National Geographic Investigates: Future Tech From Personal Robots to Motorized Monocycles

Name: National Geographic Investigates: Future Tech From Personal Robots to Motorized Monocycles
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ISBN: 9781426304682

ISBN-10: 1426304684

ISBN-13: 9781426304682

Edition: 2009

Authors: Charles Piddock, National Geographic Kids Staff

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Future Techillustrates and explains the most current research and technologies that promise to change our lives dramatically in the future. From machines with the ability of independent thought, to cars that drive themselves, to robots that borrow their nature from nature itself, this book gives young readers an inspiring glimpse of possibilities within their lifetimes. Budding young scientists will be awed to learn of "spray-on" computers that could one day outfit us in smart clothes; every young mind will be psyched to encounter humanoid robots like Cog and Kismet; and how cool would it be to one day have tiny robots enter the bloodstream to clean up our arteries? The book's high-quality…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Publication date: 7/14/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 64
Size: 7.20" wide x 11.40" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Message From the Consultant


Important Milestones in Technology



Robots With a Human Face


Making a more perfect machine


Kismet, Domo, and Leo


Wakamaru


Robot tales


Robot caretakers


Robo-surgeons


Meet a roboticist



Cyborg Dreams


Building the bionic human


A bionic hand


Bionic eyes


Brain-computer interface


Going organic


Gordon the Frankenbot


Downloaded brains


Which Gordon am I?



Nature Tech


Animals and plants help design the future


The science of biomimetics


Cocklebur science


Sharkskin suits


Snake venom medicine


Gecko science


The adventures of Stickybot



Thinking Small


Nanotechnology looks ahead


Smart dust


Building from the bottom up


The singularity


Medical revolution



Motoring Around


A substitute for the gasoline-powered engine


Plug-in electric cars


Jet packs and atomic airplanes


Solar cars


The promise of fuel cells


One-wheeled wonder



Living in the Future


What life will be like...


Not a dream


Touring the future in 1939


Intelligent walls


Ambient intelligence


Oops! Famous bad predictions


What lies in store?


By 2025


The Years Ahead


Glossary


Bibliography


On the Web


Further Reading


Index


About the Author and Consultant


Credits