This is technology at its best: miniature and massive. From fast, cheap, capacious computer memory to batteries that can store enough energy to power a city. . .
MIT's Technology Review has announced the annual list of 10 emerging technologies with the potential to shape the way we live and do business. These revolutionary innovations—each represented by a researcher whose vision and work leads the field—promise fundamental shifts in areas from energy to health care, computing to communications.
The 2009 TR10 includes some technologies that should reach the market within a year, such as paper-based medical tests and virtual personal-assistant software. Others, like biological machines and traveling-wave reactors, could take a few years longer.
Check out how these innovations could change your lives. . .
Image: A man shows a toy fuel cell car at the International Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Expo in Tokyo February 25, 2009. The educational toy is designed to help demonstrate the clean energy technologies and sells for JPY 22,800. | Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
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