The general conception is that many of the cutting edge technological developments

25 Cutting Edge Technology Examples You Won’t Believe Exist

Posted by Sameen, Updated on September 8, 2018

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality refers to the ability to overlay information on a live video feed of the world. Currently, a program known as the Augmented ID Program is being developed to help direct people to geo-tagged tweeters on their friends list on Twitter as well as to the nearest pubs or restaurants just by pointing their cameras in whatever direction. Basically, this technology works as a personal dynamic GPS system.

3D Gaming

3D gaming involves wearing a pair of 3D sunglasses that can make two-dimensional objects look as if they are three-dimensional. Today, there is a laptop that allows for 3D gaming through its polarized filter type screen, a technology that adds some depth to any DirectX game.

2D to 3D Converting Device

A man named Julien Flack is now taking steps to take the 3D craze not only on televisions or on cinemas but also on smart phones and other mobile devices. This will be made possible through a technology that will convert 2D contents to 3D.

Streaming Game Technology

The idea behind this technology is hosting all the game’s data on a central server, much like the technology used for MMORPGs. The difference between this technology and the technology used for MMORPGs is that the rendering engine is not on the PC of the user.

Social Television

Social televisions are now being developed to fuse televisions with the workings of social networks. With this technology, people can use their televisions to comment on live events the way they use their laptops and smart phones to access their social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

3D Metal Printing

While 3D printing has been around for a while now, printing metal has proven difficult and expensive. However, now, new 3D metal printers are simplifying the process and could radically change manufacturing as we know it, but also present many dangers, including at-home gun manufacturing.

Smart Cities

With a growing population, engineers and technology companies like Google are working on developing technologies to make a totally revolutionized idea of a city. These “smart cities” would include great efficiencies in power, communication, and travel for higher standards of living for more people.

Six –Core Processors

Six-core processors are a genuine upgrade in the current lineup of quad core CPUs. The high-end Core i7 line is based on the existing Nehalem architecture and has the process shrink-down to 32mn as its crowning feature. The best thing about this technology is that these six-powered processors can fit into most existing X58 motherboards.

Deep Data Mining

Deep data mining refers to the strategy of data collection that involves analyzing patterns as well as predicting and influencing behavior. This technology will soon help commercial and government enterprises to predict the psychological profiles of individuals, the way Pandora analyzes internet users’ personalities through their favorite movies and music. The purpose of this technology is to understand human nature more easily.

Snake Robots

Scientists currently based in Carnegie Mellon University are working on sending snake-like robots to nuclear plants or in any hazardous space where inspections are impossible. These snake robots can freely wriggle into pipes and valves as well as in vessels that are difficult to access.

Babel Fish Earbuds

Right now, Google has already developed earbuds that can translate 40 languages in real-time. It won’t be long before this technology can translate even more languages with greater proficiency. Once they hit the market, they may close an ancient barrier.

Floating Nuclear Power plants

Russia is now planning to create a floating nuclear power plant in ports for the purpose of supplying energy to locations that require power but have no capacity to build a traditional plant on land. The concept of this technology involves using naval propulsion reactors onto floating platforms that can be anchored at their destinations.

Atmospheric Energy

Atmospheric energy is an effective renewable energy source that has the power to innovate the production of electricity in the near future, on top of the existing exhaustible and non-renewable sources that we have today. This source can be more effective than wind, solar and bio fuel as free electricity is always present in the air and clouds around us.

Solar Fuel

The idea behind the development of solar fuel lies in the direct conversion of solar energy into a liquid fuel. The production of fuel through solar energy is much like mimicking how plants produce energy through the process of photosynthesis. This technology will make possible the creation of fuel using just sunlight, carbon dioxide, and non-potable water.

Blockchain

Right now, whether you like it or not, the internet is a privacy and security nightmare. However, in recent years, a new technology called Blockchain may change all that, helping create a nigh-perfect privacy and security experience. The idea is for information to be distributed but not copied, thus allowing for transactions without risking valuable information getting into the wrong hands.

Space-Based Solar Energy

Space-based solar energy technology involves assembling and maintaining vast arrays of solar panels in space to better capture the energy of the sun while getting rid of the earth’s atmosphere. This technology is the solution to earth-based solar collection, which involves a great deal of solar energy deflected by the atmosphere.

