2019, Microsoft's vision of the future.

From Microsoft, a glimpse into our beautiful future.

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Then And Now: A Fast-Forward Tour Of Gadget History

Astonishing breakthrough. Household object. Funny anachronism. Such is the journey that nearly every great gadget travels. And then it happens all over again with whatever hot new gizmo rendered the old one obsolete.

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Geek 2.0: Think you aren’t a geek? Think again!

In this new digital era that we’re all living in, a lot of people who think they aren’t geeks actually are. Just look at the following illustration by David Armano and you’ll understand right away.

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Leonardo Da Vinci's 10 Best Ideas

Da Vinci helped revolutionize science. And sometimes he just dreamed up fanciful concepts. Always, he thought in ways no one else had.

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Bluetooth Umbrella

Bluetooth Umbrella is simply an umbrella with a bluetooth enabled handle for handsfree operation with your mobile phone. It also doubles as radio so you can totally go “singing in the rain.

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Very kool Clothes Cleaner!!

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One Pill That's Impossible To Swallow

Gelule (French for “capsule”) is the name of this pill-shaped radio clock concept created by Pascal Barde from the design company Sequoia Studio. The radio clock features a backlit LCD display and an omni-directional speaker (volume can be adjusted by rotating speaker).The unique concept is also available in several capsule-friendly colours like red, green and purple.

The Smart Windscreen Concept.

This “Smart Windshield” concept for Wired Magazine has some exciting features: Handsfree Tetris, conference calls, google calendar and, the feature that caught my eye, a driver identification system that tells you more about other drivers on the road in front of you…what a great idea! It could become a kind of Auto-Facebook where you could swap details, become friends, exchange music tracks, info, chat etc.

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USB Gadget: Beverage Chiller

The CoolIT USB Beverage Chiller is the easy way to keep your drink cold while you’re at your computer — and it looks cool on any desktop! It’s the next must-have computer accessory, keeping your beverage chilled so that you can stay at your computer longer. Just seconds after plugging the chiller into your computer’s USB port (no external outlet needed), the coldplate chills to 45 degrees Fahrenheit. The perfect temperature for keeping your beverage chilled.

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Yamaha's New Motorcycle Concept

The Yamaha Deus Ex Machina exoskeleton is an immensely futuristic-looking, single person’s stand-up vehicle created by Jake Loniak, a student at the Art Center Pasadena. The vehicle is powered by ultra-capacitors and doped nano-phoshpate batteries (similar to the ones currently used in hybrid cars) and it is controlled using 36 pneumatic muscles with two linear actuators set along a spine consisting of seven artificial vertebrae.

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Backpack for voyeurs

The Porta2030 is essentially a small backpack that has a camera on the front, a battery pack, a USB hub, and an SD drive built in. You can sneakily take pictures from your chest with it or link it up to the web to send video and photos out live, if you so desire.

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How to build your own Iron Man suit

Now that Iron Man is here, it got us to thinking: Could we build our own Iron Man suit? Not just a costume, but a functioning apparatus that could perform the miracles the spectacular marvel in the movie does? Well, not really. We’ll have to pass on antigravity tech and jets blowing out the bottoms of our feet that are hot enough to roast our tootsies like marshmallows — never mind that the suit clearly breaks the first law of thermodynamics, creating energy for free.

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New Media Douchebags Explained

How to blog, Twitter, podcast, poke, write on Facebook walls and become a new media douchebag.

Unicycle Motorbike

A young inventor has created a motorbike with a twist – it uses two wheels but they are positioned right next to each other, giving it the illusion of being a powered unicycle. Ben Gulak from Ontario, Canada, has spent several years building the electric Uno that uses gyroscopic technology - like the infamous Segway commuter device - to stay upright.

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Ticketime

Ticketime by Designers Jacky Wu, Neo Chen & Eric Liu is a boarding card and a wristwatch all in one. Before your departure, the airline company would preset the watch to the time zone of your destination. It is returned to the airline counter during your check-in upon your return flight, whilst still serving the purpose of a flight ticket.

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Interactive Art Gallery For International Train Travellers

Land Design Studio has worked with Studio Simple to create Station Masters – a new interactive digital art gallery experience in the Eurostar departure lounge at St Pancras International in London. The project, which launched earlier today, is a collaboration between Eurostar and the National Gallery which offers travellers the chance to explore a database of 100 highlights from the National Gallery’s collection of Western European painting – including masterpieces by Caravaggio, Constable, Leonardo da Vinci, Money, Rubens, Titian and Van Gogh.

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10 Cool Gadgets You Can't Get Here - Yet

PC World magazine have a rundown of 10 of the best gadgets that are on the market over in Japan that we in the west will have to wait a little while longer for. All the usuals are there…mobile phones, tv’s etc..

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Van Der Led MW2 Watch Phone

Fulfill your Dick Tracy childhood fantasies with the Van Der Led MW2 Watch Phone. This quad-band device lets you make and receive calls from your wrist — without making you look like too much of a dork. The MW2 features a tiny TFT touch screen, Bluetooth, USB connectivity, a 1.3-megapixel camera, and 1GB of storage for MP3s and whatnot.

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The Smart Goggles

The Smart Goggles - which come with a built in camera, display screen and computer brain - can even identify unfamiliar plants or faces. In fact, the only thing it can't help you find are your glasses.

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