Future Tech
Jaguar has a
concept for an augmented reality windshield for your car. It’s not out yet but
they say I could reach production in 10 years. The windshield would be able to
show race lines and depending on the colour you would accelerate or brake. The
windshield could also display cones on the road to train novice drivers. It
also has a ghost car visualization that could let people race against it on the
real road. They also have plans using augmented reality to make your hood transparent
so you could see the road and your wheels while off-roading. It would make
driving the car almost like a video game.
DARPA has released video footage of
a .50 caliber bullet that can alter its course during flight. The technology
has been in development for a couple years and still needs more time before it
will be used by troops. The bullet doesn’t just make a slight shift or curve it
actually makes quite a significant detour in mid-flight. The sniper can make
real time adjustments for weather, wind, and moving targets. This technology would
be really god for keeping troops safe because the enemy wouldn’t be able to
tell the position the bullet came from. Visions of these kinds of weapons were
used in video games but now they are a real life thing.
Floating farms are a thing of the
future because there are going to be a lot more people in the world and that
means we need more food. The only problem is we can only have so much farming
land so we have to start build farms up. The UN predicts there will be 2
billion more people in the world in 2050. That would create a demand for 70%
more food. That’s where the floating farm idea comes in it will be a 24 m 3
tiered design with solar panels on the top to provide power. The middle tier
would grow a variety a vegetables using nutrients in liquid the nutrients and
plant matter would then drop to the bottom layer to feed fish. A singles farm
could produce 8.1 tonnes of vegetables and 1.7 tonnes of fish a year.
In the military there is a bunch of
future tech that is in the works. The UK aerospace and defense contractor BAE
systems have several concepts that it envisions as possible military weapons in
decades to come. There most interesting concept is the Transformer which is made
up if a larger diamond shaped plane and two smaller triangle shaped planes
attached behind it. The Transformer could conserve fuel by reducing drag. They
also have a plane called the Survivor that could repair itself mid-flight. It
would achieve this by having a lightweight adhesive fluid within a pattern of
carbon nanotubes. When the plane was hit the adhesive fluid would repair the
plane. They also have plans for an aircraft that could make and deploy UAVs
with an onboard printer. BAE says these concepts are what might be possible in
20 to 30 years.