Artificial Intelligence

This technology involves the creation of machines that possess artificial consciousness or self-awareness like humans. Through the help of artificial intelligence, analyzing data through complex computer models becomes possible. Artificial consciousness is envisioned to come out in the field of robotics, such as a robot maid that can perform household chores.

Superfast Broadband

Superfast Broadband is a technology that will soon replace the entire copper telephone and broadband internet infrastructure with just one Ethernet-based network. This technology is currently being tested by ISPs in the United States. Once this becomes available in the market, it will allow for better access to large downloadable files and lower ping times.

Wireless Power

The concept of wireless power was first introduced a few years ago, after an electrical charge was stimulated in a wire coil by placing another one nearby through the process of electromagnetic induction. This is a safe and efficient way of transmitting power as it can be applied to any surface.

Dual-Action Antibodies

Dual-action antibodies are among the most promising ways seen to fight untreatable health conditions such as cancer and sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS. These dual-action antibodies can cure diseases through drugs that can work optimally and cost less than most treatments used today.

Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology refers to the manipulation of materials in the atomic and molecular levels for revolutionizing computing, not just by making the process faster but also by making computing devices a lot smaller. Scientists believe that devices as small as cells may someday navigate through the human body to serve as artificial immune systems.

Neural Interfaces

The idea behind this technology is providing humans with the ability to hook their brains directly into the internet. The giant leap into the realm of wetware recently became possible after a bionic eye got the approval of FDA. Neural interfaces involves brain wave mapping, which refers to the process of controlling remote robotics directly from neural impulses.

Engineered Stem Cells

James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin Cellular Dynamics Center first pioneered engineered stem cells. The aim of engineered stem cells is to revolutionize the way medical practitioners screen drugs and study disease. With the help of cells from patients with various diseases, any infirmity can now be cured.

Self-Diagnostic Medicine

Self-diagnostic medicine is a technology that will soon provide an effective alternative to medical consultations wherein diagnostic hardware becomes available in the comfort of people’s homes.

Quantum Teleportation

Quantum teleportation refers to the direct transfer of a quantum state from one location to another, making possible the out of the ordinary phenomenon dubbed as “entanglement.” This phenomenon is the link that exists between certain particles even when they are separated by space. Quantum teleportation will soon revolutionize the speed of communication.

Language and technology: the impact of computer terminology on spoken English language

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Коваленко, О. В. Language and technology: the impact of computer terminology on spoken English language / О. В. Коваленко. — Текст : непосредственный // Молодой ученый. — 2010. — № 6 (17). — С. 329-334. — URL: https://moluch.ru/archive/17/1676/ (дата обращения: 15.08.2022).

Web is more a social creation than a technical one

Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web, 1999

English is used for more purposes than ever before. Everywhere it is at the leading edge of technological and scientific development, new thinking in economics and management, new literatures and entertainment genres. These give rise to new vocabularies, grammatical forms and ways of speaking and writing. Nowhere is the effect of this expansion of English into new domains seen more clearly than in communication on the Internet and the development of ‘net English’. English language training and information technology skills are increasingly inseparable given the realities of globalization and recent advancements in educational technology. Both English and computer skills are becoming prerequisites for a real in-demand professional around the world, so being IT-friendly is seen as a big promotion advantage.

In studying language and technology, we look at how the technology influences the language use, but we should not assume that the use of technology to mediate the language necessarily changes everything. Generally speaking, English is the universal language on the Internet, but it has no official status, and it will never have. Linguistically, English is extremely unsuitable for international communication, and the actual wide use of English tends to polarize the world into Internet users and Internet illiterates. The position of English can only be altered by major world-scale political and economical changes, such as increasing importance of the European Union or a coalition between Japan and China. Such powers might wish and be able to promote a language other than English, possibly a constructed language, for international communication. Alternatively, or in addition to this, the technology of machine translation may allow people to use their own language in international communication [7]. In its broadest sense, the notion language includes speech and writing, regional and class dialects, occupational genres (such as legal and scientific language), creative linguistic expression (as in literature), and a wide range of other styles of expression. Within the Internet literature, terminology also varies a great deal when discussing the different kinds of Internet situation, such as environment, interactive setting, and virtual space. The distinctive features of a language variety are of several kinds. Many stylistic approaches recognize seven main types, for written language.

