MatterPort

http://matterport.com/#video
Check out this video!
With only a simple device, you can walk around your room, and create a 3D model of it.
The music is nice as well. (Fits the "shut up and take my money" effect.)

Homemade 3D printing

http://www.indiegogo.com/veloso3dprinter

For 4000$, now you can have your homemade 3D printer.

A few years back we talked about laptops - when they were not yet mainstream -,

and we envisioned a future, where advertisements are full of happy people, holding notebooks in their hands, lying in parks, and so on.

The same happened with 3D printing: now it's starting to be accessible to anyone.

Anamorphic Typography

http://www.jeanniejeannie.com/2011/06/13/anamorphic-typography/

Tanks turn invisible

here is an interesting military research...

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDk5cA8JUIQ

Bird Flight Deciphered

http://www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/11369.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnR8fDW3Ilo

It looks wonderful.. however, it reminds me one of Philip K. Dick's novels: Do Androids Dream About Electronic Sheeps?

I bet the main usage fields of this technology will be entertainment and military.

Far Future Mispredictions

http://www.futuretimeline.net/the-far-future.htm

Nomen est omen, you can imagine, what this page is about. :)

Open the page, scroll to 4000 AD, and you'll find:

"New applications can be generated instantly and automatically, for almost any purpose."

Scroll back to 3100 AD and you can read:

"Under the direction of a Godlike superintelligence, vast swarms of automated, self-replicating ships are building it - using material from the asteroid field, Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud."

Just to make the anachronism visible:

2011 - developed applications

3100 - Godlike superintelligence

4000 - instant applications

What happened between 3100 and 4000? A 6th world war? Why would we go back to applications, after we had superintelligence?!

The page might be interesting in the sense of science fiction, but it's missing serious consideration, or maybe different people were writing predictions for different time windows.