3 Speculative Technologies We Hope Turn Out As Awesome As They Sound

 

1. Dissolvable Electronics spectech10

An assistant Iowa State mechanical engineering professor has invented transient electronics, which have the potential to disintegrate on command. The notion is that if an electronic item becomes unsafe or a burden, it would be able to destroy it. For instance, if you’ve had you’re credit card stolen, you may instruct it to self-destruct before anybody has the opportunity to use it.

The professor, Reza Montazami, also feels that this technology would be useful to the medical business. He wants physicians to utilise these gadgets to help treat patients and then self-destruct when the work is done. This would entail less intrusive surgery, which is kinder on the patient’s body. Montazami also feels that his innovation might be valuable to the military, since sensitive material may be transferred and received, then deleted on order.

2. Solar-powered Bionic Eye spectech9

A light-powered eye might prevent blindness and restore sight to the already blind. It appears that a group of scientists from Stanford took their inspiration from solar panel technology, since the technology is implemented as a retinal photovoltaic implant put at the back of the eye. Infrared light is then projected onto the eye of the patient. The infrared light, which comes from a particular pair of glasses, provides an electric signal that stimulates the nerves and drives the bionic eye.

Researchers are enthused about this technique, since it may replace earlier and more difficult means of recovering sight. Very early clinical testing findings found two individuals who were absolutely blind being able to see light and pick out forms.

3. Ghostly Presence spectech8

Have you ever sensed a presence in an empty room, and believed you either encountered a ghost or were going crazy? Well, scientists are convinced that it’s the latter. An experiment led to the formation of a “ghostly presence” in a laboratory which, according to them, indicates that experiencing the presence of a paranormal entity is totally a fabrication of the mind.

In order to bring the experiment to life, so to speak, they took scans of 12 peoples’ brains. All of them had some type of neurological impairment to the region of the brain that regulates movement and spatial awareness. All of these persons also had “an experience with an unseen ghost” at some time in their lives. These numbers are probably not coincidences.

The investigators also ran an experiment on 48 patients who were totally healthy. They blindfolded them, positioned robots in front of them, and asked the volunteers to move the robots about. While they were doing this, a second set of robots behind the line of volunteers would imitate similar moves. When the forward and rear motions were in harmony the volunteers had no complaints. However, as soon as a delay occurred place several got startled, reporting that they sensed the presence of multiple apparitions in the room. The scientists intended to illustrate that when individuals experience an entity in the room it’s their own brain mistaking the location of the person’s body and then recognising the body as belonging to an unseen creature.