1. graphic features: the general presentation and organization of the written language

2. orthographic (or graphological) features: the writing system of an individual language

3. grammatical features: the many possibilities of syntax and morphology

4. lexical features: the vocabulary of a language

5. discourse features: the structural organization of a text

6. phonetic features: the general auditory characteristics of spoken language

7. phonological features: the sound system of an individual language [6, p.7-10].

Spoken language currently has only a limited presence on the Internet, through the use of sound clips, films, and video; but the use of speech will undoubtedly grow as technology develops, and it will not be long before we see the routine use of interactive voice (and video) dialogues, speech synthesis to provide a spoken representation of what is on a screen or to give vocal support to a graphic presentation, and automatic speech recognition to enable users to interact verbally with sites. Grammatical, lexical, and discourse features of course play a distinctive role in all spoken varieties of a language, as they do in the written. The term ‘Netspeak’ is an alternative to ‘Netlish’, ‘Weblish’, ‘Internet language’, ‘cyberspeak’, ‘electronic discourse’, ‘electronic language’, ‘interactive written discourse’, ‘computer-mediated communication’ (CMC), and other more cumbersome expressions. Each term has a different implication: ‘Netlish’, for example, is plainly derived from ‘English’, and is of decreasing usefulness as the Net becomes more multilingual. Netspeak is a type of language displaying features that are unique to the Internet where the influence is mainly on vocabulary, with graphology affected in some written varieties. According to internationally renowned language expert, Professor David Crystal, Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor (who investigates the nature of the impact which the Internet is making on language in his book Language and the Internet.CUP.2001) technology bears gifts also for linguistic investigation: Netspeak is a new opportunity for academic study. A new academic study of ‘Internet Linguistics’ includes a comparative study of the style of different formats and the development of language change within these new media. He states that Netspeak is a fourth medium of linguistic communication (the first three are speech, writing, and signing) and that we are on the brink of a revolution in language [6, p.233].

Acronyms and initialisms are both abbreviations made from the first letters of a group of words, the former are said as a single word while the latter are spelt out. There is a tendency in the present world to use abbreviations as self-dependent words and replacement of expressions by another more simple and understandable combination of words and letters.

Emoticon = emotion + icon (a visual character or sign which indicates emotion e.g. :))

Ezine = electronic + magazine (a magazine that only exists on the Internet)

Hacktivist = hack + activist (a person who changes or manipulates information on the Internet in order to convey a political message)

Screenager = screen + teenager (a young person who spends a lot of time using a computer)

Spyware = spy + software (a type of computer programme to get information from someone else’s computer system illegally)

Webcam = camera + World Wide Web (a video camera that transmits over the Internet)

· Sometimes the word itself is old, but it gains a new meaning. One area where we can see this shift very clearly is the changeover to electronic correspondence. Words which once only referred to physical papers on a wooden desk have taken on a new life in the world of email and computers. Words like f o l d e r, f i l e and d i r e c t o r y are all examples of words for things in an office that are now also used to describe things on a computer which have similar functions in the new medium.

· We can see a combination of these two factors at work in an expression like drop-down menu. Menu has moved beyond the restaurant to acquire a new life as a list of options for operations that a computer can perform. It combines with ‘drop-down’ to describe a particular kind of menu, which appears as a vertical list when you click on a word. All the parts of the phrase are familiar components of the language, but a new combination is coined as a new invention demands a name. Often these new combinations get abbreviated.

· The use of a single letter prefix with a hyphen is unusual, but not for computing such prefixes as e- and i- gave a birth to a vast majority of widely used set expressions.

ii. The term iPod is a trademarked brand of MP3 player designed and marketed by Apple Computers. The use of the letter i originated with one of the company’s other products, the iMac, a brand of personal computer shipped with everything necessary for connection to the Web (where i stood for Internet). However, the use of the prefix i had such a positive impact on brand recognition that the company adopted it more widely (e.g. iTunes) and associated it with other concepts such as ‘individual’ and ‘independence’. So far-reaching has been the social and cultural impact of the company’s ‘i-products’, that the generation of young people born in the late 1980s is sometimes now referred to as the iGeneration, so why not to surf www.i-russia.ru.

i. When the Internet began, ‘net’ became a new prefix. We had words like ‘net news’ and ‘net speak’, and all sorts of things like that. And then it became a suffix as well: hyper net, news net and so on. Afterwards blends started to appear, with a familiar word changed. So we had ‘netizen’ that is, a citizen of the Internet, somebody who lives their whole life there. And these people are also called ‘netties’, or ‘netters’ or even ‘netheads’ [4].

