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Ten Inventions That Will Change Your World

Newsweek via MSNBC:

[Creative types have] continued to ply their craft in labs and basements, producing ideas that seem obscure, even loopy, until a closer look reveals their world-shifting import. Here are 10 such individual visions that may change our collective future:

1) Taste Tricks: A new flavoring may turn us on to broccoli and off salt.

2) Reinventing the Mouse: Not every rodent is created equal in the weird world of drug labs.

3) Now You See It: Quantum physics may soon make things much harder for data spies.

4) Wearing Wires: A new fabric may make clothing both high tech and fashionable.

5) Space Plane: A hybrid rocket-jet engine may soon lead to ultra-high-speed travel.

6) To Build a Baby: A quick genetic test is a godsend and a moral dilemma.

7) Free for All: Open-source software transforms technology in the developing world.

8) Head Shots: Imaging technology shows what happens when liars lie and patients feel sad.

9) Waterworks: Kenyan farmers are getting a big boost from a simple piece of equipment.

10) Sky High: A British scientist may have invented a way to control the clouds.