this technology could have the power to
revolutionize the flow of goods and the
scope of product markets
welcome to watch mojo and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
futuristic technologies you didn't know
exist stop look
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hoverboard he can carry 200 pounds
without breaking a sweat
and uphill he gets a little push thanks
to a metal system on his legs called the
hulk it's a full
human to human interaction that crosses
the language barrier it's truly a
magical experience for this list we'll
be looking at innovations that you might
have only seen in sci-fi movies before
that have made their way into the real
world
what sci-fi technology do you wish was
available today let us know in the
comments
number 10 powered exoskeletons is an
iron man suit actually possible
well it turns out that adam savage from
mythbusters fame isn't the only one with
access to really fancy suits this was a
titanium
bulletproof ironman suit flying through
the freaking air there's nothing
fictional about the operation of this it
is a first prototype and it is raw as
hell but it worked powered exoskeleton
suits are essentially wearable machines
that augment your body's strength and
agility while some encompass the entire
body others attach mainly to the waist
and legs on the wrist the user is
wearing a remote control on this remote
control the user is selecting whatever
he wants to do if he's sitting and he
selects a stand up then the the system
will give indication it makes some beeps
and the user knows okay now i have to
stand medical applications such as the
re-walk allow people with spine injuries
to regain a good portion of their
mobility meanwhile the human universal
load carrier was built to make it easier
for soldiers to carry lots of essential
materials it has the smarts to predict
what you're doing and it has to match
that motion
here at natick soldier system center
army engineers are starting to put the
hulk through its paces although neither
of these will allow you to shoot lasers
out of your hands yet
these types of exoskeleton suits are
more available to wear today
number nine food pills
sci-fi films have been teasing the idea
of having full food substitutions come
in small portions like pills for decades
strawberries
the movie soylent green shows a world
where the masses consume a wafer-like
product meant to help with a food
shortage in a true case of
life-imitating art a company by the name
of soylent actually sells shakes and
powders as nutritional replacements you
know this idea is going to
solve you know a lot of problems in food
that we have not just hunger it's the
environmental impact it's you know
poorly balanced food which leads to
obesity i'm very optimistic about the
future i think it's going to be great
people are going to be very healthy and
energetic oh don't worry they are
immersively not made of the same stuff
as the products in soylent green you
gotta tell them
silent green is people
companies like the food pill diet are
also producing pills made of dried
vegetables meant to replace your typical
meal while these capsules may not solve
world hunger they can bring us closer to
having a sustainable food source
number eight universal translator have
you ever noticed that in most science
fiction stories everyone somehow manages
to speak english
star trek solved this problem by
introducing a device called a universal
translator which was able to convert any
language into english can you understand
me
where's hoshi when you need her who is
hoshi
that's better out here in the real world
we've just started to see this
technology emerge there are plenty of
apps available for your smartphone that
do a pretty good job of translations
already but beyond those microsoft's
skype translator does almost real-time
speech-to-speech translations with a
skype translator it all starts just as
with any other skype call you just call
someone
but now the difference is the person
you're calling doesn't have to speak
your language
but i wanted to talk to you about the
email that i sent you yesterday
companies like waverly labs are
developing earbuds that work in
conjunction with your phone to provide
translation services can you hear me in
french
yes
number seven laser weapons wait a minute
this is the future
well the phaser guns
in almost every futuristic depiction of
gunfight there's usually some kind of a
laser gun involved star wars head
blasters and star trek had phasers mr
reed
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where are these in the real world
well the us navy developed the ansec 3
laser weapons system it operates much
like a laser pointer except that when
you aim it at a target and shoot you can
inflict some real damage
laser dazzler weapons have also been
developed to throw off a target's senses
in both cases the lasers shoot at the
speed of light so you probably won't see
visible flying beams like in the movies
right okay people you have to tell me
these things all right i've been frozen
for 30 years okay
throw me a freaking bone here but their
ability to neutralize a target is very
real
number six bionic limbs
steve austin and jamie somers both
showed the world what having bionic
limbs could do for us in the six million
dollar man
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although we don't have access to a
variety of bionic limbs that allow us to
run like cheetahs or lift a car the
field has made big strides in the last
few decades you are in control right
it's really neat
that is incredible it was nothing short
of thrilling for the first time since i
lost my arm it occurred to me that
technology might one day restore nearly
all the function i lost recent
advancements have allowed for artificial
appendages to have increased
capabilities and intelligence
companies like open bionics unlimited
tomorrow and countless others are now
producing artificial limbs that use
bionic controls and to take a sip of
water
you could just turn the wrist
so that you could get it easier but for
me personally having both bionic arms
that's something that is a little bit
difficult to me so if you're like me and
you're missing two hands then it may be
