From urine power electronics to superhuman animatronics, we look at 7 technologies of the future.
- Ur-in Charge
- With a variety of apps draining your mobile’s battery, how is anyone meant to get through the day without burning through the entire charge?
- And until now, we’ve just had to hang out next to an outlet 24/7 like some kind of savage. But not anymore. The day has finally arrived where we can charge our phones with our pee. Researchers in the UK have developed a new type of fuel cell that harnesses the power of pee! It took more than a gallon of urine for three hours of usage so start hoarding your bodily waste now.
- We’ve all been fantasizing about this to finally happen. (pauses) Oh, you weren’t? Well at least we’re all looking forward to running our cars on our poop. (pauses) Oh come on guys!
- Bunk Bus
- China unveiled their crazy invention early in 2016; Everybody laughed and said it’d never happen. Well looky here, they built the colossal mother of all traffic solutions.
- It’s a bus and a tunnel; it’s a bunnel, or a bunk-bed bus, as I like to think of them. The prototype of the Transit Elevated bus, carries passenger while traffic flows freely through its thighs. If bus/tunnel hybrids had thighs, that is. They can carry 300 passengers and when the kinks have been worked out will have more of a full scale test run soon.
- What with China having some of the worst traffic jams in the world, these bunk buses could be the solution they’d been hoping for. And countries from around the world are trying to get in on the action.
- Robogloves
- Nasa along with General motors have been working on some gloves that’ll give you super-human hand strength. Because, why the fuck not?
- These gloves could double the strength of your hands, which means being treated roughly will start being referred to as ‘robo-handled’ instead of ‘man-handled’. Originally, the gloves were meant for handling difficult to maneuver stuff in space but now they’re being modified to be used in manufacturing and a bunch of other Earthly pursuits.
- Hell, it’s only a matter of time before hookers get them too to make their jobs a little easier. But it’ll be dangerous field testing them; quite a few men might get their dicks snapped off but it’ll be for the benefit of mankind. So it’ll be worth it… for the guys that still have their dicks. Still.