ii. The term cyberslacking and an alternative form, cyberloafing, emerged during the late nineties among a proliferation of words created by productive use of the prefix cyber- to describe things relating to computers or the Internet, e.g. cybercafé, cyberspace, cybercrime. The verbs slack and loaf both mean ‘to spend time avoiding work’. The term cyberslacker, acknowledged in August 2003 by editors of the Oxford English Dictionary, and its alternative form, cyberloafer, are used to describe employees who engage in the practice.

· Let’s go offline for a few minutes (i.e. let’s talk in private)

· I’ll ping you later (i.e. get in touch to see if you’re around)

· He started flaming me for no reason at all (i.e. shouting at me)

· That’s an alt.dot way of looking at things (i.e. a cool way)

· He’s living in hypertext (i.e. he’s got a lot to hide)

· E you later (said as a farewell)

3. BuzzWord section from Macmillan English Dictionary Online

4. Keep your English up to date series of talks on new and changing vocabulary, BBC Learning English – Blog, E-, Facebook, F.A.Q.s, Google, Netizen, Spam, Wi-fi, Wysiwyg.

6. David Crystal. Language and the Internet. Cambridge University Press. 2001.

10. Wordlink series of free ELT dictionary resources, Oxford University Press

Breaking News English Lesson: Wooden Satellites

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World’s first wooden satellite tested (19th June, 2021)

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Makinen plans to launch Woodsat into space later this year. He said it was the realisation of a dream. He started a company to produce fully functional wooden replicas of orbit-ready miniature satellites called CubeSats. These are used for space research, education and hobby purposes. Makinen explained: «I’ve always enjoyed making model planes that involve a lot of wooden parts. Having worked in the space education field, this got me wondering why we don’t fly any wooden materials into space.» He came up with the idea for Woodsat in 2017 and «the project just snowballed». He said: «We found commercial backing, and secured a berth on an Electron launcher from Rocket Lab in New Zealand.»

Try the same news story at these easier levels:

News

«Much has been said and written on the utility of newspapers; but one principal advantage which might be derived from these publications has been neglected; we mean that of reading them in schools.»

The Portland Eastern Herald (June 8, 1795)

«News is history in its first and best form, its vivid and fascinating form, and. history is the pale and tranquil reflection of it.»

Mark Twain, in his autobiography (1906)

«Current events provide authentic learning experiences for students at all grade levels. In studying current events, students are required to use a range of cognitive, affective, critical thinking and research skills.»

Haas, M. and Laughlin, M. (2000) Teaching Current Events: It’s Status in Social Studies Today.

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Warm-ups

1. SATELLITES: Students walk around the class and talk to other students about satellites. Change partners often and share your findings.
2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, talk about these topics or words from the article. What will the article say about them? What can you say about these words and your life?
В В В В В В nature / satellite / plywood / brainchild / engineer / device / stratosphere / equipment
В В В В В В plans / dream / replica / research / hobby / model planes / education / idea / space
Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently.
3. SPACE: Students A strongly believe we need to spend a lot more money on exploring space; Students B strongly believe the opposite. Change partners again and talk about your conversations.
4. WOOD: What are the pros and cons of these things being made from wood? Complete this table with your partner(s). Change partners often and share what you wrote.

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Cons

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5. NATURE: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word «nature». Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories.
6. CUTTING EDGE: Rank these with your partner. Put the best things at the top. Change partners often and share your rankings.

Vocabulary

Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2

Before reading / listening

1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if 1-8 below are true (T) or false (F).

2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.

3. PHRASE MATCH: (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)

Gap fill

predominantly
cubed
parachuted
brainchild
expanse
harsh
nature
stratosphere

Put these words into the spaces in the paragraph below.

miniature
berth
involve
realisation
purposes
snowballed
replicas
wondering

Makinen plans to launch Woodsat into space later this year. He said it was the (9) _____________________ of a dream. He started a company to produce fully functional wooden (10) _____________________ of orbit-ready (11) _____________________ satellites called CubeSats. These are used for space research, education and hobby (12) _____________________. Makinen explained: «I’ve always enjoyed making model planes that (13) _____________________ a lot of wooden parts. Having worked in the space education field, this got me (14) _____________________ why we don’t fly any wooden materials into space.» He came up with the idea for Woodsat in 2017 and «the project just (15) _____________________». He said: «We found commercial backing, and secured a (16) _____________________ on an Electron launcher from Rocket Lab in New Zealand.»

