Thanks Jim for sending – original source unknown.

A health diagnostics and information mirror:

Negative calorie colas:

Genetic engineered pets from a vending machine:

[discovered through Twine]

Fred Wilson’s post about the iPhone remote for Boxee inspired me.

What if there was an iPhone app, where you could easily create a universal remote, with all your preferences (favorite channels etc.) easily programmed by a drag and drop interface.

Universal remotes I’ve used in the past are hard to program, and generally don’t work very well…

There would then be a wifi-enabled device in your cabinet, which converts your iPhone commands to infrared, to control all your hardware!

Universal remotes I’ve used in the past are hard to program, and generally don’t work too well…

The ultimate transparency provided by technology.

click here for a future concepts video created by Microsoft. Is it possible Microsoft will start inventing the future vs. copying everyone else? That would be exciting!

Time-to-Adoption: One year or Less

Mobiles – particularly interesting comments about relevance to learning
Cloud Computing

Time-to-Adoption: Two to Three Year

Geo-Everything
The Personal Web

Time-to-Adoption: Four to Five Years

Semantic-Aware Applications – the format of Google search engine results really have changed all that much in 10 years – think about the possibilities here!
Smart Objects

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Key Trends
Critical Challenges

click here for Horizon Project Wiki – worth checking out!

very cool image summary of AI opportunities.  Click here for source image to zoom etc.

source article. thanks for the tip, Nick.

this is wild. Real brain cells inside/controlling robot.