***Alex Bartlett - Step 1

1. In the future paper responds to touch and could be used to completely rehaul the way we think about education and learning, advertising, and sharing information and/or entertainment.
http://www.novalia.co.uk/portfolio/drum-poster/
http://youtu.be/d95opxVXe-A?t=13s




2. The idea of appliances communicating with their owner could be transferred over to all sorts of things, such as cars, music, and create a more interactive living experience.
http://www.gizmag.com/lgs-homechat-appliance-texting/30445/



3. Using glass to augment reality to interact with advertisements or other objects so that, when focused on, an object will appear to move or animate, maybe even begin talking to you.




4. Businesses and homes could use interfaces that enable you to physically grab digital information and images and move them around to organize them as if they were in room with them (like Iron Man).
http://www.ted.com/talks/jinha_lee_a_tool_that_lets_you_touch_pixels.html

5. Nobody has to leave their houses because they can control a robot with just their brain.
http://www.ted.com/talks/miguel_nicolelis_a_monkey_that_controls_a_robot_with_its_thoughts_no_really.html (skip to about 7 minutes in)

6. Metal that bends according to the sun's heat (or absence of) to enable seemingly "self aware" out-sides of buildings, saving energy spent on air conditioning and riding us of the need of blinds/shades.
http://www.ted.com/talks/doris_kim_sung_metal_that_breathes.html
(Skip to 2:00 then 4:30, and 5:40)

7. Dancers can dance with 3D interactive light that responds to their movements.

http://www.ted.com/talks/quixotic_fusion_dancing_with_light.html

8. A swallowable pill that causes you to sweat perfume. 

http://www.ted.com/talks/lucy_mcrae_how_can_technology_transform_the_human_body.html

(Skip to 2:24)

9.  A stretchable fabric that can flat out incredibly stiff to be used as moveable roads.

10. Prostetic limbs that can actually feel, enabling those who need them to experience life as a normal being.

http://www.ted.com/talks/todd_kuiken_a_prosthetic_arm_that_feels.html