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We showed a clip demoing quantum levitation last week, but now that Back To The Future II hoverboard comes a little closer to being a reality.

Real Life Hoverboard | Geek Is Awesome

http://geekisawesome.com/1361/real-life-hoverboard/

Scientists Discover The Oldest, Largest Body Of Water In Existence--In Space | Fast Company

Around a black hole 12 billion light years away, there's an almost unimaginable vapor cloud of water--enough to supply an entire planet's worth of water for every person on earth, 20,000 times over. http://www.fastcompany.com/node/1769468/

Heads Up, Hoverboarders: Here Comes Quantum Levitation | Motherboard

Few motifs of science fiction cinema have been more appealing to us than the subtle defiance of gravity offered by futuristic hovercraft. http://www.motherboard.tv/2011/10/20/heads-up-hoverboarders-here-comes-quantum-levitation--2
http://laughingsquid.com/throwable-ball-camera-captures-spherical-panoramas/

Throwable Ball Camera Captures Spherical Panoramas

The Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera photographs a full spherical panorama when it is thrown in the air (see a demo video ). The ball’s 36 cell phone cameras capture the panorama, which is stitched together afterwards on a computer.

10 Bizarre Predictions That Just Might Come True | Feature Articles | Astrology

http://theastrologyroom.com/feature-articles/10-bizarre-predictions Predicating the future used to belong to the world of psychics and mystics, but now you don’t need to be Nostradamus to see what the future holds. In fact, scientists are increasingly making bold predications about the future.
http://danmeth.com/post/124593834/futuristicmovietimeline

DAN METH - Futuristic Movie Timeline #6 In A Series Of...

No one really pays much attention to what year sci-fi movies take place.

P&P Office Waste Paper Processor – Turning Paper To Pencil by Chengzhu Ruan, Yuanyuan Liu, Xinwei Yuan & Chao Chen » Yanko Design

http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/09/15/paper-to-pencil-just-like-that/ P&P Office Waste Paper Processor is one of those things that you wish you knew how it works, but dang! no reasonable explanation provided at all! Maybe it’s a deliberate attempt on the designer teams’ part, because their idea is a surefire hit!

Last Drop : Pumping Up Till The Last Drop From The Bottom of A Bottle | Modern Industrial Design and Future Technology - Tuvie

The Last Drop concept derived from the inconvenience of pumping up the finishing liquid from the bottom of a shampoo or shower gel container to avoid everyday wastage. http://www.tuvie.com/last-drop-pumping-up-till-the-last-drop-from-the-bottom-of-a-bottle/
Futuristic, yet, but not the far-fetched science-fiction fantasy industrial design you might think – the Oculus by Schoepfer Yachts may not be for sale yet but it is already in pre-production mode with naval architects on board, so to speak.

Anthropomorphic + Futuristic = Fantastic Floating Homes | Designs & Ideas on Dornob

Materials mnufacturer Corning put together a futurist video last month called "A Day Made Of Glass," which has spiraled into stratospheric popularity on YouTube.

A beautiful but creepy vision of the "smart glass" future