Listening — Guess the answers. Listen to check.

1)В Cutting-edge technology is getting ______
В В В В a.В back to nurture
В В В В b.В back to nature
В В В В c.В back to natural
В В В В d.В back to neigh chair
2)В A company has tested a new satellite that is predominantly ______
В В В В a.В made from fly wood
В В В В b.В made from plywood
В В В В c.В made from play wood
В В В В d.В made from pry wood
3)В He has already successfully tested his DIY, but high-tech, device ______
В В В В a.В in this atmosphere
В В В В b.В in these rats fear
В В В В c.В in that’s rat of sphere
В В В В d.В in the stratosphere
4)В The balloon exploded (as planned) and Woodsat ______
В В В В a.В safely parachute it
В В В В b.В safety parachutes
В В В В c.В safely parachuted
В В В В d.В safety parachuted
5)В Makinen happily reported that all communications equipment survived ______
В В В В a.В the hushed conditions
В В В В b.В the harsh conditions
В В В В c.В the hearts conditions
В В В В d.В the arch conditions

6)В He started a company to produce fully functional ______
В В В В a.В wooden replicas
В В В В b.В wooden replicates
В В В В c.В wooden reply case
В В В В d.В wooden replicate
7)В These are used for space research, education ______
В В В В a.В and hobby porpoises
В В В В b.В and hobby purr poses
В В В В c.В and hobby purpose is
В В В В d.В and hobby purposes
8)В I’ve always enjoyed making model planes that involve a lot ______
В В В В a.В of wood den parts
В В В В b.В of wooded parts
В В В В c.В of wooden parts
В В В В d.В of woo den parts
9)В He came up with the idea for Woodsat in 2017 and the ______
В В В В a.В project just now balled
В В В В b.В project adjust no balled
В В В В c.В project just ennobled
В В В В d.В project just snowballed
10)В We found commercial backing, and ______
В В В В a.В secured a birth
В В В В b.В secured a berth
В В В В c.В secured a bath
В В В В d.В secured dab Earth

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

Makinen plans to launch Woodsat into space later this year. He said it was (7) ____________________ a dream. He started a company to produce fully functional (8) ____________________ orbit-ready miniature satellites called CubeSats. These are used for space research, education and hobby purposes. Makinen explained: «I’ve always enjoyed making model planes that (9) ____________________ of wooden parts. Having worked in the (10) ____________________, this got me wondering why we don’t fly any wooden materials into space.» He came up with the idea for Woodsat in 2017 and «the (11) ____________________». He said: «We found commercial backing, and (12) ____________________ on an Electron launcher from Rocket Lab in New Zealand.»

Comprehension questions

Multiple choice quiz

1) В What does the article say cutting-edge technology is getting back to?
a) basics
b) nature
c) brass tacks
d) the beginning of time
2) В What kind of wood is the satellite made from?
a) mahogany
b) pine
c) cedar
d) plywood
3) How big is the satellite?
a) 10cm cubed
b) huge
c) 10 metres across
d) just one metre
4) How high up did the satellite go?
a) 15km
b) 20km
c) 30km
d) 8km
5) What happened to the balloon that the satellite was attached to?
a) it vaporised
b) it exploded
c) it burnt up upon re-entry
d) it disappeared into space

6) When does the engineer hope to launch the satellite into space?
a) later this year
b) very soon
c) in 2023
d) when it’s finished
7) What are CubeSats used for besides education and hobbies?
a) GPS
b) trigonometry
c) space research
d) hobbyists
8) What did the engineer used to enjoy making?
a) model planes
b) cakes
c) paper planes
d) space rockets
9) When did the engineer come up with the idea for Woodsat?
a) 2017
b) 2016
c) 2018
d) 2020
10) Where has the engineer secured a berth for launching his satellite?
a) Florida
b) Patagonia
c) Siberia
d) New Zealand

Role play

Role A – Satellites
You think satellites are the best examples of cutting-edge technology. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them why their things aren’t as good. Also, tell the others which is the least useful of these (and why): smart fridges, driverless cars or Zoom.

