2012 Inventions

Flying cars, computers that resemble the human brain, touch screens instead of walls and windows, tourist trips to the moon and exploration of asteroids may becommon things in 10 years.

American scientific magazine 'Popular Science' examined 12 hypotheses about the technological achievements that would be possible (or not) at the end of this decade. One important to know what happened with the fuel


1. Vehicles that move independently

Today's tech giants like Google and DARPA, and some car manufacturers develop technologies that allow movement of vehicles without a human driver, or make possible 'train cars' composed of several vehicles that follow the first, this one managed by one person.

Although recently there have been several trials in this area, the biggest problem to make this fantasy reality is, according to the expert, the lack of a 'language' for all the world's vehicles, which are very different. Mike Liebhold opinion that it could create a wireless infrastructure to facilitate traffic control around the world by 2020, will probably have to wait some years later.

2. The biofuel can compete on price with fossil fuels

Magazine reported, both the U.S. Navy as the Army of that country, think to get half the necessary energy from renewable sources by 2020, particularly the biofuel. The expert says that this is reasonable, since the military understand the inconvenience of relying on other nations in the area of ​​fuel, offers good prospects for all and is quite feasible.

3. Cars can fly 

Recently reported that DARPA is developing a military flying car. However, the expert believes that the lack of an integrated infrastructure for the vehicles 'ground' will be the same obstacle for the hypothetical air traffic cars. Also be sure that these technologies could be applied to build private vehicles, at least in the near future.