2017's Most Mind-Boggling Futuristic Tech
Since 1983, we have looked back at what the preceding 12 months brought about in the area of technical excellence. This was a weird year, but it didn't lack for innovations in computing and beyond.
Of course, it takes more than some extra RAM in a PC to get the editors of PCMag (and sister sites like ExtremeTech) excited. The materials used to make these products—and the outright genius applied when making them—makes for an eclectic list of breakthroughs that would have seemed like speculative fiction 34 years ago.
Keep in mind, the technologies below aren't all available yet; some may never make it to market. Last year we picked quite a few that have yet to debut, such as nanotech patch monitors, and some that have already been killed off, like Intel's Project Alloy (virtual reality) and Google's Tango(augmented reality). But that doesn't mean they weren't/aren't breakthrough tech that will continue to inform our unseen future.
Below is a look at what the staff picked as tech most likely to have a major impact in the years and decades ahead. Some may be so inside-baseball you'll never even know if you're using it, but chances are it will touch your life in some way, as long as you're in touch with technology.
