesome but lots of netizens have questioned whether the concept is actually possible to build asking what happens if the gel gets loose crumbs or spilled liquid put in it people have also questioned whether the fridge could actually preserve food given that there aren't any Motors to actively cool stuff down and the creator has been very vague about the mechanism of the so-called biopolymer he claims it consists of countless microscopic Nanobots that would draw heat from anything placed inside though as far as how we'd make these Nanobots or how they would draw the heat without emitting their own well it seems the designer is relying on the engineers of tomorrow to iron out those little details foreign if someone tells me they have a broken heart I immediately prescribe them with a tub of chocolate ice cream a Hugh Grant rom-com and a hug however if you're suffering from a genuine heart condition you're definitely better off going to see a licensed Medical Professional currently lots of heart conditions are treated with pacemakers these small implants monitor your heart and zap it with electricity when it starts beating irregularly jump starting the muscles back into a normal Rhythm pacemakers work well but they have to be replaced when their battery runs out requiring surgery every seven years however a group of professors from the universities of Illinois and Washington have developed a new futuristic device to replace pacemakers then on top of other wonderful things allows patients to detect heart attacks with their smartphone the device is a metallic mesh sleeve that's specially tailored to fit around the patient's heart like a regular pacemaker the device will automatically shock your heart if it detects irregular beating however the device can also power itself indefinitely by converting your heartbeats into electricity this is possible due to the lead zirconate titanate it's constructed of which has the fascinating quality of generating a small electric current each time it is placed under physical stress in this case by the beating of the heart this current is used to keep a tiny rechargeable battery topped up which fuels any required jolts to the heart and other clever functions all of this connects to a smartphone app that displays your current metabolism blood pH level and body temperature in real time amazingly this can make it clear you're about to have a heart attack long before you actually feel any physical symptoms then needless to say during Cardiac Arrest every second counts they really do have an app for everything thing these days unfortunately the technology won't be released for at least another 15 years so let's just hope our hearts don't give out before the device hits the market better slow down on the Five Guys nope bots so far we've looked at fridges Footwear face masks robot Chef arms but we haven't covered the most important sci-fi invention of all robot Butlers in 2021 Elon Musk and Tesla announced the development of Optimus a bipedal robot Butler that's designed to do the jobs that humans don't want to do musk says that the robot should be taking out our trash and sweeping our floors by 2027 when it'll be released to the public for just twenty thousand dollars that's pretty exciting news however some experts think that elon's claims are incredibly far-fetched noting that currently Optimus Walks Like It's peed its pants and some experts predict it'll take decades to fully develop regardless of when the Tesla bot comes out it looks like a Sci-Fi World filled with robots is lying just over the horizon but even if that's true do we actually want robot spots in our homes this devil child is the CB2 a robot designed to mimic the physical and mental capabilities of a two-year-old the four foot tall bundle of horror was designed to see whether a robot AI could slowly develop social skills by interacting with humans and watching them socialize with each other it uses sophisticated processors to record and evaluate information including 197 sensors under its skin to register touch and eye cameras that can record and understand human facial expressions since its Creation in 2007 the CB2 has reportedly learned how to walk and it started to gain a better understanding of social norms allegedly maturing to respond appropriately in social situations if that wasn't impressive enough the robot's Creator believes that it should eventually be able to teach itself how to speak in short sentences using its pre-installed artificial vocal cord this technology is pretty incredible but again even if the future invention becomes widespread I'm not sure I want it inside my home I don't care if it has the mind of a two-year-old if that thing calls me data I'm throwing it out the window graphene we've looked at some insane sci-fi inventions today however we haven't looked at the futuristic materials that they're going to be made out of currently our world is ruled by plastic metal and concrete but the inventions of the future will be built with something else a world-changing material called graphene everything in the universe is made out of atoms you me the air we're currently breathing while most materials and objects are made of several connected layers of atoms graphene is one of the few materials that's made up of just one layer of carbon this means that a sheet of graphene is around 1 million times thinner than a piece of paper which combined with its strength gives the material some unbelievable properties and that strength I mentioned oh boy graphene's hexagonal structure is incredibly sturdy so much so it's currently the strongest material ever discovered measure to be over 200 times stronger than steel despite its strength the ultra thin material is also incredibly light and if you covered a football field with a sheet of graphene it would still weigh less than a single dollar bill electricity can easily pass across graphene's single layer hexagonal structure so it can also conduct electricity one thousand times better than copper and 250 times better than silicon the material we currently use in computer chips graphene's potential is incredible but unfortunately it's incredibly difficult and expensive to make so scientists can only manufacture small amounts of it at a time it's currently one of the most expensive materials in the world and we have no idea how to mass produce high quality versions of graphene in a cost-effective way that's a bummer but it doesn't mean the Wonder material is totally useless graphene can be mixed with concrete or metal powders to create hybrid materials that are incredibly strong lightweight and conductive this means that a pinch of graphene can vastly improve buildings cars and electronics by making stronger walls lighter metal panels and faster computer chips currently a giant pile of iron dust like this for example can be bolstered with graphene to create a composite far stronger than regular iron it's definitely a good start and scientists are slowly figuring out how to effectively Mass produce graphene to be used on its own with the Wonder material steadily becoming cheaper to manufacture if this progress continues we'll soon be able to make an array of unbelievable inventions that'll change our lives and truly push Humanity into the future which futuristic invention are you most excited to own are there any more on the horizon you're excited about let me know in the comments below and as always thanks for watching [Music]

2023-01-17 11:21

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