easier and you may have to just kind of
lean over a bit
responding to the smallest of muscle
movements or other body influences real
bionic limbs are catching up to their
fictional counterparts when it comes to
bionics robotics ai all these things are
gonna be huge number five replicators
slash 3d printers the first time star
trek the next generation showed us what
a replicator could do every fan wondered
what it would be like to have a machine
that could make anything
thanks to achievements in 3d printing
technology we're now seeing the
beginnings of that fancy replicator
known as additive manufacturing 3d
printers are computer-controlled devices
that use a variety of different
materials to create a 3d object using
layers the sky really is the limit when
it comes to this technology you can
pretty much design and print anything
you like including a new microphone
each layer is affixed to the previous
one creating a fully formed object from
toys to engineering models to even
custom printed body parts 3d printing is
rapidly changing how we manufacture many
goods around the world the 3d printing
industry is expanding rapidly and
growing ever faster and more efficient
but it will be some time before we see
the promised improvements like shorter
supply chains reductions in
over-production the elimination of
warehouses for spare parts and the use
of recyclable materials in closed-loop
systems number four teleportation
when we're stuck in five o'clock traffic
with no end in sight we wish we could
just snap our fingers and magically be
home is it possible that in my lifetime
instead of driving home
for a long time on the freeways of los
angeles
and really losing my temper several
times and stopping the car in heavy
traffic and getting out with a broom
handle and hitting another car
that i will get into a cube and be like
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while the idea of teleporting like a
star trek officer has been around for
years it's always been beyond our reach
last star trek reference we promise
although the ability to teleport matter
is still a work of fiction scientists
have been able to use quantum
teleportation it involves the ability to
teleport the state of one photon to
another even when they are separated by
a great distance the technique they say
could be used big time when it comes to
the future quantum internet that
scientists are planning it could help
make data very much secure unfortunately
these advancements may not get you out
of any traffic jams this year however
the news does have scientists excited by
the possibilities it may bring in the
future it's a huge engineering challenge
and it's not impossible but it is really
hard success though would most
definitely change the world number three
3d holograms
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the use of holographic technology has
been seen in countless forms of
fictional media but has been less
visible in the real world
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while a combination of projectors and
mirrors have been used to create the
illusion of 3d holograms people are
working on ways to recreate the ones
that we've seen in our favorite films
brilliant minds at brigham young
university have worked to produce more
advanced images known as volumetric
displays by using specialized equipment
they actually used the princess leia
hologram from the original star wars as
their inspiration
here we see the culmination of three
years of effort our display is
projecting it's a small particle focused
right here it's being dragged up and
down vertically rastering this image of
princess left another type of 3d
interactive hologram can be seen through
the use of headsets which augment the
user's view
microsoft hololens has also shown many
different applications for exciting and
developing technology
number two hoverboards slash hover
technology the release of back to the
future part 2 ignited the imagination of
fans when they saw marty mcfly riding a
hoverboard around hill valley
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in a behind behind-the-scenes interview
director robert zemeckis trolled fans by
indicating that the ones in the movie
were real parents groups have not let
the toy manufacturers make them and we
got our hands on some
and we put them in the movie ever since
people have been trying to recreate the
famous boards a company called hendo
hover produced a fully functional board
which skateboard legend tony hawk tried
out while it only hovers on a
specialized copper surface it behaves
much like marty's did
my first 1080. car company lexus also
produced a similar device that hovers
over a special track using super
conductors within the board itself they
may not exactly be like marty's mattel
hoverboard but they're still pretty cool
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number one cloud seeding technology
although we live on a planet that is 71
percent covered by water only about
three percent of it is instantly
drinkable in the united states there's
california where in one single year a
historic drought costs the state over 10
000 jobs and nearly 2 billion dollars in
lost revenue for parts of the world that
see excessive heat in the summer a lack
of rain can make people wish they had
access to a sci-fi weather controlling
machine
dubai recently made headlines by using
cloud seeding technology to bring water
down and what they basically did they
had a fleet of drones that flew up into
cloud cover
and they
used electrical charges to force water
droplets to combine into larger ones
during the process drones send electric
shocks into clouds triggering excessive
condensation and eventually some
rainfall common seeding agents used are
dry ice the solid form of carbon dioxide
silver iodide or simple salts like
sodium chloride there's a future where
this and similar technologies could be
used worldwide to regularly help ease
heat waves and droughts
advancing our current cloud seeding tech
could potentially save lives it's very
important that we take advantage of
every opportunity we have
to generate water in a sustainable way
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