New Technologies.

Metaflex

Metaflex is the name of a material that brings us one step closer to making fabrics that will create the effect of invisibility of objects.  The Metaflex is a metamaterial, or what is the same, an artificial material that presents unusual electromagnetic properties. In the past I have developed metamaterials that bend and channel light to become invisible objects in long lengths. The Metaflex consists of flexible membranes meta-material, created by the use of a new technique which has freed the meta-atoms from the hard surface on which they were built. Thus, the Metaflex can operate at wavelengths of about 620 nanometers in the visible light region. The union of these membranes could produce a "smart fabric" that would be the first step to make a coat or other garment to "wipe out" the person that size.

Holograms that can be touched

In Japan is working on a project in which a hologram, plus be visible also may feel. Holograms typically appear on credit cards, DVDs and CDs to prevent forgery. The larger holograms have also been used in the entertainment industry (video game consoles like the famous Wii). So far the technology has been tested with relatively simple objects, although researchers have more practical plans, including virtual switches at hospitals.

The bionic eye

The invention is partially implanted in the eyeball and is designed for patients suffering from degenerative vision loss or hereditary. It restores sight perfectly, but it is expected that blind people are now able to distinguish points of light that the brain can reconstruct images. How? The bionic eye has a tiny camera placed on a lens. The device transmits a signal in the retina, which stimulates neurons alive within this and which in turn send the images to the brain.

Self-healing material

Swiss scientists have developed polymers that have an inherent capacity to repair itself by exposure to ultraviolet light and that could be extremely useful in areas such as packaging, construction, transport and prolonging the life of materials used in numerous applications .

New Technologies of the future, according to Microsoft.