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Technology's just getting started

The tech industry is pumping out all sorts of cool products: flat-screen TVs the size of the Acropolis, nanotech golf balls that only Mr. Magoo could hit into the woods, cellphones that mix cocktails for you.
Maybe that last one is still wishful thinking. Remind me to check with Nokia. At the end of the year, it's time to talk about what you might be giving your loved ones in 2010 or so.

Such as, the Morning After Bot.

"It's a robot that cleans up after a party," says Sebastian Thrun, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab at Stanford University. "It takes a snapshot before the party and tries to restore that state by picking up bottles and glasses after the party."

What else is coming? We asked around at tech research labs, looking for concepts that might be available in the next half-dozen years.(continue at source)

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