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Why wait in line for an organ transplant when you can grow your own? Or if you don’t like your nose, forget plastic surgery–grow a new one. These amazing abilities–once part of science fiction–are now on the way.

A laboratory made a bladder in 1996, and there have been five windpipe replacements so far. One researcher transplanted lab-grown tear ducts and an artery into some of his patients. He has created an artificial nose that he plans to transplant onto a man who lost his own nose due to skin cancer.
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Why just WEAR your computer, when you can BE your computer? Why tote a laptop around? You need a computer that pops up on your hand!

Microsoft’s video-game controller KINECT registers a user’s intentions from his gestures to give you what you want, when you want it–no more searching for wifi. For instance, Someone in a shopping mall could hold up his hand and see a map appear on it instantly. The image would be locked in place when he sticks out his thumb.
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According to new research, a person’s mere presence in a room can add 37 million bacteria to the air every hour, in the form of material left behind by previous occupants and stirred up from the floor.

Americans spend more than 90% of their time inside. Science Daily quotes environmental engineer Jordan Peccia as saying, "We live in this microbial soup, and a big ingredient is our own microorganisms. Mostly people are re-suspending what’s been deposited before. The floor dust turns out to be the major source of the bacteria that we breathe."
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