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A #Technology Quiz about the most cutting edge tech released 2014 - 2017 & beyond
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Flying Cars - That's right Jetsons fans the First commercial flying car is out next year, but?
You'll need a pilots licence to operate it
It's fuel costs are staggering
It can only hold about 80 - 100 pounds
Has its own oxygen supply
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Motion Sensitive Nimble Skeletal Tracking Smart Screen w/ Holographic Interface technology available in?
2018
2019
2020
2025
3
Eye of Gaia
- A billion pixel telescope - all but one are true about this ongoing project...
Largest digital camera ever built
A spacecraft resistant to deforming under temp changes.
Designed to create the most accurate 3D map of our universe
A probe listening for distant sounds from alien civilizations
4
Space tourism makes it mainstream & A hotel in space is predicted by what year?
2025
2030
2018
2020
5
Anti Gravity generator, that's right a real
Hoverboard
(that actually hovers) Tech. based on what?
Gravity dampener
Roomba technology
Small jets
Magnetic fields
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Androids, robots so life like that you may not be able to tell them from real people...
Can live for 1,000 years
Are already among us
Exist today only as prototypes
May someday be President
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DNA Sequencing is an amazing medical breakthrough that can do all of these but which?
Detect errors in the DNA & re-sequence it properly
Detect if a person is at high risk for cancer
Detect genes that control eye, hair & skin color
Detect and correct some disabilities babies have & correct
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A cloned Woolly Mammoth is said to be less than a year away thanks to....
DNA Breakthroughs (from African Elephants)
Breakthroughs Genome Sequencing (from Asian Elephants)
DNA (hair) discovered in a frozen piece of land in Siberia
Out of work Ice Age cast member needs the paycheck
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Humans have flown in passenger drones; Which will be the first country to have commercial fleet of them in 2021?
Japan
Dubai
United States
China
10
Crash Proof Cars & Self Driving Cars (hopeful in one package) will be common by what year?
2020
2030
2025
2035
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A Home Doctor as a kitchen appliance is in the works and does all but which?
Takes temperature
Can tell if a kid is really sick or trying to miss school
Acts as an on the spot lab that can test bodily fluids
Has an accessory that uses boogers as a primary user input.
12
Reversing Paralysis - A medical breakthrough that can regenerate damaged cells or
Grow new ones
Wait till they heal normally
Order them on Amazon
Heal like a reptile
13
Face recognition tech will soon allow you to pay w/ your face, don't forget your face!
Don't blink or frown or may tell you your someone else
Google, Facebook &Tesco are leading the way in corporate use
Family members are often confusing for siblings
If you do forget your face, your skull will work
14
The Hyperloop is a high speed (700 MPH) rail line planned to go between which two cities?
Los Angeles & San Francisco
New York & Los Angeles
Chicago & New York
Washington DC & New York
15
Harry Potter's delight The Invisibility Cloak may soon be REAL with
tech
based on what?
Artificial light waves
Magic
Photonic energy
Magnetic resonance
16
Portable laser pens that can instantly cauterize & seal wounds; it will be able to do all but which of the following?
Stop internal bleeding
Stop wounded from bleeding to death
Greatly reduce chance of infection
Allow patient and doctor to focus on other issues faster
17
Micro chip cell phone implanted into the hand. All but 1 are features it's likely to have
Voice activated call
A camera
Siri
Voice activated text
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Artificial Intelligence - computers that learn from their mistakes it is believed that they will what?
Discover all there is to know
Fully understand the meaning of life
Rule the Earth
Join a corporate board of directors by 2026
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This is a 3D Printer used for 3D Printing! What in the world is that?
3D video games that have a printable mode
Better than a regular printer
3D visual scan and pixel digital printout
Reproducing an object from a digital design
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Brain Waves that can control a computer using EEG sensors has possibilities, but not in?
Space exploration
Medical uses like surgery
Rescue situations like fire or other disasters
Household chores