Role B – Smart Fridges
You think smart fridges are the best examples of cutting-edge technology. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them why their things aren’t as good. Also, tell the others which is the least useful of these (and why): satellites, driverless cars or Zoom.

Role C – Driverless Cars
You think driverless cars are the best examples of cutting-edge technology. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them why their things aren’t as good. Also, tell the others which is the least useful of these (and why): smart fridges, satellites or Zoom.

Role D – Zoom
You think Zoom is the best example of cutting-edge technology. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them why their things aren’t as good. Also, tell the others which is the least useful of these (and why): smart fridges, driverless cars or satellites.

After reading / listening

1. WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionary / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words.

• Share your findings with your partners.

• Make questions using the words you found.

• Ask your partner / group your questions.

2. ARTICLE QUESTIONS: Look back at the article and write down some questions you would like to ask the class about the text.

•Share your questions with other classmates / groups. •Ask your partner / group your questions.

3. GAP FILL: In pairs / groups, compare your answers to this exercise. Check your answers. Talk about the words from the activity. Were they new, interesting, worth learning…?

4. VOCABULARY: Circle any words you do not understand. In groups, pool unknown words and use dictionaries to find their meanings.

5. TEST EACH OTHER: Look at the words below. With your partner, try to recall how they were used in the text:

Student survey

Write five GOOD questions about this topic in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

(Please look at page 12 of the PDF to see a photocopiable example of this activity.)

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

Discussion — Write your own questions

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

Language — Cloze (Gap-fill)

Makinen plans to launch Woodsat into space later this year. He said it was the realisation (7) ____ a dream. He started a company to produce fully functional wooden replicas of orbit-(8) ____ miniature satellites called CubeSats. These are used for space research, education and hobby purposes. Makinen explained: «I’ve always enjoyed making model planes (9) ____ involve a lot of wooden parts. Having worked in the space education field, this got me wondering why we don’t fly any wooden materials into space.» He came (10) ____ with the idea for Woodsat in 2017 and «the project just (11) ____». He said: «We found commercial backing, and secured a (12) ____ on an Electron launcher from Rocket Lab in New Zealand.»

Which of these words go in the above text?

Spelling

Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2

Put the text back together

Put the words in the right order

Circle the correct word (20 pairs)

Makinen plans to launch Woodsat into / onto space later this year. He said it was the realisation of a dream. He started a company to produce fluffy / fully functional wooden replicas of orbit-ready nomenclature / miniature satellites called CubeSats. These are used for space research, education and hobby porpoises / purposes. Makinen explained: «I’ve always enjoyed making model planes that involve / revolve a lot of wooden parts. Having worked in the space education patch / field, this got me wondering / wandering why we don’t fly any wooden materials into space.» He came down / up with the idea for Woodsat in 2017 and «the project just froze / snowballed«. He said: «We found commercial backing, and secured a bunch / berth on an Electron launcher from Rocket Lab in New Zealand.»

Talk about the connection between each pair of words in italics, and why the correct word is correct.

Insert the vowels (a, e, i, o, u)

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cuttingedge technology is getting back to nature a company has tested a new satellite that is predominantly made from plywood the satellite is called woodsat it is the brainchild of engineer jari makinen cofounder of a finnish company called arctic astronautics it is just 10cm cubed in size he has already successfully tested his diy but hightech device in the stratosphere he attached it to a weather balloon which took it to an altitude of 30km above earthВ just before the endless expanse of space itself the balloon exploded as planned and woodsat safely parachuted back to earth mr makinen happily reported that all communications equipment survived the harsh conditions

makinen plans to launch woodsat into space later this year he said it was the realisation of a dream he started a company to produce fully functional wooden replicas of orbitready miniature satellites called cubesats these are used for space research education and hobby purposes makinen explained ive always enjoyed making model planes that involve a lot of wooden parts having worked in the space education field this got me wondering why we dont fly any wooden materials into space he came up with the idea for woodsat in 2017 and the project just snowballed he said we found commercial backing and secured a berth on an electron launcher from rocket lab in new zealand

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10 Incredible Cutting-Edge Technologies In Development

Don’t give up on flying cars or hoverboards just yet! As technology marches relentlessly on, everything goes into development sooner or later—as demonstrated by the existence of these things, which we’ll almost certainly see within our lifetimes.

