Cool Stuff That's Coming

You might not recognize their names–they’re too busy working to court the spotlight–but you’ll soon hear about them a lot. They represent the best of what’s next.

The scale of the problem that this breakthrough could help solve is so vast that it’s difficult to take in.

"I think we are about 8 to 10 years away from this being usable by people with no disability," Musk said.

The winning machine is called DxtER and uses artificial intelligence to teach itself to diagnose medical conditions.

A research team at Oregon State is developing a bio-sensing contact lens that would be able to detect everything from when your blood sugar is running a little low to when one of your organs isn’t running at 100%.

Tim Berners-Lee, architect of the Internet, thinks artificial intelligence will someday control the economy.

Historical construction principles have inspired a new concrete floor system that doesn’t require steel reinforcement. It’s only two centimeters thick and is 70 percent lighter than conventional concrete floors.

Call humanity a cancer, call it a virus, but neither of those things ever invented a robot to eyeball corn plants. Allow me to introduce you to Vinobot, the little rover on a mission to make sure crops weather global warming.

"Our hope is that within a century or so, the traits for making sound long-term decisions and being able to tolerate people different from oneself will propagate and begin to reemerge within the species at large,"

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation has shown promise in recent years for a variety of applications, from boosting memory function to treating migraines.