10 Artificial Gills

Inventors have long sought an underwater breathing apparatus that doesn’t store oxygen, but extracts it from the water the way gills do. Israeli inventor Alon Bodner has come close.

The device, aptly named LikeAFish, works by using a centrifuge to lower the pressure of water within an airtight chamber. Since only a little oxygen is contained in water, the device must move about 190 liters (50 gallons) per minute in order for the average person to breathe comfortably. Despite this, the only real barrier to implementation is size and weight, but it’s close enough that the device has been under consideration for military use for several years now.

Such a system would obviously allow for longer “bottom time” without the need for refilling oxygen and would decrease the amount of nitrogen the diver is exposed to. According to Bodner’s website, the company spent 2012 “quietly designing a prototype to be installed on board a naval submarine,” so they may be very close to solving the size and weight issues of previous prototypes.

9 Agricultural Robots

Agricultural robotics are, somewhat surprisingly, still in their infancy. While unemployment seems to be leveling off, there is still talk of a possible general labor shortage in the near future—particularly in agriculture. Many companies worldwide are attempting to bring various types of robot farmhands to market, but in robotics (where government and academic projects still lead the way) it tends to take longer than in some other, more commercial industries for such projects to obtain funding, produce a product, and prove its viability.

8 Sunscreen Pills

An effective sunscreen that can be administered orally has been sought after for some time now. One doctor claims that a fern extract, containing the compound polypodium leucotomos, can act as such. He cites a human study showing less sun damage to the skin of those who were administered the active ingredient (though he did have to admit that there were only 12 people involved).

Also promising is a study at King’s College in London, which has determined a method by which coral protects itself from UV rays through its relationship with a symbiotic algae that lives within it. The algae produces a chemical compound which is converted by the coral into its own UV-blocking sunscreen, benefiting not only the coral and the algae but also the fish that feed on the coral. This transference has led scientists to believe that if the compound can be isolated, it could potentially be modified into a human oral sunscreen that would protect both the skin and the eyes. Said Dr. Paul Long, head of the three-year project, “There would have to be a lot of toxicology tests done first but I imagine a sunscreen tablet might be developed in five years or so. Nothing like it exists at the moment.”

7 Paper-Thin, Flexible Computers and Phones

In early 2013, consumer electronics shows debuted a prototype by European firm Plastic Logic of a product called the Papertab. That would be a portmanteau of “paper” and “tablet” and it is pretty much what it sounds like: a fully functional, touch screen tablet computer that is not only as thin as a sheet of paper, but as flexible as one too, and possesses the same reflective qualities. The company envisions such machines being ubiquitous within five to 10 years, as they could be inexpensive and interactive. A consumer could have several lying around, multi-tasking with different media all in service of one project.

A joint project between two American and Canadian universities has been creatively dubbed the Paperphone. Queens University director Dr. Roel Vertegaal has largely the same vision of the project. “This is the future,” he says. “Everything is going to look and feel like this within five years.” The machine is the size of a regular smartphone, with a 9.4-centimeter (3.7 in) display, but again, paper-thin and flexible. Users can give the phone commands by using “bend gestures.” It consumes no power when not in use and is considerably harder to damage than an ordinary phone.

6 Tooth Regeneration

Regeneration of body parts in humans seems permanently consigned to the realm of science fiction, even though many species of animals are able to completely regrow lost parts. It’s long been known that alligators are able to regrow lost teeth, for example, but it was assumed to be a cyclical process, like snakes shedding their skin periodically. Scientists have recently discovered that this is not the case: An alligator’s tooth will grow back automatically to replace a lost one. This is quite significant because the structure of alligators’ teeth is pretty similar to ours.

The problem has been that the inner areas of teeth contain living tissue known as “pulp” that doesn’t grow back. But the solution may have been found in stem cells: Scientists in multiple countries are trying to figure out how to get them to produce the correct tissues and structure for the given situation on demand. A University of Utah study in November 2012 confirmed that this could be done in a lab. Perfection of this technology could result in the potential end of tooth decay, gum disease, fillings, and root canals.

5 Holographic TV

While Ultra High Definition TV is on the way, there are really only so many pixels you can cram into a flat display—most existing models are 214-centimeter (84 in) monsters for that very reason. But the next generation of TVs, if you can call them that, won’t have screens so much as they’ll have a viewing area. As seen above, it could be a desktop display, or it could be an entire room—but holographic displays are definitely in the works.

Researchers at MIT, who are apparently good at the cutting-edge technology thing (hence the “T”), have created a chip that can support a holographic display of 50 gigapixels per second—enough to simulate real world objects, as reported in the journal Nature. Such amazing technology will have to wait to come to marketplace, though, until costs can be driven down—right? Well, says Michael Bove, head of MIT’s Object-Based Media group: “The technology itself is one that’s easy and inexpensive and, as far as we are aware and Nature is aware, has never been applied to displays before.” He foresees holographic displays on the market within 10 years—at the same cost as today’s regular, flat TVs. Another company, Provision, has built an inexpensive projector that displays a 45-centimeter (18 in) image. As of this writing, they’re working on ramping that up to a two-meter (six-foot) image, displayed by a unit the size of a toaster.

4 Real-Time Google Earth

At RAL Space in Oxford, scientists are building two video cameras quite unlike any other. Meter-long tubes packed with electronics and mirrors, these cameras are to be mounted to the outside of the International Space Station. But their purpose isn’t to capture images of space—they’ll be pointed toward the Earth. And while the resolution won’t be great (roughly a meter per pixel) it will be a real-time, streaming, live video of the entire planet.

Meanwhile, some Georgia Tech researchers are taking a slightly different approach toward the same ends. They take footage from the many live video feeds around the world and use it to layer complex animations on top of Google Earth, sometimes piecing together multiple camera angles to extrapolate the desired information. While currently focusing on people and cars, they’d like to add animals and weather conditions soon.

3 Wireless Electricity

The notion of wireless electric power has been around far longer than one might think: Nikola Tesla might have perfected the technology a century ago if he had not been poor, unlucky, and kind of crazy. Many today are unaware that, even though it has obviously yet to be deployed en masse, wireless power transfer actually exists.

Wireless device charging has been around for some time, and continues to improve. Companies like Witricity are at work developing electric “hubs” that can power your entire house. Their prototype is called “Prodigy” and is based on research done by physicist Marin Soljacic of MIT. It works by exploiting the fact that certain frequencies of electromagnetic waves facilitate ease of energy transfer, and two objects resonating with such a frequency can easily transfer electricity between them, even at some distance and even if the objects are metal. When perfected (which many see coming within the next decade), it could bring about an end to batteries as we know them.

2 Ultra–High Speed Tube Trains

Magnetic levitation, or Maglev, trains have been in development for quite some time. In Japan, a recent successful test run means that plans are underway to connect the whole country by 2045 with trains capable of reaching over 480 kph (300 mph). They accomplish this by removing the wheels—and thereby, contact and friction—from the equation. Maglev trains levitate above the track, suspended by an electromagnetic field. And while the Japanese model is impressive, one company in the small Colorado town of Longmont is upping the ante by eliminating another barrier to shattering speeds: namely, wind resistance.

To be fair, eliminating this factor doesn’t so much up the ante as it blows up the entire house containing the card table. Daryl Oster of ET3 says that his company’s concept, called the Evacuated Tube Transport, is the future of transportation, and it very well may be. Its track is contained within a sealed, pressurized vacuum tube, making the capsules conceivably capable of speeds up 6,500 kph (4,000 mph), all while subjecting the passenger to G-forces comparable to that of a leisurely ride on the highway and transporting them across the entire US in less than an hour. ET3 has built prototype capsules and, as of this writing, are searching for an appropriate stretch to build the first tube.

1 Sustainable Fusion Reactor

Nuclear fission (the process by which nuclear power plants produce energy) is much easier to control than nuclear fusion (the process by which the sun burns, and nuclear weapons work). Small nuclear fusion reactors have been built, but a large-scale, sustainable fusion reactor has yet to be attempted—until now. A consortium of seven member bodies (the US, EU, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, and India) has chosen a location in France to build the world’s first. And while even its champions concede it could be decades before it’s dispensing energy, nuclear fusion is cleaner and yields three to four times more power than fission.

The project is called ITER, for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, and it is the second-largest cooperative international scientific endeavor (ranking behind only the Space Station). It will use a donut-shaped magnetic field to contain gases that will reach temperatures comparable to those at the core of the sun, in excess of 150 million degrees C (270 million F), and will produce 10 times more power than it consumes.